Hewlett-packard Company

David R Taylor

Lawrence Arnold Lynch-Freshner

Eric W McKinlay

Dinesh K Goyal

Stephen P Pacheco

A method and a structure for providing electronic mail, facsimile transmission and file transfer maintain a data base in which the communication parameters of a local computer are maintained separately from the communication parameters of a remote computer which communicates the local computer. The data base includes an electronic address book in which a method and a structure are provided for specifying person, group, computer, calling card and service data. The person type data includes specification of a preference for data, or facsimile transmission. Service information are efficiently added because of modularly designed application programming interface. A method and a structure are also provided to allow synchronization between files residing on different computers.

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Stanford, CA, United States of America

David R Taylor