Patent ID: 8126484

Claim:
A method for communicating shared contact information between mobile communication devices, comprising: receiving an input of text for a message within a text body of the message, wherein the text is plain text that is different from a hypertext link and that is without an embedded electronic address function; recognizing at least a portion of the text within the text body of the message as data corresponding to a stored contact information file; generating a contact information share query based on the recognizing of the data corresponding to the stored contact information file; receiving a user request for sharing the stored contact information file with one or more wireless communication devices; generating one or more Short Message Service (SMS) contact information messages that each include at least a portion of the contact information file in a format operable to be recognizable as shared contact information by an SMS-receiving wireless communication device; generating a SMS text message that includes the text, wherein the SMS text message is different from the one or more SMS contact information messages; communicating the one or more SMS contact information messages to the one or more wireless communication devices, and communicating the SMS text message separately from the one or more SMS contact information messages to the one or more wireless communication devices.