Patent ID: 7450935

Claim:
A forwarding device comprising: a destination number selection switch, the selection switch including settings that cause the forwarding device to pass data associated with a destination number selection to a wireless device for directing which of a plurality of numbers stored in the wireless device is to be used as a destination number for a data message; and a short range radio, wherein the forwarding device is configured to: pass data to a wireless device, the data being associated with the destination number selection; and instruct the wireless device, via the short range radio, to: perform a scan of a wireless device memory for content corresponding to the setting of the destination number selection switch; determine the destination number corresponding to the data associated with the destination number selection; and create and transmit the data message to a wireless network, the data message including the determined destination number and instructions to forward calls intended for the wireless device to the destination number, wherein: the scan is a text scan of the wireless device memory for a string associated with the setting of the destination number selection switch, the content being the destination number stored in a record of the wireless device memory along with the string.