Fish & Richardson P.C.
Automatic virtual phone number pool management
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for dynamic contact information assignment. A pool of telephone numbers is assigned to a pool manager. The pool manager allocates subsets of the telephone numbers to a plurality of allocators that are each responsible for allocating telephone numbers to an associated group of content sponsors. An allocator can determine an allocation of a subset of the telephone numbers for distribution among the content sponsors associated with the allocator. Pools of telephone numbers can be created that are each associated with a respective content sponsor associated with the allocator. One or more telephone numbers can be reclaimed from a pool. A reclaimed telephone number can be assigned by the allocator into either other pools associated with the allocator or back to the pool manager for allocation to other allocators.
Google Inc.
H G G H H H H G G H G
H04L G06Q G06Q H04M H04L H04M H04L G06Q G06Q H04M G06Q
additional additional additional additional inventional inventional inventional additional additional additional inventional
Anurag Tao Girish Anshul Seung
Agrawal Huang Baliga Kothari Yi