A computer/telephony integrated single-point-of-contact system (CISS)
enabling a user to contact another using multiple devices with a single
contact attempt is disclosed. A plurality of computer programs residing
in a computer use a subscriber database, authorization database, priority
list database, and device attributes database to determine how to respond
to a request to contact a subscriber. If the request is an emergency, the
computer repeatedly contacts all of the subscriber's devices until a
response is received. Otherwise, the computer contacts the subscriber's
devices in a sequential order determined by the subscriber. The computer
can also delete redundant un-received messages from a subscriber's
devices and create a real-time connection between the requester and the
subscriber, if it is technically possible, at the subscriber's request.