Integrated messaging user interface with message-based logging

摘要

In a computing system that is capable of using a plurality of telephone technologies to facilitate telephone conversations, a method for providing a user of the computing system with a common user interface regardless of the telephone technology is disclosed. The method comprises the following: (a) an act of identifying a callee, (b) an act of presenting a user interface that shows a plurality of telephone technologies that may be used to engage in a telephone call with the callee, where the user interface further includes a mechanism for a user to select one of the plurality of telephone technologies to be used to engage in the telephone call, (c) an act of determining that the user has interfaced with the mechanism to select one of the plurality of telephone technologies to use to engage in the telephone call, and (d) an act of using the selected telephone technology to facilitate the telephone call.