Patent attributes
There are provided systems and methods for contact lookup operations during inoperability of mobile devices. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide additional services for secure contact lookup when a computing device of a user is nonoperational or unavailable. The user may establish a contact identifier and authentication mechanism with the service provider and allow access to the user's contacts. Once established, when the user's device is unable to access contacts and/or communication with other devices, the user may utilize the service provider for contact access through a contact lookup system. The user may utilize a different device to access a communication system or application and retrieve a data structure representing the user's contacts. The data structure may then be passed to the corresponding communication system or application interface system, which may then be output to the user.
