Method and system for maintaining contact information
First Claim
1. A method for maintaining contact information, comprising:
- acquiring address book information of a user;
acquiring authorization settings of the address book information of the user;
saving the address book information of the user and the authorization settings in an address book server, wherein the address book information comprises at least one of;
a name, a nickname, a photo, a birthday, an anniversary, a gender, a delivery address, a telephone number, a mail address, a language, an instant messaging and presence protocol (IMPP), a time zone (TZ), and a global positioning of the object (GEO);
receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device;
establishing, according to confirmation information from a subscribed-for user associated with the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for the subscribed-for user and the subscriber device; and
updating, by the address book server, address book information of the subscriber device according to a subscription relation and authorization settings in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user stored in the address book server.
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to communication technologies, and particularly, to a method, apparatus and system for maintaining contact information. The embodiment of the present invention provides a method for maintaining contact information, including: acquiring address book information of a user and authorization settings of the address book information of the user and saving the acquired in an address book server, receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device, and establishing, according to confirmation information from the subscribed-for user regarding the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for a subscribed-for user and subscriber device and updating, by the address book server, address book information of the subscriber device according to a subscription relation and authorization in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user in the address book server.
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1. A method for maintaining contact information, comprising:
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acquiring address book information of a user; acquiring authorization settings of the address book information of the user; saving the address book information of the user and the authorization settings in an address book server, wherein the address book information comprises at least one of;
a name, a nickname, a photo, a birthday, an anniversary, a gender, a delivery address, a telephone number, a mail address, a language, an instant messaging and presence protocol (IMPP), a time zone (TZ), and a global positioning of the object (GEO);receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device; establishing, according to confirmation information from a subscribed-for user associated with the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for the subscribed-for user and the subscriber device; and updating, by the address book server, address book information of the subscriber device according to a subscription relation and authorization settings in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user stored in the address book server.
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2. An address book server apparatus, comprising:
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an information maintenance module, used for acquiring address book information of a user and authorization settings of the address book information of the user; and
acquiring the modification made by the user on the address book information of the user stored in the address book server, wherein the address book information comprises at least one of;
a name, a nickname, a photo, a birthday, an anniversary, a gender, a delivery address, a telephone number, a mail address, a language, an instant messaging and presence protocol (IMPP), a time zone (TZ), and a global positioning of the object (GEO);a storage, used for storing a relation list for the user and subscriber devices, address book information of the user and the authorization settings regarding the subscriber devices; and an information synchronization module, used for receiving the address book information updated by the user from the information maintenance module and updating the address book information of the subscriber devices according to subscription relations and authorization settings in the relation list.
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3. An address book application apparatus, comprising:
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an information maintenance module, used for acquiring an address book subscription request of a subscriber and returning confirmation information from the subscribed-for user regarding the subscription request of the subscriber device to a address book server, and further used for acquiring address book update information of the subscribed-for user and updating address book information corresponding to the subscribed-for user in a storage, wherein the address book information comprises at least one of;
a name, a nickname, a photo, a birthday, an anniversary, a gender, a delivery address, a telephone number, a mail address, a language, an instant messaging and presence protocol (IMPP), a time zone (TZ), a global positioning of the object (GEO);an information synchronization module, used for sending address book information and authorization on the address book information to an address book server and modifying the address book information of the address book application apparatus in the address book server; and the storage, used for storing the address book information of the subscribed-for user.
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4. A system for maintaining contact information, comprising:
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an address book server, used for receiving user address book registration information, which carries authorization settings of address book information, saving the user address book registration information in the address book server, receiving a subscription request from a subscriber device, establishing, according to confirmation information from the subscribed-for user regarding the subscription request from the subscriber device, a subscription relation list for a subscribed-for user and subscriber device, and updating, by the address book server, the address book information of the subscriber device according to subscription relation and authorization settings in the subscription relation list when the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user stored in the address book server, wherein the address book information comprises at least one of;
a name, a nickname, a photo, a birthday, an anniversary, a gender, a delivery address, a telephone number, a mail address, a language, an instant messaging and presence protocol (IMPP), a time zone (TZ), a global positioning of the object (GEO);an user terminal, used for registering address book information of the user terminal at the address book server, modifies information of the user terminal in the address book server according to the operation of the user terminal, receiving, when the user terminal has a storage, updated address book information from the address book server after the subscribed-for user modifies the address book information of the subscribed-for user, and modifying the address book information of the subscription user stored in the user terminal.
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