Nokia Corporation

Nokia Technologies Oy

Zoltan Ivanfi

Jukka Kalevi Nurminen

Balazs Bakos

Douglas Allen Deeds

Jukka Nihtilä

Hunor Demeter

Timo K Miettinen

Jörgen Othman

Attila Kiss

Petri Stenman

Gyula Kun-Szabo

A mobile device is shown in the role of a centralized message transfer agent wherein it manages all messaging for a user for most if not all the time so as to provide a unified messaging approach across all messaging platforms. Other platforms are shown using the mobile device in this unified way. Related systems, methods, integrated circuits, and software are also shown.

System, methods, software, and devices employing messaging

A selection of a contact is received from a user. This contact is within a content item, such as a word processing document, a hypertext document, an e-mail, a spreadsheet, or an electronic presentation. The user receives an indication of one or more connection channels associated with the contact and the user makes a selection a designated connection channel from the one or more connection channels. Upon this selection a device (such as a portable communications device) is instructed to establish communications across the designated connection channel. This connection channel may be, for example, a telephone number, an SMS number, an e-mail address, or a uniform resource locator (URL).

Automatic initiation of communications

Efficient and effective communications are initiated from the selection, at a first user device, of a link in a resource. Based on this selection, a communications request is transmitted to a server. In addition, identification information of a second user device (such as a telephone number or an Internet Protocol (IP) address) is transmitted to the server. As a result of this request and identification information, a communication response is received at the second user device. This communications response may be of various types, such as a voice call, a message, or a rich call.

Communications from hypertext documents

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Gödöllo, Hungary

Zoltan Ivanfi