Remote information retrieval and display for an ivr system

An electronic smartphone implemented method for creating a telephone dialstring, comprising the steps of:

• in response to detecting an input to the smartphone,
• accessing, by a computer within the smartphone,
• an electronic relational database stored in a remote storage device,
• said electronic relational database comprising representations of telephone numbers and phone tree options, wherein
• the phone tree options are associated with the telephone numbers represented in the relational database, and
• the electronic relational database additionally comprises representations of
• one or more additional data objects, wherein each of the one or more additional data objects is associated with one or more telephone numbers in the relational database;
• displaying at least one of the additional data objects in a field on the display device of the smartphone;
• accepting input from a touch to the field to select at least one of the telephone numbers associated with the data object;
• displaying on a display device of the smartphone a set of phone tree options associated with the selected telephone number;
• accepting input to select at least one of the set of phone tree options;
• and
• appending, by a computer within the smartphone, a bitstring associated with the selected phone tree option to a string comprising bits representing the selected telephone number to create a modified dialstring.