Patent ID: 7130643

Claim:
A method for selectively ringing or not ringing a second phone when a call is placed to a portable phone, the method comprising the steps of: (A) the portable phone using an internal position detector to detect its geographical position; (B) defining at least one geographical region; (C) defining phone parameters that determine how a call is rung and routed for each defined geographical region; (D) receiving the position of the portable phone from the position detector; (E) determining from the received position of the portable phone whether the portable phone enters or exits a defined geographical region; (F) updating phone parameters for a geographical region when the portable phone enters the geographical region; (G) updating phone parameters for a geographical region when the portable phone exits the geographical region; and (H) ringing and routing a telephone call according to the phone parameters for a defined geographical region; wherein steps (A), (B), (D) and (E) are performed by the portable phone, and wherein steps (C), (F), (G) and (H) are performed by a telephone network coupled to the portable phone.