Claims
- 1. A method for providing requested information from an information center to a caller having a telecommunications transmitting and receiving device that ordinarily initiates telecommunications through transmission of an ordinary telephone number comprising:
providing a specialized access code that is associated with the information, wherein the specialized access code is different than an ordinary telephone number; initiating a telecommunications communication by dialing the specialized access code into the telecommunications transmitting and receiving device without also dialing an ordinary telephone number; within a telecommunications network, translating the specialized access code to a public switch telephone network number to direct the telecommunications communication to the information center; delivering the information as corresponds to the specialized access code to the caller from the information center through the telecommunications transmitting and receiving device.
- 2. The method of claim 1 wherein initiating a telecommunications communication comprises initiating a wireless telecommunications communication.
- 3. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a specialized access code comprises providing a specialized access code having a fewer number of characters than an ordinary telephone number.
- 4. The method of claim 1 wherein providing a specialized access code comprises providing a specialized access code that includes at least one non-alphabetic/non-numeric character.
- 5. The method of claim 4 wherein providing a specialized access code that includes at least one non-alphabetic/non-numeric character comprises providing a specialized access code having the non-alphabetic/non-numeric character as a first character.
- 6. The method of claim 1 wherein initiating a telecommunications communication by dialing the specialized access code into the telecommunications transmitting and receiving device comprises initiating a telecommunications communication by entering the specialized access code into a telecommunications transmitting and receiving device.
- 7. The method of claim 6 wherein entering the specialized access code into a telecommunications transmitting and receiving device comprises entering the specialized access code into a wireless telecommunications transmitting and receiving device
- 8. The method of claim 7 wherein, within a telecommunications network, translating the specialized access code to a public switch telephone network number to direct the telecommunications communication to the information center includes switching the telecommunications communication from a public wireless telecommunications network to a public switch telephone network.
- 9. A method for providing access to requested information as retained at an information center to a caller having a wireline telecommunications transmitting and receiving device that ordinarily initiates telecommunications through transmission of an ordinary telephone number comprising:
providing a specialized access code that is associated with the information, wherein the specialized access code is different than an ordinary telephone number; initiating a telecommunications communication by dialing the specialized access code into the wireline telecommunications transmitting and receiving device without also dialing an ordinary telephone number; within a telecommunications network, translating the specialized access code to a public switch telephone network number to direct the telecommunications communication to the information center; permitting the caller to access the information at the information center as corresponds to the specialized access code through the wireline telecommunications transmitting and receiving device.
- 10. The method of claim 9 and further comprising:
initiating a wireless telecommunications communication by dialing the specialized access code into a wireless telecommunications transmitting and receiving device without also dialing an ordinary telephone number; within a telecommunications network, translating the specialized access code to a public switch telephone network number to direct the wireless telecommunications communication to the information center; permitting the caller to access the information at the information center as corresponds to the specialized access code through the wireless telecommunications transmitting and receiving device.
- 11. The method of claim 9 wherein providing a specialized access code comprises providing a specialized access code having a fewer number of characters than an ordinary telephone number.
- 12. The method of claim 9 wherein providing a specialized access code comprises providing a specialized access code that includes at least one non-alphabetic/non-numeric character.
- 13. The method of claim 12 wherein providing a specialized access code that includes at least one non-alphabetic/non-numeric character comprises providing a specialized access code having the non-alphabetic/non-numeric character as a first character.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 10/104,867 filed on Mar. 22, 2002 and of co-pending application Ser. No. 10/104,197 filed on Mar. 22, 2002, which are both continuation-in-part applications of application Ser. No. 08/998,183 filed on Dec. 24, 1997 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,397,057), which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/475,800 filed on Jun. 7, 1995 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,752,186).
Continuations (2)
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