System to retate personal information to a unique identifier

• US 20030233336A1
• Filed: 06/13/2002
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Objectsoft Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Objectsoft Incorporated
• Inventors: Clark, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US10/167,976
• Publication Number:
  US 20030233336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

A method and apparatus to recognize an individual based on specific personal information and relate that individual to a unique identifier within a system. When communicating with the individual through email, voice or some other means, the system will match personal information to find the unique identifier. If no unique identifier is found, the system will dynamically create a unique identifier and save it with the personal information used for communication. Once established, the unique identifier will be used to maintain all data relationships between users and data in the system. Using the aforementioned capabilities, applications may interact with people not currently registered as users in the system. The invention allows anyone to become a user in the system while maintaining all data relationships.

Claims

1. A system for creating user profiles with user information that may include name, addresses, emails, phone numbers, notes, birthdays, important events and calendar information.

2. A system of claim 1 that has a means to store user profiles related to a unqiue identifier.

3. A system of claim 2 that has

a means to relate one to many email addresses to a user profile;

a means to relate one to many phone numbers to a user profile.

4. A system of claim 3 that stores a private indicator to make a profile unaccessible to other users in the system.

5. A system of claim 4 that stores a enabled indicator to determine if the user can access the system.

6. A system of claim 5 further comprising a means to lookup a user profile based on email address or phone number.

7. A system of claim 5 that can dynamically create a unique identifier when a user profile cannot be located by email address, phone number or unique identifier.

8. A system of claim 5 that may support grouping of users.

9. A system of claim 8 that may support users belonging to multiple groups.

10. A system of claim 8 that may support removal of users from groups.

11. A system of claim 8 that may allow users to self register and updates the unique user profile in system with the new information gathered during registration.

12. A system of claim 5 that may allow users to correct their own profile information in the system.

13. A system of claim 5 that may automatically fetch a user profile based on email or phone number when those data elements are used to identify a person or user.

14. A system of claim 13 that may only locate profiles if the current user has been granted access to the profile by the profile owner.

15. A system of claim 13 that may locate a profile by email and optionally attach email to the profile when using an email application.

16. A system of claim 13 that may locate a unique profile in the system and store an event related to that profile when scheduling an event utilizing email or phone number to identify invited participants.

17. A system of claim 13 that may locate a unique profile in the system and store an event related to that profile when a schedule event is received by the system.

18. A system of claim 13 that may locate a unique profile in the system and store a call log related to that profile when a call log is received by the system.

19. A phonebook program utilizing the system of claim 13 consisting of shared user profiles in the system where access rights are determined by the owner of each profile.