Patent ID: 6845096

Claim:
A web phone dialer system, which includes a web server and a plurality of clients connected to a network, comprising: a telephone directory database which stores a database file in which a telephone number and its user identification information are handled as one record; said web server comprises: a first network control unit which controls communication between the network and the web server itself, and a database control unit which searches the database and transmits search results to the network via the first network control unit; each of said clients comprises: a second network control unit which controls communication between the network and the client, a transmitter which outputs user identification information of another user to said server and requests a telephone number of said another user corresponding to said user identification information, a receiver which receives search results of said database control unit corresponding to said user identification information outputted by said transmitter, and a dial transmitter which places a call to said another user using the telephone number received from said server without using said server.