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Would you like your friends, colleagues, relatives to receive your latest contact information without you notifying them?
Would you like to auto publish your modified (new) contact information to all your contacts whenever you make changes to your contact information (email, phn no, address e.t.c)?
You don't remember people whom you have shared your contact information with, but now you want them to know your latest contact information?
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This idea answers the above questions.
The idea is to get all the contacts in our mobile and or in our email clients updated whenever needed without having to receive it from the owner explicitly.
General Info:
In today's date all of the latest mobile phones allow you to send contacts from your mobile phones as a "Business Card"
The Business Card format contains all the information that a general contact information may have, eg Name, Address. Mobile no, res no, email etc.
You can create a mobile/email contact with your name and information in your mobile contacts and then send it as a business card to any other contact/number, this gets sent via sms.
This information that you can share is static i.e. if you change your own contact information in your mobile you will have to resend it to every other contact in your mobile so they get the updated information. Also it is possible that you may have shared your contact with someone whose contact is not with you but now you wnat him/her to be aware of your latest contact information.
Following is an IDEA to solve this problem that each of one is facing, I am in the process of standardizing it and is under development, I need your inputs to make this more useful. Your participation will be highly appreciated!!
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How this may work:
- I publish my contact information via vCard (Business Card) to an Updatable vCard Service (uvCard Service, online web site).
- The uvCard Service gives me a unique code (only for internal purpose) and attaches the same to my uvCard.
- Now, I can send this uvCard of mine to anyone whom I want to share my contact info with.
- Once the uvCard is received by the recipients, it gets stored in their mobile contacts or in their email clients.
- Now, consider I change my mobile number and my home address. I update the changes online or republish it to uvCard service.
- People whom I have sent the uvCard can anytime use the contact manager in their mobile or email client if aware of of the uvCard service to update all the uvCards with the latest data. As the uvCard has an unique code attached to it, the data can be retrieved easily anytime when requested by the client software from the online uvCard service.
Note: This is an idea presented by me to receive responses from people on the same, if anything like this exist or has similarity with any existing copyrights/patents is just an matter of coincidence..
Request you to please rate this idea and add your valuable comments.
Thought by,
Bhupesh Naik
