Patent ID: 7752167

Claim:
In an electronic device, a method of importing selected information into a first application in said electronic device, comprising the steps of: a) capturing within a displayed screen of a second application a block of information received from a remote electronic device, said block of information comprising at least one of selected directory information in a vCard format and selected calendar information in a vCalendar format; wherein said capturing step comprises storing said block of information into a cache memory of said electronic device; b) transferring said block of information to a support application resident on said electronic device, the support application being an operating system tool available to a plurality of applications and capable of transferring information between said plurality of applications; c) automatically extracting said selected information by retaining only information in the first selected format and discarding any remainder; d) automatically translating said selected information from said vCard or vCalendar format into a second format that is native to said first application; e) automatically storing said translated information of said second format that is native to the first application as a record in a database of said first application; and f) synchronizing said first application located on said electronic device with a corresponding application located on a second electronic device.