Patent ID: 8275102

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for location context based routing and prioritization of communication requests, the method comprising: receiving a communication session request for a subscriber of an enhanced communication system from a calling party via an access server; determining a location and an identity, including one or more of a telephone number and a session initiation protocol (SIP) uniform resource identifier (URI), of the calling party; determining a location, availability, status, and preferences of the subscriber; determining an attribute of the calling party; inferring location context information based on the location and identity of the calling party, the attribute of the calling party, and the location of the subscriber; providing the location context information to at least one of: the subscriber and the calling party via the access server; and prioritizing the communication session request based on the inferred location context information of the caller and the location of the subscriber via a communication management server.