Patent ID: 6980991

Claim:
An Internet-based directory information system for providing toll free telephone numbers and other company information, comprising: a database of information from companies who use media advertising and who also use toll free telephone numbers; a first Internet web site configured with a first graphic user interface so that a company visiting the first web site may enter information relating to advertising and products or services of the company, including a toll free telephone number, and also may enter other company information; a first data network through which the information entered at the first web site is transmitted to the database; a second Internet web site configured with a second graphic user interface so that a visitor to the second web site frames a search request for a toll free telephone number or the other company information based on information taken from advertising for a product or service; and a second data network through which the search request is transmitted to the database and the toll free number and other company information subsequently is transmitted to the second web site.