Patent ID: 7215968

Claim:
A positional information tracking and forwarding method comprising the steps of: detecting the current position of a user from the position of a terminal carried by the user; storing a plurality of forward destinations for a call to the user that correspond to positional information on the forward destinations; and selecting forward destinations in sequence one after another at which the user is likely to be present from the stored forward destinations based on the current position of the user detected from the position of the terminal, and forwarding the call to the user at the selected forward destination, wherein the step of selecting forward destinations in sequence one after another comprises: sending the call to a highest ranking one of the plurality of forward destinations that are stored; determining if the call to the highest ranking one of the plurality of forward destinations is answered within a predetermined time period after the call has been sent; if the call to the highest ranking one of the plurality of forward destinations has not been answered within the predetermine time period, repeating the sending step with a next-highest ranking one of the plurality of forward destinations that are stored.