Patent ID: 8249603

Claim:
A method of placing a telephone call on a communication line selected from a plurality of communication lines on which outgoing telephone calls are placed using a mobile device, wherein the mobile device is configured to receive an e-mail message at the mobile device at any of a plurality of e-mail message addresses, the method comprising: receiving input identifying an e-mail message address, of the plurality of e-mail message addresses, at which the e-mail message is to be received at the mobile device, and a communication line, of the plurality of communication lines on which outgoing telephone calls are placed using the mobile device, associated with the e-mail message address at which the e-mail message is to be received at the mobile device; storing line selection information comprising data identifying the communication line of the plurality of communication lines associated with the e-mail message address, wherein each communication line in the plurality of communication lines has a phone number associated therewith; receiving the e-mail message at the e-mail message address, the e-mail message comprising data identifying a target recipient; monitoring for initiation of a telephone call to the target recipient; upon detecting the initiation of the telephone call to the target recipient, determining which of the plurality of communication lines is the communication line associated with the e-mail message address at which the e-mail message comprising data identifying the target recipient was received; and placing the telephone call to the target recipient on the communication line determined as the communication line associated with the e-mail message address at which the e-mail message comprising data identifying the target recipient was received.