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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2007
Dharmesh N. Bhakta, Austin, TX (US);
Marc-arthur Pierre-louis, Round Rock, TX (US);
Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Austin, TX (US);
Dharmesh N. Bhakta, Austin, TX (US);
Marc-Arthur Pierre-Louis, Round Rock, TX (US);
Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Controlling access to a facility includes sending a program and profile for facility services to a user's portable device. The services have telephones connected via a local area network ('LAN'), so a call originating on the LAN to such a telephone may be completed on the LAN without accessing a wide area telephone network ('WAN'). The program is executed on the user's portable device so that the device operates in a facility mode. In this mode, the device displays services from the profile, so that the user can select a service and easily place telephone calls to it solely over the LAN. Responsive to the user's service selection, in a normal operating sub-mode the user's portable device places a call via the WAN using a longer telephone number and in a local operating sub-mode the user's portable device places the call via the LAN using a shortcut number.