Patent ID: 7983693

Claim:
A communications system comprising: a plurality of communications devices communicating with each other over a network, wherein said network includes a telephone network and a local area network (LAN), a first group of said plurality of communications devices being connected to said LAN and a second group being connected to said telephone network; a storage on said LAN storing location and presence information about system users, each of said plurality of communications devices being identifiable with at least one system user, and wherein ones of said system users are associated with more than one of said plurality of communications devices; and an identity context reminder service monitoring said plurality of communications devices for current location and presence status for associated users and comparing said current location and presence status for inconsistencies with an expected location and presence for said associated users from stored said location and presence information wherein for each of said ones said identity context reminder service monitors multiple associated devices of said plurality of communications devices for inconsistencies in one or more, inconsistencies further being indicated by a system user indicated as being at a communications device other than an associated one, said identity context reminder service selectively providing a reminder to respective communications device of said plurality of communications devices responsive to an inconsistency.