Patent ID: 8230030

Claim:
A method of controlling an electronic device, the method comprising: detecting, at the electronic device, occurrence of an event for turning on out-of-office notifications; identifying accounts operable to turn on and off out-of-office notifications, each account of the identified accounts associated with a respective personal information manager (PIM) service and operational on the electronic device; for each account of the identified accounts, determining if the respective PIM service is operable to receive an update from the electronic device to turn on an out-of-office notification and if so, sending the update from the electronic device to the respective PIM service to cause the respective PIM service to send an out-of-office notification in response to receipt of an email message at the respective PIM service; when the respective PIM service is not operable to receive the update from the electronic device, sending an out-of-office notification, from the electronic device, in response to receipt of an email message at the electronic device, via the respective PIM service.