Patent ID: 7831032
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A communications device for sending a message to a system for establishing a connection between a contact requester and at least one of a plurality of communications centers, wherein the system comprises a message receiver for accepting a message and a contact number from a mobile station, a parser for parsing the message and identifying one or more identifiers in the message, including a destination identifier, a look-up table having a list of the plurality of communications centers and a correlated list of destination identifiers, and a connector adapted to use the look-up table to establish the requested one of the plurality of communications centers from the destination identifier, wherein the connector is adapted to repeatably attempt at least one of telephonic connections between the connector and requested communications center, and telephonic connections between the connector and the contact requestor, until connection between the contact requestor and requested communications center is established, the communications device comprising: a display device for displaying a graphical user interface; a first memory for storing a plurality of icons for display on said graphical user interface, wherein the plurality of icons is associated with services offered by at least one of the plurality of communication centers; a second memory for storing a plurality of destination identifiers associated with one or more of the plurality of icons; and an update system for periodically updating, by a data transfer, at least one of (i) and (ii): (i) at least one of the plurality of icons; and (ii) at least one of the plurality of destination identifiers.