Patent ID: 8155682

Claim:
A method of updating information included in a selected contact entry included in a global list of contact entries maintained by an organization, the selected contact entry being for a user of a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device storing information that uniquely identifies the handheld electronic device on a network, the selected contact entry being able to include the information, comprising: determining whether the information stored by the handheld electronic device that uniquely identifies the handheld electronic device on the network has been modified from a first stored piece of information to a second stored piece of information; and generating a message including the second stored piece of information and sending the message to a computer system of the organization if it is determined that the information stored by the handheld electronic device that uniquely identifies the handheld electronic device on the network has been modified, wherein the computer system stores the second stored piece of information for subsequent access by a requesting party by storing the second stored piece of information in a table in association with the user, the table being separate from the global list of contact entries, rather than updating the global list of contact entries.