Multi-functional personal telecommunications apparatus

A method for providing interactive operation of a multifunctional telecommunications apparatus comprising the steps of:

• providing a display having a touch sensitive screen overlay on a viewing display for receiving predetermined user inputs manipulating predetermined functions of said telecommunications apparatus and a control display for providing a user interface for sending and receiving control and data information corresponding to actions performed on said touch sensitive screen overlay and to said user inputs;
• storing into electrical memory information related+to said predetermined functions, said electrical memory being influenced by said display;
• providing facsimile operations by a fax controller influenced in part by at least one of said display and said electrical memory;
• scanning documented information for influencing at least one of said facsimile operations and said electrical memory, said scanning being influenced by said fax controller;
• transmitting information from said fax controller across interconnected networks to predetermined destinations, said interconnected networks being coupled to a network interface of said multifunctional apparatus, said network interface being coupled to said fax controller, including sending handwritten information through said touch sensitive screen overlay to said fax controller for transmission to one of said predetermined destinations, wherein said fax controller for a situation where a plurality of users are interactively coupled and viewing the same document on a display of another said multifunctional telecommunications apparatus and one of said plurality of users makes handwritten editing to said same document, said fax controller transmitting only said handwritten editing to each said display of another said multifunctional telecommunications apparatus for having said plurality of users viewing the same revised said same document;
• and,
• receiving information to said fax controller across said interconnected networks from predetermined sources.

A method for interactively operating a multifunctional telecommunications apparatus having predefined telephonic, scanning and facsimile capabilities comprising the steps of:

• viewing information related to said telephonic, scanning and fax capabilities with a viewing display, said viewing display, said telephonic, scanning and facsimile capabilities being responsive to one another;
• influencing said information received from said telephonic, scanning and facsimile capabilities on said viewing display through a touch sensitive screen overlay on said viewing display, said touch sensitive screen overlay, said viewing display and said telephonic, scanning and facsimile capabilities being responsive to one another, including processing said information handwritten on said touch sensitive screen overlay through said facsimile capabilities;
• and,
• interpreting with a handwriting processor handwritten information applied to said touch sensitive screen overlay for said step of influencing said information received from said telephonic, scanning and facsimile capabilities, said handwriting processor and said touch sensitive screen and said viewing display being responsive to one another, wherein for a situation where a plurality of users are interactively coupled and viewing the same document on a display of another said multifunctional telecommunications apparatus and one of said plurality of users makes handwritten editing to said same document, transmitting only said handwritten editing to each said display of another said multifunctional telecommunications apparatus for having said plurality of users viewing the same revised said same document.