Regional service by phone

摘要

A method is provided to communicate regional services to a telephone gateway device (102) over a public computer network (104). The method includes a distribution server (118) sending a list of entities offering a desired service in a desired region to the telephone gateway device (102). The list includes probability parameters that the telephone gateway device (102) uses in a lottery to arrange the order in which the entities are displayed. A service server (112) adjusts the probability parameters based on the amount of information about the respective businesses accessed by the consumers and the price the respective businesses pay for the access.