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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Lucy Ma Zhao, Austin, TX (US);
PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A service provider receives from a user who has an account with it contact card information and recipient information picture information, therefrom determines a virtual contact card and contact channels through which the virtual contact card is sent to the recipients designated by the user, and sends the virtual contact card to the designated recipients through the contact channels. The virtual contact card and contact channels may be selected from what have been previously registered, either by the user or a third person, with the service provider and stored in the user's account, or just newly created, updated, and sent from the user at the time of transmission request to the designated recipients. The virtual contact card, when updated by the user, may be automatically sent by the service provider to the same recipients that previously received a pre-updated version.