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Article: Kansas Inventors Develop Telephone Number Allocation Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 30, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 30 -- Michael T. Lundy of Overland Park, Kan., and Dan Durig of Olathe, Kam., have developed a telephone number allocation method.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a WLAN access point to allocate telephone numbers for use by mobile stations. The access point includes stored data indicating one or more allowed telephone numbers. When a mobile station associated with the access point and acquires an IP address, the mobiles station sends a telephone number allocation-request to the access point, seeking allocation of a particular telephone number for use by the mobile station."An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, ...