Patent ID: 7113572

Claim:
A method for automatically connecting to electronic addresses received in spoken communications, comprising: receiving at least one telephone call from a caller, wherein the at least one telephone call includes voiced address information, wherein the voiced address information corresponds to at least one electronic address; automatically identifying the voiced address information while the telephone call is ongoing, wherein the identifying is performed without first actively soliciting the caller for the at least one electronic address, without activating a voice record function on the phone, and without need for querying a database for the at least one electronic address previously existing within the database; automatically extracting the identified voiced address information based on the identified voiced address information; receiving user input; after receiving the user input, automatically coupling to at least one electronic address associated with the voiced address information based in part on the automatically extracted and identified voiced address information, wherein the coupling comprises: generating an electronic message including the extracted voiced address information; forwarding the electronic message among at least one location pre-specified by a user; and extracting the voiced address information from the electronic message following receipt at the at least one location.