Patent ID: 7472187

Claim:
A method for managing communications of a user, comprising: presenting a message log that tracks the communications of the user, the message log representing the communications as entries in the message log, with each entry having data fields comprising at least one of a “from” field describing an origin of a corresponding communication, a “subject” field describing informational content associated with the corresponding communication, and a “date” field describing a date associated with the corresponding communication; causing display of an entry in the message log; receiving a selection of a data field within the entry; querying an information resource to retrieve information that is correlated to the selected data field; if there is only one type of correlated information, then presenting the one type of correlated information; if there are different types of correlated information, then presenting a list of the different types of correlated information; receiving another selection that selects a type of information from the list; retrieving the selected type of information; and presenting the selected type of information correlated to the selected field.