Patent ID: 7881750

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, a request to write previously stored personalized information stored at the computing device to a first mobile communication device different from the computing device; displaying, by the computing device, a selection interface including a list of a plurality of personalized information types previously stored at the computing device, wherein the plurality of previously stored personalized information types includes at least one of: a calendar, a phonebook and a message; receiving, through an input of the computing device, individual user selections of multiple previously stored personalized information types from the list of previously stored personalized information types in the displayed selection interface to send to the first mobile communication device, the input being different from the first mobile communication device; and after receiving the individual user selections, sending previously stored personalized information corresponding to the selected personalized information types to the first mobile communication device from the computing device, wherein sending the previously stored personalized information includes: transmitting, to the first mobile communication device, a request to write a first information record of the previously stored personalized information; in response to the request, receiving an indication from the first mobile communication device, the indication specifying whether the first information record already exists in the first mobile communication device; determining whether the first information record is flagged, wherein flagging of an information record indicates that the information record is empty; and evaluating the first information record in relation to data field information received from the first mobile communication device only when the first information record is not flagged.