Patent ID: 7113585

Claim:
A telephone dialing method for call completion comprising: allowing a subscriber to enter a default dialing prefix; storing the default dialing prefix in EEPROM; allowing the subscriber to initiate a dial string on the telephone network; monitoring and storing the subscriber initiated dial string contemporaneously with the allowing the subscriber to initiate the dial string on the telephone network; determining whether the subscriber initiated dial string has a required number of incomplete digits related to a number of digits of the default dialing prefix, the determining being done contemporaneously with the allowing the user to initiate a dial string on the telephone network; inhibiting further processing until a next call if the user initiated dial string was determined to be unequal to the required number of incomplete digits; parsing together the default dialing prefix stored in EEPROM and the subscriber initiated dial string only if the subscriber initiated dial string was determined to have the required number of incomplete digits related to the number of digits of the default dialing prefix, wherein a complete telephone number with the default dialing prefix is created; effecting at least one hook switch flash to achieve telephone line interruption if the user initiated dial string was determined to have the required number of incomplete digits related to the number of digits of the default dialing prefix; and, placing, subsequent to effecting the at least one hook switch flash, the complete telephone number, which comprises the default dialing prefix and the subscriber initiated dial string, on the telephone network for call completion.