A system that provides users of both fixed and wireless Internet devices,
a method of entering numbers instead of the text characters of Internet
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and other Internet identifiers to access
Internet resources and functions, such as Web sites, e-mail services,
individual documents or files, location services, etc. When the user
enters a WebNum, the digits of the WebNum are sent to a database on a
system that is accessible over the Internet. The database maps the WebNum
back to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which contains a hostname in
the Internet domain name structure. This would subsequently be resolved
through the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) to an IP address to
identify the IP address of the Web site. The cell phone provider or WID
network provider would then retrieve the home page of the Web site over
the Internet, to return content to the cell phone or WID display.
