Patent ID: 8280415

Claim:
A method of routing an outgoing phone call, the method comprising: a caller telecommunication device transmitting a call to an intended receiving wireless telecommunication device; in response to the caller telecommunication device receiving a notification that the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device is unavailable, the caller telecommunication device transmitting an instruction to a first proximate telecommunication device, wherein the instruction directs the first proximate telecommunication device to determine when the first proximate telecommunication device is within a predefined proximity of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device, wherein the predefined proximity is a distance within which the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device and an other wireless telecommunication device can directly communicate by local signals, wherein the first proximate telecommunication device and a second proximate telecommunication device are pre-selected by a caller according to historical rankings of past successes and failures in re-routing calls to the first proximate telecommunication device and the second proximate telecommunication device; and the caller communication device re-routing the call to the first proximate telecommunication device when the first proximate telecommunication device is within the predefined proximity of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device.