Contact information management

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2011-04-12

2011-04-12

Rones, Charles (Department: 2164)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

File or database maintenance

C707S705000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07925620

ABSTRACT:
A method, a system, and an apparatus for storing, retrieving, and sharing business or personal contact information on one or more servers on a computer network. A set of contact information (e.g., for a single individual) is given an identity, called contact entity, and it is managed through the system-wide unique identifier. Same contact entity is shared by one or more users with proper permission settings in the system. Contact entities can be searched and retrieved based on degrees of separations or other criteria. The social networking relationship may be established through use of certain electronic or physical tokens. In one embodiment, a business card is used to define a contact entity and/or it is used as (a medium for transmitting) a networking/connecting token.

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