Patent ID: 8873725

Claim:
A service method, comprising the steps of: determining if a calling party number of a telephone call to a telephone number of a registration service is already registered; when it is determined that said calling party number is not already registered, determining if the calling party number is associated with a previously registered phone number; and when it is determined that said calling party number, which is not already registered, is associated with a previously registered phone number, prompting a caller to indicate if the caller is seeking to register said calling party number or is seeking to retrieve information corresponding to the previously registered phone number; determining from a response received from the caller in response to the prompting that said caller seeks to register said calling party number, which is associated with the previously registered phone number; in response to determining that the caller seeks to register said calling party number: updating a database of registered telephone numbers that includes the previously registered phone number to include said calling party number and an assigned password, the database of registered telephone numbers being updated such that said calling party number is recorded as a registered phone number with the assigned password being associated in said database of registered telephone numbers with said calling party number, the assigned password being independent of the previously registered phone number and a password associated in said database of registered telephone numbers with the previously registered phone number; and prompting the caller for additional phone numbers from which the caller may seek to obtain the assigned password in the future.