Patent ID: 7373179

Claim:
A wireless phone configured for use by a user and configured to communicate with a server over a network, the server being configured to communicate with a plurality of wireless phones and comprising a plurality of outgoing call queues, each outgoing call queue of the plurality of outgoing call queues comprising a list of entries to dial and being associated with a unique call queue identifier that associates the outgoing call queue with a particular wireless phone of the plurality of wireless phones or user thereof, the wireless phone comprising: a memory; a processor; a call queue function configured to enable the configuration of an outgoing call queue of the plurality of outgoing call queues, the outgoing call queue being the outgoing call queue having the unique call queue identifier associated with the particular wireless phone or user thereof; and a queue dial function which, when operated, cooperates with the server to result in a dialing of a first entry of the outgoing call queue associated with the particular wireless phone, wherein the queue dial function is configured to direct the processor to send the call queue identifier to the server, and the server is configured to use the call queue identifier to locate the outgoing call queue associated with the particular wireless phone from among the plurality of outgoing call queues, and wherein the processor and the memory cooperate to enable the call queue function.