| 摘要 |
<p>A network computer based personal contact manager system (343) is disclosed wherein users of networked clients (370) maintain and update a set of user information which is stored in a relational database (340) on a networked server (330). The personal contact manager system (343) allows each user to specify on an individual basis which of their contacts are permitted to access respective datums of their user information. When permission is granted, the system will issue notifications to a user's contacts. The system also allows users to find contacts based on group affiliations and notifies users when there are coincidences in their data. The system supports the retrieval of information on the contacts of contacts, if a permission has been granted by the contacts and their contacts, and can also be used to synchronize the server database with a PIM database of the user (390) and any of his contacts who have the appropriate permissions.</p> |
