Method for changing user-originating information through interaction between mobile device and information display device

• US 10,055,123 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2017
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ipnology Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ipnology Ltd.
• Inventors: Son, Byoung Chan, Na, Byeong Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Beyen, Zewdu A
• Application Number:
  US15/427,686
• Publication Number:
  US 20170147199A1
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A method for automatically changing information originating from at least either of a first user and a second user by using a mobile device includes steps of: (a) a first device searching second devices as a target to perform interaction and then selecting a specific second device among the searched second device to change the user-originating information; (b) the first device transmitting to, or receiving from, the specific second device data related to the interaction, if a touch gesture is detected in the first device; and (c) at least either of the first and the second devices allowing a server to update the information originating from at least either of the first user and the second user by referring to the transmitted data related to the specific interaction.

Claims

1. A method for changing information via a target communication device by performing a specific interaction, the information originating from a user of a mobile device, the method comprising:

searching, by the mobile device, for the target communication device among at least one communication device based on a distance between the at least one communication device and the mobile device;

establishing, by the mobile device, a communication channel with the target communication device, in response to detection of a specified touch gesture associated with the mobile device;

receiving, by the mobile device, data related to the specific interaction from the target communication device;

transmitting, by the mobile device, the data related to the specific interaction to a server; and

permitting the server to update the information originating from the user of the mobile device stored in the server or a storage device associated with the server based on the data related to the specific interaction, wherein

the mobile device is configured to run an application program related to the specific interaction in either in a background or a foreground of the mobile device, and

the target communication device is configured to run a specific interaction related program, the specific interaction related program configured to send information to the mobile device in response to the user providing an input to the target communication device, the information being associated with the specific interaction.