SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHANGING APPLICATION INFORMATION

• US 20120290665A1
• Filed: 05/14/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pickering, Richard
• Original Assignee: Pickering, Richard
• Inventors: Pickering, Richard
• Application Number:
  US13/470,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290665A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed to replace a received message received by a communications application of a computer or a mobile phone with a replacement message that includes a time and date stamp that is approximately the same as the time and date stamp of the received message in response to input received from an input device of the computer or the mobile phone. The received message is, for example, a private, confidential, or potentially embarrassing message, and the replacement message is a message used to appear as the received message in the communications application. The replacement message can be, for example, a stored message created by the user, a message generated by the computer or the mobile phone, a message from a stored randomized list, a message requested from an outside source.

Claims

1. A method for replacing a message received on a computer or mobile phone, comprising:

receiving an input from an input device of the computer or mobile phone;

reading the time and date stamp of a last received message in a communications application in response to the input; and

replacing the last received message in the communications application with a replacement message that includes the same time and date stamp in response to the input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the replacement message is one or more of a stored message created by the user, a message generated by the computer or mobile phone, a message from a stored randomized list, or a message requested from an outside source.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising moving the last received message down in a recent message queue of the communications application to effectively remove the last received message from a screen.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the last received message is replaced in response to an input received from the input device, and wherein the input comprises clicking or pressing a button on the computer or mobile phone.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the last received message is replaced in response to a spoken command received by a microphone of the computer or mobile phone.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is received on a mobile phone, and wherein the last received message is replaced in response to a movement of the mobile phone received by a motion sensing device of the mobile phone.