Patent ID: 8886594

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a delete request message, at a network contact database, from a first device associated with a first user, the delete request message comprising a text message generated by the first device, the text message comprising a destination number that identifies a second device from which contact information associated with the first user is to be deleted and a character string that instructs the network contact database to delete the contact information associated with the first user from the second device, and the second device being associated with a second user and comprising a local contact database of the second device; causing, by a processor, contact information associated with the first user from the network contact database to be deleted in response to the delete request message; and causing, by the processor, a synchronization process to be initiated between the local contact database of the second device and the network contact database to delete, from the local contact database of the second device, the contact information associated with the first user.