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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2007
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Crothers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Crothers, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul G. Manca, Oakland, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC, Tucker, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses to dynamically allocate location dependent telephone numbers to facilitate voice connections between people. One embodiment includes: responsive to a request from a user, selecting a telephone number from a plurality of telephone numbers of a connection server to match a location indicator of the request; embedding the telephone number in an advertisement, the telephone number to be used by the user to initiate a telephone call to the connection server for further connection to an advertiser of the advertisement; and providing the advertisement with the telephone number of the connection server as a response to the request. In one embodiment, responsive to receiving the telephone call at the telephone number of the connection server from the user, whether to play a prompt message to the user is determined based at least in part on statistic data about telephone calls collected at the connection server.