Patent ID: 8577351

Claim:
A method of providing enhanced contact information on a mobile communication device, the method comprising: displaying a user interface screen of a messaging application on a display screen of the mobile communication device, the user interface screen including a contact input field; receiving input via the contact input field; determining whether a contact name in an address book stored in a memory of the mobile communication device matches the input in the contact input field; when no contact name in the address book matches the input in the contact input field, searching for the input in the contact input field in two or more remote contact sources over a wireless data network, the remote contact sources including a global address book of a messaging server of a wireless connector system associated with the mobile communication device, and a reverse lookup directory service having a contact database; determining whether a contact name in the remote contact sources matches the input in the contact input field; and displaying one or more contact names from the remote contact sources which match the input in the user interface screen.