Call note management on communication device

A communication device enabled to make and receive telephone calls over a communications network, comprising:

• a memory storing telephone call log information identifying telephone calls made to or from the communications device including the time and date of the telephone calls, and associated call note data for at least some of the telephone calls;
• a display;
• a user input device;
• a processing unit coupled to the memory, display, and user input device, the processing unit being configured for:
• detecting an input at the communication device requesting display of a call note history;
• and displaying on the display, after detecting the input, a call note history list that lists telephone calls from the telephone call log information that have associated call note data stored in the memory, the telephone calls in the call note history list being listed according to the time and date of the telephone calls, the displayed call note history list including for at least some of the telephone calls in the call note history list, telephone numbers of the other party to the telephone call and a time of the telephone call, and the telephone calls in the displayed call note history list from different dates being separated by a date line identifying the date of the calls following the date line.

A communication device enabled to make and receive telephone calls and send and receive electronic messages, comprising:

• a memory storing information identifying telephone calls made to or from the communications device and electronic messages sent from or to the communication device, and associated call note data for at least some of the telephone calls;
• a display;
• a user input device;
• a processing unit coupled to the memory, display, and user input device, the processing unit being configured for:
• displaying on the display a message list identifying both telephone calls to and from the communication device and electronic messages sent from and received by the communication device, the telephone calls identified in the message list that have associated call note data stored in the memory being marked with a visual indicator to indicate the existence of the call note data, and detecting an input selecting a telephone call included in the message list having associated call note data and in response thereto presenting the call note data associated with the selected telephone call, the call note data includes text information previously inputted to the communication device, and the presenting the call note data includes displaying the text information on the display of the communication device.

A method for displaying call note information on a communication device having stored thereon telephone call log information identifying telephone calls made to or from the communications device, the telephone call log information including the time and date of the telephone calls, wherein associated call note data is stored on the communications device for at least some of the telephone calls, comprising:

• detecting an input at the communication device requesting display of a call note history;
• displaying on a display of the communication device, after detecting the input, a call note history list that lists telephone calls from the telephone call log information that have associated call note data stored on the communications device, the telephone calls in the call note history list being listed according to the time and date of the telephone calls, the displayed call note history list including for at least some of the telephone calls in the call note history list, telephone numbers of the other party to the telephone call and a time of the telephone call, the displayed call note history list not displaying any call note data;
• and
• detecting an input selecting one of the telephone calls included in the displayed call note history list and in response thereto presenting the call note data associated with the selected telephone call.