Patent ID: 6526274
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
A method of facilitating and enhancing telephone operations using the information and functionality in a personal information manager (PIM), the method comprising the steps of:(a) providing information contained in one or more data structures of the PIM to users of a telephone system as needed, automatically; and (b) receiving user commands to operate the telephone system through an extension of the PIM graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the PIM executes on a computer that is distinct from any telephone of the telephone system, and wherein step (a) comprises the step of sending unread e-mail to a wireless communications device of an addressee automatically, said unread e-mail sending step comprising the steps of: (i) identifying an unread e-mail message as eligible for forwarding to the wireless communications device; (ii) copying the unread e-mail message into a page message when the unread e-mail message has been in an unread e-mail queue of the addressee, unread, for a predetermined time; and (iii) sending the page message to the wireless communications device.