Patent ID: 8041024

Claim:
A computer implemented method in a sending communication device for broadcasting a notification, the method comprising: responsive to receiving a new telephone number for the sending communication device from a service provider, automatically broadcasting, by the sending communication device, a telephone number change notification to a plurality of contact telephone numbers within a contact list; tracking, by the sending communication device, whether each of the plurality of contact telephone numbers within the contact list received the telephone number change notification; responsive to a contact telephone number within the plurality of contact telephone numbers being dialed by a user of the sending communication device, determining, by the sending communication device, whether the dialed telephone number received the telephone number change notification; responsive to a determination that the dialed telephone number within the plurality of contact telephone numbers received the telephone number change notification, determining, by the sending communication device, an action taken by a contact associated with the dialed telephone number in response to the telephone number change notification being received; and displaying, by the sending communication device, a different color in a background of a display when the user inputs the contact telephone number into the sending communication device based on whether the dialed telephone number received the telephone number change notification and the action taken by the contact associated with dialed telephone number, wherein the sending communication device changes the background of the display to a first different color in response to a determination that the dialed telephone number received the telephone number change notification and the contact associated with the dialed telephone number saved the new telephone number, changes the background of the display to a second different color in response to a determination that the dialed telephone number received the telephone number change notification and the contact associated with the dialed telephone number took no action with regard to the new telephone number, changes the background of the display to a third different color in response to a determination that the dialed telephone number received the telephone number change notification and the contact associated with the dialed telephone number deleted the new telephone number, and changes the background of the display to a fourth different color in response to a determination that the dialed telephone number did not receive the telephone number change notification.