Patent ID: 8826175

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: a memory having computer instructions; a display; and a controller coupled with the memory and the display, wherein executing the computer instructions causes the controller to perform operations comprising: presenting a task toolbar by way of the display as a presented task toolbar; creating an entry in the task toolbar responsive to receiving entry data associated with the task toolbar; identifying a party responsible for tasks associated with the entry; associating the party with the entry and updating the task toolbar to show by way of the display the association of the party to the entry; creating a task associated with the entry; associating the task with the entry of the party in the task toolbar; responsive to creation of the task: retrieving information to identify a group of other communication resources of independently operated devices of the party as an identified group of other communication resources of independently operated devices of the party; and sending a task creation signal to the identified group of other communication resources of independently operated devices of the party to synchronize task data stored at the identified group of other communication resources of the independently operated devices of the party according to the entry associated with the party and the task, the task data being configured for generating other task toolbars by the other communication resources that are synchronized with the task toolbar; presenting a user interface depicting tasks associated with the party on the display, wherein the user interface comprises a pending task window and a completed task window; detecting a request to drag and drop a pending task in the pending task window from the pending task window to the completed task window; and updating the completed task window to display that the pending task is now a completed task in the completed task window responsive to the request to drag and drop the pending task from the pending task window to the completed task window.