Patent ID: 8045687

Claim:
A call-connecting device, comprising: a database having an identification number and a contact destination number, as associated information, a storage device containing said database, a call-accepting unit configured to accept a call from a first telephone designating a number to connect a Computer Telephony Integration Server including the identification number as well as to extract the identification number from said number to connect to the Computer Telephony Integration Server, a contact destination-extracting unit configured to extract the contact destination number associated with said identification number from the database, according to said extracted identification number; and a connection-processing unit configured to connect the call from the first telephone to a second telephone corresponding to said contact destination number, according to said extracted contact destination number, wherein the number to connect to the Computer Telephony Integration Server includes: a telecommunications company-specific number of at least four digits, which has been allocated to a respective telecommunications company; a server-specific number of at least three digits, which has been allocated to a respective Computer Telephony Integration Server; and the identification number that is at least fourteen digits, which has been allocated to respective advertised information, said identification number including an agency number that indicates an agency that provides said advertised information and an advertisement-specific number that identifies said advertised information.