Patent ID: 6952805
Filing Date: 2005-10-04
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic contact resolution method, comprising: automatically extracting contact information from any of a plurality of file types included in a data store, said data store including at least one of word processor files, spreadsheet files, and presentation files; wherein extracting the contact information includes automatically examining the complete contents of one or more of the files in the data store and extracting any contact information located within those contents; maintaining a list of at least one contact entry derived from the contact information extracted from the data store; automatically computing a weight for each entry in the list; tracking contact information associated with the contact entry; automatically resolving contact entries in real time by dynamically providing specific contact entries from the maintained list based on the weight of each entry in the list; wherein new entries are added to the list as new information enters the data store; wherein entries are removed from the list and replaced with new entries when the list is full; and wherein entries are assigned relative weights, and wherein new entries having weights that are at least equal to the weights of existing entries in the list are added to the list to replace the existing entries.