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Patent US8156330 - Terminal for exchanging electronic business cards - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inPatentsA terminal and a method for exchanging electronic business cards that can guarantee privacy and guarantee complete and consistent communications to the user are provided. The terminal for exchanging electronic business cards with a device connected via a communications network stores the first public...http://www.google.com/patents/US8156330?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8156330 - Terminal for exchanging electronic business cardsAdvanced Patent SearchTry the new Google Patents, with machine-classified Google Scholar results, and Japanese and South Korean patents.Publication numberUS8156330 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/023,614Publication dateApr 10, 2012Filing dateDec 29, 2004Priority dateSep 29, 2004Fee statusPaidAlso published asUS7387234, US7753260, US20060065707, US20060065708, US20060075050, US20060075231Publication number023614, 11023614, US 8156330 B2, US 8156330B2, US-B2-8156330, US8156330 B2, US8156330B2InventorsChristopher C. Yu, Takeshi Kubo, Ryogo KanataniOriginal AssigneeMicrosoft CorporationExport CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (130), Non-Patent Citations (87), Referenced by (9), Classifications (14), Legal Events (3) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetTerminal for exchanging electronic business cards
US 8156330 B2Abstract
A terminal and a method for exchanging electronic business cards that can guarantee privacy and guarantee complete and consistent communications to the user are provided. The terminal for exchanging electronic business cards with a device connected via a communications network stores the first public key and the first secret key, the first electronic certificate that includes the first public key and components of an electronic business card. The terminal prepares a first electronic business card from the components of an electronic business card that have been read from the memory, transmits the first electronic business card, together with the first electronic certificate that has been read from the memory, receives data encrypted by using the first public key, and decodes the encrypted data that has been received by using the first secret key that has been read from the memory.
1. A method for exchanging electronic business cards between a terminal and an external device connected via a communications network, the method comprising:
Instead of giving another person a business card in a paper form, personal information (hereinafter, referred to as business card information) including a name, an organization name, a telephone number, etc., described in the business card is usually brought to other person by using an electronic mail through the Internet. As a data format of the business card information used in Internet communications, “RFC 2426-vCard MIME Directory Profile” 1998 is well known.
An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal and a method for exchanging electronic business cards that can guarantee privacy and that can guarantee complete and constant communications to the user.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a conventional electronic business card;
Hereinafter, embodiments of the invention are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In addition, CPU 221 can be configured to read an electronic certificate and prepares an electronic business card file by combining the personal information, the design and the electronic certificate that has been read, so that an electronic business card that is to be used can be synthesized in accordance with the flow shown in FIG. 3 whenever it is used. Here, “used” means to be attached to an electronic mail or the like.
In addition, the program for security can issue an electronic certificate. For example, an electronic certificate including “the prepared public key and an algorithm such as the SHA-1 used when” the digital signature is prepared is issued.
Digital signatures are well-known. A transmitter of data can be certified by applying the public key encryption system, for example, and at the same time, a digital signature that guarantees that this data is not interpolated can be provided. In addition, a digital signature can be provided by combining the “hash function, which is a one-directional function, such as SHA-1.” The information that shows an algorithm used for a digital signature can be confirmed by an electronic certificate or the like. A digital signature is prepared by program 208 for security, which is executed by CPU 221.
In Step 405, a digital signature that is attached to the electronic business card to be transmitted is prepared. For example, the program for security may be executed by CPU 221, and “a message digest may prepared by using the SHA-1 algorithm for the” electronic business card, and be encrypted with the secret key of the user at the transmitter, thereby preparing a digital signature.
In Step 603, the program for security is executed, and the digital signature is verified. The program for security is executed and the encrypted electronic business card is decoded, and thus, the digital signature is verified. A message digest of the decoded electronic business card is prepared by using the “SHA-1 algorithm, and furthermore, the digital signature prepared” by encrypting the prepared message digest with the public key that has been extracted from the electronic certificate is compared with the received digital signature. When the results of the comparison show that they match, the digital signature is genuine, and the electronic business card that has been transmitted by the transmitter is identified. When the digital signature is interpolated, the received electronic business card, the prepared digital signature and the electronic certificate are discarded. When the digital signature is genuine, the procedure goes to Step 604.
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