Patent ID: 7010116

Claim:
A method of programming telephone numbers and information corresponding to the telephone numbers into a telephone comprising: detecting at a telephone a telephone number which has been entered into the telephone; determining if the entered telephone number is already stored into a memory of the telephone; if the entered telephone number is not stored in the memory of the telephone: prompting a user to confirm whether the entered telephone number should be stored into the memory of the telephone; and storing the entered telephone number into the memory of the telephone only if the user confirms that the entered telephone number should be stored; initiating from the telephone a telephone call to a computer; transferring the entered telephone number to the computer; receiving information associated with the entered telephone number from the computer; storing the received information into the memory of the telephone in association with the entered telephone number; and wherein the computer transfers the information associated with the entered telephone number to the telephone by an electronic mail message and the act of receiving the information is performed by receiving the electronic message.