SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE VOICE CONNECTIONS VIA LOCAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
摘要
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.
申请公布号
WO2010005420(A2)
申请公布日期
2010.01.14
申请号
WO2008US67247
申请日期
2008.06.17
申请人
UTBK, INC.;ALTBERG, EBBE;CROTHERS, CHRISTOPHER;FABER, SCOTT;HIRSON, RON;MANCA, PAUL;VAN DER LINDEN, SEAN
发明人
ALTBERG, EBBE;CROTHERS, CHRISTOPHER;FABER, SCOTT;HIRSON, RON;MANCA, PAUL;VAN DER LINDEN, SEAN