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A method for accessing and browsing the internet through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals the hyperlink selections of a web

A method for accessing and browsing the internet through the use of a telephone and the associated DTMF signals is disclosed. The preferred embodiment provides a system that converts the information content of a web page from text to speech (voice signals), signals the hyperlink selections of a web page in an audio manner, and allows selection of the hyperlinks through the use of DTMF signals generated from a telephone keypad. Upon receiving a DTMF signal corresponding to a hyperlink, the corresponding web page is fetched and again delivered to the user via one of the available delivery methods such as voice, fax-on-demand, electronic mail, or regular mail.

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[ What we claim is:] [1.] A method for telephonically accessing and navigating a computer network, the method comprising:receiving a first request transmitted from a telephone, the first request comprising data signals that correspond to a first unique address of a first data file residing on the co

[ What we claim is:] [1.] A method for telephonically accessing and navigating a computer network, the method comprising:receiving a first request transmitted from a telephone, the first request comprising data signals that correspond to a first unique address of a first data file residing on the computer network, and the first data file comprising a first hyperlink;transmitting a first response to the telephone, the first response comprising voice signals that correspond to text stored in the first data file the first data file corresponding to a Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) format; and,converting the first data file to a first format, the first format including an H-tree data structure.