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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2002
Samir Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Binh Truong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ram Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Samir Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Binh Truong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ram Gupta, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A smart phonebook search method comprises collecting, from a customer, a phone number to use for a dial-up connection, filtering any national direct dialing prefix from the collected number, obtaining a country code from an operating system of the smart phonebook search, matching a pattern of a prefix of the collected number with area codes for a country of the customer to provide a closest entry for said connection, and selecting a phone number for said dial-up connection, the phone number having a customer provided area code and the operating system provided country code.