Patent ID: 8675849

Claim:
A method of receiving a phone number, comprising: establishing at a first phone a first voice communication session between the first phone and a second phone; receiving voice signals from the second phone during the first voice communication session; transmitting voice signals to the second phone during the first voice communication session; receiving, at a receiver of the first phone during the first voice communication session between the first phone and the second phone, a phone number transmitted from the second phone by a user of the second phone after the first voice communication session is established; detecting the phone number with a signal detector of the first phone coupled for communication with the receiver of the first phone, the detecting the phone number with the signal detector comprising: receiving a first user input activating the signal detector after the first voice communication session is established and prior to the transmission of the phone number from the second phone; and receiving a second user input deactivating the signal detector subsequent to detecting the phone number and prior to termination of the first voice communication session; and storing the phone number in a memory of the first phone coupled to the signal detector.