Patent ID: 8320889

Claim:
A method in a first communications device, the method comprising: upon receiving a user command, initiating a call to a second communication device of another party to enable a user of the first device to speak to said another party; selecting adaptive information that is related to an identification of said another party, in response to the user command; presenting the adaptive information such that at least a portion of the adaptive information is presented to the user in the first device before finalization of the call to said another party; wherein the adaptive information includes one of (a) information about the last time the user communicated with said another party and (b) information about unsuccessful attempts to communicate, including one of (i) unanswered calls, (ii) voicemails, (iii) unread emails, and (iv) unchecked messages; and the presenting of adaptive information is ended upon the finalization of the call, wherein the finalization is defined by a monitorable event that can be configured by the user, through system-presented options, as being (a) ringing of the second device of another party and (b) answering of the second device by another party.