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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2000
Joann Ruvolo, San Jose, CA (US);
Stefan B. Edlund, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Alexander Ford, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Joann Ruvolo, San Jose, CA (US);
Stefan B. Edlund, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Alexander Ford, Los Gatos, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for renewing business, professional and personal contacts is described. The system overcomes time and psychological hindrances to maintaining relationships by automatically selecting whom a user should keep in touch with by displaying this selection to the user. In an automatic mode, the system searches a contact list for candidates based on predetermined user preferences and a time-based algorithm (e.g. contact each week, month, 2 weeks after a meeting, etc.). Selected candidates are collected and images transferred to a display module to build a 'keep in touch' section to be displayed to the user. In a manual mode, the user initiates the selection process.