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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicant:

Robert M. Cooper, Arlington, VA (US);

Inventor:

Robert M. Cooper, Arlington, VA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01); H04M 7/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/487 (2006.01); H04M 3/533 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/5191 (2013.01); H04M 7/003 (2013.01); H04M 3/4878 (2013.01); H04M 3/533 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06Q 30/016 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01);
Abstract

Establishing a telephone call includes enabling display of a visual indicator of a call destination entity and detecting selection by a user of the visual indicator. The availability of the user to receive a first telephone call is determined. Voice communications between the call destination entity and the user are established in response to detection of the selection by the user of the visual indicator and conditioned on the user being determined to be available to receive the first telephone call. Establishing voice communications includes enabling placement of the first telephone call to the user to establish a first PSTN link with the user and enabling a voice communications link to be setup with the call destination entity.


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