Patent ID: 8918086

Claim:
A telecommunications addressing system (TAS) comprising: (a) telephone mapping server (TMS); (b) telephone mapping database (TMD); and (c) computer communication network (CCN); wherein: said TAS is configured to communicate with a public switched telephone network (PSTN); said TMS is configured to store information that identifies a telephone instrument device (TID) in said TMD, the stored information comprising a numeric telephone identifier (NTI); said TMS is configured to locate an NTI within said TMD using a target telephone identifier (TTI) data string as the locating index; said NTI permits said TID to be accessed via a PSTN; said TAS is configured to permit a first user to select and associate a first TTI data string with a first numeric telephone identifier (NTI) of a first TID in the TMD; and said TAS is configured such when a second user, operating another TID as a source telephone device (STD), uses the selected and associated first TTI data string to initiate a call to the first TID of the first user, the TMS uses the selected and associated first TTI data string as a locating index to determine the associated first NTI, and the TAS initiates a telephone call between said STD and said first TID.