Patent ID: 7660870

Claim:
A method comprising: operating a server system coupled to a wireless network on which a plurality of mobile devices operate; receiving, at the server system, a signal representing initiation of a voice call from a mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices to a predetermined telephone number of a destination other than the server system, the mobile device having a telephone number; determining whether hyperlinked content is associated with the predetermined telephone number; using the telephone number of the mobile device to perform a lookup in the processing system, before the voice call is connected to the destination, to determine whether the mobile device has a particular messaging capability; in response to determining that hyperlinked content is associated with the predetermined telephone number and that the mobile device has the particular messaging capability, then sending an alert to the mobile device to cause the mobile device to alert a user of the mobile device about hyperlinked content associated with the destination, and in response to a user input applied in response to the mobile device alerting the user, delivering the hyperlinked content to the mobile device using the particular messaging capability of the mobile device, wherein the voice call is not thereafter connected to the destination without a subsequent user input confirming that the voice call should be connected to the destination; and in response to determining that hyperlinked content is not associated with the predetermined telephone number or that the mobile device does not have the particular messaging capability, then allowing the voice call to be connected to the destination without further input from the user of the mobile device.