Patent ID: 7054918

Claim:
A method for telephonically updating calendaring information with respect to a particular called party, said method comprising: executing a calendaring program on a called party's individual general purpose processor-based system; storing existing calendaring information with respect to said called party on said called party's individual general purpose processor-based system, said existing calendaring information operable with said calendaring program executing on said called party's individual general purpose processor-based system; receiving, on a separate telephony system, an incoming call from a calling party directed toward said called party; querying said calling party, using said separate telephony system, for additional calendaring information directed toward said called party; transferring at least a portion of any received additional calendaring information from said separate telephony system to said calendaring program running on said called party's individual general purpose processor-based system; and integrating select portions of any transferred calendaring information into said existing calendaring information stored on said called party's individual general purpose processor-based system, making said additional calendaring information accessible by said calendaring program executing on said called party's individual general purpose processor-based system.