Patent ID: 7240298
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. In a computing system that is connected with a display device and that includes a user interface that is configured to display contact information at the display device, a method for displaying contact information from a plurality of contact information directories that are associated with a plurality of communication applications, the method comprising: an act of providing a remote store interface module, the interface module enabled to search and process information at remote devices; an act of providing a schema module, the schema module enabled to map contact information, files, and communication histories into categories and classifications which can be recognized for display and the schema module further enabled to organize data from remote stores into a single unifying schema; an act of receiving, at the computing system, a user request for contact information that corresponds to a predetermined contact; when contact information is stored remotely, an act of utilizing the interface module and schema module to access the remote information; an act of displaying, at the display device, the requested contact information; an act of providing a window for setting preferences for the manner in which the contact information is displayed; an act of providing, with the requested contact information, a link to a communication history of the predetermined contact, the communication history including a record of a plurality of different types of communications with the predetermined contact generated from a plurality of communication applications; and upon receiving a user request to view the communication history, comprising a selection of the link, an act of displaying the record of the communication history with the plurality of different types of communications generated from the plurality of communication applications.