Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Otso Ylönen

Petri Piippo

Harri Wikberg

Turkka Keinonen

Marcus Davidsson

Tapio Mansikkaniemi

Anders Frisk

Anne Koppinen

Anne Kirjavainen

Martha Zimet

Arto Astala

Charlotta Willstedt

Kimmo Djupsjobacka

Ilari Saarikivi

Anna Valtonen

Petri Asunmaa

Timo Ellila

Natalia Boestad

John Grundy

Sampo Savolainen

Patrik Lindblom

Thomas Abrahamson

Ritta Jokela

This invention describes a method for establishing an ad-hoc group based on addresses of users in a message (e.g., an e-mail) received or sent using a pre-selected communication method (e.g., an e-mail communication) by an electronic device. Any recipient or a sender of the e-mail message can use the e-mail addresses in the message in order to establish a permanent (stored in the device) or a temporary (used immediately in a context of another communication application) ad-hoc group. The user may select all or only a part of the people (other users) into the ad-hoc group. The group-data can have several types of addresses of users such as phone numbers, SIP addresses, wireless village IDs, etc. needed in conjunction with desired applications. Creating the ad-hoc group from the e-mail message can utilize information that already exists in the electronic device and, if needed, acquired additional information from a remote service.

Establishing an ad-hoc group based on addresses in an e-mail

A wireless system having a central family calendar. Individual family members may access the family calendar from their wireless devices. The system also includes telephone and address information for non-family members. Important dates such as birthdays, associated with the non-family members may automatically appear in the calendar. The system may be incorporated into other family accessible devices such as a family bulletin board.

Electronic calendar system

A system and method are provided that allow a user to perform information management tasks and access the Internet. The system includes a terminal that is part of a family and capable of wireless communication, a gateway, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), a server for authenticating the terminal, a global unit for providing the internet address of the server to the terminal, and browser logic stored in the terminal or the server. The method includes the steps of powering on the terminal, establishing a communication link with the gateway to obtain an internet address for the terminal relative to the internet address of the gateway, obtaining an internet address for the server, and establishing a family communication session between the terminal and the server to allow access to information management services, and launching a browser to provide an interface to the internet.

Network with mobile terminals as browsers having wireless access to the internet and method for using same

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Salo, Finland

Otso Ylönen