Patent ID: 8005904
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic business card exchange system including a server and terminals comprising: an electronic business card local file that is a first storage unit that is local to a first terminal for storing electronic business cards; a communication program local file that is a second storage unit that is local to the first terminal for storing electronic business cards; a display unit for displaying an electronic business card; a communication unit for performing processing including transmission and reception of an electronic business card and display of the electronic business card on the display unit, the communication unit storing a received electronic business card in both the server and the first storage unit when the received electronic business card is not ciphered and wherein the communication unit does not store the received electronic business card when it is ciphered; and an electronic business card processing unit for performing processing including production of an electronic business card and display of the electronic business card on the display unit, the electronic business card processing unit storing an electronic business card received via the communication unit in the second storage unit, the server and the first storage unit when the received business card is not ciphered and storing the received business card only in the second storage unit when the received business card is ciphered.