Method, System and Computer Readable Medium for Addressing Handling from an Operating System

Abstract

A method, system and computer readable medium for information handling within an operating system, including providing a record retrieval program; providing an input device within a window or screen of the operating system and configured to enter an execute command which initiates a record retrieval from local and remote information sources using the record retrieval program; using the record retrieval program to enter first information into search fields provided in the record retrieval program; entering the execute command using the input device after the step of entering the first information; searching, using the record retrieval program, the local and remote information sources for second information associated with the first information; and displaying the second information in the record retrieval program, when one of the local and remote information sources includes second information associated with the first information.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer implemented method for information handling in a cell phone, the method comprising:
 providing access to a contact database that can also be separately accessed and edited by a user and wherein the contact database includes at least three fields for storing contact information associated with each of one or more contacts, each of the at least three fields within the contact database being specific to a particular type of contact information selected from the group consisting of name, title, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;   in a document configured to be stored with textual information for later retrieval, analyzing in a computer process textual information in the document electronically displayed on the cell phone to identify a portion of that textual information as first contact information without user designation of a specific part of the electronically displayed textual information to be subject to the analyzing;   after identifying the first contact information, performing at least one action from a set of potential actions, using the first contact information previously identified as a result of the analyzing, wherein the set of potential actions includes:
 (i) causing electronically searching in the contact database for at least a part of the first contact information identified as a portion of the textual information in the document in order to find whether the part of the first contact information is included in the contact database; and
 when the contact database includes the part of the first contact information, if second contact information in the contact database is associated with the part of the first contact information, electronically displaying at least a portion of the second contact information on the cell phone; and 
 
 (ii) initiating electronic communication using the first contact information; 
 (iii) storing at least part of the first contact information in the contact database as a new contact; and 
 (iv) storing at least part of the first contact information in the contact database to update an existing contact in the contact database; 
 wherein the computer implemented method is configured to perform each one of action (i), action (ii), action (iii), and action (iv) using the first contact information previously identified as a result of the analyzing; and 
   providing an input device configured to initiate at least one of the foregoing processes.   
     
     
         2 . (canceled) 
     
     
         3 . At least one non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions which, when loaded on a cell phone, establish processes for information handling in the cell phone, the processes comprising:
 providing access to a contact database that can also be separately accessed and edited by a user and wherein the contact database includes at least three fields for storing contact information associated with each of one or more contacts, each of the at least three fields within the contact database being specific to a particular type of contact information selected from the group consisting of name, title, address, telephone number, and e-mail address;   in a document configured to be stored with textual information for later retrieval, analyzing in a computer process textual information in the document electronically displayed on the cell phone to identify a portion of that textual information as first contact information without user designation of a specific part of the electronically displayed textual information to be subject to the analyzing;   after identifying the first contact information, performing at least one action from a set of potential actions, using the first contact information previously identified as a result of the analyzing, wherein the set of potential actions includes:
 (i) causing electronically searching in the contact database for at least a part of the first contact information identified as a portion of the textual information in the document in order to find whether the part of the first contact information is included in the contact database; and
 when the contact database includes the part of the first contact information, if second contact information in the contact database is associated with the part of the first contact information, electronically displaying at least a portion of the second contact information on the cell phone; and 
 
 (ii) initiating electronic communication using the first contact information; 
 (iii) storing at least part of the first contact information in the contact database as a new contact; and 
 (iv) storing at least part of the first contact information in the contact database to update an existing contact in the contact database; 
 wherein the processes are configured to perform each one of action (i), action (ii), action (iii), and action (iv) using the first contact information previously identified as a result of the analyzing; and 
   providing an input device configured to initiate at least one of the foregoing processes.   
     
     
         4 . (canceled) 
     
     
         5 . A cell phone, comprising:
 a processor; and   a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to perform processes that include:
 providing access to a contact database that can also be separately accessed and edited by a user and wherein the contact database includes at least three fields for storing contact information associated with each of one or more contacts, each of the at least three fields within the contact database being specific to a particular type of contact information selected from the group consisting of name, title, address, telephone number, and e-mail address; 
 analyzing in a computer process textual information in a document electronically displayed on the cell phone to identify a portion of that textual information as first contact information without user designation of a specific part of the electronically displayed textual information to be subject to the analyzing; 
 after identifying the first contact information, performing at least one action from a set of potential actions, using the first contact information previously identified as a result of the analyzing, wherein the set of potential actions includes:
 (i) causing electronically searching in the contact database for at least a part of the first contact information identified as a portion of the textual information in the document in order to find whether the part of the first contact information is included in the contact database; and
 when the contact database includes the part of the first contact information, if second contact information in the contact database is associated with the part of the first contact information, electronically displaying at least a portion of the second contact information on the cell phone; and 
 
 (ii) initiating electronic communication using the first contact information; 
 (iii) storing at least part of the first contact information in the contact database as a new contact; and 
 (iv) storing at least part of the first contact information in the contact database to update an existing contact in the contact database; 
 wherein the processes are configured to perform each one of action (i), action (ii), action (iii), and action (iv) using the first contact information previously identified as a result of the analyzing; and 
 
 providing an input device configured to initiate at least one of the foregoing processes. 
   
     
     
         6 . (canceled)