Patent ID: 8897760

Claim:
A mobile communication system comprising: a plurality of mobile devices, a wide-area mobile communication network including a cellular communication network, wherein two or more of said mobile devices are equipped for voice and data communication capability over said network, wherein all said plurality of mobile devices are assigned the same single phone number, wherein said plurality of mobile devices receive and send voice calls or data using solely said single phone number and access the same user data, wherein said single phone number is dedicated for use solely by said plurality of mobile devices and wherein calling said phone number directly contacts all of said plurality of mobile devices, wherein upon receiving an incoming call to said phone number, said mobile communication network sends the call request to all said devices, and wherein upon a call getting picked up by a user on any of said devices, the network drops the call request to all other said devices, wherein upon placing or receiving calls on each one of said plurality of mobile devices, all other said mobile devices are disabled from performing mobile communications for the duration of that call, forming a dedicated and private channel for each said call, wherein each mobile device of said plurality of mobile devices is assigned a unique identifier to uniquely identify each of said devices from other devices in said plurality of mobile devices having the same single phone number in said mobile communication network, and wherein each of said unique identifiers is embedded in each of the respective mobile devices.