Patent ID: 7472351

Claim:
A computer accessible storage medium having computer code stored therein for displaying a graphical user interface, comprising: computer code for displaying an e-mail viewer pane including a sender identifier and text of an e-mail that is received from a sender; and computer code for displaying an icon simultaneously with and on a toolbar portion of the e-mail viewer pane that is outside and separate from the text of the e-mail for initiating a phone session with the sender utilizing a same application with which the email viewer pane is displayed, upon selection of the icon; wherein a first phone session window is displayed simultaneously with the e-mail viewer pane on an interface at a first computer of a recipient, upon selection of the icon; wherein a second phone session window is displayed on an interface at a second computer of the sender, upon selection of the icon; wherein the e-mail and associated text included with the e-mail viewer pane are displayed simultaneously with the second phone session window on the interface at the second computer of the sender, upon selection of the icon; wherein an e-mail identifier is transmitted from the first computer to the second computer; wherein the e-mail and associated text displayed on the interface at the second computer of the sender are retrieved from memory in the second computer, utilizing the e-mail identifier.