Patent ID: 7881701
Filing Date: 2011-02-01
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method in a communication device for automatically verifying and updating a telephone number across service providers, the computer implemented method comprising: responsive to a telephone number within a plurality of telephone numbers stored in a storage device being automatically dialed into a service provider database by a telephone number verification unit in a cellular telephone during non-peak cellular telephone service provider network hours on a predetermined periodic basis in the background when the cellular telephone is not in use, wherein, the verification unit when enabled can only connect the cellular telephone to the service provider database, determining, by the telephone number verification unit in the cellular telephone, if the service provider database indicates that a new telephone number is associated with the dialed telephone number; responsive to the service provider database indicating that a new telephone number is associated with the dialed telephone number, querying, by the telephone number verification unit in the cellular telephone, the service provider database for the new telephone number; and updating, by the telephone number verification unit in the cellular telephone, the storage device with the new telephone number.