Patent ID: 7079643

Claim:
A method for determining a correct telephone dialing sequence for a uniformly formatted phone number, the steps comprising: a) providing a phone number database containing at least one telephone number having a predetermined, uniform format; b) providing an updatable call result database comprising at least one of the fields: a dialing method to use, a count of dialing attempts, a count of dialing failures, and a count of successfully connected calls; c) retrieving a phone number to be called from said phone number database; d) selecting a potentially operable dialing sequence for dialing said retrieved phone number from a predetermined set of dialing sequences; e) dialing said retrieved phone number using said selected dialing sequence thereby initiating a dialed call and automatically determining a result of said dialing operation; f) automatically storing said result in a record of said call result database associated with said retrieved phone number; g) automatically determining if said dialed call has been successfully connected; and h) if said dialed call has not been successfully completed, using at least said result to automatically select another of said predetermined set of dialing sequences.