METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY PROTECTING SHARED CONTACT INFORMATION

摘要

A method (10) of selectively protecting contact information can include sending (11) contact information from a calling party to a called party, selectively hiding (12) portions of the contact information from the called party, and enabling (14) the called party to contact the calling party. The method can further restrict (16) the called party from contacting the called party in a predetermined context such as in relation to time and/or location. The method can further optionally disable (18) the ability for the called party to edit the contact information or the ability for the called party to forward the contact information to a third party. The method can optionally enable (20) the called party to contact the calling party a predetermined number of times or enable to share (22) portions of the contact information with a predetermined group.