Portable Communication Device and Method of Use

• US 20100222090A1
• Filed: 05/07/2010
• Published: 09/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Wounder GmbH LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Barnes, Melvin L. JR.
• Granted Patent: US 8,204,793 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0635 Processing of requisition or of purchase orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A portable communication device and method of use is provided. In one embodiment, the method of using a handheld mobile telephone includes capturing a plurality of images via an image input device; storing the plurality of images in a memory, receiving a first speech input, identifying command information in said first speech input; retrieving information from memory based, at least in part, on the command information. The method may further include generating a request related to an article of commerce that includes, at least in part, the information retrieved from memory, determining a destination for transmitting the request, and wirelessly transmitting said request through a mobile telephone network to the destination.

Claims

1. A method of using a handheld wireless communication device configured to communicate via a mobile telephone network and comprising a memory and an image input device, the method comprising:

receiving one or more images at the image input device;

wherein the one or more images include information corresponding to an article of commerce;

storing the one or more images in the memory;

after said storing, receiving a user input;

in response to receiving the user input, wirelessly transmitting the one or more images, as at least part of a request, through the mobile telephone network to a remote computer with the handheld wireless communication device;

receiving a response to the request at the handheld wireless communication device;

presenting the response to the user with the handheld wireless communication device;

wherein the remote computer is configured to perform at least one of;

process a sale of the article of commerce, and

process a request for information related to the article of commerce.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the remote computer retrieves data of at least one website based on information in the one or more images.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more images include text content;

wherein the remote computer converts at least some of the text content to text; and

wherein the remote computer retrieves data of at least one website based on the text.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first request comprises a request for information, the method further comprising wirelessly transmitting a second request to the remote computer that comprises a request to make a purchase.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to the article of commerce comprises data representing a website configured to provide information relating to the article of commerce.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of images includes data representative of the remote computer.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the memory includes information for making a purchase stored therein, the method further comprising:

retrieving the information for making a purchase from memory; and

wirelessly transmitting the information for making a purchase to the remote computer.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising retrieving destination information of the remote computer from memory.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising with the remote computer:

receiving the request including the one or more images;

based on information contained in the one or more images, retrieving data supplied by a server connected to the internet; and

transmitting at least a portion of the retrieved data to the handheld wireless communication device.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising with the remote computer, selecting a portion of a web page supplied by the server as the data for said transmitting to the handheld wireless communication device.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the web page is supplied by a server that is connected to the internet and is remote from the remote computer.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more images include text content;

converting at least some of the text content to text with the remote computer; and

wherein said retrieving data is based on the text.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to the article of commerce comprises data representing a website configured to provide information relating to the article of commerce.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of images includes data representative of the remote computer.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the memory includes information for making a purchase stored therein, the method further comprising:

retrieving said information for making a purchase from memory of the handheld wireless communication device; and

wirelessly transmitting said information for making a purchase to the remote computer.

11. A method of using a handheld wireless communication device configured to communicate via a mobile telephone network and comprising a memory and an image input device, the method comprising:

receiving one or more images at the image input device;

wherein the one or more images include information corresponding to an article of commerce;

storing the one or more images in the memory;

after said storing, receiving a user input;

in response to receiving the user input, wirelessly transmitting the one or more images, as at least part of a request for information related to the article of commerce, through the mobile telephone network to a remote computer with the handheld wireless communication device;

with the remote computer, receiving the request including the one or more images;

based on information contained in the one or more images, retrieving data that comprises at least a portion of a web page;

transmitting a response, that includes at least part of the retrieved data, to the mobile telephone via a data path that includes the mobile telephone network;

receiving the response at the handheld wireless communication device; and

presenting the response to the user with the handheld wireless communication device.

17. The method according to claim 11, further comprising with the remote computer, selecting a part of the web page as the data for inclusion in the response for said transmitting to the mobile telephone.

18. A method, implemented at least in part with a computer system, of providing information to a user of a mobile telephone, comprising:

receiving a communication from the mobile telephone that traverses a mobile telephone network;

wherein the communication includes an image comprising information corresponding to an article of commerce,

wherein the image comprises text content;

converting at least part of the text content of the image to text;

based on the text, retrieving data supplied by a server connected to the internet; and

transmitting at least part of retrieved data to the mobile telephone via a data path that includes the mobile telephone network for presentation to the user.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein the retrieved data comprises at least a portion of web page.

20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising with the computer system, selecting a portion of the web page for said transmitting.