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Patent

CA 2606155

A system and method for alternatively communicating with an Instant Messaging (IM) contact from an IM application using address book verbs is provided. In an IM application, a context sensitive menu of options is presented to permit a user to invoke alternative communication capabilities (e.g. email, voice, SMS, etc.) of the communication device with the IM contact. Address book contact information stored separately from the IM application is pulled for the IM contact and, for available alternative contact information, respective actions are presented as options (e.g. `Call contact', `Email contact', `SMS contact', etc.). If particular contact information (e.g. phone number is not available) associated alternative communication actions are not presented. Selection of an action invokes the associated alternative application with the appropriate contact information from the IM application.

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