Electronic card delivery and communication channel integration
Personal information, such as professional information normally associated with a business card may be identified and appended to a messaging sequence to provide automated user profile updates. One example embodiment may transmitting an initiation message from a service provider to a user device to initiate a communication session, transmitting a request message to the user device to accept contact information associated with the service provider, receiving a confirmation message responsive to the request message, transmitting the contact information responsive to receiving confirmation of the request, and automatically initiating a contact information update on the user device.
1. A method, comprising:
transmitting an initiation message from a service provider device to a user device to initiate a communication session between the service provider device and the user device, wherein the service provider device is an unknown device to the user device;
transmitting a request message from the service provider device to the user device to accept contact information associated with the service provider; and
transmitting the contact information of the service provider from the service provider device to the user device,
wherein the transmitting the contact information comprises:
creating a uniform resource locator (URL);
inserting electronic card information of the service provider in memory at a location specified by the URL; and
transmitting the URL to the user device in a SMS message.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
identifying a device type associated with the user device; and
creating an electronic card representing the service provider based on the identified device type.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the contact information comprises an electronic card with a plurality of information tags associated with the service provider.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of information tags comprise at least two of a service provider telephone number, a service provider name, a service provider image logo, and a service provider social networking identifier.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a confirmation message from the user device responsive to the request message;
waiting a predetermined amount of time prior to transmitting the request message to the user device; and
automatically applying a user preference to an electronic card creation procedure responsive to receiving the confirmation message.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the user preference indicates which of a plurality of information tags associated with the service provider to include in the electronic card.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the contact information of the service provider from the service provider device to the user device automatically initiates a contact information update directly from the service provider device to the user device.
8. An apparatus, comprising:
a transmitter configured to:
transmit an initiation message from a service provider device to a user device to initiate a communication session between the service provider device and the user device,
wherein the service provider device is an unknown device to the user device, and
transmit a request message to the user device to accept contact information associated with the service provider, wherein the transmitter is further configured to:
transmit the contact information of the service provider from the service provider device to the user device; and
a processor configured to:
create a uniform resource locator (URL),
insert electronic card information of the service provider in memory at a location specified by the URL, and
cause the transmitter to push the URL to the user device in a SMS message.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the processor is configured to identify a device type associated with the user device and create an electronic card of the service provider based on the identified device type.
10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the contact information comprises an electronic card with a plurality of information tags associated with the service provider.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of information tags comprise at least two of a service provider telephone number, a service provider name, a service provider image logo, and a service provider social networking identifier.
12. The apparatus of claim 8 , further comprising a receiver configured to receive a confirmation message from the user device responsive to the request message, wherein the processor is configured to cause the transmitter to wait a predetermined amount of time prior to transmitting the request message to the user device and automatically apply a user preference to an electronic card creation procedure responsive to receiving the confirmation message.
13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the user preference indicates which of a plurality of information tags associated with the service provider to include in the electronic card.
14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the contact information of the service provider transmitted from the service provider device to the user device automatically initiates a contact information update directly from the service provider device to the user device.
15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store one or more instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform:
transmitting an initiation message from a service provider device to a user device to initiate a communication session between the service provider device and the user device, wherein the service provider device is an unknown device to the user device;
transmitting a request message from the service provider device to the user device to accept contact information associated with the service provider; and
transmitting the contact information of the service provider from the service provider device to the user device,
wherein the transmitting the contact information comprises:
creating a uniform resource locator (URL);
inserting electronic card information of the service provider in memory at a location specified by the URL; and
transmitting the URL to the user device in a SMS message.
16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , further configured to store one or more instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform:
identifying a device type associated with the user device; and
creating an electronic card of the service provider based on the identified device type.
17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the contact information comprises an electronic card with a plurality of information tags associated with the service provider.
18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the plurality of information tags comprise at least two of a service provider telephone number, a service provider name, a service provider image logo, and a service provider social networking identifier.
19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15 , further configured to store one or more instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform:
receiving a confirmation message responsive to the request message;
waiting a predetermined amount of time prior to transmitting the request message to the user device; and
automatically applying a user preference to an electronic card creation procedure responsive to receiving the confirmation message.
20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the user preference indicates which of a plurality of information tags associated with the service provider to include in the electronic card.