Patent ID: 8909206

Claim:
A communications system with a dialing function comprising: a receiver device; a communications device; and a caller device configured for making a request to the communications device in response to an operation from a caller, the caller device comprising a plurality of called parties, each request from the caller device comprising a first identifier of the called party, each called party associated with a second identifier and comprising a plurality of phone numbers, wherein each phone number is assigned a predetermined dialing time period and a dialing priority; the communications device configured for making a call to the receiver device in response to the request from the caller device according to the dialing priority of a corresponding phone number; wherein the communications device comprises: a storage unit configured for storing the plurality of phone numbers for each called party, the predetermined dialing time period of each phone number, and the dialing priority of each phone number; a clock unit configured for providing a current time; a processing unit comprising: a request receiving module configured for receiving the request from the caller device; a request recognition module configured for acquiring the first identifier from the request, and determining whether the acquired first identifier matches one of the second identifiers associated with the called parties; an acquiring module configured for acquiring the one or more phone numbers associated with a corresponding called party having the matched second identifier from the storage unit; an arranging module configured for selecting one or more phone numbers associated with one or more predetermined dialing time periods in which the current time from the clock unit falls into, from the acquired one or more phone numbers; and the arranging module further configured for sorting the selected one or more phone numbers in an order according to the dialing priorities of the phone numbers; and a communications unit configured for dialing a first sorted phone number.