Providing Called Number Characteristics to Click-to-Dial Customers

The method of claim 1, wherein the first type of selection is made via positioning a cursor over the icon;

• and the second type of selection is made via clicking on the icon.

The method of claim 1, wherein the second type of selection includes the selection of the first type.

The method of claim 1, wherein the call destination attributes are presented in a popup box.

The method of claim 1, further comprising:

• retrieving the call destination attributes from a database in content data storage, in response to the first type of selection.

The method of claim 1, wherein the phone number is determined based at least in part on the web page.

The method of claim 6, further comprising:

• determining the phone number based on real traffic records.

The method of claim 6, further comprising:

• retrieving a document according to a link in the web page;
• and
• scanning the document to determine the phone number.

The method of claim 8, wherein the web page comprises search results obtained in response to a query;

• and the scanning of the document to determine the phone number comprises selecting the phone number from a plurality of phone numbers identified from the document based on relevancy to the query.

The method of claim 9, wherein selecting is based at least in part on proximity Ranking.

The method of claim 9, wherein scanning comprises identifying information having a phone number relevant to the query to identify candidates for the phone number of the icon.

The method of claim 11, further comprising:

• finding the information in cached data, wherein retrieving and scanning are performed if the information is not found in the cached data.

The method of claim 1, wherein the icon floats over web pages presented to the user;

• and the method further comprises:
• linking, via the computing device, the phone number to the icon in response to the phone number being identified based on the web page.

The method of claim 1, wherein the call is to connect a first communication device of the user to a second communication device at the phone number.

The method of claim 14, wherein each of the first communication device and the second communication device are the same type of device selected from the group comprising a computer, a personal digital assistant, a voice over Internet protocol phone, a public switched telephone network phone, a soft phone and a cell phone.

The method of claim 1, further comprising:

• providing a list of previous calls made to the phone number, in response to the first type of selection.

The method of claim 1, wherein the call destination attributes comprise one of:

• an indication of a type of the phone number, a name of a person, and an identification of an affiliation of the person.

The method of claim 1, wherein the call destination attributes comprise a suggested time to call the destination number.