Disclosed herein is an invention that is a medical treatment method for diabetes, its comorbidities and its complications where their treatment requires lifestyle modification. The invention changes or alters lifestyle by identifying what is valuable or harmful to the health-related determinants of the pattern-of-life of a person, modifying the such determinants of health of the person as the person navigates their pattern of life, applying the resulting insights to modify the lifestyle of the person, promoting and improving therapy adherence and compliance and thereby improving the health of the person. The method is intended to prevent diabetes, to increase the early detection of diabetes, to diagnose diabetes, to delay the progression of diabetes, to reduce the severity of diabetes and to operationalize the insights from lifestyle modification through disease risk assessment, medical decision-making, comprehensive care plan management and patient outreach, engagement and retention in the care plan.

A computing device is described that accepts, a telephone call, from another device, initiated by a caller. Prior to establishing a telephone user interface that receives spoken input from the user and outputs spoken audio from the caller, the computing device executes a call screening service that outputs an audio user interface, to the other device and as part of the telephone call. The audio user interface interrogates the caller for additional information including a purpose of the telephone call, which allows the user to have more context of the telephone call before deciding whether to accept the call or hang up. The computing device outputs a graphical user interface associated with telephone call. The graphical user interface includes an indication of the additional information obtained via the audio user interface that interrogates the caller.

Systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to network based personal number blocking. In particular, the systems, devices, and techniques can be implemented in networks including user equipment (UE) associated with native numbers and alias numbers, and can include blocking native numbers or alias numbers. Further, users can access a user profile or an application via a UE to assign personal number blocking (PNB) preferences to the various native numbers and alias numbers. Indications of such PNB can be transmitted from a UE to a network device to update a user profile in a central repository or database. If a user activates another UE or otherwise associates additional native numbers or alias numbers, the PNB can be seamlessly applied to the new device or numbers.

The present invention is directed to a communication processing apparatus that makes various settings and changes concerning communication between communication terminals by a simple operation on the site using the communication terminal. The communication processing apparatus includes a first storage unit that stores, in association with each other, a call destination number in a telephone system and setting information to be set by a controller for a switch device that connects at least two communication terminals, and an instructor that instructs the controller to perform a setting of communication between the at least two communication terminals using the setting information corresponding to the call destination number acquired from the telephone system. The setting of communication by the controller includes a communication capability to connect the communication terminals, for example, a priority or a confidentiality of communication between the communication terminals.

In an approach for recommending a response time for callback, a processor receives an indication to initiate a callback to a caller after the caller requests the callback from a callee, wherein the callee is a user whom the caller has called. A processor analyzes callback information. A processor determines a callback time based on the callback information. A processor sends an alert about the callback, wherein the alert includes the determined callback time.

Described are techniques including a computer-implemented method of maintaining a list of newly assigned phone numbers. The method further comprises intermittently removing phone numbers from the list of newly assigned phone numbers. The method further comprises determining that a newly assigned phone number initiates a number of calls per unit time that exceeds a threshold number of calls per unit time. The method further comprises automatically flagging the newly assigned phone number as a possible robocaller.

A method for operating a device for handling a phone call is disclosed. In one aspect the method comprises (a) receiving a phone call from a calling party, (b) determining an action to be performed by the device among a predetermined list of actions related to the handling of a phone call, as a function at least of identity information about the calling party, and (c) performing the determined action for handling the phone call. The device may be programmable and mobile, e.g., a smartphone.

Systems and methods for automatically providing an individualized voice message to a specific individual who attempts to initiate a voice call with a user during a period of unavailability are provided. A processor may receive, from a first telecommunications device associated with a first Mobile Station (MS), an individualized voice message for a second telecommunications device associated with a second MS via a telecommunications network. The processor may further receive an indication that the second telecommunications device is attempting to initiate a voice call with the first telecommunications device. The processor may determine that a first user associated with the first telecommunications device is not available, and may transmit the individualized voice message to the second telecommunications device.

An automatic response service supported on an application server that interoperates with an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) core network is configured to dynamically generate responses to unanswered incoming telephone calls to a user's computing devices that are customized for the calling party based on monitored activities of the user, device capabilities and state, and related context. The automatic response service can monitor the user's interactions across a range of computing devices to identify a device with which the is actively engaged. Data from device registrations with the IMS core network can indicate current device capabilities and device state such as peripheral device configuration and network connectivity. Along with call data such as caller ID, the monitored user activities and device information enable the service to automatically respond to incoming calls on behalf of the user with information that is meaningful and contextually-relevant to the calling party.

A computing system predicts a need of a customer based at least in part on a location of the customer, recommend a physical location to the customer based on the predicted need using location-based costs of living, and recommending offers to merchants based on historical activities of a plurality of customers.