Cell phone feature

• US 20050186989A1
• Filed: 04/21/2005
• Published: 08/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: X-Cyte Inc.
• Original Assignee: X-Cyte Inc.
• Inventors: Cocita, Keith
• Granted Patent: US 7,715,830 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention permits safeguarding of private data entered into a memory chip of a cell phone by permitting the cell phone owner to erase the data in a lost or stolen phone, using an preset erase code and erase command in the cell phone or the network base station, and disabling or erasing circuitry on the memory chip, preferably an EEPROM chip.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A cell phone recharging cradle comprising a dock for the cell phone, said dock comprising recharging circuitry which connects to the phone when the phone is in the dock, and cell phone interface circuitry which connects to the phone when the phone is in the dock, and upload/download cell phone memory device, said device comprising a micro-controller, comprising an application for comparing the numbers in the cell phone memory with the numbers in the cradle, and downloads to the cradle any new numbers in the phone, and uploads to the phone any numbers in the cradle but not in the phone.

17. A cell phone recharging cradle comprising a dock for the cell phone, said dock comprising recharging circuitry which connects to the phone when the phone is in the dock, said cradle further compromising an upload/download slot for a cell phone memory device, said slot comprising a micro-controller, and interface circuitry in communication with a cell phone placed in the dock.

18. The cell phone recharging cradle of claim 17, further comprising an upload/download slot for a cell phone memory device, said slot comprising a micro-controller, and interface circuitry in communication with the memory of a cell phone placed in the dock.

19. The cell phone recharging cradle of claim 17, further comprising an upload/download slot for a cell phone memory device, said slot comprising a micro-controller, and interface circuitry in communication with the cradle memory.