Patent ID: 7076504

Claim:
A method for sharing a centralized profile, comprising: (a) obtaining user profile information; (b) obtaining at least one Activity from a user device, and wherein an Activity is a calendar, email, contact list, task list, or note; (c) storing the user profile information and the Activity in a centralized, Internet-accessible database; (d) providing a user access to the database from an Internet enabled device for allowing the user to alter the user profile information and to access the Activity; (e) receiving permission from the user to allow a third party to access a public subset of the user profile information; (f) providing the third party access to the public subset of the user profile information on the database; (g) receiving content from the third party related to the Activity; (h) storing the content from the third party in the database; and (i) synchronizing the database and an Internet enabled device so that the database and the Internet enabled device both contain the content and the Activities previously stored either on the Internet enabled device or on the database.