Patent ID: 8244282
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of routing an incoming phone call, the method comprising: a computer registering that an intended receiving telecommunication device is receiving a call from a caller telecommunication device; the computer determining that a user of the intended receiving telecommunication device is unavailable to answer the call; and in response to the computer determining that a user of the intended receiving telecommunication device is unavailable to answer the received call, the computer triggering the intended receiving telecommunication device to transmit a short range wireless query signal; the computer determining, by one or more responses to the query signal, that one or more alternate telecommunication devices are within a predefined proximity to the intended receiving telecommunication device; the computer ranking the one or more alternate telecommunication devices according to signal strength between the one or more alternate telecommunication devices and the intended receiving telecommunication device; the computer determining that one of the one or more alternate telecommunication devices has a highest ranking of signal strength between the one or more alternate telecommunication devices and the intended receiving telecommunication device; and in response to the computer determining that one of the one or more alternate telecommunication devices has the highest ranking of signal strength, the computer rerouting the call to the one of the one or more alternate telecommunication devices.