Patent ID: 8059813

Claim:
A method to select a telephone number for display on a display unit of a user telephone, the method comprising: storing, in the user telephone, a name and identification of a destination user, wherein the identification corresponds a personal identification medium of the destination user; storing, in the user telephone, a plurality of telephone numbers in association with the name and identification of the destination user, wherein each telephone number corresponds to a landline telephone, wherein each landline telephone is part of a plurality of landline telephones, is fixed in its location, is located remote from the remaining landline telephones in the plurality of landline telephones, and is situated in a location where the destination user has been previously determined to frequent and that contains a sensor configured to sense the personal identification medium and to read the identification of the destination user contained on the personal identification medium; transmitting a subscribe signal from the user telephone to a server, wherein the subscribe signal includes the identification of the destination user and a request to receive a location telephone number that is linked to the identification of the destination user; receiving, from the server in the user telephone in response to the subscribe signal, a first location telephone number; determining whether the received first location telephone number matches a telephone number, as a matching telephone number, from the plurality of telephone numbers stored in the user telephone; displaying, in a case where it is determined that the received first location telephone number matches a telephone number from the plurality of telephone numbers stored in the user telephone, the matching telephone number on the display unit in a way that permits a user of the user telephone to call the matching telephone number immediately so as to increase the chance of establishing a telephone call between the user of the user telephone and the destination user through a first landline telephone in the plurality of landline telephones; receiving, from the server in the user telephone in response to the subscribe signal, a second location telephone number after receiving the first location telephone number; and replacing, in a case where it is determined that the received second location telephone number matches a telephone number from the plurality of telephone numbers stored in the user telephone, the telephone number displayed on the display unit with the telephone number from the plurality of telephone numbers stored in the user telephone that matches the received second location telephone number in a way that permits a user of the user telephone to call the displayed telephone number immediately so as to increase the chance of establishing a telephone call between the user of the user telephone and the destination user through a second landline telephone in the plurality.