Emotional communication between portable equipments

• US 20070142042A1
• Filed: 12/16/2005
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Thoresson, Johan
• Granted Patent: US 8,165,564 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals

Abstract

The present invention relates to a possibility of communicating emotional information between a first and a second portable equipment. A first portable equipment for communication in a wireless communication system comprises an input portion adapted to receive information input by a user, an editing portion adapted to edit settings of a second portable equipment in response to a user input and to generate corresponding setting information, and a transmitting portion adapted to transmit setting information generated by the editing portion to the second portable equipment in said wireless communication system. A second portable equipment for communication in a wireless communication system comprises a receiving portion adapted to receive setting information from the first portable equipment in a wireless communication system, and a control portion adapted to change settings of the second portable equipment depending on received setting information and to output an indication signal to a user to the changed settings.

Claims

1. First portable equipment for communication in a wireless communication system, comprising

an input portion adapted to receive information input by a user,

an editing portion adapted to edit settings of a second portable equipment in response to a user input and to generate corresponding setting information, and

a transmitting portion adapted to transmit setting information generated by the editing portion to the second portable equipment in said wireless communication system.

2. First portable equipment according to claim 1, comprising

a control portion adapted to control the exchange of identification information with said second portable equipment in order to enable the editing portion to edit the settings of said second portable equipment.

3. First portable equipment according to claim 2,

whereby the exchange of identification information with said second portable equipment may take place in the same wireless communication system the portable equipments are adapted to communicate said setting information or in a different communication system.

4. First portable equipment according to claim 1,

whereby said receiving portion is adapted to receive setting information from said second portable equipment in the wireless communication system, and said control portion is adapted to change settings of the first portable equipment depending on received setting information and to output an indication signal to a user corresponding to the changed settings.

5. Second portable equipment for communication in a wireless communication system, comprising

a receiving portion adapted to receive setting information from a first portable equipment in the wireless communication system, and

an control portion adapted to change settings of the second portable equipment depending on received setting information and to output an indication signal to a user corresponding to the changed settings.

6. Second portable equipment according to claim 5,

whereby said control portion is further adapted to control the exchange of identification information with said first portable equipment in order to be able to change the settings of the second portable equipment depending on setting information received from said first portable equipment.

7. Second portable equipment according to claim 6,

whereby the exchange of identification information with said first portable equipment may take place in the same wireless communication system the portable equipments are adapted to communicate said setting information or in a different communication system.

8. Second portable equipment according to claim 5, comprising

an input portion adapted to receive information input by a user,

an editing portion adapted to edit settings of a first portable equipment in response to a user input and to generate corresponding setting information, and

a transmitting portion adapted to transmit setting information generated by the editing portion to the first portable equipment in said wireless communication system.

9. Method for communicating information in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of

receiving information input by a user in a first portable equipment,

editing settings of a second portable equipment in response to said user input and generating corresponding setting information in said first portable equipment,

transmitting said generated setting information from said first to said second portable equipment in said wireless communication system,

receiving said transmitted setting information in the second portable equipment, and changing settings of the second portable equipment depending on said received setting information and outputting an indication signal to a user corresponding to the changed settings.

10. Method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of

exchanging identification information between said first and said second portable equipment in order to be able to change the settings of the second portable equipment depending on setting information received from said first portable equipment.

11. Method according to claim 10,

whereby the exchange of identification information takes place in the same wireless communication system the portable equipments are adapted to communicate said setting information or in a different communication system.