APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING INFORMATION BETWEEN DEVICES

• US 20080162489A1
• Filed: 12/29/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Reponen, Erika, Haveri, Merja
• Application Number:
  US11/618,067
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162489A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method including combining at least a portion of one or more pieces of data of at least a first device into a combined data and sending the combined data to at least a second device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a data collection unit being configured to collect one or more pieces of data and combine at least a portion of each of the one or more pieces of data into a combined piece of data; and

a processor connected to the data collection unit configured to cause a transfer of the combined piece of data to at least one other device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the combined piece of data is a misrepresentation of the one or more pieces of data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data collection unit is configured to collect the one or more pieces of data and combine them into the combined piece of data in response to a request for combined data.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the request for combined data is initiated by a user of the apparatus or another device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data collection unit is configured to search through at least one application of the device to obtain the one or more pieces of data.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data collection unit is configured to search through an external source of information to obtain the one or more pieces of data.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause a transfer or a receipt of the combined data in dependence on the proximity of the at least one other device.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to cause the transfer or a receipt of combined data in dependence on a time of day.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is a mobile communications device.

10. A method comprising:

combining at least a portion of one or more pieces of data of at least a first device into a combined data; and

sending the combined data to at least a second device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the combined data is a misrepresentation of the one or more pieces of data.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

searching for at least the first device from the at least second device; and

sending a request for combined data from the at least second device to the at least first device.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein combining one or more pieces of data is performed in response to a request for combined data.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the request for combined data is initiated by a user of the at least first device or a user of the at least second device.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more pieces of data are obtained from at least one application of the at least first device.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more pieces of data are obtained through a source of information external to the at least first device.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the combined data is sent or received in dependence on the proximity of the at least one other device.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the combined data is sent or received in dependence on a time of day.

19. A computer program product comprising:

a computer useable medium having computer readable code means embodied therein for causing a computer combine at least a portion of one or more pieces of data, the computer readable code means in the computer program product comprising;

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to combine a portion of each of the one or more pieces of data of at least a first device into a combined data; and

computer readable code means for causing a computer to send the combined data to at least a second device.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, further comprising:

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to search for at least the first device from the at least second device; and

computer readable program code means for causing a computer to send a request for combined data from the at least second device to the at least first device.

21. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein combining the one or more pieces of data is performed in response to a request for combined data.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the request for combined data is initiated by a user of the at least first device or a user of the at least second device.