Auto update utility for digital address books

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 method for updating contact information on a client computer, comprising:
a. using a computer processor of a client computer to extract contact information for an addressee from an address book data structure for an address book in a memory of the client computer; b. sending the extracted contact information from the client computer to a server, which extracted contact information causes a computer processor of the server to generate and send to the addressee a contact information update request; c. receiving, from the addressee via the server, (i) updated contact information or (ii) a confirmation of the contact information for the addressee; and d. if the updated contact information is received from the server, using a computer processor of the client computer to automatically update the contact information with the updated contact information in the memory of the client computer.