Patent ID: 8874148

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving at a first mobile device an indication to send data having an electronic business card via a text messaging protocol to a second mobile device; detecting the electronic business card; marking up the data to create marked up data by (1) adding at least three different length patterns of at least three different combinations of two or more transparent text message characters to delimit at least three different types of data fields in the data, the fields associated with the electronic business card, wherein at least two of the two or more transparent text message characters are different characters; and (2) using a first instance of a first length pattern of a first two or more transparent text message characters to distinguish a first type of a data field; then using a second instance of the first length pattern of the first two or more transparent text message characters to distinguish a second type of a data field; and transmitting the marked up data via the text messaging protocol to the second mobile device.