Patent ID: 7512400
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. In a computing system that is capable of using a plurality of telephone technologies to facilitate telephone conversations, a method for providing a user of the computing system with a user interface that allows the user the ability to select a subject field to include with a type of telephone technology selected to use at the time a call is placed, the method comprising the following: an act of identifying a callee; an act of presenting a user interface that may be used to place a telephone call with the callee, wherein the user interface provides a standard user experience regardless of which of the plurality of telephone technologies is used to initiate a telephone call to the callee, wherein the plurality of telephone technologies connect a plurality of different types of telephone devices, and wherein the user interface comprises: a contact window that includes: an act of receiving input to the subject field that allows the user to inform the callee of the subject of the telephone call; after presenting the user interface with the contact window and displaying the indication of the telephone number of the callee, an act of receiving input selecting one telephone technology from the plurality of telephone technologies from the call field in the contact window; and upon receiving user input to initiate the telephone call, an act of sending the subject field to the callee in a dial-up request to give the callee more information relevant to whether or not the callee wants to accept or decline the call.