Systems and methods to provide voice connections via local telephone numbers

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10380637
APP PUB NO 20160196583A1
SERIAL NO

15069347

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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.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Altberg, Ebbe Mill Valley, US 134 7877
Crothers, Christopher Scott San Francisco, US 3 211
Faber, Scott San Francisco, US 158 9057
Hirson, Ron San Francisco, US 151 8295
Manca, Paul G Oakland, US 46 2563
Van, Der Linden Sean Berkeley, US 139 7427

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