| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a terminal, including: a lookup unit; a request generating unit, configured to use the terminal as a source terminal when the lookup unit fails to look up and generate a query request; a request sending unit, configured to send the query request to an associated terminal corresponding to the terminal, for enabling the associated terminal to implement the following query process: looking up, by the associated terminal, the target contact in a corresponding database according to the received query request, if finding out the target contact, sending back the information of the target contact to the source terminal, if not, re-generating the query request, or directly forwarding the received query request to other associated terminals, and then using the other terminals as the associated terminals to repeatedly implement the query process; and an information receiving unit. |
