Patent ID: 7286662

Claim:
A method for providing rapid telephone call capability to a plurality of callers, comprising: receiving a request to associate a first code with a telephone number assigned to a first party at an element in a telephone service provider network from the first party, wherein the first code is between two (2) and seven (7) characters in length; receiving a request to associate a second code with a telephone number assigned to a second party at an element in the telephone service provider network from the second party, wherein the second code is between two (2) and seven (7) characters in length; storing the first code in association with the first telephone number; storing the second code in association with the second telephone number; receiving a dialed code from a caller, wherein the dialed code is between two (2) and seven (7) characters in length; if the dialed code consists of the first code, connecting the caller with the first telephone number; if the dialed code consists of the second code, connecting the caller with the second telephone number; and rejecting the dialed code from the caller if the caller is not present in a predetermined geographic area using a blocking algorithm for determining the caller's location and comparing the caller's location to one or more predetermined geographic areas.