Mobile phone business administration tool

• US 20050124321A1
• Filed: 12/05/2003
• Published: 06/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Koch, Povl, Kraft, Christian, Soerensen, Lone Tram, Viitanen, Mikko, Pinomaa, Juha, Pedersen, Claus Aagaard, Benner, Jens, Narang, Anand, Lunoe, Henning, Makinen, Mikko E.
• Granted Patent: US 7,224,959 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3255 using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/326 Payment applications installed on the mobile devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3415 Cards acting autonomously as pay-media
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3576 Multiple memory zones on card
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A mobile telephone is configured to handle business relations and business activities. The telephone comprises means for receiving a command from a user via a user interface, means for acting on said command resulting in an activation of a functional unit comprising means for receiving user commands and data, means for manipulating said data, means for storing said data in any of a customer database, a resource booking database and a cash register database and means for presenting output data to the user.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone configured to handle business relations and business activities, said telephone comprising means for:

receiving a command from a user via a user interface,

acting on said command resulting in an activation of a functional unit comprising means for;

receiving user commands and data,

manipulating said data,

storing said data in any of a customer database, a resource booking database and a cash register database,

presenting output data to the user.

2. A mobile telephone according to claim 1, further comprising means for:

exchanging data with a phonebook database.

3. A mobile telephone according to claim 1, further comprising means for:

exchanging data with a calendar database.

4. A mobile telephone according to claim 1, further comprising means for:

exchanging data between any of the customer database, the resource booking database and the cash register database.

5. A method for handling business relations and business activities in a mobile telephone, said method comprising:

receiving a command from a user via a user interface,

acting on said command resulting in an activation of a functional unit capable of;

receiving user commands and data,

manipulating said data,

storing said data in any of a customer database, a resource booking database and a cash register database,

presenting output data to the user.

6. A method according to claim 5, further comprising:

exchanging data with a phonebook database.

7. A method according to claim 5, further comprising:

exchanging data with a calendar database.

8. A method according to claim 5, further comprising:

exchanging data between any of the customer database, the resource booking database and the cash register database.