KR20120113531A - Method and apparatus of providing service using unified phone book - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing a service using an integrated address book. The service providing method stores a user-specific integrated address book including personal information about an individual (hereinafter referred to as a 'member') included in the user-specific integrated address book managed by each user in the integrated address book database, and stores the integrated user address book for each user. Integrated address book management step of maintaining and updating the information, if the personal information contained in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by the user who manages the integrated address book (hereinafter referred to as the 'admin'), the requested personal information is retrieved from the integrated address book database. Step of providing administrator information to the administrator, and if the personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user other than the administrator (hereinafter referred to as 'non-administrator'), whether to provide the requested personal information to the non-administrator. Determine and provide the requested personal information, Search on the foundation base to include non-Administrator providing information comprising the steps of: providing a non-administrator. According to the present invention, since the integrated address book is used regardless of the service, there is no need to manage individual address books, and various personal information based services (PIBS) can be provided based on accumulated personal information.

Description

Method and apparatus for providing service using unified address book {Method and apparatus of providing service using unified phone book}

The present invention relates to a service providing method using an integrated address book. In particular, various services such as e-mail, voice communication, video communication, and messenger may be integrated and provided using personal information obtained from one integrated address book. The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a service that can maximize an advertisement effect by allowing a user to set a target group having a high advertisement effect using a secured integrated address book.

Thanks to the advancement in processing power of mobile phones, the applications available in mobile phones continue to grow. One such application is a phone book or contact application. The phone book of the user's contacts allows the user to store contact information for the user's family, friends, associates, customers, vendors, providers, business contacts, etc. in the internal memory of the mobile communication device. Often, owners who have lost a mobile communication device are more sorry for the loss of valuable contact information stored in the phonebook application than the loss of equipment.

When mobile phones became widespread, it was common for individuals to have only one contact number (ie, home phone number). Thus, the data and file structures for the initial phone book were sufficient to handle only a single contact number per person. However, this phenomenon cannot be applied at this time. For example, a person may have a home phone number, an office phone number, a cellular phone number, a pager number, a fax number, an e-mail address, an SMS message address, and the like. Thus, current phone book applications for mobile communication devices have cultivated and expanded their ability to store more contact data per person as well as a wider variety of data types.

Despite advances in phone book applications, smart card data and file structures often operate on older data structures. As a result, the mismatch of data and file structures between the smart card and the applications running on the mobile communication device limits the ability to synchronize the phone book information stored in the mobile device's internal memory and the phone book information stored in the smart card.

1 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a method of managing an address book according to the related art.

As shown in FIG. 1, an address book provided for each service is different, and an automatic synchronization or a manual synchronization function may be provided between the address books. However, such synchronization is provided between two different services, and synchronization of address books is impossible between services in which synchronization with each other is not provided. Therefore, there is a disadvantage that the user must manually manage the address book by service manually.

Another disadvantage of managing the address book individually is that when a user enters a new contact number, edits a contact number, or deletes a contact number, usually only the phonebook data stored in the internal memory is modified. In order to modify the phone book stored in the smart card, the user must actively synchronize the phone book data stored in the internal memory with the phone book stored in the smart card. If the user fails to initiate this synchronization, the smart card phone book will not be current.

Therefore, not only the integrated management of the address book used in various services, but also the personal information requested by the administrator or the non-administrator in consideration of privacy, so that new business such as effective advertisement can be effectively utilized by using the personal information efficiently. There is an urgent need for technology.

An object of the present invention is to integrate and manage personal information used in a web site, a mail server, a mobile phone server, a messenger service, and even if one of the personal information is changed, the personal information of the integrated address book is modified. It is to provide a service providing method using an integrated address book that does not need to update the changes of their personal information.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a personalized service based on the received information by the operator receiving the information by selectively providing the personal information which individual members are allowed to disclose among the integrated address books maintained and managed in the integrated address book database. It is to provide a service providing apparatus using an integrated address book that allows to provide a.

One aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object relates to a service providing method using an integrated address book. According to the method of the present invention, a user-specific integrated address book including personal information about a person (hereinafter referred to as a member) included in a user-specific integrated address book managed by each user is stored in an integrated address book database, and stored by user. The integrated address book management step of maintaining and updating the integrated address book, when the personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by the user who manages the integrated address book (hereinafter referred to as an administrator), the requested personal information is converted into the integrated address book database. If the information provided by the administrator retrieved and provided to the administrator, and personal information contained in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user other than the administrator (hereinafter referred to as 'non-administrator'), whether the requested personal information is provided to the non-administrator. Determine whether or not to provide the requested personal information It provides a non-administrator information providing step to retrieve from the database to the non-administrator. In the integrated address book management step, when a change occurs in the personal information of a member included in the user-specific integrated address book, a step of notifying the administrator of the integrated address book of another user including the changed personal information to the administrator, and the individual Updating the user-specific integrated address book by using the personal information of the changed member based on at least one of the relevance between the managers of the at least two user-specific integrated address books including the changed member and the relationship between the manager and the member. It further includes. In particular, the step of providing address book information may include determining whether a service requesting personal information supports the operating platform of the integrated address book database, and if not, the request for personal information by the service corresponds to the operating platform of the integrated address book database. Converting and forwarding the converted personal information to the integrated address book database; and including the retrieved personal information in a response signal corresponding to the service and returning it to the service. Further, the service for requesting personal information includes at least one of a web browser, a web mail, a video call service, and a text call service. In addition, the third-party information providing step is to identify the personal information that can be disclosed among the personal information of the members included in the user-specific integrated address book, the personal information corresponding to the personal information requested by the non-administrators among the personal information identified as publicly available Searching, and providing the retrieved personal information to a non-administrator. Furthermore, the step of identifying the personal information that can be disclosed further includes identifying whether the information is publicly available for each of the items included in the member's personal information.

Another aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object relates to a service providing apparatus using an integrated address book. The apparatus for providing a service using the integrated address book according to the present invention stores the integrated address books for each user managed by each user, but the integrated address book for each user is personal information of an individual (hereinafter referred to as a member) belonging to the integrated address book for each user. The integrated address book database including the user, the integrated address book management unit for maintaining and updating the user-specific integrated address book stored in the integrated address book database, and the personal information contained in the user-specific integrated address book to manage the integrated address book (hereinafter referred to as the 'administrator') If requested by the), and includes the address book information providing unit for retrieving the requested personal information from the integrated address book database to the administrator. In particular, when the personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user other than an administrator (hereinafter referred to as a non-administrator), the address book information provider may determine whether to provide the requested personal information to the non-administrator and provide the personal information. If so, the requested personal information is adapted to be retrieved from the integrated address book database and provided to the non-administrator. In addition, when a change occurs in the personal information of a member included in the user-specific integrated address book, the integrated address book management unit operates that the change occurs in the administrator of the other user-specific integrated address book including the member whose personal information is changed. Updating the user-specific integrated address book by using the personal information of the changed member based on at least one of the relationship between the administrators of the at least two user-specific integrated address books including the changed members and the relationship between the manager and the member. It is adapted to perform further operations. In particular, the address book information providing unit converts the request for personal information by the service to the integrated address book database and delivers it to the integrated address book database when the service requesting personal information does not support the operating platform of the integrated address book database. (Application Programmer Interface), and the API is characterized by including the retrieved personal information in the response signal corresponding to the service to return to the service. Preferably, the address book information providing unit identifies personal information publicly available among the personal information of members included in the user-specific integrated address book, and personal information corresponding to personal information requested by a non-administrator among personal information identified as publicly available. Search, and are further adapted to provide the retrieved personal information to the non-administrator. In addition, the address book information providing unit is further adapted to identify whether each of the items included in the member's personal information is publicly available.

According to the present invention, personal information referred to in various services is integrated and managed. Therefore, the user does not need to update the change contents of his personal information for each service.

In addition, by providing the individual or the operator with the personal information that allows the individual member to be disclosed by the present invention, the operator receiving the information can provide a customized service.

1 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a method of managing an address book according to the related art.
2 is a flowchart conceptually illustrating a service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining in detail the integrated address book maintenance / management step shown in FIG. 2.
4 is a diagram for explaining an address book cross-search operation.
5 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating a service providing apparatus according to another aspect of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating various services that can be provided using the integrated address book according to the present invention.

In order to fully understand the present invention, operational advantages of the present invention, and objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention can be implemented in various different forms, and is not limited to the embodiments described. In order to clearly describe the present invention, parts that are not related to the description are omitted, and the same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same members.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it may further include other components, without excluding the other components unless otherwise stated. In addition, the terms "... unit", "... unit", "module", "block", etc. described in the specification mean a unit for processing at least one function or operation, which means hardware, software, or hardware. And software.

2 is a flowchart conceptually illustrating a service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, personal information used in each service using different personal information is integrated to maintain and manage the integrated address book (S210). For convenience of understanding, terms used in the present specification are summarized as follows.

1) In the present specification, the 'integrated address book' refers to an address book including all personal information used in various services, and refers to an address book commonly referred to by various services. The integrated address book includes user-specific integrated address books managed by each of the plurality of users.

2) In the present specification, 'member' indicates an owner of personal information included in a user-specific integrated address book. For example, if a user's unified address book stores personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses for two people, "Hi" and "Ban," Alice and Bob's members of the user's unified address book, respectively, do.

3) In the present specification, the manager and the non-administrator refer to a person who is the owner and a non-owner of each user-specific integrated address book. For example, user A has a user-specific unified address book (a) that includes "Hee" and "Ban" as members, and user B has a user-specific unified address book (b) that includes "Ying" and "Chung" as members. ), Administrator becomes A and B becomes non-administrator for user-specific integrated address book a. In contrast, for a user-specific integrated address book b, the administrator becomes B and A becomes a non-administrator. As such, the reason for classifying the user into an administrator and a non-administrator is described in detail later in the corresponding part of the specification.

Referring back to FIG. 2, it is determined whether personal information is requested by the manager (S220). When the administrator requests personal information, it means that the administrator requests personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book. In this case, the administrator can be provided with personal information that he manages without any limitation.

Therefore, when it is determined that the manager requests personal information, the manager searches for personal information requested by the manager in the integrated address book (S230), and provides the manager when matching personal information is found (S240). If the administrator requests the member's email address as personal information, the member's email address stored in the integrated address book is returned to the administrator.

However, when the personal information is requested by the non-administrator (S250), it is processed differently. The reason is that the non-administrator is not a person who directly manages the user-specific integrated address book, and therefore, there is a risk of personal information leakage when the requested personal information is indiscriminately provided to the non-administrator.

Therefore, in the service providing method according to the present invention, when maintaining and managing the integrated address book, personal information that can be disclosed is separately stored. In this case, even personal information corresponding to the same member does not necessarily need to be judged to be available together. For example, even if it is determined that the 'resident area' of the member's personal information is publicly available, the 'telephone number' may not be determined to be publicly available. In this way, it is possible to protect the personal information in more detail because it is determined whether the member can be disclosed by the personal information. Depending on the importance of personal information, whether or not to be disclosed may be different. As such, when there is a request for personal information by a non-administrator, it is identified whether the corresponding personal information is public information that can be disclosed (S260).

Then, the personal information corresponding to the condition requested from the non-administrator is searched among the personal information identified as publicly available (S270). If there is a corresponding personal information as a result of the search, the searched personal information is provided to the non-administrator (S280). As such, the personal information provided to the non-administrator may be very usefully used for customized advertisements.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining in detail the integrated address book maintenance / management step shown in FIG. 2.

Maintaining a unified address book means continuously storing new personal information in the unified address book database. Managing a unified address book changes any personal information stored in the unified address book database, deletes unneeded personal information, This means performing a series of tasks such as creating new personal information.

First, an integrated address book change event is detected (S310). The integrated address book change event means that a change such as creation, modification, and deletion has occurred in at least one of the components of the integrated address book stored in the integrated address book database. Then, the integrated address book manager identifies what is the updated personal information in the integrated address book (S330). Then, the integrated address book management unit notifies the fact of such fact to the administrator of the other user-specific integrated address book including the updated personal information (S350). In the present invention, the personal information of the member whose personal information is updated does not necessarily need to be provided to the administrator of the other user-specific integrated address book. For example, assume that there are integrated address books A and B that contain a member of 'a'. It is also assumed that some of the personal information of the member 'a' included in the unified address book A is updated. At this time, the manager of the integrated address book B is automatically notified that the personal information of the member 'a' has been changed. However, the changed personal information of 'a' does not necessarily have to be provided to the administrator of the integrated address book B. The reason is to prevent the changed personal information of member 'a' from being indiscriminately disclosed to another user ("B" in this example). In this case, the manager of the integrated address book B is notified only that the personal information of the member 'a' has changed, and if necessary, the manager of the integrated address book B can directly obtain the personal information of the 'a' by contacting the member 'a' directly. have.

However, in the integrated address book management method according to the present invention, personal information of the changed member may be automatically updated depending on the relevance between the managers of the integrated address books A and B. For example, the managers of the unified contacts A and B are team members in the same department of the same company, and member 'a' is another team member in the same department. In this case, if the personal information of the member 'a' is changed, it may be desirable to share this information among the same team members. Therefore, it may be necessary to automatically update the address book depending on the relevance between the managers of the integrated address book A and B. In the present specification, the term “relationship” between managers is a concept that includes a wide range of social relationships such as friendship, status, kinship, and rank relationship between managers. In addition, whether the updated address book is automatically updated may be changed depending on not only the relevance between the administrators but also the relevance between the members and the administrators. For example, assume that the managers of the unified contacts A and B are team members of the same department, and the member 'a' is the spouse of the manager of the unified contacts A. When the personal information of the member 'a' is changed, the manager of the unified address book A may not want the spouse's personal information to be notified to the unified address book B's manager. Therefore, the automatic update of the changed personal information is determined by the relationship between the administrators of the integrated address book and the relationship between the manager and the members, thereby preventing the leakage of unwanted personal information.

In this way, it is determined whether the personal information changed automatically based on the relationship between the managers and the relationship between the manager and members (S370). As a result, when it is determined that the changed personal information is automatically updated (S390), the integrated user address book of the administrator is updated using the changed personal information. An example of such an operation is as follows.

User-specific integrated address books managed by administrators A and B are referred to as a and b. Further, it is assumed that the user-specific integrated address book a includes members a1 and a2, and the user-specific integrated address book b includes b1 and b2 as members. For each member, it is assumed that personal information includes age, date of birth, telephone number, address, and work. These assumptions are provided to aid the understanding of the invention and should not be construed as limiting the invention.

At this time, it is assumed that the manager B requests the phone number of the member b1 from its integrated address book b. Since the manager B can freely use all the personal information included in the integrated address book b managed by the manager B, the address book information provider (see 570 of FIG. 5) provides the phone number of the member b1 by searching from the database. However, manager B is informed that b1's workplace has changed during the call with member b1. In this case, B accesses his / her user-specific integrated address book b during a call or after the call ends, and updates the 'work' personal information of member b1 with new information. Then, the integrated address book managing unit (see 550 of FIG. 5) searches for other user-specific integrated address books including a member including changed personal information ('b1' in the example). Thus, the administrator of the retrieved user-specific integrated address book is notified that the 'work' item has been changed among the personal information of the same member included in the user-specific integrated address book (for example, 'b1'). In this case, whether or not the administrator who receives such notification updates the user-specific integrated address book managed by the user may be determined based on the relevance between the administrators and the relevance between the administrator and members as described above. If automatic updating is allowed based on this relationship, the personal information of each user-specific integrated address book included in the integrated address book stored in the integrated address book database may be updated with the latest information.

4 is a diagram for explaining an address book cross-search operation. 4 illustrates common members of two user-specific integrated address books whose administrators are 'kim OO' and 'yi OO', respectively. The integrated address book for each user whose administrator is 'Kim OO' and the integrated address book for each user whose manager is 'Io' include personal information about the members of 'Yoon OO', 'seo OO' and 'bak OO'.

The integrated address book management unit of the address book storage server continues to compare data between address books, and may determine that it is personal information of the same member when matching some data such as name, mobile phone number, and e-mail. In Figure 4 it can be seen that the mobile phone number and home phone of the member 'yoon OO' is the same member because it is common. Also, for other parts of the personal information, such as an "e-mail" item, priority may be given to the most recently inputted information. As a result of inquiring the information change history of both address books, the 'Email' item of the member 'YOO' was 'abcd@ef.com' on June 19, 01, and 'edfggt @' on June 25, 01. edf.com '. Then, the information changed on June 25, 01 can be more reliable than that changed on June 19, 01.

If the personal information of a member included in the user-specific integrated address book of a certain administrator is changed, the integrated address book server finds another user-specific integrated address book including the changed member and updates the address book automatically and manually.

For example, if the managers 'Kim OO' and 'Lee OO' are employees of the same company, and 'Yoon OO' is an employee of the same company, the member named 'Yoon OO' When personal information of is changed, the change may be automatically reflected in 'Kim OO' and 'Yoo' address book. In this case, the administrator 'Gim OO' may directly set which administrator's personal information is shared with which administrator. In addition, it may be determined whether or not the personal information of the member is shared for each item. As described above, an item such as a 'cell phone number' requires higher security than an item such as a 'resident area', and thus may be set to be shared by a relatively small number of administrators. Therefore, in the integrated address book according to the present invention, personal information of all members is not collectively shared, but differently shared according to the importance of each member's personal information as well as the relationship between the member and the manager, the relationship between the manager and the manager. This can help keep your personal information safe.

For example, when the manual update is performed, the integrated address book manager may notify the administrator 'Kim OO' with the message, "There may be a change in Yun's e-mail item." Then, the manager OO who has received such a message can directly inquire about the reliability of such information change and update the integrated address book.

5 is a block diagram conceptually illustrating a service providing apparatus according to another aspect of the present invention.

The service providing apparatus 510 using the integrated address book illustrated in FIG. 5 includes an integrated address book database 590, an integrated address book manager 550, and an address book information provider 570. The service providing device 510 may access various services through the Internet 520 or the mobile communication network 530.

The integrated address book database 590 stores user-specific integrated address books managed by each user. In this case, as described above, the user-specific integrated address book includes personal information for each member belonging to the user-specific integrated address book.

The integrated address book manager 550 maintains and updates the user-specific integrated address book stored in the integrated address book database 590. In this process, the integrated address book management unit 550 always cross-searches the integrated address book for each user, so that when there is personal information newly added or changed, these changes may be reflected in other user integrated address books.

When the personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by the administrator managing the integrated address book, the address book information providing unit 570 searches for the requested personal information in the integrated address book database and provides the information to the manager. For the personal information requested by the administrator, there is no need to determine the need for privacy protection. However, when personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by the non-administrator, the address book information providing unit 570 first determines whether to provide the requested personal information to the non-administrator.

Thus, if it is determined that it may be okay to provide personal information, the address book information providing unit 570 retrieves the requested personal information from the integrated address book database 590 and provides it to the non-administrator. In this case, the address book information providing unit 570 may further include an API (Application Programmer Interface) 580 in order to ensure interoperability with services operating in different operating environments. For example, if you access a site that provides Internet mail service and click the 'Address Book' tab of the site, an open API is executed to call the integrated address book database. In this case, the ID and PW for the integrated address book need to be entered only once. If necessary, the integrated address book database may be the same as the ID and PW of the site providing the Internet mail service. To implement using the open API, open API. In consultation with the provider, we provide an open API that can be integrated with the integrated address book. In this case, it is desirable to design so that the operator knows what purpose to call the DB data. In this case, it is not just that the operator knows that your unified address book has been called, but you can figure out why the address book was called (eg, E-mail, SMS).

As described above, the service providing method according to the present invention recognizes that the address book is a powerful social network management tool, and has prepared a paid service for it.

6 is a diagram illustrating various services that can be provided using the integrated address book according to the present invention.

As in the prior art, even if an individual address book is used for each individual service, it may not be very inconvenient if the user makes a phone call and writes only a mail using a mail writing program. However, it is not desirable to use individual address books due to the convergence of various services. In addition, since the interworking between address books is impossible, the integrated address book is used. With a unified address book, the numbers you store on your cell phone when you go to work can be linked to your messenger right after you turn on your computer. Therefore, it is convenient because the message can be sent immediately without the need for a separate phone number input. Therefore, the integrated address book service users increase and user data gradually accumulates.

Referring to FIG. 6, an integrated address book and a service may be mediated through an application programming interface (API). An API is an interface that allows an application to control the functionality provided by an operating system or programming language for use in an application. Then, since the user can access the integrated address book in common using any terminal, user convenience is maximized.

Individual customers can receive a paid or free automatic update of all wired / wireless address books, automatic update of feature phones / smartphones, and automatic notification of changes. In addition, data obtained from users can be developed into a business model (BM) for corporate customers. That is, when the user-specific integrated address book is accumulated, the accumulated information may be usefully used in the marketing of a company. For example, the address book information providing unit 570 of FIG. 5 provides a service such as an automatic notification service of personal data change, a social network management solution, a target advertisement, and a new service provider API open service to a corporate customer. can do.

As such, the apparatus for providing a service according to the present invention may have an effect of substituting target advertisement based on the address book of an individual in consideration of the address book being an intellectual property of an individual. For example, Mr. A assumes that his user-specific integrated address book is allowed for advertising. In this case, it is desirable to specify in the terms and conditions "the prior consultation responsibility of the address book registrant regarding the advertisement reception". Then, the B company wishing the target advertisement inquires about the target object in the integrated address book. For example, a variety of combinations of specific dates of birth, specific workplaces, locality estimates based on landline phone numbers, and anniversary dates are available. Then, the apparatus for providing a service extracts and provides a target field by using a combination address book that can be combined. The advertising fee is then distributed from the company B's advertising cost by subtracting the network provider's fee from the customers who provided the data. This distribution of advertising revenue can lead to active disclosure of the integrated address book, it has the advantage of ensuring a lot of content in a short time.

If Mr. C, who does not want to receive advertisements, inquires about Company B about how to obtain personal information, in this case, Mr. C is included in A's user-specific integrated address book, and it is made public by A. Therefore, since the path of obtaining personal information is disclosed transparently, unnecessary disputes can be prevented.

As such, the service providing method according to the present invention is initially expected to be serviced mainly by a network provider, but is expected to generate new business participation fee revenue by popularizing on the basis of strong internal demand.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is evident that many alternatives, modifications and variations will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

In addition, the method according to the present invention can be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROMs, RAMs, CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, floppy disks, optical data storage devices, and the like, and may also be implemented in the form of carrier waves (for example, transmission over the Internet). Include. The computer readable recording medium can also store computer readable code that can be executed in a distributed fashion by a networked distributed computer system.

Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

The present invention can be applied to a technology for providing various additional services using the accumulated integrated address book information as well as maintaining the address book always in a running state by integrated management of the address book.

Claims (12)

In the service providing method using an integrated address book,
Stores a user-specific integrated address book containing personal information about individuals (hereinafter referred to as 'members') included in the user-specific integrated address book managed by each user in the integrated address book database, and maintains and updates the stored user-specific integrated address book. An integrated address book management step;
When personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user who manages the integrated address book (hereinafter referred to as an 'administrator'), administrator information for retrieving the requested personal information from the integrated address book database and providing it to the administrator. Providing step; And
When personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user other than the administrator (hereinafter referred to as a non-administrator), it is determined whether to provide the requested personal information to the non-administrator, and when it is determined to provide the personal information. And providing non-manager information provided to the non-administrator by searching for the requested personal information in the integrated address book database. The method of claim 1, wherein the integrated address book management step comprises:
If a change occurs in the personal information of a member included in the user-specific integrated address book, notifying the administrator of another user-specific integrated address book including the member whose personal information has changed; And
Update the user-specific integrated address book by using the personal information of the changed member based on at least one of the relevance between the administrators of the at least two user-specific integrated address books including the member whose personal information is changed and the relationship between the manager and the member. Service providing method using the integrated address book, characterized in that it further comprises the step. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the manager information comprises:
Determining whether the service requesting the personal information supports an operating platform of the integrated address book database;
If it does not support, converting the request for personal information by the service to correspond to the operating platform of the integrated address book database and forwarding it to the integrated address book database; And
And incorporating the retrieved personal information into a response signal corresponding to the service to return the service to the service. The method of claim 3,
The service for requesting personal information includes a web browser, a web mail, a video call service, and a text call service. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing non-administrator information comprises:
Identifying public information available from among personal information of members included in the user-specific integrated address book;
Retrieving personal information corresponding to the personal information requested by the non-administrator from the personal information identified as publicly available; And
And providing the retrieved personal information to the non-administrator. The method of claim 5, wherein identifying personal information that is publicly available includes:
And identifying whether or not each item included in the member's personal information is publicly available. In the service providing apparatus using the integrated address book,
An integrated address book database for storing user-specific integrated address books managed by each user, wherein the user-specific integrated address book includes personal information about an individual (hereinafter referred to as a member) belonging to the user-specific integrated address book;
An integrated address book manager for maintaining and updating the user-specific integrated address book stored in the integrated address book database; And
When personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user who manages the integrated address book (hereinafter referred to as an administrator), the address book information is provided to an administrator by searching for the requested personal information in the integrated address book database. And an address book information providing unit,
When personal information included in the user-specific integrated address book is requested by a user other than the administrator (hereinafter referred to as a non-administrator), it is determined whether to provide the requested personal information to the non-administrator, and when it is determined to provide the personal information. And provide the non-administrator with the requested personal information from the integrated address book database. The method of claim 7, wherein the integrated address book management unit,
When a change occurs in the personal information of the member included in the user-specific integrated address book, notifying the administrator of the other user-specific integrated address book including the member whose personal information is changed, and the change occurred; and
Update the user-specific integrated address book by using the personal information of the changed member based on at least one of the relevance between the administrators of the at least two user-specific integrated address books including the member whose personal information is changed and the relationship between the manager and the member. A service providing apparatus using an integrated address book, characterized in that it is adapted to further perform the operation. The method of claim 7, wherein the address book information providing unit,
If the service for requesting the personal information does not support the operating platform of the integrated address book database, an API for converting the request for personal information by the service to correspond to the operating platform of the integrated address book database and forwarding it to the integrated address book database; Application Programmer Interface), the API,
The service providing apparatus using the integrated address book, characterized in that the returned personal information by including the retrieved personal information in the response signal corresponding to the service. 10. The method of claim 9,
The service for requesting personal information includes a web browser, a web mail, a video call service, and a text call service. The method of claim 7, wherein the address book information providing unit,
Identifying personal information publicly available among the personal information of members included in the user-specific integrated address book, searching for personal information corresponding to the personal information requested by the non-administrator among personal information identified as public, and searching the personal information Service providing apparatus using an integrated address book, characterized in that it is further adapted to provide them to the non-administrator. The method of claim 11, wherein the address book information providing unit,
A service providing apparatus using an integrated address book, further adapted to identify whether each item included in a member's personal information is publicly available.

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