Technique for administering personal telephone numbers

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The drawbacks to administering a sequence of locations to which calls placed to a subscriber's personal telephone number may be routed for personal communication service are overcome by a) storing pre-defined mnemonic audible tags for association with telephone numbers prior to any interactions with the subscriber b) offering the subscriber a choice of the pre-defined mnemonic audible tags by speaking them to him c) receiving an indication of the mnemonic audibletag selected by the subscriber d) receiving signals indicating a telephone number supplied by the subscriber; and e) storing the received telephone number information in association with the selected mnemonic audible tag. The …