Mobile electronic communications with grace period

    公开(公告)号:US10887471B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16222085

    申请日:2018-12-17

    Applicant: TEXTNOW, INC.

    Abstract: A mobile communications device receives an indication of a balance from a server when establishment of a voice call or sending of a message is requested. The mobile communications device determines whether the balance is sufficient to place the voice call or send the message over a mobile network. If the balance is sufficient to place the voice call or send the message over the mobile network, the voice call is established or the message is sent under normal operating conditions. If the balance is insufficient to place the voice call or send the message over the mobile network, a grace period is activated and the voice call is established or the message is sent during the grace period over an available wireless local-area network.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGGESTING CONTACTS
    33.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200288020A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-10

    申请号:US16808947

    申请日:2020-03-04

    Applicant: TEXTNOW, INC.

    Abstract: An example method of suggesting contacts in a communications routing system includes: routing, via a routing engine, communications events between a communications device and a plurality of further communications devices coupled to the communications routing system as VoIP calls using respective VoIP telephone numbers; storing, for a user account associated with the communications device, a contact database representing VoIP telephone numbers stored in a contact tracking application of the communications device; storing, in the contact database for the user account, a log of communications events including a record for each new telephone number; and when the record for a new telephone number satisfies a threshold condition, providing a prompt, at the communications device, to add the new telephone number to the contact tracking application.

    Mobile communications with quality of service

    公开(公告)号:US10750028B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-18

    申请号:US16020793

    申请日:2018-06-27

    Applicant: TEXTNOW, INC.

    Abstract: A mobile communications system includes switching between communication paths based on the quality of service. A VoIP service is coupled to a mobile network and a wireless local-area network (WLAN) via a wide-area IP network. A plurality of mobile communications devices are associated with VoIP telephone numbers. A public switched telephone network (PSTN) is coupled to the plurality of mobile communications devices and coupled to the VoIP service. A quality of service server is coupled to the plurality of mobile communications devices via the wide-area IP network for determining the quality of data channels to a mobile communications device via the mobile network and to the mobile communications device via the WLAN. A voice call is carried over one of the mobile network, the WLAN, and the PSTN depending on the quality of the data channels.

    MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20200259959A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-13

    申请号:US16859386

    申请日:2020-04-27

    Applicant: TEXTNOW, INC.

    Abstract: A mobile communications system includes switching between communication paths based on the quality of service. A VoIP service is coupled to a mobile network and a wireless local-area network (WLAN) via a wide-area IP network. A plurality of mobile communications devices are associated with VoIP telephone numbers. A public switched telephone network (PSTN) is coupled to the plurality of mobile communications devices and coupled to the VoIP service. A quality of service server is coupled to the plurality of mobile communications devices via the wide-area IP network for determining the quality of data channels to a mobile communications device via the mobile network and to the mobile communications device via the WLAN. A voice call is carried over one of the mobile network, the WLAN, and the PSTN depending on the quality of the data channels.

    Telephone number selection
    36.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10666795B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-26

    申请号:US16549288

    申请日:2019-08-23

    Applicant: TEXTNOW, INC.

    Abstract: An example method of assigning a telephone number to a user account in a communications system is provided. The method includes obtaining a mnemonic seed and obtaining a subset of telephone numbers filtered from a global telephone number pool based on the mnemonic seed. The alphanumeric representation of each telephone number in the subset is within a threshold Hamming distance of the mnemonic seed. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected telephone number from the subset and assigning the selected telephone number to the user account.

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