Cisco Technology, Inc.

Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Erich Domingo

Keith Barraclough

David Irvine

Stephen Hartford

James Nathaniel Gerlach

Christopher Nyffeler

Anke Pierik

Christopher Dame

Energy Cruse, Ii

Steven P Vassallo

Richard A Dunlap

Kristian Simsarian

Timm Kekeritz

Astrid Jantina Van Der Flier

Luke Woods

Abbe Don

Kristian Russell Thomas Simsarian

Peter James Coughlan

Daniel James Stillion

An approach is provided for presenting soft reminders (e.g., reminders for notes with no triggering criteria). A reminder manager receives an input, from a user, for specifying a note. The note is not associated with triggering criteria. In response to the request, the reminder manager retrieves contextual information from a device associated with the user, and causes, at least in part, presentation of a reminder of the note based, at least in part, on the contextual information.

Method and apparatus for providing soft reminders

An approach is provided for presenting polymorphic notes in a graphical user interface. A polymorphic note manager receives a request to display a plurality of polymorphic notes on a graphical user interface of a device. In response to the request, the polymorphic note manager determines an order of the plurality of polymorphic notes according to either an associated date or, if there is no associated date, a creation date corresponding to each of the plurality of polymorphic notes. The polymorphic note manager then causes, at least in part, actions that result in display of the plurality of polymorphic notes in the graphical user interface according to the determined order.

Method and apparatus for presenting polymorphic notes in a graphical user interface

An interactive user interface displayed on a monitor as part of a telephone is disclosed. The interactive user interface allows a user to easily use basic and advanced telephony functions, telephony-related services, such as accessing phone directories and voice mail, and non-telephony services. These non-telephony services can include any information deliverable over, for example, TCP/IP or DHCP, and can include information such as stock prices, weather, sports data, and so on, typically from third-party services. It can also include intra-company information such as meeting schedules, conference room bookings, cafeteria menus, and so on. A user can also pull up context-sensitive &ldquo;help&rdquo; information on the display at any time to learn more about a particular mode, option, or feature.

User interface for a network-enabled telephone

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Hayward, CA, United States of America

Erich Domingo