SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING BUSINESS CARDS DURING A VIDEOCONFERENCE

摘要

The conference manager and address service of a general purpose personal conference application are enhanced with a plurality of functions for setting up, exchanging, saving, retrieving and resending "business cards" electronically (26). The external manifestation of an electronic "business card" is a visual presentation of information commonly found on physical business cards in a format that resembles a physcial business card (28). Preferably, the visual representation also includes a picture of the person named. Internally, the information including the data necessary to render the picture are maintained in data structures.