Patent ID: 6970541

Claim:
A method for processing a telephone call at a communication processing system, wherein the telephone call is made from a telecommunications device by a user using a telephone calling card, the method, comprising: (a) performing a configuration operation during a first network connection between the communication processing system and the telecommunications device operated by the user, the configuration operation comprising: processing a telephone calling card identification number received from the telecommunications device; and receiving a user selection representing a specific number of digits to be entered in order to initiate redialing of a corresponding previously dialed telephone number, wherein the specific number of digits is limited to some number of the last digits of the corresponding previously dialed telephone number, whereby a user-defined calling card redialing function is configured for the calling card identification number; and (b) performing a redialing operation during a second network connection between the communication processing system and the telecommunications device operated by the user, the second network connection being subsequent to the first network connection, the redialing operation comprising: processing the telephone calling card identification number received from the telecommunications device; enabling the user-defined calling card redialing function using the identification number; receiving, from the telecommunications device, one or more user-input digits; and responsive to receiving one or more user-input digits equal to the specific number of digits, executing the at least one user-defined calling card function, wherein executing the at least one user-defined calling card function comprises: performing a number lookup to determine which one of a plurality of previously dialed numbers corresponds to the one or more user-input digits; and automatically redialing the one corresponding previously dialed number without requiring user input of all digits of the one corresponding previously dialed number.