Patent ID: 8583642

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for providing up-to-date subscriber information to one or more applications, the method comprising: receiving static information associated with a subscriber; receiving additional static information from a local data store including a personal contacts list of an electronic mail application and a hierarchy of source applications; receiving dynamic presence information associated with the subscriber from the hierarchy of source applications; selecting at least one of the source applications from the hierarchy to retrieve the additional static user and dynamic presence information according to a preference determined by a registry key setting; combining the static, additional static, and dynamic presence information in a dynamically updateable subscriber contact card at a subscriber information management server; providing the subscriber contact card to an application executed on another computing device such that the application is enabled to provide services based on up-to-date information associated with the subscriber; enabling activation of at least one application other than the application in conjunction with each dynamic presence information in the subscriber contact card; and sharing the subscriber contact card through a unique identifier including a session initiation protocol (SIP) uniform resource identifier (URI) to pull the static and dynamic information from the subscriber contact card.