Patent ID: 7596605
Filing Date: 2009-09-29
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for providing an electronic business card service using an open service interface in a next-generation convergence network, the system comprising: an open service gateway including a presence and availability management service interface and comprising a database including presence and availability management information; an application server including a database of the electronic business card service, wherein an open application program interface is used as an interface between the application server and the open service gateway, the application server comprising: business card information register receiving electronic business card information from terminals of presentities who provide electronic business cards and the application server publishes the electronic business card information on the open service gateway, each of the electronic business card information including identification information and status information of the terminal of each presentity and the terminals being connected to the convergence network; a watcher register receiving identification information of a watcher who desires to use the electronic business card information from a terminal of the watcher, and registering the identification information to the open service gateway; a business card information providing unit obtaining status information of a terminal of a specified presentity from the open service gateway, and transmitting the obtained status information together with identification information of the terminal of the specified presentity to a terminal of the watcher, wherein the status information is obtained from the open service gateway upon a request for electronic business card information of the specified presentity from the watcher and is transmitted with the identification information of the terminal of the presentity to the terminal of the watchers; and a watcher authenticating unit transmitting identification information of the watcher to the terminal of the specified presentity, wherein the specified presentity determines whether the watcher can acquire a right for use of the electronic business card, and the watcher authenticating unit receiving the right for use of the electronic business card information, which is to be provided to the watcher, from the terminal of the specified presentity, upon a request for electronic business card information of the specified presentity from the watcher, wherein the business card information providing unit transmits the electronic business card information of the specified presentity to the terminal of the watcher when it is determined that the watcher authenticating unit receives the right for use of the electronic business card information.