Patent ID: 8363814

Claim:
In a telecommunications network, an automated call processing system, comprising: means for receiving a telephone number from a caller location, wherein the telephone number has an associated linkage mechanism, the linkage mechanism corresponding to a specific geographically defined area, line, or point that is defined by a set of coordinates and corresponds to the caller location; means for determining the linkage mechanism of the telephone number; means responsive to a dialed number for selecting data of a particular client from a plurality of client data accessible by the system; means for finding the determined linkage mechanism in the selected client data and retrieving linkage mechanism dependent data from the client data, wherein: a first location identified by the linkage mechanism, said first location corresponding to the telephone number, is located within one of (a) a predetermined radial distance from a second location corresponding to the retrieved linkage mechanism dependent data and (b) a geographic area bounded by a predetermined polygon that also encloses the second location; and means for transmitting the retrieved linkage mechanism dependent data to the telecommunications network, such that the caller is connected to the second location.