Patent ID: 7640550

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) receiving, by a computer and from a user, a first type of information, the first type of information comprising a name of a potential contactee, a business address of the potential contactee, a home address of the potential contactee, and an electronic address associate with the potential contactee; (b) in response, searching, by the computer, for contact data associated with the first type of information in a plurality of searchable records, the records being maintained by a plurality of a productivity application, a text messaging application, a paging application, a voice communication application, a local address book, and an enterprise directory; (c) providing by the computer and to the user, a menu comprising a plurality of different contact options, the contact options corresponding to contact data located by the searching step (b), wherein the plurality of different contact options correspond to a plurality of email, voice call, instant message, and page; (d) receiving, by the computer and from the user, a selected contact option; and (e) in response to step (d), initiating by the computer, a communication, according to the selected contact option, with a communication device associated with the contact data.