Patent ID: 8755772

Claim:
A system for sharing contact information between a first mobile device and a second mobile device, comprising: a downloadable software application installable on a first mobile device, said first mobile device having a contact database accessible by third party applications; a contact database access module providing read access to said contact database by said software application whereby at least a portion of said contact database is extracted to a contact list; a unique user authentication profile generated by said software application and linked with said contact list extracted from said contact database; a synchronization module coupled to said software application, said synchronization module synchronizing said contact list to a remote storage archive; an authentication module communicatively coupled to said remote storage archive, said authentication module allowing access to said contact list responsive to receiving said user authentication profile; a second mobile device having said software application installed thereon, said software application communicatively coupled to telephony functions of said second mobile device, whereby outbound telephone calls are initiated directly from said software application; a remote access module on said second mobile device, said remote access module sending said user authentication profile to said authentication module to access said contact list on said remote storage archive; and a dialing module on said software application initiating an outbound telephone call to an individual contact in said contact list retrieved from said remote storage archive by said remote access module, said outbound telephone calls initiated from said second mobile device.