Patent ID: 6983124

Claim:
A telecommunications device, comprising: a DTMF generator; a microprocessor coupled to said DTMF generator; and a radio frequency transceiver coupled to said microprocessor; wherein said radio frequency transceiver is configured to: detect existence of a radio frequency tag; receive from said radio frequency tag a radio frequency signal comprising tag data associated with said radio frequency tag, said tag data being associated with an item with which the radio frequency tag is associated; and provide said tag data to the microprocessor; wherein said microprocessor is configured to do the following substantially at the time the radio frequency signal is received: receive said tag data from the radio frequency transceiver; associate said tag data with an associated DTMF sequence; and cause the DTMF generator to provide said associated DTMF sequence as output; and wherein said radio frequency tag is attached to a business card on which information for an entity is displayed and wherein said tag data is associated with a telephone number for said entity, whereby said microprocessor causes the DTMF generator to dial said telephone number for said entity in response to receiving said tag data.