Enhanced user functionality from a telephone device to an IP network

A telephone device for connecting to a subscriber communications network comprising,

• a keypad consisting of the standard 12-button keypad, 4-rows×3-columns matrix, and 4 additional button keys;
• where each button of the 16 button keypad generates a distinct tone of the 16 defined DTMF tones “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, A, B, C, D”;
• where the 4 additional buttons are arranged as a column in said keypad matrix and are labeled with any distinct alphanumeric character(s) or symbol and generates the;
• “A”, “B”, “C”, “D” DTMF tones respectively;
• where the 4 additional button keys are multifunctional, with a means to relabel said multifunctional keys from a computer on the network;
• where each of the buttons is used to activate the telephone so that the telephone transmits a DTMF signal consisting of two tones out to the communications network;
• where the combinations of tones are those specifically defined as DTMF tone combinations for each specific dialing character;
• where the two tones correspond to said labeling on each key and to a signaling digit in a dialed telephone number or signaling character to the PSTN;
• where the telephone number consists of combinations of the characters “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, A, B, C, D”,
• where the six most frequently used letters of text/data entry, “e”, “t”, “a”, “o”, “i”, “n”, are each assigned to a key,
• where the communications network comprises a receiving device that decodes the transmitted DTMF signaling from the telephone and converts said received signaling into a network address in order to complete a phone call.