Method and system for an enhanced network and customer premise equipment personal directory

摘要

Method and system for providing a personal network directory comprises terminal apparatus including a processor, memory and a keyboard for communicating with a network server. The network server may maintain a personal network directory for a telecommunications subscriber of called and calling party telephone numbers to/from the subscriber and identification of applications software which may be periodically updated. The subscriber may access the personal directory for a telephone number from a dumb telephone more quickly and easily than a shared directory assistance operator by dialing a special unique sequence of digits after a shared number such as 411 or (area code) 555-1212 or by dialing a unique character string for their personal directory. If the user has an intelligent telephone, the subscriber may via a communications protocol access and download one or more telephone numbers or programs at a time consistent with a personal rule-base associated with the directory in network or terminal memory.