Patent ID: 6269369
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: G06Q,G08B,H04L,H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A networked contact management system, comprising:a database which contains personal records of multiple users, each record including multiple fields, including fields for storing personal contact information; andcontact manager software which provides restricted access to the database through an interface in which (1) users select other users from the database to include in their own, respective virtual personal address books without the need to enter information for such users, (2) if a first user selects a second user to include in the first user's virtual personal address book, the second user is provided an option to specify the types of information of the second user's personal record to be viewable by the first user, (3) users directly update their own respective personal records within the database, and (4) the personal records stored within the database are at least partially viewable as virtual address book entries, so that updates made by users to their own respective personal records are reflected automatically within the virtual personal address books of other users without the need to propagate or separately apply the updates to individual address books.