Patent ID: 8249945

Claim:
A method of enabling electronic communication from a first party to a second party with whom the first party has or has ever had a relationship or account, whereby such communications occur without the first party necessarily having or obtaining knowledge of the second party's electronic contact information, comprising: creating address profiles for a plurality of parties that may include said second party by: collecting information from a plurality of sources, said information including electronic contact information for parties that may include the second party, assigning codes to the information from each source for each party as collected in said collecting step, analyzing codes from respective sources for similarities of codes that correspond to a same party above a similarity threshold, associating an address profile for the said same party having codes that are matched, and the first party providing identification information for the second party; and if the identification information for the second party matches a created address profile for the second party, sending the electronic communication from the first party to the second party using electronic contact information in the created address profile.