Method and system for making accessible wirelessly a network phonebook and journal database

• US 7,085,257 B1
• Filed: 04/06/2000
• Issued: 08/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kronstrom, Kai, Itavaara, Jaakko, Heinonen, Eeva-Liisa, Karves, Heidi, Virtanen, Mikko, Nykanen, Petri, Mononen, Jari, Lehtinen, Kari
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, STEVEN H D
• Application Number:
  US09/544,141
• Time in Patent Office: 2,308 Days
• Field of Search: 370/351, 370/352, 370/328, 374/142.09, 374/142, 374/142.02, 455/556, 455/518, 455/415
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/22 Automatic class or number identification arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42068 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42093 Notifying the calling party of information on the called or connected party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4211 where the identifier is used to access a profile
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

There is disclosed a method and system to provide a wireless terminal online access capability to a system phonebook, such as a WLAN, which calls for instructing the system to start a phonebook application such that for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at the user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a User Interface (UI) of the user terminal; and performing a search query of the phonebook database to identify a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and/or at least one of a phone number and person or party of the call to be initiated.

Claims

1. A method for providing a wireless terminal of a communication system access to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

(a) for incoming phone calls to said wireless terminal

identifying a phone number of a caller at said wireless terminal;

instructing the system to perform a caller identity search by searching said phonebook database to identify a name of the caller; and

sending results of the caller identity search to said wireless terminal, such that

(i) if the caller identity search is successful, an identification of the caller is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the caller identity search is not successful, the caller phone number is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(b) for outgoing calls to be made from said wireless terminal

instructing the system to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call; and

sending results of the search to said wireless terminal such that

(i) if the phone number or destination of the outgoing call to be made is found in the phonebook database, the same is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the phone number or destination is not found in an initial search query of the phonebook database, the wireless terminal user, is presented with an opportunity to modify the search query of the system to the phonebook database or terminate a caller identification process,

wherein identification of the caller of an incoming call or the phone number or the destination to be called includes showing at least one of the name and an affiliation and, when stored in the phonebook database, showing a picture of a person on a display of said wireless terminal.

2. A method for providing a wireless terminal of a communication system access to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

(a) for incoming phone calls to said wireless terminal

identifying a phone number of a caller at said wireless terminal;

instructing the system to perform a caller identity search by searching said phonebook database to identify a name of the caller; and

sending results of the caller identity search to said wireless terminal, such that

(i) if the caller identity search is successful, an identification of the caller is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the caller identity search is not successful, the caller phone number is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(b) for outgoing calls to be made from said wireless terminal

instructing the system to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call; and

sending results of the search to said wireless terminal such that

(i) if the phone number or destination of the outgoing call to be made is found in the phonebook database, the same is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the phone number or destination is not found in an initial search query of the phonebook database, the wireless terminal user is presented with an opportunity to modify the search query of the system to the phonebook database or terminate a caller identification process,

wherein said communication system comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and said phonebook database is provided in the network, and

wherein the instruction to search said phonebook database to identify the name of the caller of said incoming call or the instruction to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of the phone number and the destination of said outgoing call to be made is effected over said WLAN and an Internet Protocol (IP)-based online link-up of said wireless terminal and the network and comprises;

instructing the system;

to start a phonebook application, and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify the caller of the incoming call or performing one or a successive number of new or modified search queries through a user interface (UI) provided at said wireless terminal to locate the phone number and the destination of the outgoing call to be made.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said phonebook application is commenced in response to, for an incoming call, the phone number being determined not to be locally stored in said wireless terminal and, for an outgoing call, at least one of phone number and destination of the outgoing call to be made being determined not to be locally stored in said wireless terminal.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein said phonebook application is a World Wide Web (WWW) IP-based application using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a WWW server having access to the phonebook database, and using a Hypertext Mark-Up Language (HTML) browser to query a database in said wireless terminal.

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein said phonebook application is a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based phonebook application using a WAP browser for Wireless Application Environment (WAE) to access a database in said wireless terminal and a protocol application to access a WAP or WWW server having access to said phonebook database.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein said phonebook application is a query-based contacts application in which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a Directory System Agent (DSA) server having access to said phonebook database.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein listings of matched contents associated with each said query are viewed at a user terminal so that a client requesting information can make a selection from the listings or instruct the system to make a new or modified query to the phonebook database.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein individual query outcomes are viewed through a browsable window at a user terminal.

9. A method for providing a wireless terminal of a communication system access to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

(a) for incoming phone calls to said wireless terminal

identifying a phone number of a caller at said wireless terminal;

instructing the system to perform a caller identity search by searching said phonebook database to identify a name of the caller; and

sending results of the search to said wireless terminal, such that

(i) if the caller identity search is successful, an identification of the caller is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the caller identity search is not successful, the caller phone number is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(b) for outgoing calls to be made from said wireless terminal

instructing the system to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call; and

sending results of the search to said wireless terminal such that

(i) if the phone number or destination of the outgoing call to be made is found in the phonebook database, the same is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the phone number or destination is not found in an initial search query of the phonebook database, the wireless terminal user is presented with an opportunity to modify the search query of the system to the phonebook database or terminate a caller identification process,

wherein said phonebook database is available wirelessly to the user terminal through a secured online access and comprises phone number(s), address(es), name and picture, if available, and profile information of personnel or clients of a company or corporation, a company plant, or organization or association, and

wherein the phone numbers in said phonebook database comprise phone numbers of office phones, facsimile phones, cell and mobile phones, pagers and handheld devices including PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and palm units with and without voice capability, said phonebook database further comprising contact addresses and terminal addresses including E-mail addresses of desktop and portable computers.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said search query associated with the outgoing call to be made is limited by search criteria employed, said search criteria comprising any one or more items from the list consisting of:

a name and contact information including address, phone number(s), facsimile number(s), or an E-mail address;

a title of person in a company or organization;

a unit, plant or branch of a company;

a project group or work team;

a building or site location;

a picture of a person; and

a person'"'"'s administrative assistant.

11. A method for providing a wireless terminal of a communication system access to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

(a) for incoming phone calls to said wireless terminal

identifying a phone number of a caller at said wireless terminal;

instructing the system to perform a caller identity search by searching said phonebook database to identify a name of the caller; and

sending results of the search to said wireless terminal, such that

(i) if the caller identity search is successful, an identification of the caller is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the caller identity search is not successful, the caller phone number is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(b) for outgoing calls to be made from said wireless terminal

instructing the system to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call; and

sending results of the search to said wireless terminal such that

(i) if the phone number or destination of the outgoing call to be made is found in the phonebook database, the same is presented at said wireless terminal, and

(ii) if the phone number or destination is not found in an initial search query of the phonebook database, the wireless terminal user is presented with an opportunity to modify the search query of the system to the phonebook database or terminate a caller identification process, and further comprising;

providing a journal viewing application in which said communication system searches a journal database for background information associated with at least one of the caller of the incoming phone call and a phone number or person or of the outgoing call to be made and sends results of the background information search to said wireless terminal.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the background information stored in said journal database which is available to a user terminal of said system, including said wireless terminal, comprises:

previous originating and terminating phone calls, including dates, times and durations;

E-mails;

task lists;

documents associated with each originating or terminating phone call;

a project;

a calendar date; and

a company or plant associated with each originating or terminating phone call.

13. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal; and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and a destination of an outgoing call to be made,

wherein said communication system comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and said phonebook database is a network database, and

wherein said phonebook application is a World Wide Web (WWW) IP-based application using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a WWW server, included in the network, having access to the phonebook database and using a Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) browser to query a database in said wireless terminal.

14. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal; and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call to be made,

wherein said communication system comprises a Wireless Local Area network (WLAN) and said phonebook database is a network database, and

wherein said phonebook application is a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based phonebook application using a WAP browser for Wireless Application Environment (WAE) to access a database in said wireless terminal and a transport interface to access a WAP or WWW server, included in the network, having access to said phonebook database.

15. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal; and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and a destination of an outgoing call to be made,

wherein said communication system comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and said phonebook database is a network database, and

wherein said phonebook application is a query-based contacts application in which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a Directory System Agent (DSA) server, included in the network, having access to said phonebook database.

16. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal; and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call to be made,

wherein said communication network comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and said phonebook database is provided in the network, and

wherein said phonebook application is performed using a protocol application comprising an application taken from the list consisting of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

17. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal; and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call to be made,

wherein said phonebook application is commenced in response to, for an incoming call, the phone number being determined not to be locally stored in said wireless terminal and, for an outgoing call, at least one of the phone numbers and destination of the outgoing call to be made being determined not to be locally stored in said wireless terminal.

18. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising,

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal;

and

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call to be made, wherein said search query associated with the outgoing call to be made comprises;

at least one query, based on search criteria sent through the user interface of said wireless terminal, to find at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party to be called, said search query conforming to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)-based transport protocol or a WLAN-based protocol over the internet and performed by a server in the network having access to said phonebook database.

19. The method according to claim 18,

wherein said phonebook database is available wirelessly to a user terminal through a secured online access over the internet and comprises phone number(s), name and profile information of personnel or clients of a company or corporation, a company plant, or organization or association, and

wherein the phone numbers in said phonebook database comprise phone numbers of office phones, facsimile phones, cell and mobile phone, pagers and handheld devices including Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and palm units with and without voice capability, said phonebook database further comprising contact addresses and terminal addresses including E-mail addresses of desktop and portable computers.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein said search criteria of said search query associated with the outgoing call to be made contains any one or more items from the list consisting of:

a name and contact information including address, phone number(s), facsimile number(s), or an E-mail address;

a title of a person in a company or organization;

a unit, plant or branch of a company;

a project group or work team;

a building or site location;

a picture of a person; and

a person'"'"'s administrative assistant.

21. The method according to claim 18, wherein listings of matched contents associated with each said query are viewed at a user terminal so that a client requesting information can make a selection from the listings or instruct the system to make a new or modified query to the phonebook database.

22. In a communication system having an infrastructure comprising at least one wireless terminal, at least one access point and a wired backbone, a method for providing to each said wireless terminal thereof online access capability to at least a phonebook database of the system, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a phonebook application, wherein for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at a user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal;

performing a search query of said phonebook database to identify at least one of (i) a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and (ii) at least one of a phone number and destination of an outgoing call to be made, and said method further comprising;

providing a journal viewing application in which said communication system searches a journal database for background information associated with at least one of a caller of an incoming phone call and a phone number of a person or party of an outgoing call to be made and sends results of the background information search to said wireless terminal,

wherein the background information stored in said journal database available to a user terminal of said system, including said wireless terminal, and comprises previous originating and terminating phone calls, including dates, times and durations;

E-mails;

task lists;

documents associated with originating or terminating call;

a project;

a calendar data; and

a company or plant associated with each originating or terminating phone call.

23. A method for providing a wireless terminal of communication system access to at least a journal database, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a journal viewing application to obtain background information related to an occurrence of an incoming call or an outgoing call to be made; and

performing a search query of said journal database to locate the background information, the search query including a call identification process in which either an incoming call phone number or at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made is matched to the background information associated therewith in said journal database; and

presenting the matched background information to said wireless terminal, wherein the background information is stored in said journal database and is available to a user terminal of said system, including said wireless terminal, and comprises;

previous originating and terminating phone calls, including dates, times and durations;

E-mails;

task lists;

documents associated with each originating or terminating phone call;

a project;

a calendar data; and

a company or plant associated with each originating or terminating phone call.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein the background information presented to said wireless terminal is filtered and organized, including having headings, through settings chosen by the terminal user, and wherein the filtered settings may be varied for the originating and terminating phone calls.

25. The method according to claim 24,

wherein information displayed on the wireless terminal comprises:

the recent originating and terminating phone calls;

task headings;

E-mail headings; and

related documents.

26. A method for providing a wireless terminal of communication system access to at least a journal database, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a journal viewing application to obtain background information related to an occurrence of an incoming call or an outgoing call to be made; and

performing a search query of said journal database to locate the background information, the search query including a call identification process in which either an incoming call phone number or at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made is matched to the background information associated therewith in said journal database; and

presenting the matched background information to said wireless terminal,

wherein said journal viewing application is a World Wide Web (WWW) IP-based application using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transmit information between said wireless terminal, and a WWW server, included in the network, having access to said journal database and using a Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) browser to query a database in said wireless terminal.

27. A method for providing a wireless terminal of a communication system access to at least a journal database, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a journal viewing application to obtain background information related to occurrence of an incoming call or an outgoing call to be made; and

performing a search query of said journal database to locate the background information, the search query including a call identification process in which either an incoming call phone number or at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made is matched to background information associated therewith in said journal database; and

presenting the matched background information to said wireless terminal,

wherein said journal viewing application is a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based application using a WAP browser for Wireless Application Environment (WAE) to access a database in said wireless terminal and using a transport interface to access a WAP server, included in the network, having access to said journal database.

28. A method for providing a wireless terminal of a communication system access to at least a journal database, the method comprising:

instructing the system to start a journal viewing application to obtain background information related to occurrence of an incoming call or an outgoing call to be made; and

performing a search query of said journal database to locate the background information, the search query including a call identification process in which either an incoming call phone number or at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made is matched to background information associated therewith in said journal database; and

presenting the matched background information to said wireless terminal,

wherein said journal viewing application is a query-based contacts application in which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a Directory System Agent (DSA) server, included in the network, having access to said journal database.

29. A system to provide a wireless terminal of a network access to a phonebook database of the network, the system comprising:

the network, which has at least one server and at least a phonebook database;

at least one wireless terminal each of which is operably connected to said network;

at least one transport interface to allow communication between each wireless terminal and said network; and

a phonebook application, included in said network, said phonebook application being such that (a) for an incoming call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to identify a name of a caller, and (b) for an outgoing call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made, wherein a result of each search is presented at said wireless terminal,

wherein said network further includes a journal viewing application and a journal database, said journal viewing application instructing the network to search said journal database for background information associated with at least one of the caller of the incoming call and the phone number, person, or party of the outgoing call to be made and sends results of the background information search to said wireless terminal.

30. The system according to claim 29,

wherein the background information stored in said journal database which is available to each wireless terminal of said network, including said wireless terminal having display capability, comprises:

previous originating and terminating phone calls, including dates, times and durations;

E-mails;

task lists;

documents associated with each originating or terminating phone call;

a project;

a calendar data; and

a company or plant associated with each originating or terminating phone call.

31. The system according to claim 30,

wherein contents of said phonebook database and of said journal database are available wirelessly to said wireless terminal through a secured online access over the internet,

wherein said phonebook database comprises phone number(s), name and profile information of personnel or clients of a company or corporation, a company plant, or an organization or association, and

wherein the phone numbers in said phonebook database comprise phone numbers of office phones, facsimile phones, cell and mobile phones, pagers and handheld devices including PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and palm units with and without voice capability, said phonebook database further comprising contact addresses and terminal addresses including E-mail addresses of desktop and portable computers.

32. The system according to claim 31, wherein one or more search queries associated with the outgoing call are made of said phonebook database, and each search query is limited to search criteria inputted at a User Interface (UI) of said wireless terminal and comprises any one or more items from the list consisting of:

a name and contact information including address, phone number(s), facsimile number(s), or an E-mail address;

a title of person in a company or organization;

a unit, plant or branch of a company;

a project group or work team;

a building or site location;

a picture of a person; and

a person'"'"'s administrative assistant.

33. A system to provide a wireless terminal of a network access to a phonebook database of the network, the system comprising:

the network which has at least one server and at least a phonebook database;

at least one wireless terminal each of which is operably connected to said network;

at least one transport interface to allow communication between each wireless terminal and said network,

wherein said transport interface comprises an interface taken from the list consisting of a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) interface, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) interface and a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) interface; and

a phonebook application, included in said network, said phonebook application being such that (a) for an incoming call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to identify a name of a caller, and (b) for an outgoing call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made, wherein a result of each search is presented at said wireless terminal,

wherein for incoming calls said phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at said wireless terminal and for outgoing calls, said phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal, and

wherein said network comprises a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) including a plurality of wireless terminals, at least one access point, a server farm and a backbone infrastructure to support each wireless terminal, each access point and each network server.

34. A system to provide a wireless terminal of a network access to a phonebook database of the network, the system comprising:

the network which has at least one server and at least a phonebook database;

at least one wireless terminal each of which is operably connected to said network;

at least one transport interface to allow communication between each wireless terminal and said network,

a phonebook application, included in said network, said phonebook application being such that (a) for an incoming call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to identify a name of a caller, and (b) for an outgoing call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made, wherein a result of each search is presented at said wireless terminal,

wherein for incoming calls said phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at said wireless terminal and for outgoing calls, said phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal,

wherein said terminal is continuously maintained in the network to permit uninterrupted communication between said wireless terminal and a server associated with said phonebook database, and

wherein said phonebook application is a World Wide Web (WWW) IP-based application using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transmit information between a wireless terminal and a WWW server having the phonebook database and using a Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) browser to query a database in said wireless terminal.

35. A system to provide a wireless terminal of a network access to a phonebook database of the network, the system comprising:

the network which has at least one server and at least a phonebook database;

at least one wireless terminal each of which is operably connected to said network;

at least one transport interface to allow communication between each wireless terminal and said network,

a phonebook application, included in said network, said phonebook application being such that (a) for an incoming call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to identify a name of a caller, and (b) for an outgoing call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made, wherein a result of each search is presented at said wireless terminal,

wherein for incoming calls said phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at said wireless terminal and for outgoing calls, said phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal,

wherein said wireless terminal is continuously maintained in the network to permit uninterrupted communication between said wireless terminal and a server associated with said phonebook database, and

wherein said phonebook application is a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based phonebook application using a WAP browser for Wireless Application Environment (WAE) to access a database in a wireless terminal and transport interface to access a WAP or WWW server having access to said phonebook database.

36. A system to provide a wireless terminal of a network access to a phonebook database of the network, comprising:

the network which has at least one server and at least a phonebook database,

at least one wireless terminal each of which is operably connected to said network;

at least one transport interface to allow communication between each wireless terminal and said network,

a phonebook application, included in said network, said phonebook application being such that (a) for an incoming call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to identify a name of a caller, and (b) for an outgoing call, the network is instructed to search said phonebook database to locate at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of the outgoing call to be made, wherein a result of each search is presented at said wireless terminal,

wherein for incoming calls said phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at said wireless terminal and for outgoing calls, said phonebook application commences through a user interface (UI) of said wireless terminal,

wherein said wireless terminal is continuously maintained in the network to permit uninterrupted communication between said wireless terminal and a server associated with said phonebook database, and

wherein said phonebook application is a query-based contacts application in which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to transmit information between a wireless terminal and a Directory System Agent (DSA) server having access to said phonebook database.

37. A system to provide a wireless terminal of a network access to at least a journal database of the network, the system comprising:

the network which has at least one server and at least a phonebook database;

at least one wireless terminal each of which is operably connected to said network;

at least one transport interface to allow communication between each wireless terminal and said network; and

a journal viewing application, included in said network, said journal viewing application detailing background information related to an incoming call or an outgoing call to be made, the journal viewing application configured to perform the following steps;

(i) performing a search query of said journal database to locate the background information, the search query including a call identification process in which either an incoming call phone number or at least one of a phone number and a name of a person or party of an outgoing call to be made is matched to background information associated therewith in said journal database, and

(ii) presenting the matched background information to said wireless terminal,

wherein the background information is stored in said journal database and is available to a user terminal of said system, including said wireless terminal, and comprises;

previous originating and terminating phone calls, including dates, times and durations;

E-mails;

task lists;

documents associated with originating or terminating call;

a project;

a calendar data; and

a company or plant associated with each originating or terminating phone call.

38. The system according to claim 37, wherein the background information presented to said wireless terminal is filtered and organized, including having headings, through settings chosen by the terminal user, and wherein the filtered settings may be varied for the originating and terminating phone calls.

39. The system according to claim 38, wherein information displayed on the wireless terminal comprises:

the recent originating and terminating phone calls;

task headings;

E-mail headings, and related documents.

40. The system according to claim 39, wherein said network comprises a plurality of wireless terminals, at least one access point, a server farm and a backbone infrastructure to support each wireless terminal, each access point and each network server.

41. The system according to claim 40, wherein said journal viewing application is a World Wide Web (WWW) IP-based application using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a WWW server having access to said journal database, and using a Hypertext mark-up Language (HTML) browser to query a database in said wireless terminal.

42. The system according to claim 40, wherein said journal viewing application is a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-based journal viewing application using a WAP browser for Wireless Application Environment (WAE) to access database in said wireless terminal and using a transport interface to access a WAP server having access to said journal database.

43. The system according to claim 40, wherein said journal viewing application is a query-based contacts application in which Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to transmit information between said wireless terminal and a Directory System Agent (DSA).