Patent 7739246 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on June, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of merging contact information received from multiple sources. The method includes acts of identifying a first data record including a first information content as representing a contact, identifying a second data record that has a second information content differing from the first data record and represents the contact, and merging the first data record and the second data record into a single contact record.