Patent ID: 8706835
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06Q,H04B,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for remotely storing and locally accessing an address book, comprising the steps of: establishing a broadband enabled telephone system comprising a network based content delivery server operatively coupled with a plurality of SIP end points in which SIP messages are sent to and from a SIP end point, wherein said plurality of SIP end points comprises at least one base station; configuring said at least one base station with a first communications facility, a broadband network connection for establishing and maintaining broadband access to a network via said first communications facility, and a second communications facility for interacting with, and maintaining profile information for a plurality of handsets; providing a plurality of handsets, each handset comprising: providing a network based service on said content delivery server for storing an address book; storing at least one address book on said service; virtualizing said address book for access in a broadband enabled telephone system via a handset from among said plurality of handsets, the handset having limited memory capacity; wherein said address book is only stored in full on the network and is temporarily fetched for virtualization by the broadband enabled telephone system in whole or in part as needed by using user gestures received via said interface to determine a portion of the address book that the user wants to access; synchronizing only a portion of said address book with said broadband enabled telephone system; moving the entire address book to the broadband enabled telephone system if the address book is small; moving only selected portions of the address book to the broadband enabled telephone system in response to user navigation within the handset if the address book is large; rendering portions of said address book for display on said handset depending upon user selection and address book size by interpreting navigational gestures to provide a limited portion of the address book consistent with the navigation, further comprising: wherein one or more address books, each having a virtually unlimited size, is accessible via said handset; wherein the one or more address books include a shared address book that is accessible to each of a plurality of group members that includes the user and comprises a list of contact entries, wherein at least one of the contact entries displays a contact name, a contact phone number, and a contact email address and wherein a change to a contact entry in the shared address book made by one of the group members repopulates the shared address book such that the changed contact entry in the shared address book is visible to each of the plurality of group members.