Patent ID: 8280437

Claim:
A method for operating a computing device, the method being performed by one or more processors of the computing device and comprising: presenting a user interface feature on a touch-sensitive display of the computing device, the user interface feature including one or more images and one or more names of persons associated with the one or more images, each of the one or more images being (i) associated with a person and contact information for that person, and (ii) selectable by a user; enabling the user to select a first image from the one or more images by making contact with a region on the touch-sensitive display where the first image is present; in response to the user selecting the first image, presenting contact information corresponding to the person associated with the first image on the display, the contact information including one or more selectable contact entries; and in response to the user selecting one of the one or more selectable contact entries, automatically initiating a communication using an application corresponding to a type of the selected contact entry.