Import of contact data from personal information manager software into application
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1. A method comprising:
- mapping contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software to automatically populate an application.
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Abstract
The disclosed methods, apparatus, system, and computer-readable media can be used to map contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software to one or more corresponding fields of an application to automatically populate such application with contact data. The contact data can comprise a person'"'"'s name, company name, address, telephone number, mobile number, facsimile number, and/or email address. The user of a computer device can input one or more characters into a field of an application, and matching sets of contact data are displayed for the user to select to populate mapped fields of the application.
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1. A method comprising:
mapping contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software to automatically populate an application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method comprising:
receiving mapping software at a computing device from a public communications network, the mapping software for generating mapping data that maps at least one field of contact data from a personal information manager (PIM) software to at least one corresponding field of a web application. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method comprising:
receiving interface software at a computing device from a public communications network, the interface software for automatically populating the web page of the web application with contact data based on the mapping data generated by the mapping software. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method comprising:
transmitting mapping software for generating mapping data that maps contact data from a personal information manager (PIM) software to an application. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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50. A method comprising:
transmitting interface software for automatically populating an application with contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software based on mapping data. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
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65. An apparatus comprising:
a computing device executing interface software to map contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software to automatically populate an application. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77)
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78. A system using a public communications network, the system comprising:
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a web server having a web application with at least one web page, and a set-up file with mapping software and interface software; and
a computing device connected to communicate with the web server via the public communications network, and having personal information manager (PIM) software storing contact data, the web server transmitting the set-up file to the computing device via the public communications network, the computing device receiving the set-up file from the web server and executing the mapping software to map at least one field of contact data from the PIM software to at least one field of a web page of the web application to generate mapping data, and executing the interface software to map at least one field of contact data to at least one field of the web page of the web application based on the mapping data, to automatically populate the field of the web page with corresponding data. - View Dependent Claims (79, 80, 81, 82, 83)
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- 84. A computer-readable medium having a software executable by a computer to map contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software to automatically populate an application with contact data.
- 102. A computer-readable medium having mapping software executable by a computer to generate mapping data that maps contact data from personal information manager (PIM) software to an application.
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