Patent ID: 8135000

Claim:
A method for determining contact information of a buddy of a user of a user telephone means having associated identification information, the method comprising: receiving, at an Internet-enabled computing device, an incoming call from the user telephone means; receiving, at the Internet-enabled computing device, calling line identification (CLID) information associated with the incoming call; comparing the CLID information to the user telephone means associated identification information; if the CLID matches the associated identification information of the user: receiving buddy identification of the buddy from the user; determining a match result based upon the buddy identification being listed in one of a group of pre-identified Internet-accessible destinations; and sending the match result to the user telephone means; wherein the buddy identification comprises at least one of: letters entered by the user using a keypad on the user telephone means; DTMF tones entered by the user using the keypad on the user telephone means; numbers entered by the user using the keypad on the user telephone means; a short-message-service-type message entered by the user using a keypad on the user telephone means; and speech entered by the user using the user telephone means.