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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2005
Neil Adams, Waterloo, CA;
Larry E. Kuhl, Waterloo, CA;
Raymond Vander Veen, Waterloo, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
A method for updating an electronic mail ('email') address book comprising: determining whether an email message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system contains address information; and, if the email message contains address information: identifying the address information in the email message; determining whether the address information is contained in one or more contact records in the email address book; and, if the address information is not contained in one or more contact records, presenting first means to the user on the display screen for generating a command to add a new contact record to the address book for the address information.