PERSONALIZATION CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20080026732A1
• Filed: 05/07/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InfoMedia Services Limited
• Original Assignee: XpresSpa Group, Inc. (f/k/a FORM Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Goldfarb, David
• Granted Patent: US 8,041,401 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/50 Telephonic communication in combination with video communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/06 the calling signal being supplied from the subscriber's line circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method includes previously downloading, to a device of a user, media content chosen by a buddy of the user and an indication that it is to be associated with the buddy, passing the downloaded media content to the device as the media content to be associated in a contact list with the buddy and playing the media content in response to an identification of the buddy.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

previously downloading, to a device of a user, media content chosen by a buddy of said user and an indication that it is to be associated with said buddy;

passing said downloaded media content to said device as the media content to be associated in a contact list with said buddy; and

playing said media content in response to an identification of said buddy.

2. The method according to claim 1 and wherein said identification is a caller ID.

3. The method of claim 1 and wherein said identification is associated with a triggering event.

4. The method according to claim 3 and wherein said triggering event is associated with a telephone communication.

5. The method according to claim 4 and wherein said triggering event is one of the following events:

call initiation, call ringing, end of call, a busy signal, a “

fast busy”

signal, and a call waiting signal.

6. The method according to claim 1 and wherein said media content comprises at least one of:

a video clip, a silent video clip, an image, an audio clip, an animation, or a combination thereof.

7. A device comprising:

a downloading unit to download media content associated with buddies of a user of said device to a storage unit with an indication of which buddy it is to be associated with;

an associator to pass said downloaded media content to a contact list of said device as the media content to be associated with said buddy; and

a media player to play media content of one buddy upon a triggering event related to said user and said one buddy.

8. The device according to claim 7 and also comprising a media content storage unit to store said downloaded media content.

9. The device according to claim 8 and wherein said storage unit forms part of a contact list application of said device.

10. The device according to claim 7 and wherein said triggering event is associated with a telephone communication.

11. The device according to claim 10 and wherein said triggering event is one of the following events:

call initiation, call ringing, end of call, a busy signal, a “

fast busy”

signal, and a call waiting signal.

12. The device according to claim 7 and wherein said media content comprises at least one of:

a video clip, a silent video clip, an image, an audio clip, an animation, or a combination thereof.