MOBILE GROUP DATA DISTRIBUTION
First Claim
1. A method of distributing shared-data for a group of individuals to the individuals'"'"' mobile devices, the method comprising:
- maintaining a central copy of the shared data in a central repository;
maintaining centrally stored group membership information defining at least one group, mobile device users who are members of the at least one group, and mobile devices associated with the mobile device users; and
distributing the shared data for a particular one of the at least one group to the mobile devices of the mobile device users belonging to said particular group.
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Abstract
A mobile collaborative community system provides distribution of shared data (e.g., media, preference, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc.) for a group of individuals (e.g., families, business organization, team, project, etc.) to the mobile devices of the group members. The system maintains a central repository or database of shared data for groups, as well as information defining the groups, user membership in the groups, and the mobile devices associated with the users. The system distributes the shared data for a group to the mobile devices of the user who are members of the group. The users can make changes to shared group data on their mobile devices, which changes are returned to the central repository and re-distributed to update the shared data on the mobile devices of all group members.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of distributing shared-data for a group of individuals to the individuals'"'"' mobile devices, the method comprising:
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maintaining a central copy of the shared data in a central repository; maintaining centrally stored group membership information defining at least one group, mobile device users who are members of the at least one group, and mobile devices associated with the mobile device users; and distributing the shared data for a particular one of the at least one group to the mobile devices of the mobile device users belonging to said particular group. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A data distribution system for distributing data shared by a group of mobile device users to the users'"'"' mobile devices, the system comprising:
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a group membership database having information defining at least one group, a plurality of users, membership of the users in the at least one group, and association of a plurality of mobile devices with the users a central repository containing at least one unit of data shared by one of the at least one group; and a distribution server operating to distribute a shared data unit for a group to mobile devices associated with users belonging to said group per the information of the group membership database. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A mobile collaborative community system comprising:
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a plurality of mobile devices operated by a plurality of users, the mobile devices containing an implementation of at least one of a plurality of applications and a mobile end of a data transfer protocol; a central repository of data shared by groups of the users for the applications; and a distribution server having group membership information defining which of the mobile devices are operated by users of each group and which of the applications are implemented on the mobile devices, the distribution server containing an implementation of a server end of the data transfer protocol, the distribution server operating to distribute the data in the central repository to the mobile devices according to the membership of the user of the mobile devices in the groups and availability of the applications on the mobile devices using the data transfer protocol. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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