Phone to Phone Data Exchange

• US 20120046054A1
• Filed: 11/04/2011
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xenogenic Development Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lupine Investments LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Celik, Feyzi
• Granted Patent: US 8,326,361 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

An information management system for operation over a network includes a first mobile device having a first application module, the first mobile device operating over the network and in communication with a second mobile device having a second application module, a first operating system residing on the first mobile device configured to detect a communication event between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, and an address book module residing on the second mobile device. The first application module is configured to send information associated with the first mobile device to the second mobile device in association with a detection of the communication event.

Claims

1. An information management system for sharing content over a network, the information management system comprising:

a first mobile communication device having a first application module, the first mobile communication device operating with the network and in communication with a second mobile communication device having a second application module;

a first operating system residing on the first mobile communication device configured to detect a communication event relating to a communication between the first mobile communication device and the second mobile communication device; and

a file storage area module residing on the first mobile communication device that includes at least one content file associated with a first user, wherein the first application module is configured to;

cause, in response to the detection of the communication event, a prompt to be provided to the first user of the first mobile communication device that requests permission to send a selected content file of the at least one content file associated with the first user to the second mobile communication device, the prompt further requests the first user to select one or more of the at least one content files to share,

wherein the permission is requested after the occurrence of the communication event; and

retrieve the selected content file associated with the first user from the content file storage area;

cause the sending of the retrieved content file associated with the first user of the first mobile communication device to the second mobile communication device via the network after permission is granted by the first user to send the content file.

2. The information management system of claim 1, wherein the first mobile communication device is configured to prompt the first user to at least one of i) enter information for storage in the first mobile communication device, and ii) to add content files for storage on the device.

3. The information management system of claim 1, wherein the second application module is triggered to permit insertion of the retrieved content file into a second file storage area of the second mobile communication device.

4. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the second application module is configured to prompt a second user of the second mobile communication device to save the information associated with the first mobile communication device into the second device.

5. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the first application module and the second application module exchange information associated with the first user.

6. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the first operating system is configured to detect the communication event in at least one of the first mobile communication device and the second mobile communication device.

7. The information management system of claim 1 further comprising a content file storage module residing on the second mobile communication device.

8. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the application module is configured to determine a frequency of communications between the first mobile communication device and the second mobile communication device.

9. The information management system of claim 8 wherein when the frequency of the communications between the first mobile communication device and the second mobile communication device exceeds a threshold, the application module is configured to send an updated content file to the second mobile communication device.

10. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the first application module is configured to update shared content stored in the first mobile communication device.

11. The information management system of claim 10 wherein the first application module is configured to prompt the first user to send the updated content file to the second mobile communication device for automatic insertion into the second device file storage area.

12. The information management system of claim 10 wherein the first application module is configured to automatically provide updated content to contacts stored in the first mobile communication device.

13. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the first application module is configured to allow entry of a permission level for sharing the content files stored in the first mobile communication device.

14. The information management system of claim 13 wherein the first application module is configured to send the content files associated with the first user, that correspond to a selected permission level, to the second mobile communication device.

15. The information management system of claim 13 wherein the first application module is configured to store a permission level that corresponds to the second mobile communication device.

16. The information management system of claim 15 wherein the first application module is configured to store a sent record to indicate a time of sent content, a destination number, and a permission level.

17. The information management system of claim 1 wherein the content file is selected from the group consisting of:

a photograph, ring tone, music file, audio file, video file, and other user generated content.