Method and system for obtaining a user's personal address information
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJohn M. Hall, Christopher H. Williams
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for facilitating the retrieval of data from a database using a communications device where the database is stored remotely from the communications device. A communications device using the method or system may obtain remote data, such as e-mail addresses, facsimile numbers, phone numbers, or uniform resource locators, from a user's remotely stored personal database.
Claims22
A method for sending data using a communications device, comprising:
- creating a data file for sending using said communications device;
- retrieving at least one destination address from a user's personal database stored remotely from said communications device for sending said data file to said at least one address;
- and
- sending said data file to said at least one destination address.
A method for obtaining data using a communications device, comprising:
- identifying a user of said communications device;
- connecting to a directory server for retrieving a username of said user and a server identification;
- constructing a messaging application program interface profile for connecting to a server associated with said server identification;
- connecting to said server;
- logging in to said server as said user using said username;
- and
- accessing a personal database of said user accessible to said server.
A system for sending data from a communications device to a location defined by data in a user's personal database, comprising:
- a communications device for sending data to a specified address;
- and
- a personal database stored remotely from said communications device for storing addresses for receiving data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.