UNIFIED MESSAGING ARCHITECTURE

A system and/or methodology that unifies a telephonic communication component and/or system with a data ( e.g. , messaging) server component and/or system. The system can facilitate telephonically accessing rich information in the server ( e.g. , messaging server). This rich information can include email content, calendar content, contacts information, or the like. Moreover, with access to an application programming interface, the invention can add functionality to initiate email communications as well as to accept or cancel meetings. Furthermore, the invention can synchronize messages of disparate formats. By way of example a user can set an "Out of Office" (OOF) status on both an email systems and telephone voicemail system from one location in one action. In another aspect, it will be appreciated that any message or data component can be analyzed, transformed, matched and/or communicated from one system to another ( e.g. , server to telephone) in accordance with the subject invention.