Patent ID: 7054886

Claim:
A method of providing a data store of people information, comprising the steps of: using automated means, extracting from a global computer network unstructured information about individual people, and storing the extracted information in a database, the database including for each person a respective record holding at least name of a person and name of a respective current employer; and enabling people named in the database to access respective records, said enabling access being in a manner that enables each respective person to edit data in each respective person's record of the database but maintains integrity of the automatically extracted information such that both user-edited data and automatically extracted information reside simultaneously in the database, the user-edited data being maintained and continually updated by a person named in the database and automatically extracted information being maintained by the automated means and not the person such that integrity of the automatically extracted and stored information is maintained, the automated means replacing old extracted data but not user-edited data with newly extracted data, portions of the user-edited data being same information but a different version of the automatically extracted information.