Mobility extended telephone application programming interface and method of use

A system for providing information to a wireless network subscriber in response to a digits request trigger or a SMS origination message, comprising:

• means for receiving said digits request trigger from said wireless network, wherein the digits request trigger is a signaling message that is associated with a call set-up process, the digits request trigger comprising dialed digits or a feature code, whereby a telecommunications network attempts to establish a call connection between a user that initiates the digits request trigger and a called number associated with said dialed digits or feature code;
• means for correlating said digits request trigger to requested data, wherein said correlating means accesses a user profile database to identify said requested information for a particular digits request trigger;
• means for retrieving data corresponding to said digits request trigger;
• and
• means for sending said retrieved data to a user who initiated said digits request trigger.

An information system for a wireless network comprising:

• a wireless web information services gateway coupled to said wireless network and capable of receiving digits request triggers from said wireless network, wherein the digits request trigger is a signaling message that is associated with a call set-up process, the digits request trigger comprising dialed digits or a feature code, whereby a telecommunications network attempts to establish a call connection between a user that initiates the digits request trigger and a called number associated said dialed digits or feature code;
• means for correlating digits request triggers to requested information, wherein said correlating means accesses a user profile database to identify said requested information for particular digits request trigger;
• means for retrieving said requested information;
• and
• means for sending said requested information to subscribers on said wireless network.