Patent ID: 8320894
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: identifying, by a computing device comprising a processor and memory, a plurality of mobile devices by one device number, wherein each of the mobile devices is associated with an activation priority that indicates a priority with which the respective mobile device is activated for communications on a network; registering the mobile devices on the network; selectively routing communications associated with the one device number to one of the mobile devices having a highest activation priority, wherein the one device number defines an address at which the communications are routed to the one of the mobile devices having the highest activation priority without being routed to an intervening address defined by another device number; and deregistering the one of the mobile devices having the highest activation priority from the network when the battery life of a battery of the one of the mobile devices falls below a threshold, wherein one of the mobile devices registered on the network comprises a smart mobile phone and another of the mobile devices registered on the network comprises a basic mobile phone, the smart mobile phone having an activation priority that is higher than an activation priority of the basic mobile phone, and wherein deregistering the one of the mobile devices having the highest activation priority comprises deregistering the smart mobile phone from the network when the battery life of a battery of the smart mobile phone falls below a threshold.