Advertising in yellow book for the phone

摘要

A method of generating contact information of entities in a particular geographic area comprises providing a database in an internal memory of a communication device. The database contains contact information of entities from multiple geographic areas. The geographical location of the communication device is determined and the database is used to derive a contact list of one or more entities associated with the geographical location of the communication device. The contact list is generated on the communication device and displayed and/or stored on the communication device. A method of generating contact information and associated advertisements of entities in a particular geographic area comprises providing a first centralized database having data fields for input of contact information. The first centralized database contains contact information of entities from multiple geographic areas; A second centralized database having data fields for input of advertisements which are linked to the contact information of one or more entities included in the first centralized database is provided. A third database on a communication device having similar or substantially identical data fields as the first and second databases is provided. The geographical location of the communication device is determined. Contact information from the first centralized database for one or more entities associated with the geographical location of the communication device is captured. Advertisements from the second centralized database which are linked to the captured contact information are captured. The captured contact information and associated advertisements to an internal memory of the communication device are downloaded.