Patent ID: 7979576

Claim:
A method for interconnecting a user's location on a network to a select one of a plurality of destination locations on the network, comprising the steps of: receiving unique information at the user's location before being connected to select one of the plurality of destination locations on the network; and in response to the step of receiving: assembling a data transmission containing a representation of the unique information; forwarding the data transmission to an intermediate location on the network; receiving, from the intermediate location on the network, instructional code that was generated at the intermediate location as a result of the forwarding of the data transmission thereto, which instructional code includes routing information that instructs the user location to connect to one of the plurality of destination locations on the network that has a defined association with the representation of the unique information defined in a database at the intermediate location on the network, which defined association is required to provide for the unique information to be associated with the one of the plurality of destination locations on the network and without which the unique information can not be associated with one of the plurality of destination locations on the network, and which defined association is defined by the intermediate location and can be changed at the intermediate location and is in a possession of the intermediate location; and interconnecting, in response to the step of receiving from the intermediate location on the network the instructional code and without any intervention at the user location, the user's location to the one of the plurality of destination locations across the network in accordance with the received routing information and in accordance with the received instructional code such that connection to the one of the plurality of destination locations is controlled by the intermediate location in accordance with the defined association between the representation of the unique information received at the user location and the routing information to the one of the plurality of destination locations on the network.