Patent ID: 7463725

Claim:
A method of increasing or maintaining usage of a selected company's voice or data communication line or line segment or connections, and for accessing an established fund, there being an associated fund communication number, which includes the steps: a) providing a protocol by which a user of said communication line or line segment or connections becomes eligible to access to said fund, whereby the following steps are provided: i) the user uses said selected company's communication line or line segment, or connections to make a call to said associated fund communication number, ii) the user's identifier is provided and communicated to said selected company or to the fund, and b) monitoring incoming calls to said associated fund communication number or said selected line to determine whether or not they are incoming on said selected company's communication line or line segment or connections, c) and effectively blocking usage associated with access to the fund of call information on communication lines or other than said company's communication line or line segment or connections, thereby excluding said access.