Business card and contact management system
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Abstract
An Internet (or World-Wide-Web or other such public or private network) based business card and contact management system capable of conveying and managing advertising as well as traditional and other non-traditional business contact information. The invention is a system that: (1) accepts a Universal Contact Locator (UCL) as encoded on a business card in man and/or machine readable format and, when the Universal Contact Locator (UCL) is entered into a client program running on a client computer, (2) causes a web browser (or like program) and associated communications software to establish a communications session with a remote server computer which (3) accesses the stored contact and advertisement and news information of the card issuer associated with the Universal Contact Locator and (4) downloads the business contact and/or personal contact information and targeted advertisements and news items associated with the Universal Contact Locator to a client program running on a client computer which (5) loads the contact data into the Contact Management or Personal Information Management (PIM) system of the users choosing running on the users client computer and (6) stores the advertisements and news items downloaded from the server computer on the client computer'"'"'s secondary storage device (i.e. hard disk) and (7) causes the advertisements and news items stored on the client computer'"'"'s secondary storage device to be displayed to the user on a predetermined schedule in a portion of the client computer'"'"'s output device (i.e. CRT or LCD panel).
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36 Claims
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1-22. -22. (canceled)
- 23. A computer system within a network wherein a client computer has access to a database of records of information, each record having an associated web site address and, when the client computer accesses on the network a website having an address that is associated with a record in the database, the client computer displays information from the record in addition to information from the web site.
- 26. A computer system within a network wherein a client computer has access to a database of records of information, each record having associated key words and, when the client computer accesses on the network a search engine and provides to the search engine a word for a search which is also one of the associated key words, the client computer displays information from the record associated with that key word in addition to information from the search engine.
- 29. A computer system within a network wherein a client computer sends to a server computer an identifier identifying an entity as well as a time deadline and the server computer gathers news items from a plurality of other servers on the network about the entity and sends them to the client computer until the deadline is reached, at which time the server computer ceases sending said news items.
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36-41. -41. (canceled)
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