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Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2012
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, San Jose, CA (US);

Wael S. Barakat, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for setting up communications forwarding is provided. The method can include determining that a wireless communication device having a first telephone number associated with a first country is being operated in a second country and that a second telephone number associated with the second country has been activated on the wireless communication device. The method can further include, responsive to the determination, sending a forwarding request from the wireless communication device to a network to request activation of forwarding of communications directed to the first telephone number to the second telephone number.


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