Patent Document ID: 8176131
Application ID: 12104217

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving from a first member at least one identifier for a user of a public communications network; determining, based at least in part on the identifier, whether the user is one of a member or a non-member of a private network; requesting information from the user via a public communications protocol in response to determining that the user is a non-member of the private network; receiving information from the non-member via the public communications network; and populating at least part of a data object in a database record associated with the first member with the information received from the non-member; sending the non-member a request to update the information received from the non-member; and updating the data object in the database record associated with the first member with updated information received from the non-member without requiring the nonmember to become a member of the private network.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein a central server performs the receiving, determining, requesting, populating, sending and updating.