Patent ID: 7505974
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method in a network with client and server computers for a user to deny requests from a sender for updates of contact information, comprising: a. on a client computer, receiving from a server directed to a client address a request for updated contact information generated by the server, the request including a sender identifier and a copy of existing contact information from an address book data structure associated with the sender identifier; b. presenting on a display on the client computer information identifying a sender of the request and the existing contact information from the address book data structure associated with the sender identifier, c. in response to user input received after the information identifying the sender and the existing contact information is presented on the display, sending to the server a command to deny the request and future requests having the sender identifier, d. on the server, establishing a deny tag such that no future requests for updated contact information having that sender identifier will be sent to the client address from the server until the deny tag is removed.