A system for using telephone numbers for emails and for a more efficient search engine.

• US 20040193611A1
• Filed: 03/08/2004
• Published: 09/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Padmanabhan Raghunandhan
• Original Assignee: Padmanabhan Raghunandhan
• Inventors: Raghunandhan, Padmanabhan
• Application Number:
  US10/708,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20040193611A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

The present invention is directed toward a system that uses telephone numbers or numbers such for sending receiving emails. The invention also proposes a search engine catered towards locating businesses or acquiring information, using zip codes, telephone area codes, landmarks or other well known mnemonics. The inventions also propose using telephone numbers for conducting secure e-commerce on the Web. This will make navigation and usage of the Internet using wireless communication devices easier, efficient and user-friendlier.

Claims

1. A method for accessing an internet site and sending email, comprising:

Sending an email request to another user using the telephone number of the recipient of the email;

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein email generated can be sent to a particular user of the telephone number.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the email generated based on the telephone number is forwarded to another email address used by the recipient.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein users can customize mail boxes using the same telephone number.

5. The method as described in claim 1 further comprising:

sending emails from a wireless device by using just the telephone number of the recipient.

6. The method as described in claim 1 further comprising:

Conducting secure e-commerce using the telephone number of the buyer.

7. A method of providing search capability for users, in locating businesses or acquiring information on the web, pertaining to a given geographic location or Zip code.

8. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

receiving input from a display device; and

receiving the request string through the input screen.

9. The method as described in claim 7 wherein the determining further includes:

analyzing the input to determine the geographic location of interest; and

providing search results in the order of relevance to the location.

11. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the input string, which is a postal Zip Code.

12. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the input string, which is telephone number.

13. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the input string, which is a telephone area code.

14. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the input string, which is an airport code.

15. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the input string, which is a landmark or well-known mnemonic.

16. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the category of interest for the search from the input string such as doctors, lawyers, churches, schools etc.

17. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the format of the input string, which could be one or more of the following length and structure of the Zip Code (5 Digits, 6 digits, alphanumeric etc), telephone area code, airport code, landmarks etc.,

18. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Determining the latitude and longitude from the telephone number provided in the input, using the telephone area code and the prefix..

19. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Using the latitude and longitude derived from a GPS system for getting location specific search results on a mobile device.

20. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

The search being requested using “

well known”

geographic keyword, such as city name, area name, landmark etc.

21. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Deriving the country code of the desired search based on the structure of the Zip code.

22. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Deriving the Zip Code for the search based on the telephone area code.

23. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Deriving the region code based on the User'"'"'s IP address.

24. The method as described in claim 7 further comprising:

Providing advertisements to mobile devices based on their current location.

10. An input information handling system comprising:

one or more CPU'"'"'s, memory, hard disk and a network interface;

a generic tool to compute neighboring latitudes/longitudes within a certain distance (provided as a parameter to the tool); and

the ability to display one or more results of the search.