Patent ID: 6980642

Claim:
A subscriber terminal comprising, in combination: a processor; a memory; a phone book stored in the memory, the phone book defining a plurality of telephone numbers; at least one digit sequence stored in the memory; and a translation routine executable by the processor (a) to receive digits entered by a user, (b) to determine whether the digits entered by the user represent an incomplete set of digits, and (c) in response to a determination that the digits entered by the user represent an incomplete set of digits: (i) to make a determination of whether the digits entered by the user match digits at an end of any telephone number defined by the phone book, (ii) if the determination is that the digits entered by the user match digits at an end of a telephone number defined by the phone book, to initiate a call to the telephone number, and (iii) if the determination is that the digits entered by the user do not match digits at an end of any telephone number defined by the phone book, to automatically add one of the at least one digit sequence stored in the memory to the digits entered by the user so as to establish a composite telephone number, and to initiate a call to the composite telephone number.