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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJonathan Jay Cadiz, Anoop Gupta, Gavin Jancke, Attila Narin, Michael Boyle
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An enhanced telephony (ET) computer user interface that seamlessly integrates features of a personal computer (PC) and a telephone into a coherent user interface. The user is provided with a rich variety of functionality that leverages the fact that the PC has considerably more processing power and greater access to variety of data than the ordinary telephone. This processing power and data access is used to the user's advantage as the telephone's capabilities and functionality are greatly expanded. In general, the ET user interface includes a plurality of environments for the user to choose. These environments include a My Contacts environment, a communication preferences environment, and a Call History environment. Each of these environments contains certain available processes and features for controlling and managing telephones.
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A method in a computing device for providing a notification of a missed incoming telephone call, the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium having instructions for controlling a computing device for providing a notification of a missed incoming telephone call, by a method comprising:
A computing device with a processor and a memory for providing a notification to a callee of a missed incoming telephone call from a caller, comprising:
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