| 摘要 |
Systems and methods for recycling contact numbers are presented. A service provider receives a disconnect request for a device associated with a contact number. The system retrieves and stores the device's contact list and/or communication history. One or more messages are created and stored. The contact number is placed in a pool of recycled numbers and mapped to the stored information, and may later be assigned to a second device. Subsequently, when a call is made over the service provider's network, the called number is compared with numbers in the pool. If a match is found, the system retrieves the stored contact list and/or communication history, and compares the calling number to numbers in the contact list and/or communication history. If a match is found, the system retrieves and plays the message to inform the calling party that the number they are trying to reach has been re-assigned. |
| 主权项 |
1. A computer-based system, comprising:
a communication module configured to receive a request to disconnect a first device from a service provider, receive at least one of a communication history and a contact list associated with the first device, and store the at least one of a communication history and a contact list associated with the first device in a data storage, wherein the first device is associated with a contact number; a message module configured to create at least one message designed to be played on a second device and store the message in the data storage; a recycling module configured to store the contact number in a pool of contact numbers, associate the contact number with the at least one of the communication history and the contact list, and associate the contact number with the stored message, wherein the pool of contact numbers comprises one or more numbers that are available to be assigned to a device similar to the first device or the second device; and a routing module configured to:
receive communication information from an origination user device attempting to connect with a destination user device,perform a first comparison between the received communication information and the pool of contact numbers, and if the first comparison indicates a match between at least part of the received communication information and the contact number in the pool of contact numbers:
retrieve the at least one of a communication history and a contact list from the data storage, perform a second comparison between the communication information and the at least one of a communication history and a contact list, andif the second comparison indicates a match between at least part of the communication information and at least part of at least one of the received contact list and the communication history: select one of the at least one stored message, and provide the selected message to the origination user device, andif either the first or second comparison do not indicate a match, provide routing information to connect the communication from the origination user device to the destination user device without selecting or playing the at least one stored message. |
