Systems for contact information management

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 computer server that is programmed to receive and process update requests for contact information; a client computer in communication with the computer server, wherein the client computer is programmed to (i) extract, with the aid of a computer processor, stored contact information for an addressee from an address book data structure of an address book, which contact information includes an address, and (ii) transmit the extracted contact information to the computer server with an update request for the contact information, wherein the client computer is programmed to automatically update the contact information upon receipt of updated contact information from the computer server; and an addressee computer in communication with the computer server and associated with the address, wherein the addressee computer is programmed to (i) receive the update request from the computer server, and (ii) in response to the update request, provide the computer server with an update to the contact information or deny the update request.