Patent 7853003 was granted and assigned to AT&T Labs on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for location-based communicating includes defining a first service area and a second service area for a service provider. The method also includes associating, at a memory apparatus accessible to a networked data processing apparatus, the first service area with multiple locations within the first service area and the second service area with multiple locations within the second service area.