Method And System For Date Transfer From A Cellular Communications-device Application To A Telecommunications Network

• US 20120015637A1
• Filed: 07/23/2009
• Published: 01/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Mann, James M.
• Granted Patent: US 8,897,755 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72451 according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/62 user interface aspects of conference calls

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an information-transfer system that operates within a cell phone. The information-transfer system includes a data-transfer application that, prior to displaying a user interface with a call feature that allows a user to invoke a cell-phone application to place a phone call, places information to transfer to the cell-phone application in an information block for transfer to the cell-phone application. The information-transfer system further includes the cell-phone application, which receives the information block, extracts, from the information block, data for transfer to a telecommunications network, and transfers the extracted data to the telecommunications network.

Claims

1. An information-transfer system that operates within a cell phone, the information-transfer system comprising:

a data-transfer application that, prior to displaying a user interface with a call feature that allows a user to invoke a cell-phone application to place a phone call, places information to transfer to the cell-phone application in an information block for transfer to the cell-phone application; and

the cell-phone application, which receives the information block, extracts, from the information block, data for transfer to a telecommunications network, and transfers the extracted data to the telecommunications network.

2. The information-transfer system of claim 1 wherein the information block includes:

a numeric value indicating a number of information fields; and

the number of information fields, each comprising a tag and data.

3. The information-transfer system of claim 1 wherein the information block is transferred from the data-transfer application to the cell-phone application by one of:

shared memory; and

a remote-procedure call.

4. The information-transfer system of claim 1 wherein, upon receiving an information block, the cell-phone application:

displays, on a user-interface display page, tags and associated data to allow a user to select data for transfer, by the cell-phone application, to the telecommunications network.

5. The information-transfer system of claim 1 wherein, upon receiving an information block, the cell-phone application extracts a phone number from the information block and places a telephone call to the extracted phone number.

6. The information-transfer system of claim 5 wherein the cell-phone application extracts additional data from the information block and transfers the additional data to the telecommunications network.

7. A method for transferring information between applications within a cell phone, the method comprising:

placing information to transfer to a cell-phone application in an information block by a data-transfer application prior to displaying a user interface with a call feature that allows a user to invoke the cell-phone application to place a phone call;

receiving the information block by the cell-phone application;

extracting from the information block, by the cell-phone application, data for transfer to a telecommunications network; and

transferring, by the cell-phone application, the extracted data to the telecommunications network.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the information block includes:

a numeric value indicating a number of information fields; and

the number of information fields, each comprising a tag and data.

9. The method of claim 7 further including transferring the information block by the data-transfer application to the cell-phone application by one of:

shared memory; and

a remote-procedure call.

10. The method of claim 7 further including displaying on a user-interface display page, by the cell-phone application, tags and associated data to allow a user to select data for transfer, by the cell-phone application, to the telecommunications network.

11. The method of claim 7 further including, upon receiving an information block, extracting a phone number, by the cell-phone application, from the information block and placing a telephone call, by the cell-phone application, to the extracted phone number.

12. The method of claim 11 further including extracting, by the cell-phone application, additional data from the information block and transferring the additional data to the telecommunications network.