Portable Communication Device and Method of Use

• US 20070061845A1
• Filed: 11/03/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Melvin Barnes
• Inventors: Barnes, Melvin
• Granted Patent: US 7,725,360 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/62
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A portable communication device and method of use is provided. In one embodiment, the method of using a handheld mobile telephone includes capturing a plurality of images via an image input device; storing the plurality of images in a memory, receiving a first speech input, identifying command information in said first speech input; retrieving information from memory based, at least in part, on the command information. The method may further include generating a request related to an article of commerce that includes, at least in part, the information retrieved from memory, determining a destination for transmitting the request, and wirelessly transmitting said request through a mobile telephone network to the destination.

Claims

1. A method of using a handheld mobile telephone, comprising:

capturing a plurality of images via an image input device;

storing said plurality of images in a memory;

receiving a first speech input;

identifying command information in said first speech input;

retrieving information from memory based, at least in part, on said command information;

generating a request related to an article of commerce that includes, at least in part, said information retrieved from memory;

determining a destination for transmitting said request; and

wirelessly transmitting said request through a mobile telephone network to the destination.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said first speech input includes information relating to the article of commerce; and

said request includes data based on said information relating to the article of commerce.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said information retrieved from memory and included in said request includes information for making a purchase.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the memory includes information of the destination stored therein and wherein said determining a destination includes retrieving said information of the destination from memory.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein said first speech input further includes destination information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said first speech input includes destination information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said information retrieved from memory and included in said request includes information for making a purchase.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said request comprises a request to purchase to the article of commerce.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said request comprises a request for information of the article of commerce.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said request comprises a request to make a reservation.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising establishing a wireless communication link configured to provide voice communications.

12. A method of using a handheld communication device having a memory, comprising:

receiving a first speech input;

identifying information corresponding to an article of commerce in the first speech input;

determining a destination for transmitting a request relating to the article of commerce;

generating a first signal including data based, at least in part, on said information corresponding to the article of commerce identified in said first speech input;

wirelessly transmitting said first signal to the destination; and

wherein the destination comprises a computer configured to respond to requests relating to the article of commerce.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the memory includes information relating to the destination stored therein and said determining a destination comprises retrieving said information relating to the destination from memory.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein said determining a destination comprises determining a destination from data of an image input.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein said first speech input further includes information representative of the destination and said determining a destination comprises processing said first speech input to establish the destination.

16. The method claim 12, further comprising:

retrieving information for making a purchase from the memory; and

wirelessly transmitting said information for making a purchase to the destination.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the first signal comprises a request to purchase to the article of commerce.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the first signal comprises a request for information of the article of commerce.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the first signal comprises a request to make a reservation.

20. A method of using a handheld mobile telephone, comprising:

capturing a plurality of images via an image input device;

storing said plurality of images in a memory;

after said storing, establishing a communication link with a remote destination via a mobile telephone network;

wirelessly transmitting at least one of said plurality of images to the remote destination through a mobile telephone network via the communication link;

receiving an input from a user;

wirelessly transmitting data based on said input from the user to the remote destination through the mobile telephone network; and

wherein said wirelessly transmitted data signal includes a request related to an article of commerce.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein at least one of said plurality of images includes data representative of the remote destination.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein at least one of said plurality of images comprises text data and further comprising converting said at least one image to text.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein at least one of said plurality of images comprises data relating to an article of commerce.

24. The method of claim 20, wherein the memory includes information for making a purchase stored therein and at least one of said plurality of images includes information relating to an article of commerce, the method further comprising:

retrieving said information for making a purchase from memory; and

wirelessly transmitting at least a portion of said information for making a purchase and data based on said information relating to an article of commerce to the remote destination through the mobile telephone network.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein said input from the user comprises a speech input.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein said speech input comprises data relating to at least one of said plurality of images.

27. The method of claim 20, wherein said request comprises a request for information of the article of commerce.

28. The method of claim 20, wherein said request comprises a request to make a reservation.

29. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

storing a voice memorandum in the memory; and

audibly reproducing the voice memorandum in response to receiving a user input to reproduce the voice memorandum.

30. A method of using a handheld mobile telephone comprising memory storing a destination therein, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of images via an image input device, wherein at least one of said plurality of images includes information corresponding to an article of commerce;

storing the plurality of images in memory;

receiving a user input;

retrieving the destination;

in response to said user input, generating a request related to the article of commerce that includes data based on the information corresponding to the article of commerce;

after said storing and said retrieving, establishing a communication link with the destination via a mobile telephone network;

wirelessly transmitting said request through the mobile telephone network to the destination via the communication link; and

wherein the destination comprises a computer configured to respond to requests related to the article of commerce.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein said user input comprises a speech input.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein the memory includes information for making a purchase stored therein, and further comprising:

retrieving said information for making a purchase from memory; and

wirelessly transmitting at least a portion of said information for making a purchase through a mobile telephone network to the destination.

33. The method of claim 30, wherein said request comprises a request for information of the article of commerce.

34. The method of claim 30, wherein said request comprises a request to make a reservation.