Patent ID: 8285675

Claim:
A method of managing storage of address book data records at an electronic device, the method comprising: provisioning, at the electronic device, a new Personal Information Manager (PIM) service account including address book functionality on the electronic device; providing an option, at the electronic device, to merge the address book data records stored on the electronic device and not associated with another PIM service account to associate the address book data records with the new PIM service account; in response to receipt, at the electronic device, of the option to merge: updating, at the electronic device, address book data records stored on the electronic device and not associated with another PIM service account to associate the address book data records with the new PIM service account provisioned on the electronic device; and sending, from the electronic device, the updated address book data records for storage at the PIM service account thereby merging the address book data records stored only at the electronic device with address book data records at the new PIM service account.