Patent ID: 8682988

Claim:
A method for updating a sender profile of a sender, at least a portion of the sender profile to be concurrently displayed with an electronic communication from the sender, the method comprising: enabling, by a server computer, a sender of one or more electronic communications to update at least a first portion of a sender profile of the sender by replacing current profile information with updated profile information; enabling, by the server computer, a recipient of one or more electronic communications from the sender to update at least a second portion of the sender profile of the sender; responsive to the sender updating the first portion of the sender profile of the sender by replacing the current profile information with the updated profile information, enabling, by the server computer, the recipient to discard one or more elements of the updated profile information of the first portion of the sender profile of the sender and to continue using one or more elements of the current profile information of the first portion of the sender profile of the sender, wherein the one or more elements of the updated profile information of the first portion of the sender profile of the sender that were discarded by the recipient include at least one of a picture and biographic data; and enabling, by the server computer, the recipient to archive the one or more elements of the updated profile information of the first portion of the sender profile of the sender that were discarded by the recipient; concurrently displaying, by the server computer, to the recipient an electronic communication from the sender and at least one of: the one or more elements of the current profile information of the first portion of the sender profile of the sender that the recipient continued using; one or more elements of the updated profile information of the first portion of the sender profile of the sender that the recipient did not discard; and the second portion of the sender profile of the sender.