Selective intercommunication 1 device for mobile terminals in physical proximity, also linked by global networks

• US 20030157963A1
• Filed: 03/04/2003
• Published: 08/21/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Laurent Collot
• Original Assignee: Laurent Collot
• Inventors: Collot, Laurent
• Application Number:
  US10/240,285
• Publication Number:
  US 20030157963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 2001/085 Partner search devices

Abstract

The invention concerns a selective intercommunication system comprising a plurality of mobile terminals capable of being carried by a plurality of users and comprising means for exchanging in pairs, in particular when physically proximate, and means for verifying whether all data exchanged correspond to compatibility criteria for which said terminals have been programmed. The invention is characterised in that it comprises a server capable of interfacing with the mobile terminals to transmit thereto data and programme them and to which the users can be connected via a global network, such as Internet, to configure the mobile terminals, via said server.

Claims

1. A system for selective intercommunication comprising a plurality of mobile terminals which are able to be carried by a plurality of users and which comprise means allowing them to exchange pairwise, in particular when they are located in proximity to one another, as well as means allowing them to verify that the data which they exchange satisfy compatibility criteria for which said terminals have been programmed, comprising a server which is able to talk to the mobile terminals so as to send them data and program them and with which the users can connect by way of a global network, such as the Internet network, in order to configure the mobile terminals, by way of said server, characterized in that it comprises means making it possible to determine an information item regarding physical proximity between two mobile terminals and means which authorize the data exchanges between two mobile terminals only when a condition on this information item regarding proximity is satisfied.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that it comprises at least one local network within which the mobile terminals exchange.

3. The system as claimed in either of the preceding claims, characterized in that the mobile terminals comprise a Man Machine Interface allowing a user to configure them directly.

4. The system as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the mobile terminals comprise means allowing their automatic reconfiguration on receipt of a character transmitted by a third party mobile terminal.

5. The system as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the mobile terminals comprise sensors for measuring physical quantities and in that the exchange of data between two mobile terminals is authorized only when a condition relating to at least one of these physical quantities is complied with.

6. The system as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a mobile terminal comprises means for transmitting a wakeup signal, as well as means for transmitting a signal in response to the detection of such a wakeup signal.

7. The system as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of fixed terminals to which the mobile terminals are able to talk.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that the fixed terminals comprise display means able to display data received from a mobile terminal.

9. The system as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a mobile terminal comprises means allowing it to retransmit data received from a third party mobile terminal.

10. The system as claimed in one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a mobile terminal comprises memory means in which the data corresponding to a request formulated by the user of the mobile terminal persists for as long as it has not been satisfied.