Method and apparatus for a dynamically customizable smart phonebook

摘要

A communication device (10) having a smart phonebook (14) and a method (50) of customizing device functionality using the smart phone book includes a transceiver (38 and 44), a memory (32) having at least one phonebook data entry called a PhoneLet 24 and at least one encapsulated data entry (29) associated with the phonebook data entry, and a processor (12) coupled to the transceiver. The processor can be programmed to dynamically customize at least one program running in the communication device and to dynamically customize data associated with the at least one program based on the calling up of the at least one phonebook data entry and based on the at least one encapsulated data entry. The smart phonebook can include a smart phonebook manager (16) and a plurality (20) of PhoneLets.