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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2007
Filed:
May. 23, 2003
David B. Lebowitz, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Mathews Thomas, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Jeffery R. Washburn, Justin, TX (US);
David B. Lebowitz, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Mathews Thomas, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Jeffery R. Washburn, Justin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method () of categorizing and prioritizing a phone call for a recipient's phone number can include the steps of defining () a set of rules for a predetermined caller or a group of predetermined callers and assigning () a code to the set of rules. The method can further include the steps of receiving () a call containing the code appended by a caller to the recipient's phone number and routing (or) the call in accordance with the set of rules.