Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-06
2009-11-03
Vu, Kimyen (Department: 2135)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
active
07613695
ABSTRACT:
A relationship management system uses a database to store contact information related to a number of contacts and to store a number of folders, each of which reference one or more of the contacts within the database. The relationship management system also stores a set of contact-user pairs defining known relationships between users of the relationship management system and the contacts stored in the database. For each contact-user pair, an opt-in field indicating if the contact-user relationship is to be available for use in determining which users know a specified user is stored. If the opt-in flag is set, information pertaining to the nature of the relationship between the user and the contact, such as a relationship description, an indication of the type or strength of the relationship, etc. is also stored. At any desired time, a user may implement a user-contact reference routine to determine which users know a specified contact. The user-contact reference routine accesses the contact-user pairs within the database to determine the users which are associated with a contact-user pair that references the specified contact and that has an opt-in flag set to enable the contact-user relationship to be discovered. The user-contact reference routine then lists all of the determined users and may display the relationship information stored for each discovered contact-user pair.
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Nagy Robert M.
Solomon Barry
Gyorfi Thomas
Marshall & Gerstein & Borun LLP
Reed Elsevier Inc.
Vu Kimyen
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