Patent ID: 9129023
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, by a server subsystem including at least one physical computing device, a network address book accessible over a network by users of a connected address book service; maintaining, by said server subsystem, a network address book listing in said network address book, said network address book listing including contacts data representing contact information for a first user of said connected address book service, said contacts data provided by said first user to said network address book for access by other users of said connected address book service; receiving, by said server subsystem from an access device over said network, a request, from a second user of said connected address book service, to preview a network address book status for a local address book listing that is included in a local address book maintained locally on said access device and that includes information about said first user of said connected address book service; in response to said request: providing, by said server subsystem to said access device, a tool for use by said second user to selectively relinquish control of said local address book listing in said local address book to said network address book; detecting, by said server subsystem, a selection by said second user to relinquish control of said local address book listing in said local address book to said network address book; and converting, by said server subsystem within said local address book and in response to said selection, said local address book listing from being said local address book listing under control of said local address book to said network address book listing under control of said network address book.