Palm, Incorporated

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Blackberry Corporation

Teamon Systems, Inc.

Eric N Williams

Ryan Robertson

Stephane Maes

Carl Bingham Stone

Timothy D Twerdahl

Darren L Gardner

Suryanarayana Murthy Gorty

Mark Kruger

A communications system includes a network engine that communicates with a plurality of user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices via a communications network for sending and receiving emails therefrom. A direct access server is operative with the network engine for polling electronic mailboxes of the user belonging to an email source hosted by an email provider and obtaining email from the electronic mailboxes and pushing any email through the network engine to selected user subscribed mobile wireless communications devices. It includes an internal SMTP server that is configured for outgoing email and operative for specifying an SMTP server for communication belonging to an email provider given a SMTP server and protocol combination for the email source of the email provider to which communication is desired such that the internal SMTP server of the direct access server is not used.

Direct access electronic mail (email) distribution and synchronization system with external SMTP server support

A portable electronic device includes a housing, a processor supported by the housing, a memory coupled to the processor, and a communications transceiver coupled to the processor. The transceiver is configured to support voice conference calling between more than two parties. A program stored in the memory and running on the processor is configured to provide a user interface on the display which is configured to display indicators representative of the parties on the conference call. The user interface includes the hold area configured to display indicators representative of the parties on hold and an active area configured to display indicators representative of the parties active on the conference call.

User interface technique for managing an active call

System and method for managing wireless communications utilizing a mobile device

A handheld computing device includes a housing, a processor supported by the housing, a wireless telephony device coupled to the processor, a display having a graphical user interface coupled to the processor, and a plurality of input keys. The device is programmed to effectuate a predetermined communications connection when a user depresses two or more input keys simultaneously.

Method and apparatus for effectuating a predetermined communications connection

User interface-technique for managing an active call

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Eric N Williams