Patent ID: 6820083
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
A relationship management system adapted to be used with a processor, a database and a display device, comprising:a computer readable medium; a database routine stored on the computer readable medium and adapted to store, within the database, one or more contact information records for each of a plurality of contacts, wherein the one or more contact information records are capable of being referenced by one or more folders and wherein each of the contact information records has a contact information record type, the database routine further adapted to store a visibility attribute for each of the contact information records to define the folders through which the associated contact information record is viewable, and wherein the database routine is further adapted to allow a user having appropriate access rights to a particular one of the folders to specify the visibility attribute for at least one of the contact information records viewable through the particular one of the folders, and wherein the user and the contact having the contact information records are different entities; and a display routine stored on the computer readable medium and adapted to be executed on the processor to display, on the display device, a contact information field within one of the folders, the contact information field displaying each of the contact information records of a particular contact information type that is defined as being viewable through the one of the folders by the visibility attribute of that contact information record.