Patent ID: 8457601

Claim:
A key responsive record, navigation and marking method for controlling a communications system, the communications system includes a plurality of telecommunications enabled devices, each with a plurality of actuatable control key elements thereon which include a key bearing a * symbol and a key bearing a # symbol and each with a speaker and a microphone for a telecommunications session, said plurality of telecommunications enabled devices communitively coupled via a telecommunications network to a communications recording station, said communications station having a data recording module and an interactive voice response module for effecting a delivery of audible instructions to a user operating an activated telecommunications enabled device during a two-way communications session between said user and at least one other user who is another user in said session, the key responsive record, navigation and marking control method comprising: during a communications sessions between said user and said another user through respective telecommunications enabled devices using the telecommunications network and coupled through said communications recording station: receiving a * control signal at said communications recording station resulting from activation of said * control key on said activated telecommunications enabled device by said user sent over said telecommunications network to said communications recording station; and, upon receipt of the * control signal, activating an end of telecommunications event routine which includes the cessation of a recording session by said data recording module at said communications recording station.