Electronic business/personal card and method of use thereof

• US 20110294425A1
• Filed: 05/17/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dan Coffing
• Original Assignee: Dan Coffing
• Inventors: Coffing, Dan
• Granted Patent: US 8,977,243 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

The present invention includes a wireless communication method and device comprising a one-to-one exchange of wireless electronic device identifications or unique profile IDs between a sending and a receiving party who are both registered users of the electronic business/personal card service and further comprising upload of the wireless electronic identifications to a data server computer system wherein said system matches said identifications with those of registered users and said computer system displays information about the user associated with each identification.

Claims

1. A wireless one-to-one communication method between two users of a service comprising the steps of:

between a sending party and a receiving party, designating each other so as to allow one-to-one communication between a sending device and a receiving device;

generating at least one unique electronic identification common to the sending and receiving devices in response to said designating between the sending party and the receiving party;

using said at least one electronic identification from at least one of the sending and receiving devices to access information from one or more databases, wherein said step of designating between the sending and the receiving party includes

the sending party and the receiving party mutually selecting each other, and

the sending party and the receiving party mutually targeting the sending and receiving devices by at least one of the parties performing at least one of the following steps;

moving into proximity with the other party, aiming at least one of the sending and receiving devices relative to each other, mutually timing activation of the sending and receiving devices, and motioning at least one of the sending and receiving devices relative to each other.