Patent ID: 7310772
Filing Date: 2007-12-18
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A telephone number based Internet addressing service comprised of an Internet connected receiving server at said service having an Internet domain and a translation database comprised of a set of first telephone number elements, said service comprising: each said telephone number element is in one-to-one correspondence with a second element comprised of a URL element; wherein said URL element is associated with a predetermined Internet resource; wherein said telephone number elements comprise at least one telephone each number that is established as an entry in said service translation database; and wherein said telephone number is also mapped within said translation database to an associated predetermined URL element that is deemed as having been registered with said service; and a printed telephone directory containing printed listings, in which at least one listing comprises said registered telephone number elements; wherein a set of registered telephone number elements within said directory is visually differentiated uniformly within said set by an enforced graphic designation mechanism which is uniquely applied to registered numbers within said set; and wherein a client user consults said directory to find a listing that contains a registered telephone number element, where said listing is differentiated by said graphic designation mechanism; wherein said enforced graphic designation mechanism is applied uniformly to each registered number within a set of registered numbers; wherein said graphic designation requires at least one permitted graphic treatment to be applied to each registered number within a set of registered numbers; wherein said graphic treatment is applied with a rectangular shaped area that extends slightly around and aligned vertically and horizontally with a rectangular area bounding a registered number within the set; wherein a client user combines a found telephone number element with a service receiving server URL element extracted from an instruction element to construct an alias resource request in the format www.subdomain/telephonenumberelement, where the www.subdomain portion is a service receiving server URL extracted from said instruction element and the telephonenumberelement pathname portion is a found registered telephone number element; wherein said pathname portion may include multiple pathname directory levels as long as at least one, and only one pathname directory level includes a phone number element; wherein said client user enters said constructed alias resource request into an Internet browser address field on an Internet-connected client system; and wherein access is made via a simultaneous Internet connection to said connected service-receiving server; parsing means integrated into said receiving server system to extract said telephone number element to accommodate use of variant entry formats of said telephone number element; programmed means, wherein registered number elements comprising different country codes may be registered with and be recognized by said service; means by which multiple country codes are accommodated by said service enforcing that a unique receiving server with a unique subdomain address must be assigned only to receive alias URL's constructed of a set of phone number elements, all of which are contained within a set of telephone numbers within one country code; authorization means for verifying that an entity requesting a registration is a bona fide owner of a telephone number being registered; wherein only a bona fide owner entity of a telephone number is allowed to register a telephone number with said service; means for requiring a registrant to call a service registry system from a telephone number being registered as verification of that telephone number; means for a prospective registrant registering at a service registration web page and entering at least a registrant telephone number and an email address; wherein said service sends email to a registrant email address which comprises a service telephone number and at least a one-use password uniquely assigned to said user; wherein a registrant calls said telephone number provided in said email; wherein said service answers said registrant call and prompts said user to enter a password; and wherein said user enters a password received in a service email.