Patent ID: 8107936

Claim:
A method of autonomously connecting a phone call to a user destination device based on the time of day that the communication is initiated, the method comprising: receiving a policy information packet transmitted via a telecommunications transceiver of a first host telecommunication device, wherein the policy information packet includes: a contact phone number of a first user destination device, a contact phone number of a second user destination device, a digital certificate, a preferred contact time interval of the first user destination device, and a preferred contact time interval of the second user destination device that is different from the preferred contact time interval of the first user destination device; in response to receiving the digital certificate within the policy information packet, authenticating the digital certificate, wherein authenticating the digital signature comprises: determining that the digital signature is valid; and allowing the call origin device to autonomously select a recipient user destination device from among the first and the second user destination devices only when the digital signature is determined to be valid; in response to authenticating the digital certificate, modify, with the policy information packet, an entry corresponding to the host telecommunication device in a database of contacts within the call origin device, which causes the call origin device to select, based on determination of a current time interval, one of the first user destination device and the second user destination device when a phone call is subsequently initiated by the call origin device to the first host telecommunication device; and in response to initiating a call request with the first host telecommunication device: determining a time at which the call request is initiated; and in response to the call origin device initiating the call request with the first host telecommunication device within the preferred contact time interval of the first user destination device, autonomously connecting the call request to the first user destination device.