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John Steven Strauch

Blaise Hilary Aguera-Arcas

Daniel S Glasser

Sharad Mathur

Bernard Kerr

Scott Vernon Fynn

Keiji Kanazawa

Jithendra K Veeramachaneni

Vinay Gupta

Alexey Kalinichenko

George Eric Engstrom

A subset of functionality associated with an application or portion of an application can be executed above a lock screen. A lock screen enables a device to transition from a locked state to an unlocked state. While in a locked state, at least a subset of application functionality can be deployed. Additional functionality associated with the application can be accessed by transitioning to an unlocked state.

Extended above the lock-screen experience

Dynamic telephone call routing. A voice service initiates a voice call session on a data communication network in response to an incoming telephone call directed to a user and generates a notification of the telephone call. An alerts service receiving and responsive to the notification executes a set of routing rules to select a computing device associated with the user. The alerts service also generates an alert directed to the computing device. If the computing device is online, a messaging service sends the alert to the computing device and receives a user request from the computing device in response thereto. The messaging service communicates the user request to the voice service for completing the voice call session to the computing device if specified by the user request. If the computing device is not online, the telephone call is routed to a telephone device.

Voice call routing by dynamic personal profile

A web based sign-off process that allows a customer and an installation technician to electronically sign-off on a broadband installation for the purpose of recording that service is operating correctly thereby enabling the service providers to start billing for the broadband service. The sign-off takes place once the broadband installation is complete by navigating to a web site containing a sign-off form. Once the form is filled out by the customer and the technician, it is returned over a network to a service provider. The service provider modifies the customer's billing entry so that billing can commence at a broadband access rate.

Broadband sign-off

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