Patent ID: 8175246

Claim:
A system for providing telephone services, said system comprising: at least one database configured to: store at least one telephone number and associated sets of location coordinates of a first set of telephones registered as being available for a call to be routed in an attempt to connect with a user, store at least one telephone number and associated sets of location coordinates of a second set of telephones registered as being available for a call to be routed in an attempt to connect with the user, the first set of telephones including at least one telephone being assigned to a user and the second set of telephones including at least one telephone assigned to an organization of which the user is associated; and a processing unit configured to: in response to receiving a call request: determine whether a wireless telephone of the user is positioned within a predetermined range of a first telephone of the first set of telephones stored in said at least one database; in response to determining that the wireless telephone is within the predetermined range of the first telephone, cause a call associated with the call request to be routed to the first telephone; otherwise, determine whether the wireless telephone of the user is within the predetermined range of a second telephone of the second set of telephones stored in said at least one database; and in response to determining that the wireless telephone is within the predetermined range of the second telephone, cause the call associated with the call request to be routed to the second telephone.