Contact List Sharing Method
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1. A contact list sharing method using a wireless service, comprising:
- broadcasting a polling signal based on a wireless communication protocol by a first mobile electronic device;
confirming, by the first mobile electronic device, whether there is a second mobile electronic device using the wireless communication protocol by receiving a response signal, which is in response to the polling signal, from the second mobile electronic device; and
merging a contact list of the second mobile electronic device into a virtual group contact list of the first mobile electronic device when the first mobile electronic device receives the response signal.
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Abstract
A virtual group contact list of a first mobile electronic device is generated using a wireless service under the purpose of finding contact information of users not stored in a contact list of the first mobile electronic device, by confirming whether there are other surrounding mobile electronic devices utilizing the wireless communication service and responding to a polling signal from the first mobile electronic device. A user of the first mobile electronic device is able to contact a wanted user whose contact information stored in contact lists of confirmed or identified mobile electronic devices giving responses to the first mobile electronic device.
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13 Claims
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1. A contact list sharing method using a wireless service, comprising:
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broadcasting a polling signal based on a wireless communication protocol by a first mobile electronic device; confirming, by the first mobile electronic device, whether there is a second mobile electronic device using the wireless communication protocol by receiving a response signal, which is in response to the polling signal, from the second mobile electronic device; and merging a contact list of the second mobile electronic device into a virtual group contact list of the first mobile electronic device when the first mobile electronic device receives the response signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory machine readable media comprising:
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computer code which when executed by a processor of a first mobile electronic device broadcasts a polling signal based on a wireless communication protocol; computer code which when executed by a processor confirms, by the first mobile electronic device, whether there is a second mobile electronic device using the wireless communication protocol by receiving a response signal, which is in response to the polling signal, from the second mobile electronic device; and computer code which when executed by a processor merges a contact list of the second mobile electronic device into a virtual group contact list of the first mobile electronic device when the first mobile electronic device receives the response signal.
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