Patent ID: 7512666

Claim:
A network of systems of personal and business web cards, comprising a plurality of servers with which users may sign up to keep their contact information and through which the users may search others' contact information, each of said servers having at least a database, a search engine, and at least one search interface, wherein a plurality of said servers are equipped with at least one interface having protocols working in a uniform operative language established to connect with each other, and wherein when a user places a search inquiry at a first server local to the user, the inquiry is simultaneously forwarded to a plurality of other servers having the same protocols established with the first server so that any search inquiry is simultaneously performed not only at the first server but also at said plurality of other servers, wherein said protocols of the interface are capable of transforming a search inquiry placed in a first human language into one or more other operative human languages, thus enabling the transmission of search inquiries between servers that operate in different languages.