USER INTERFACES FOR PROVIDING UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION

摘要

An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device (such as a wireless phone or PDA) with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user (i.e. people who's contact information or partial contact information is present in the user's address book application) to make corrections to their contact-related information contained in the user's address book, request reciprocal contact information from the user, deny the user access to additional or corrected contact-related information and take other actions relative to managing the contact-related information which others (users) have about them.

主权项

1. A system for contact information management, comprising:
a display screen comprising a user interface that displays, to a client, identifying information of an addressee associated with an addressee computer, which identifying information is from existing contact information of the addressee extracted from an address book data structure of an address book; and a computer processor operatively coupled to the display screen, wherein the computer processor transmits, over a network, a request for an update to the existing contact information of the addressee to the addressee computer, which request is transmitted to the addressee computer through a computer server.