Patent ID: 8280913
Filing Date: 2012-10-02
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for the management of contact information, said system, for use with devices, comprising: a database having, for a plurality of users of the system, first storage spaces for storing said users' outgoing contact information profiles and, for at least some of said users, second storage spaces for storing incoming contact information profiles, said database also configured to store preferences for at least some of said users, and wherein said database includes a directory for searching of contact information profiles, said directory including said users' outgoing contact information profiles that are searchable by one or more other said users of the system, and wherein at least some of said users may set preferences with respect to accessibility of their outgoing contact information profiles in said directory; an Internet interface linked to said database and enabling interactions, via the Internet, between said database and a plurality of said devices, at least some of said plurality of said devices being equipped with a reader, wherein said interactions include interactions that result from said readers' reading a contact information profile in machine-readable form present on a conveyor, said reading allowing for receipt of a communication including a return contact information profile for finding in said database a said contact information profile corresponding to said contact information profile in machine-readable form, said return contact information profile either one of containing or allowing for receiving of one or more user preferences with respect to either one of storage or distribution of said corresponding contact information profile; and a communications gateway linked to said database for either sending to or receiving from said devices, or both, communications via either the Internet or other public communications networks, or both.