Method and device for accessing of documents

• US 20040160307A1
• Filed: 12/10/2003
• Published: 08/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Spyder Navigations LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Saikkonen, Heikki, Mannila, Heikki
• Application Number:
  US10/732,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20040160307A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.74
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

Invention proposes a method to handle people related information, and a device being capable of executing said method. For example in a meeting with other peoples with this method being activated, a computer or mobile handset collects all information connected to people present in one folder to provided a fast and easy access to documents that are related to the people present. So the if an access to this information is needed, it can be performed by at least a single input. The method simplifies the access to documents located on a first low power radio device, wherein said documents are related to a person. The method is based on an identification of a person by identifying a second low power radio device carried by said person. The method comprises receiving on said first low power radio device a device identification from said second low power radio device via a direct low power radio connection, relating said device identification to said person by means of previously stored data, retrieving documents being related to said person, and arranging said documents for access.

Claims

1. Method for accessing documents, comprising:

receiving on a first device a device identification of a second device,

defining on said first device a person identification related to said device identification of said second device, and

collecting representations of documents that are related to said person identification under a common access point for accessing.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein said representations of said documents comprise at least one of a group comprising the document itself and a link to said document.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein said device identification is received via a wireless communication connection between said first device and said second device.

4. Method according to claim 3, wherein said wireless communication connection is a low power radio connection.

5. Method according to claim 4, wherein said low power radio connection is a Bluetooth connection.

6. Method according to claim 3, wherein said wireless communication connection is an optical communication connection.

7. Method according to claim 1, wherein said device identification is received via a wired communication connection between said first and second device.

8. Method according to claim 3, further comprising detecting said second device to be within the range of said direct wireless communication connection.

9. Method according to claim 7, wherein said detecting comprises measuring and evaluating of parameters of said direct wireless communication connection.

10. Method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying said collected documents under said common access point on a display of said first electronic device.

11. Method according to claim 1, wherein said collecting of said representations of said documents under said common access point comprises:

determining documents being related to said person, and

sorting said representations of said documents in a file.

12. Method according to claim 10, wherein said collecting of representations of said documents under a common access point comprises retrieving of a file containing said sorted representations of documents.

13. Method according to claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a representation of a document being related to a person, and

updating of said file comprising said representations of said documents in accordance with said detected representation of a document.

14. Method according to claim 10, further comprising:

transferring said file to said second device.

15. Method according to claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a second file comprising person related documents from a second low power radio device, and

incorporating said documents in said received file into said sorted file.

16. Software tool comprising program code means stored on a computer readable medium for carrying out the method of claim 1, when said software tool is run on a computer or network device.

17. Computer program product comprising program code means stored on a computer readable medium for carrying out the method of claim 1, when said program product is run on a computer or network device.

18. Computer program product comprising program code, downloadable from a server for carrying out the method of claim 1, when said program product is run on a computer or network device.

19. Computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing a program that instructs a computer to perform the steps of the method of claim 1.

20. Electronic device for accessing documents comprising:

an interface module for receiving a device identification of a second electronic device,

a storage for storing relations between device identifications and persons, and for storing documents being related to said persons,

a processing unit being connected to said interface module and said storage, said processing unit being adapted for receiving said device identification from said second low power radio device, for relating said received device identification to a person, and for collecting documents being related to said person, wherein said processing unit is configured to arrange said collected documents under a common access point for access, and

a display connected to said processing unit for displaying said documents.

21. Electronic device according to claim 20, wherein said interface module comprises a low power radio interface module.

22. Low power radio device according to claim 21, wherein said low power radio interface module comprises a Bluetooth interface module.

23. Electronic device according to claim 20, wherein said interface module comprises an optical interface.

24. Electronic device according to claim 20, wherein said electronic device is a mobile telephone.