Patent ID: 8762466

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions, which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method for notifying Converged Address Book (CAB) service information, the method comprising: receiving a request message from a second CAB user, wherein the request message includes requested information about a first CAB user; judging, whether sending information about the first CAB user to other users is allowed or whether other users are allowed to add the first CAB user as a contact by querying the first CAB user; obtaining the requested information among stored information, and sending the requested information to the second CAB user, if sending the information about the first CAB user to other users is allowed or if the other users are allowed to add the first CAB user as a contact; and notifying the second CAB user if sending the information about the first CAB user to other users is not allowed or if other users are not allowed to add the first CAB user as a contact; judging whether to notify the first CAB user according to at least one of the request message and instruction information of the first CAB user; and sending a notification message to the first CAB user if judging that the first CAB user is to be notified.