Patent ID: 7844042

Claim:
A method for promoting safety in forwarding communications, the communications being directed to a first wireless destination number, to a second wireless destination number, the method comprising: receiving a safe forwarding indication at a network device, the safe forwarding indication originating from one of a voice command, a selection of an icon, and the pressing of a dedicated button from a communication device associated with the second wireless destination number, the forwarding indication including the first wireless destination number, the second wireless destination number, and forwarding instructions stored in a data storage unit on the communication device; determining that a relational database does not contain an association of the first wireless destination number and the second wireless destination number; associating the second wireless destination number with the first wireless destination number at the network device; storing the association between the first and second wireless destination numbers in the relational database; wherein the first wireless destination number stored alongside the second wireless destination number that allowing the second wireless destination number to be used as an index to retrieve the first wireless destination number; and forwarding communications directed to the first wireless destination number to the second wireless destination number.