Patent ID: 8385531

Claim:
A method of routing an incoming communication, the method comprising: a caller telecommunication device transmitting a communication from a caller using the caller telecommunication device to an intended receiving wireless telecommunication device; the caller telecommunication device determining that a user of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device is unavailable; in response to the caller telecommunication device determining that the user of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device is unavailable, the caller telecommunication device requesting a mapping profile of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device; and in response to the caller telecommunication device receiving the mapping profile of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device, the caller telecommunication device: identifying one or more alternate telecommunication devices listed in both the mapping profile of the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device and a caller contact list of the caller telecommunication device, determining if a first alternate telecommunication device of the one or more alternate telecommunication devices is within a predefined proximity to the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device by triggering the first alternate telecommunication device to transmit a short range wireless query signal to the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device, and in response to the first alternate telecommunication device being within the predefined proximity to the intended receiving wireless telecommunication device, re-routing the communication to the first alternate telecommunication device.