Patent ID: 8417675

Claim:
A method of distributing contact or calendar information in a multi-user environment, the method comprising: maintaining records corresponding to a plurality of users, wherein at least one of the users is associated with a remote component device and has at least one contact authorization or calendar authorization; maintaining a plurality of contact or calendar records, wherein at least one of the contact or calendar records contains one or more fields and contains at least one directive, wherein the at least one directive includes information pertaining to the at least one contact authorization or calendar authorization, wherein the at least one contact authorization or calendar authorization authorizes the at least one of the users to edit the one or more fields of the at least one of the contact or calendar records of the plurality of contact or calendar records; designating the remote component device to which the one or more fields of the at least one of the contact or calendar records is to be distributed, wherein the designation is based on the at least one directive corresponding to the at least one of the contact or calendar records; automatically distributing the one or more fields to the designated remote component device; and initiating a rearrangement of a display of contact or calendar records on the designated remote component device based at least in part on the at least one directive such that fields that the at least one of the users is authorized to edit are displayed more prominently than fields not associated with the at least one directive for each of the contact or calendar records displayed on the designated remote component device.