Systems and methods for downloading information to a mobile device

• US 20070178887A1
• Filed: 11/14/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Helferich Patent Licensing LLC
• Original Assignee: Richard Helferich, The Thompson Investment Group, LLC
• Inventors: Helferich, Richard
• Granted Patent: US 8,116,743 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/022 Selective call receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 with message or information receiving capability

Abstract

Devices, systems and processes for accessing and management of voice and other messages. Such devices, systems and processes employ an interface which allows the user to access and manage messages on his or her user device and, furthermore, automatically to access and manage messages on remote devices via radio frequency link. These interfaces may present users with intuitive and direct options for accessing and managing voice mail, such as, for instance, to push a designated forward button when the user desires to forward a voice mail. Such common interfaces promote more efficient and effective use and management of messaging resources because they among other things eliminate the requirement to be conversant in different interfaces, rules and protocols for the different platforms on which messages may be accessed and managed.

Claims

1-22. -22. (canceled)

23. In a device including a memory for storing information, a transceiver for communicating with a remote system, and an interface that allows a user of the device to select information and a function to be performed on the selected information, a method comprising the steps of:

receiving from the user an input specifying a function to be performed on said selected information;

reading from the memory information pertaining to the information selected by the user;

determining whether said function can be performed without communicating with the remote system; and

performing said function if it is determined that said function can be performed without communicating with the remote system, and, if it is determined that said function cannot be performed without communicating with the remote system, then performing the steps of;

automatically establishing a connection with the remote system if a connection is not currently established between the transceiver and the remote system; and

transmitting a command message to the remote system so that the remote system can perform said function on said selected information.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the command message transmitted to the remote system includes an information identifier that is used to retrieve the selected information.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising the step of receiving the information from the remote system after transmitting the command message to the remote system.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the information comprises audio information and the method further comprises the step of playing the audio information as it is received from the remote system.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising:

receiving an indication that the user wants to pause the playing of the audio information; and

in response to receiving the indication, pausing the playing of the audio information while still continuing to receive the audio information from the remote system.