Method and system for communicating with an interactive voice response (IVR) system

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor on a computing device, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:

• receiving, by the computer processor, a user request to connect to an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system to perform an action, the computer processor independent of the IVR system;
• connecting, by the computer processor, to the IVR system;
• obtaining, by the computer processor from the IVR system, a request for information;
• automatically supplying, by the computer processor, an answer to the request for information to the IVR system in response to the request for information;
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• repeating, by the computer processor, the obtaining and supplying steps until the action has been performed.