Patent ID: 7769145

Claim:
A method of telephone call initiation via toolbar software executing with an Internet web browser on a computing device, the method comprising: the toolbar software causing a toolbar to be displayed in the Internet web browser on the computing device; the toolbar software identifying telephone numbers included in a web page requested by a user of the Internet web browser; the toolbar software causing the Internet web browser to conspicuously display the identified telephone numbers in the toolbar automatically when the web page is displayed; the toolbar software recognizing activation by the user of one of the conspicuously displayed identified telephone numbers included in the web page as an activated telephone number; the toolbar software sending a call initiation message over a data network to a switch instructing the switch to initiate a two leg telephone call over a public switched telephone network between a predefined telephone number and the activated telephone number in response to the recognizing, wherein the predefined telephone number is associated with a first telephone distinct from and proximate to the computing device that runs the Internet web browser, the first telephone coupled with the public switched telephone network, and wherein the activated telephone number is associated with a second telephone distinct from the computing device and distinct from the first telephone; wherein the predefined telephone number is a web browser user telephone number; wherein the web browser user telephone number is for an adjacent telephone proximately near to where the user is accessing the web browser; wherein the adjacent telephone is a cellular telephone.