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Abstract

A method of providing an electronic business card (EBC) access and organization service on the Web. The cardholder database is accessible and searchable from any browser connected to the Internet or the EBC service may be installed behind a conventional firewall and thus accessible only to intranet users. Using integrated access restrictions, the service provides easy privacy assured access to cardholder contact information. The service provides multi-mode access, data delivery interfaces, and an export feature including custom export file format definition. Record level and field level access to individual records is controlled, including multiple privacy levels for each field. A location tracking feature allows the cardholder to rapidly designate a pre-defined contact location or a temporary contact location. Automatically formatted electronic mail sent by the cardholder contains a signature hypertext link directing recipients of the email to the EBC service thereby enabling the recipient of the email to rapidly access the EBC system to locate the cardholder and/or obtain additional information.

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