INFORMATION SHARING METHOD

• US 20110066691A1
• Filed: 09/15/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nnamdi Jideani
• Original Assignee: Nnamdi Jideani
• Inventors: Jideani, Nnamdi
• Application Number:
  US12/882,247
• Publication Number:
  US 20110066691A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles

Abstract

An information sharing method for placing a communications device in connection with other communications devices located within a predetermined distance. This information sharing method allows users to instantly connect remotely, without face-to-face contact, and to instantly exchange and store contact information to each other'"'"'s communications devices without manually inputting it. This interaction is facilitated via a conventional network plan coupled with a conventional software application programmed within the communications devices that serve as the hardware element of the present invention. The preferred embodiment for the communications devices relates to communications devices such as mobile phones, although a computing device or laptop configured to send and receive signals and data also may be used.

Claims

1. An information sharing method, comprising:

linking a first communications device and an least one additional communications device to a network plan;

creating at least one profile on the first communications device, the at least one profile containing a digital image;

scanning an area within a predetermined distance of the first communications device for the at least one additional communications device; and

transmitting the at least one profile from the first communications device to the at least one additional communications device, when the first communications device and the at least one additional communications device are within the predetermined distance.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising popping up the at least one profile like a pop-up text message on the at least one additional communications device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting the at least one profile from the first communications device on the at least one additional communications device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising rejecting the at least one profile from the first communications device on the at least one additional communications device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising suspending the at least one profile from the first communications device on the at least one additional communications device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a text only messaging option for communicating with the first communications device on the at least one additional communications device.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising storing the at least one profile in the at least one additional communications device.

8. The method of claim 3, further comprising transmitting a confirmation message from the at least one additional communications device to the first communications device.

9. The method of claim 3, further comprising sending a return profile from the at least one additional communications device to the first communications device.

10. The method of claim 4, further comprising placing the at least one profile from the first communications device in a received log in the at least one additional communications device.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing the at least one profile from the first communications device in a suspended log in the at least one additional communications device for later review.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising maintaining anonymity for a user of the at least one additional communications device.

13. A communication system, comprising:

broadcasting an at least one profile from a first communications device to an at least one additional communications device only when the at least one additional communications device is within a predetermined distance from the first communications device;

sending, but not broadcasting, an at least one profile from the at least one additional communications device to the first communications device; and

wherein said broadcasting is not user specific.