Patent ID: 8867716
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for providing communication number sharing services, the method comprising: maintaining, in a computing system, a bank of reusable caller identifiers (IDs), the bank of reusable caller IDs ordered based on usage and including one or more previously assigned caller IDs; receiving, by the computing system, communication details for a communication from a subscriber of the computing system to a contacted number belonging to a contacted party, the communication details including caller identifier (ID) information associated with the subscriber; determining, by the computing system, whether the communication from the subscriber is a first communication to the contacted number; responsive to the communication being the first communication to the contacted number, responsive to the communication not being the first communication to the contacted number, connecting, by the computing system, the communication between the contacted number and the caller ID assigned to the subscriber.