HANDLING, MANAGEMENT AND CREATION OF ICE CONTACTS

• US 20130054594A1
• Filed: 10/26/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.à.r.l. (f/k/a Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.) (MOSAID Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Conversant Intellectual Property Management))
• Original Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.à.r.l. (f/k/a Core Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l.) (MOSAID Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Conversant Intellectual Property Management))
• Inventors: VAINIO, Antti A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,775,430 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method includes receiving input at a user equipment that designates a particular entity recorded in a user equipment contacts database as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency and setting an indication in a first field of a corresponding contacts database entry, where the first field is separate from a second field of the contacts database entry that stores a name of the entity.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A method, comprising:

receiving input at a user equipment that designates a particular entity recorded in a user equipment contacts database as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency; and

setting an indication in a first field of a corresponding contacts database entry, where the first field is separate from a second field of the contacts database entry that stores a name of the entity,

wherein the indication comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the indication comprising a bit indicating whether the entry represents an ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact, and the second portion of the indication comprising at least one bit indicating an order of priority of the ICE contact.

27. The method of claim 26, where the input is received from a user via a user interface of the user equipment.

28. The method of claim 26, where the input is received when the contacts database entry is one of received at the user equipment or created at the user equipment.

29. The method of claim 28, where setting comprises initially detecting a text string in the second field that designates the entity as one to be contacted in case of an emergency.

30. The method of claim 26, where receiving occurs in response to initially prompting the user to select whether the entity named in the second field is an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency.

31. The method of claim 26, further comprising displaying at least a content of the second field of a particular contacts database entry, determining if the indication is set in the first field and, if it is, also displaying information for identifying the displayed entity name as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency.

32. The method of claim 26, further comprising displaying at least a content of the second field of all contacts database entries determined to have the indication set in the first field.

33. A non-transitory computer-readable memory medium that stores program instructions the execution of which results in operations that comprise:

receiving input at a user equipment that designates a particular entity recorded in a user equipment contacts database as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency; and

setting an indication in a first field of a corresponding contacts database entry, where the first field is separate from a second field of the contacts database entry that stores a name of the entity,

wherein the indication comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the indication comprising a bit indicating whether the entry represents and ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact, and the second portion of the indication comprising at least one bit indicating an order of priority of the ICE contact.

34. The computer readable medium of claim 33, where the input is received from a user via a user interface of the user equipment.

35. The computer readable medium of claim 33, where the input is received when the contacts database entry is one of received at the user equipment or created at the user equipment.

36. The computer readable medium of claim 35, where setting comprises initially detecting a text string in the second field that designates the entity as one to be contacted in case of an emergency.

37. The computer readable medium of claim 33, where receiving occurs in response to initially prompting the user to select whether the entity named in the second field is an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency.

38. The computer readable medium of claim 33, further comprising displaying at least a content of the second field of a particular contacts database entry, determining if the indication is set in the first field and, if it is, also displaying information for identifying the displayed entity name as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency.

39. The computer readable medium of claim 33, further comprising displaying at least a content of the second field of all contacts database entries determined to have the indication set in the first field.

40. An apparatus, comprising:

a data processor;

a user interface; and

a memory comprising stored data representing a contacts database, the contacts database comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields comprising a name field, a contact field storing information indicating how an entity identified in the name field may be contacted, and a further field indicating whether or not the entity named in the name field is to be contacted in the event of an emergency,

wherein the indication comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the indication comprising a bit in the first field indicating whether the entry represents an ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact, and the second portion of the indication comprising at least one bit indicating an order of priority of the ICE contact.

41. The apparatus of claim 40, where said data processor is configurable to receive input from said user interface or from an external device that designates a particular entity recorded in the contracts database as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency and, in response, to set an indication in the further field.

42. The apparatus of claim 40, where said data processor is configurable to detect a text string in the further field that designates the entity as one to be contacted in case of an emergency.

43. The apparatus of claim 40, where said data processor is configurable to display at least a content of the name field, to determine from said further field if the entity named in the name field is to be contacted in the event of an emergency, and if so to also display information for identifying the displayed entity name as being an entity to be contacted in case of an emergency.

44. The apparatus of claim 40, where said data processor is configurable to display at least a content of the name field of all contacts database entries where the other field indicates that the entity named in the name field is to be contacted in the event of an emergency.

45. A non-transitory computer-readable memory medium, comprising stored data representing a contacts database, the contacts database comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a plurality of fields, the plurality of fields comprising a name field, a contact field storing information indicating how an entity identified in the name field may be contacted, and a further field indicating whether or not the entity named in the name field is to be contacted in the event of an emergency,

wherein the further field comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion of the further field comprising a bit indicating whether the entry represents an ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact, and the second portion of the further field comprising at least one bit indicating an order of priority of the ICE contact.

46. The computer-readable memory medium of claim 45, where said memory medium is embodied within a user communication device.

47. The computer-readable memory medium of claim 45, where said memory medium is configurable to be inserted within and withdrawn from a user communication device.

48. The computer-readable memory medium of claim 45, where said contact in emergency field further indicates an order of priority for contacting the entity named in the name field is to be contacted in the event of an emergency.

49. A method, comprising:

in response to preparing to display a content of a name field of an entry in a contacts database, determining whether at least one of a predetermined text string and an indication of priority is present in the name field, the predetermined text string indicating that the contacts database entry represents an ICE (In Case of Emergency) contact, and the indication of priority indicating an order of priority of the ICE contact; and

in response to determining that at least one of the predetermined text string and the indication of priority is present, displaying the content of the name field without displaying the predetermined text string and the indication of priority.

50. The method of claim 49, executed in a user communication device.