1. A server for an interactive voice response (IVR) database, comprising: a first non-transitory computer readable medium having encoded upon it a database that represents one or more IVR phone trees comprising a number of IVR phone tree data entries for telephone numbers and IVR phone tree options as well as metadata about the IVR phone trees, in which the IVR phone tree options are each associated with at least one of the telephone numbers, and in which each of the IVR phone tree options is also associated with a dialstring modification; and a second non-transitory computer readable medium having encoded upon it instructions executable by a data processing system within the server to perform process steps comprising: detecting a signal transmitted to the server from an electronic smartphone through a communications port; identifying from at least a portion of the signal a representation of at least a portion of a telephone number; searching the database of the first non-transitory computer readable medium for a set of IVR phone tree options and associated dialstring modifications associated with the identified telephone number; and transmitting data representing at least a portion of the IVR phone tree options and associated dialstring modifications to the electronic smartphone.