Computing Device With Remote Contact Lists

A system for placing telephone calls using a remote email address-based contact list, the system comprising:

• one or more servers;
• an interface to the one or more servers that is configured to receive a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with a first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user;
• a contact list management module that programmed to generate a group of telephone contacts for the first user by:
• identifying the second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user, and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user;
• and
• a call request processing component programmed to:
• identify a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and to initiate a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.

A system for placing telephone calls using a remote email address-based contact list, the system comprising:

• one or more servers;
• an interface to the one or more server systems that is configured to receive a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with a first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user;
• a contact list management module that is configured to generate a group of telephone contacts for the first user by:
• identifying the second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user, and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user;
• and
• means for processing the request to connect the first telephone device with the second telephone device using a generated group of telephone contacts that is configured to:
• identify a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and initiate a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.