SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GLOBAL DIRECTORY SERVICE

AbstractSYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A GLOBAL DIRECTORY SERVICEA system and method for facilitating the transfer of contact information betweennetwork subscribers said system including at least one server coupled to thenetwork; at least one database coupled to the server; a plurality of subscriberterminals coupled to the network wherein each subscriber's terminal isconfigured to send contact information associated with a subscriber to the serverin response to a request by said subscriber; wherein the request causes thesubscriber's terminal to compile the contact information into an electronicbusiness card object having one or more textual fields and map the one or moretextual fields of the electronic business card to one or more object attributescontained in an electronic business card object and transmit the electronicbusiness card object to the server for storage in the database is disclosed.FIGURE 1