Method and apparatus for secure electronic business card exchange
View Patent ↗An electronic business card is provided with voice data associated with the card owner. In some embodiments, the voice data is a digitized voice sample; in other embodiments, the voice data is a selection of pre-processed voice recognition data associated with a voice sample. In some implementations, the electronic business card can be transferred to other parties using a Bluetooth personal network. A user application can then make use of the voice sample or pre-processed voice recognition data for security or user identification.
1. A method comprising:
including voice data in an electronic business card, said including voice data including providing said voice data on a physical business card and reading said voice data into an address book device;
transmitting said electronic business card from one electronic communications device to another;
saving transmitted voice data in association with an address book entry; and
using said saved voice data to verify an identity of party.
2. The method in accordance with claim 1 , said voice data comprising digitized voice samples.
3. The method in accordance with claim 1 , said voice data comprising preprocessed voice recognition samples.
4. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said electronic business card comprises a vCard.
5. The method in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said transmitting includes transmitting using a Bluetooth protocol.
6. A telecommunications system comprising:
a first user device including an address book control unit configured to receive electronic business card data from other devices and store said data in an electronic address book;
wherein the electronic business card data includes integrated voice data; and
a second user device configured to provide said electronic business card data to the first user device; and
wherein said first user device comprises a cellular telephone or a computer and said second user device comprises a business card reader.
7. The telecommunications system in accordance with claim 6 , wherein said first user device and said second user device comprise cellular telephones.
8. The telecommunications system in accordance with claim 6 , wherein the integrated voice data includes one or more digital voice samples.
9. The telecommunications system in accordance with claim 6 , wherein the integrated voice data includes preprocessed voice recognition data.