Patent ID: 7319744

Claim:
A method of controlling routing of telephone calls and communications in a portable computer, comprising the steps of: providing a date book as part of a personal information manager application operating on the portable computer; outputting, on the portable computer, a date book alarm with an audible alert from the date book to alert a user of a particular appointment; receiving, on said portable computer, an acceptance of said date book alarm; outputting, on said portable computer, a plurality of routing profiles when said user accepts said date book alarm, wherein a routing profile defines one or more rules for routing incoming telephone calls to one or more telephone numbers associated with said user; receiving, on said portable computer, a selected routing profile for said particular appointment; outputting, on said portable computer, said selected routing profile and information relating to said particular appointment; and receiving, on a telephone server, said selected routing profile and said information relating to said particular appointment; directing, on said telephone server, a plurality of calls using active profiles at a time of receipt of each call, wherein said active profiles comprises said selected routing profile and said information relating to said particular appointment.