Electronic business/personal card and method of use thereof
First Claim
1. An apparatus for facilitating managed exchanges of information between contacts following a face-to-face interaction between the contacts, the apparatus comprising:
- an application server providing a network service that is accessible through one or more client systems communicatively coupled to the application server via a network; and
a data storage device storing a personal information database that is maintained by the application server, the personal information database including a plurality of user accounts respectively associated with a plurality of communication devices, each user account including a unique identification for the communication device respectively associated with the user account, a set of user information, and a plurality of relationship levels each associated with a respective subset of the set of user information of the user account that is available to be shared, andwherein any first communication device of the plurality of communication devices is configured to perform a one-to-one wireless exchange with any second communication device of the plurality of communication devices by wirelessly transmitting the unique identification for the first communication device to the second communication device and receiving the unique identification for the second communication device wirelessly transmitted by the second communication device in response to a mutually-timed activation of the first and second communication devices,wherein the application server operates to, in response to receiving a notification that the first communication device has received the unique identification for the second communication device and, in association with the notification, a specification of one of the relationship levels included within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, access the personal information database to establish an association within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device between the unique identification for the second communication device and the specified relationship level, andwherein the network service, in response to receiving a request, from one of the client systems being operated in association with the user account respectively associated with the second communication device, for the set of user information of the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, operates to return the respective subset of the set of user information for the user account respectively associated with the first communication device associated with the indicated relationship level.
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Abstract
The present invention includes a wireless communication method and device comprising a one-to-one exchange of wireless electronic device identifications or unique profile IDs between a sending and a receiving party who are both registered users of the electronic business/personal card service and further comprising upload of the wireless electronic identifications to a data server computer system wherein said system matches said identifications with those of registered users and said computer system displays information about the user associated with each identification.
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1. An apparatus for facilitating managed exchanges of information between contacts following a face-to-face interaction between the contacts, the apparatus comprising:
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an application server providing a network service that is accessible through one or more client systems communicatively coupled to the application server via a network; and a data storage device storing a personal information database that is maintained by the application server, the personal information database including a plurality of user accounts respectively associated with a plurality of communication devices, each user account including a unique identification for the communication device respectively associated with the user account, a set of user information, and a plurality of relationship levels each associated with a respective subset of the set of user information of the user account that is available to be shared, and wherein any first communication device of the plurality of communication devices is configured to perform a one-to-one wireless exchange with any second communication device of the plurality of communication devices by wirelessly transmitting the unique identification for the first communication device to the second communication device and receiving the unique identification for the second communication device wirelessly transmitted by the second communication device in response to a mutually-timed activation of the first and second communication devices, wherein the application server operates to, in response to receiving a notification that the first communication device has received the unique identification for the second communication device and, in association with the notification, a specification of one of the relationship levels included within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, access the personal information database to establish an association within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device between the unique identification for the second communication device and the specified relationship level, and wherein the network service, in response to receiving a request, from one of the client systems being operated in association with the user account respectively associated with the second communication device, for the set of user information of the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, operates to return the respective subset of the set of user information for the user account respectively associated with the first communication device associated with the indicated relationship level. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for facilitating managed exchanges of information between contacts following a face-to-face interaction between the contacts, the method comprising:
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providing, at an application server, a network service that is accessible through one or more client systems communicatively coupled to the application server via a network; maintaining, in a data storage device, a personal information database that includes a plurality of user accounts respectively associated with a plurality of communication devices, where each user account includes a unique identification for the communication device respectively associated with the user account, a set of user information, and a plurality of relationship levels each associated with a respective subset of the set of user information of the user account that is available to be shared; receiving, at the application server, a notification that a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices received the unique identification for a second communication device of the plurality of communication devices in a one-to-one wireless exchange performed between the first and second communication devices in response to a mutually-timed activation of the first and second communication devices in which the second communication device wirelessly transmitted the unique identification for the second communication device to the first communication device; receiving, at the application server and in association with the notification, a specification of one of the relationship levels included within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device; in response to receiving the specification of one of the relationship levels included within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, accessing the personal information database to establish an association within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device between the unique identification for the second communication device and the specified relationship level; and in response to receiving a request, from one of the client systems being operated in association with the user account respectively associated with the second communication device, for the set of user information of the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, providing a reply to the client system that includes the respective subset of the set of user information for the user account respectively associated with the first communication device associated with the indicated relationship level. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for facilitating managed exchanges of information between contacts following a face-to-face interaction between the contacts, the system comprising:
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a plurality of communication devices respectively having a plurality of unique identifications, each communication device being configured to perform a one-to-one wireless exchange with any other communication device of the plurality of communication devices by wirelessly transmitting the unique identification for the communication device to the other communication device and receiving the unique identification for the other communication device wirelessly transmitted by the other communication device in response to a mutually-timed activation of the communication devices and the other communication device; an application server providing a network service; a data storage device storing a personal information database that is maintained by the application server, the personal information database including a plurality of user accounts respectively associated with the plurality of communication devices, each user account including the unique identification for the communication device respectively associated with the user account, a set of user information, and a plurality of relationship levels each associated with a respective subset of the set of user information of the user account that is available to be shared; and one or more client systems configured to communicatively couple to the application server via a network to access the network service in association with any one of the plurality of user accounts, and wherein the application server operates to, in response to receiving a notification that a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices has received the unique identification for a second communication device of the plurality of communication devices and, in association with the notification, a specification of one of the relationship levels included within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, access the personal information database to establish an association within the user account respectively associated with the first communication device between the unique identification for the second communication device and the specified relationship level, and wherein, in response to receiving a request, from one of the client systems accessing the network service in association with the user account respectively associated with the second communication device, for the set of user information of the user account respectively associated with the first communication device, the network service operates to return the respective subset of the set of user information for the user account respectively associated with the first communication device associated with the indicated relationship level. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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