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Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2017
Applicants:

At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Edward G. Schmit, Seattle, WA (US);

Jayanta Das, Morganville, NJ (US);

Assignees:

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);

AT&T MOBILITY II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04W 4/16 (2009.01); H04M 3/54 (2006.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/16 (2013.01); H04M 3/543 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network-based service is utilized to facilitate twinning of two or more communication devices associated with a subscriber account. Incoming communication is intercepted by a communication device and forwarded to a network server, which in turn transmits the incoming communication to the multiple twinned devices. In addition, identifier data associated with outgoing communication is replaced with a primary identifier (e.g., customer telephone number (CTN)) of a user's primary device or a common identifier (e.g., a mobile one number (MON)) assigned to devices associated with the user's subscriber account. Communication devices can be temporarily twinned for a defined time period, during which a common bill can be generated for the twinned devices.


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