Automatically establishing a communication session associated with an event

A method for automatically making a telephone call associated with an event, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a system, event data associated with a user profile from an individual that is different from a user associated with the user profile, the event data including a date associated with an event, a time associated with the event, and a telephone number associated with the event;
• sending, from the system to a telephone, the event data associated with the user profile, the telephone identified by a profile telephone number associated with the user profile, the profile telephone number being different than the telephone number associated with the event;
• presenting, prior to the date associated with the event and the time associated with the event and on a display associated with the telephone, an option to accept or reject the event along with an option to immediately call the telephone number associated with the event;
• in response to detecting a selection by the user of the telephone of the option to accept the event, storing, at the telephone, the event data;
• accessing, at the telephone, the event data;
• in response to detecting a selection by a user of the telephone of the option to accept the event, presenting, on a display associated with the telephone, an event reminder on the date associated with the event and at the time associated with the event, the event reminder including a non-textual graphical reminder showing one or more non-textual graphics related to the event;
• ringing the telephone with a ring that is specific to the event reminder on the date associated with the event and at the time associated with the event;
• in response to detecting that a handset associated with the telephone has been lifted off of a switch hook associated with, automatically calling, by the telephone, the telephone number associated with the event, the event reminder remaining presented on the display during the automatically calling of the telephone number;
• in response to automatically calling the telephone number, establishing a communication session between the telephone and a device associated with the telephone number;
• obtaining a transcription, generated by the system, of the communication session;
• and
• presenting the transcription of the communication session on the display associated with the telephone.

A telephone comprising:

• a display;
• a switch hook configured to establish an off-hook condition of the telephone;
• a handset configured to rest on the switch hook;
• a processor communicatively coupled to the display;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to store one or more instructions that in response to being executed by the processor result in the telephone performing operations, the operations comprising:
• accessing event data, the event data including a date associated with an event, a time associated with the event, and a telephone number associated with the event;
• presenting, on the display, an event reminder on the date associated with the event and at the time associated with the event;
• ringing the telephone with a ring that is specific to the event reminder;
• and
• in response to detecting that the handset has been lifted off of the switch hook while the event reminder remains presented on the display, automatically calling the telephone number associated with the event.