Patent ID: 7831030
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A telecommunications device, comprising: a telephony controller; a contacts controller, said contacts controller containing a contact list defined by a user who is a caller, the contact list comprising a plurality of individual contacts wherein an individual contact of the contact list is capable of containing a numbers list of a plurality of contact telephone numbers of the individual contact; and an automatic advance calling controller including one or more timers for timing a ring no answer period selectable by the user, wherein the ring no answer period can be variable, by the caller, for each telephone number on the numbers list ,wherein the automatic advance calling controller, when the user initiates a call to a particular individual contact of the contact fist, can be configured to cause the telephony controller to automatically call the plurality of contact telephone numbers for the particular contact in a predetermined order until the call is successfully completed to one of the plurality of telephone numbers of the numbers list or the numbers list is exhausted.