Patent ID: 8706100

Claim:
A user controlled temporary phone service device swapping system comprising: a plurality of phone user control accounts on a user controlled phone service device swapping system accessible through an Internet connection to a phone user interface accessible through each of a plurality of processors each under control of a different phone user, each different phone user associated with a different phone user control account; at least two telephone numbers registered with each of the plurality of phone user control accounts, each phone user control account associated with a different first and second telephone number than each other phone user control account; and more than two phone devices registered with each of the plurality of phone user control accounts, each of the more than two phone devices comprising a phone component that provisions phone communication through a phone telecommunication network and a unique identifier different from unique identifiers associated with each of the more than two phone devices registered with each other phone user control account of the plurality of phone user control accounts; wherein the phone user interface is configured to receive input from a phone user associated with a first phone user control account to indicate which two of the more than two phone devices associated with the phone user control account is to be separately associated with the respective first or second telephone numbers associated with the phone user control account and to transmit data indicating the association to a phone number registry, wherein at least one of the more than two phone devices remains unassociated with both of the respective first and second telephone numbers while the respective first and second telephone numbers are associated with the two phone devices.