Techniques to manage contact information for a subscriber identity module

• Main Authors: BHAT VIJAY, BALI NIRAJ, CHAMPLIN DAVID, EASTWOOD MARK, GAYED NANCY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.12.2010
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION

Techniques to manage contact information are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may include a subscriber identity module having a first set of contact information. The mobile computing device may also include a contact management module. The contact management module may include a subscriber identity module cache manager to retrieve the first set of contact information from the subscriber identity module and store it in a subscriber identity module cache. The contact management module may also include a contact information database having a second set of contact information. The contact management module may further include a contact database manager to retrieve the first set of contact information from the contact information database and the second set of contact information from the subscriber identity module cache for a contact application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.