Patent ID: 6298128
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
Method for communicating messages, comprising the steps of:receiving a first message via a first communications medium;extracting from the first message first address information associated with the first communications medium;determining in response to the first address information second address information associated with a second communications medium by searching a database comprising a plurality of entries, each of the entries having a respective address field and a name field associated with, respectively, the first communications medium, and also with the second communications medium, the database being searched first in a first entry of said entries and if not present searched in a second entry of said entries to locate an address in the address field for the first message in the first communications medium to provide second address information and if not found requesting an address from a user and saving the user-supplied address in one of the entries to provide said second address information.