METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDRESS BOOK CONTACT MANAGEMENT

• US 20100082761A1
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Nguyenphu, Thinh, Mostafa, Miraj
• Application Number:
  US12/570,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20100082761A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/86 Mapping to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/554 Data synchronization
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems

Abstract

A method comprises receiving a notification to share contact information for a contact in an address book of a sender with a recipient; retrieving the contact information for the contact; and delivering the contact information to the recipient.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a notification to share contact information for a contact in an address book of a sender with a recipient;

retrieving the contact information for the contact; and

causing delivery of the contact information to the recipient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification includes an address for the recipient and an address for the sender.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the notification further includes the contact information to be shared.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the notification includes a pointer to the contact information to be shared.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the contact information to be shared is indicated by the address for the sender.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving a notification is in response to an update to a contact share document.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the contact share document is an XML Document Management document.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving a notification includes receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Push message.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating a contact share status upon successful delivery of the contact information to the recipient.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the updating a contact share status includes updating an XML Document Management document.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the updating an XML Document Management document includes updating a recipient subscription list with a contact share flag.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

sending a notification to the sender when the subscription list XML document is updated.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieving the contact information includes retrieving the contact information from a personal contact card server or a network repository of address book.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the causing delivery of the contact information includes transporting the contact information to a remote domain.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating a network address book with the contact information.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a reject or accept from the recipient indicating whether the recipient rejects or accepts the contact information.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory unit communicatively connected to the processor and including;

computer code for receiving a notification to share contact information for a contact in an address book of a sender with a recipient;

computer code for retrieving the contact information for the contact; and

computer code for causing delivery of the contact information to the recipient.

18. A computer program product, embodied on a computer-readable medium, comprising:

computer code for receiving a notification to share contact information for a contact in an address book of a sender with a recipient;

computer code for retrieving the contact information for the contact; and

computer code for causing delivery of the contact information to the recipient.