Patent ID: 6751481
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A dialing method for effecting an international call in an intelligent cellular phone including a conversion table for storing system codes of a plurality of network companies worldwide and their international access codes, and a phone book for storing a plurality of called parties' names and telephone numbers having international access codes respectively in a database thereof, comprising the steps of:determining whether a cellular phone user has entered into a phone book activation mode and a telephone number to be dialed has been selected from the phone book; searching for a system code transmitted by a base station proximate the location from which the call is being made in order to let said cellular phone recognize a current location area in accordance with the system code transmitted by said base station; comparing the system code transmitted by the base station with a system code retrieved from said phone book and, if different, replacing an international access code of said telephone number selected from the phone book with a corresponding international access code retrieved from said conversion table.