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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Textnow, Inc., Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TEXTNOW, INC., Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42263 (2013.01); H04L 61/2061 (2013.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); H04L 61/605 (2013.01); H04M 3/42306 (2013.01); H04M 2242/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
An example method of assigning a telephone number to a user account in a communications system is provided. The method includes obtaining a mnemonic seed and obtaining a subset of telephone numbers filtered from a global telephone number pool based on the mnemonic seed. The alphanumeric representation of each telephone number in the subset is within a threshold Hamming distance of the mnemonic seed. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected telephone number from the subset and assigning the selected telephone number to the user account.