Patent ID: 7505568

Claim:
A system for searching contact information from a database using one or more voice prompts provided by a user, said system comprising: a user database for storing contact information and said user database storing one or more attributes associated with said user; a voice interface for said user database, said voice interface including a voice recognition module for converting said voice prompts into one or more search parameters; a module for searching said user database for contact information according to one or more of said search parameters and according to one or more of said stored user attributes; a directory database for storing a plurality of directory entries, and a module for searching said directory database for said directory entries associated with one or more of said search parameters; said attributes associated with said user including a location indicator, said location indicator providing a search criterion for searching contact information located within a given distance relative to said location indicator; said voice interface for said user database including an identification module, said identification module being responsive to a voice input for validating a user; and said attributes associated with said user including a presence indicator, said presence indicator providing the user with a mechanism for accepting or declining a communication from an enterprise or a contact associated with one or more of said directory entries.