Patent ID: 8243900

Claim:
A method for navigating a telephone call tree, comprising the steps of: providing, by an application running at a communication unit of a caller, a telephone call tree associated with an automated telephone answering system of a called provider; displaying said telephone call tree by the application running at the communication unit of the caller; arranging at least one part of said displayed telephone call tree to produce a modified telephone call tree by the application running at the communication unit of the caller; storing, by the application running at the communication unit of the caller, said modified telephone call tree within the communication unit of the caller; determining, by the application running at the communication unit of the caller responsive to initiating a call, whether the communication unit of the caller has previously called a phone number associated with the automated telephone answering system; responsive to determining that the communication unit of the caller has previously called the phone number associated with the automated telephone answering system, retrieving said stored modified telephone call tree from the communication unit of the caller; and displaying said retrieved modified telephone call tree by the application running at the communication unit of the caller.