US Patent:
20060085373, Apr 20, 2006
Inventors:
Jasjit Dhillion - Rancho Palos Verdes CA, US
Mark Jeffrey - Santa Monica CA, US
Todd Kamin - Atlanta GA, US
Frederick Conklin - Orinda CA, US
Peter Hutto - South Pasadena CA, US
Stanley Crair - San Marino CA, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention include an information sharing system that provides an online business service from a provider that uses the Internet to enable individuals and organizations to link together contact databases that reside in multiple desktop applications and create a unified meta-database. This database can be searched by individual subscribers in order to locate a specific entity (such as an organization or a person, by name, title or organization, such as an executive in a target organization), identify if a path to the executive exists through a chain of contacts across the linked contact databases, and request a referral based introduction to the specific executive.