User interfaces for providing updated contact information
First Claim
1. A system for contact information management, comprising:
- a memory comprising an address book data structure of an address book;
a display screen comprising a user interface that displays, to a sender, identifying information of an addressee associated with an addressee computer, which identifying information is from existing contact information of the addressee extracted from the address book data structure of the address book in the memory; and
a computer processor operatively coupled to the display screen and the memory, wherein the computer processor;
transmits, over a network, a request for an update to the existing contact information of the addressee to the addressee computer, which request is transmitted to the addressee computer through a computer server;
receives, over the network, updated contact information of the addressee from the addressee computer through the computer server; and
updates the address book data structure in the memory with the updated contact information of the addressee.
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Abstract
An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device (such as a wireless phone or PDA) with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user (i.e. people who'"'"'s contact information or partial contact information is present in the user'"'"'s address book application) to make corrections to their contact-related information contained in the user'"'"'s address book, request reciprocal contact information from the user, deny the user access to additional or corrected contact-related information and take other actions relative to managing the contact-related information which others (users) have about them.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for contact information management, comprising:
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a memory comprising an address book data structure of an address book; a display screen comprising a user interface that displays, to a sender, identifying information of an addressee associated with an addressee computer, which identifying information is from existing contact information of the addressee extracted from the address book data structure of the address book in the memory; and a computer processor operatively coupled to the display screen and the memory, wherein the computer processor; transmits, over a network, a request for an update to the existing contact information of the addressee to the addressee computer, which request is transmitted to the addressee computer through a computer server; receives, over the network, updated contact information of the addressee from the addressee computer through the computer server; and updates the address book data structure in the memory with the updated contact information of the addressee. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for contact information management, comprising:
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a display screen comprising a user interface that displays, to an addressee, identifying information of a sender associated with a sender computer and existing contact information of the addressee extracted from an address book data structure of an address book in memory on the sender computer; and a computer processor operatively coupled to the display screen, wherein the computer processor; receives, over a network, a request for an update to the existing contact information of the addressee from the sender computer, which request is received through a computer server; and retrieves the updated contact information of the addressee from memory; and transmits, over the network, the updated contact information of the addressee to the sender computer, which updated contact information is transmitted through the computer server. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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