Patent ID: 8655271

Claim:
A method of exchanging information, the method comprising: transmitting a request for information from a first mobile telephone to a second mobile telephone, wherein the request is transmitted through a near field communication (NFC) adapter associated with the first mobile telephone when the first mobile telephone is within NFC range of the second mobile telephone and; receiving information in response to the request for information by the NFC adapter from the second mobile telephone, wherein the received information is a NFC tag associated with the second mobile telephone; storing the NFC tag associated with the second mobile telephone in an electronic phonebook application stored in the first mobile telephone, wherein the electronic phonebook includes at least one contact; and the NFC tag associated with the second mobile telephone is associated with the at least one contact stored in the electronic phonebook application; and displaying a query on a display of the first mobile telephone in a user-sensible format to an associated user of the first mobile telephone when the second mobile telephone associated with the NFC tag stored in the electronic phonebook application is within NFC range to facilitate identification of the second mobile telephone to the associated user of the first mobile telephone.