Patent ID: 8966079
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method performed on a computing device for enabling action on data items, the method comprising: processing text in a record in response to the record being opened, modified, or created; then determining that a data item in the record corresponds to a sequence of characters and is of a type to be an identifier for one or more types of transmissions; and presenting the record with the data item displayed in an active state; wherein presenting the record includes enabling the data item to be an identifier for two or more types of transmissions from the computing device, wherein enabling the data item includes enabling each of multiple designated inputs on the data item to programmatically trigger a corresponding application to initiate the transmission of a particular one of the two or more types using the same sequence of characters that corresponds to the data item as the identifier of the transmission of each of the two or more types, wherein the corresponding application to initiate each transmission is different for each of the two or more types of transmissions.