Patent ID: 7325012

Claim:
A relationship management system adapted to be used with a processor, a database and a display device, comprising: a computer readable medium; a database storage routine stored on the computer readable medium and adapted to store, within the database, contact information for one or more contacts and one or more user-contact pairs, wherein each user-contact pair includes a contact indication that indicates one of the contacts and a user indication that indicates one of the users; a reference routine stored on the computer readable medium and adapted to be executed on the processor to access the database to determine whether a specified individual knows a specified contact, wherein the reference routine searches the user-contact pairs for the specified contact to locate at least one user-contact pair associated with the specified contact and wherein the reference routine determines one or more individuals that know the specified contact from the user-contact pairs; and a display routine stored on the computer readable medium and adapted to be executed on the processor to display, on the display device, an indication of whether the specified individual knows the specified contact.