Patent ID: 6678358
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method of automatically placing phone calls to callees in a calling area, the method comprising the steps of:a. providing a database comprising a plurality of phone numbers and at least one data field associated with each of the plurality of phone numbers, the at least one data field containing information representing a geographic location; b. recording a message to be transmitted to the callees; c. defining a calling area to receive the recorded message, the calling area used to select a subset of phone numbers from the database, each of the subset of phone numbers having information representing a geographic location within the calling area in the at least one data field associated with the phone number; d. generating call requests and storing the call requests in a queue, each of the call requests containing one of the phone numbers from the subset of phone numbers selected from the database; e. initiating calls to callees based on a first group of the generated call requests; and f. sending a second group of the generated call requests to a remote node, the remote node operable to initiate phone calls to callees based on the second group of call requests.