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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1997
David R Taylor, Stanford, CA (US);
Lawrence A Lynch-Freshner, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Eric W McKinlay, Monte Vista, CA (US);
Stephen P Pacheco, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dinesh K Goyal, San Jose, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
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.