Patent ID: 8363813

Claim:
A method for providing speed dialing on a phone station to call a person to be contacted with multiple PSTN numbers according to a pre-selected dialing algorithm, comprising: provisioning a list of phone numbers of a person to be contacted; associating an intelligent speed dialing code with the list of phone numbers of a person to be contacted; associating a user dialing preference with each intelligent speed dialing code; storing the lists of phone numbers and user dialing preferences; retrieving a list of phone numbers of the person to be contacted associated with the intelligent speed dialing code which is associated with the speed dialing digits on the phone; retrieving a user dialing preference associated with the intelligent speed dialing code; connecting the call to at least one of the phone numbers of the person to be contacted using the dialing algorithm including in the user dialing preference; where the user can select at least one dialing pre-defined algorithm and the associated intelligent speed dialing code with a call dialing preference, comprising: time-of-day constrains of each phone number in a list of phone numbers that can be called; sequentially calling a list of phone numbers; simultaneously calling a list of phone numbers; repeatedly dialing a list of phone numbers if the phone numbers are busy or not answered; prompt caller before calling a list of phone numbers; a list of callee's call back preferred numbers.