TRANSMITTING INITIATION DETAILS FROM A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20130331116A1
• Filed: 06/06/2012
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kuehnel, Thomas, Hassan, Amer
• Application Number:
  US13/489,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20130331116A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

Act initiation details can be automatically selected based on time information in a time-based object in a mobile device. In response to a gesture made with the mobile device and sensing a proximity of the mobile device to a receiving device, the selected act initiation details can be transmitted to the receiving device. The act initiation details may be call initiation details that can be received from the mobile device at the receiving device. The receiving device can use the call initiation details to place a telephone call represented by the call initiation details without using the mobile device as a telephone for the call.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

sensing a proximity of a mobile device to a receiving device;

the receiving device receiving call initiation details from the mobile device; and

the receiving device using the call initiation details to place a telephone call represented by the call initiation details without using the mobile device as a telephone for the call.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving device is a unified communications telephone.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the mobile device automatically selecting the call initiation details.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein automatically selecting comprises automatically selecting based on a time of an event object on the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the call initiation details is done in response to a gesture with the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the gesture comprises tapping.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the gesture comprises physical contact between the mobile device and the receiving device.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the gesture comprises electrical contact between the mobile device and the receiving device.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the gesture comprises user input selecting from a plurality of call initiation detail choices displayed on the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the gesture comprises user input selecting a contact associated with the call details.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises terminating the call in response to a gesture with the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises automatically deleting the call initiation details from the receiving device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein using the call initiation details to place the telephone call is performed at least in part by hardware logic in the receiving device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the call initiation details comprise information for joining a bridge call and information for joining one or more other user profiles into the bridge call.

15. One or more computer-readable storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause at least one processor to perform acts comprising:

automatically selecting act initiation details based on time information in a time-based object in a mobile device; and

in response to a gesture made with the mobile device and sensing a proximity of the mobile device to a receiving device, transmitting the selected act initiation details to the receiving device.

16. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the gesture comprises tapping with the mobile device.

17. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein transmitting is performed using near field communications.

18. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the receiving device comprises a projector, and wherein the act initiation details are details for initiating the projector and projecting an active object in the mobile device.

19. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the receiving device comprises a printer, and wherein the act initiation details are details for initiating the printer and printing an active printable object in the mobile device.

20. A computer system comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory comprising instructions stored thereon that when executed by at least one processor cause at least one processor to perform acts comprising;

automatically selecting call initiation details based on an event object in a scheduling program in a handheld mobile device in the computer system, the call initiation details comprising details to initiate a telephone call;

in response to a tap made with the mobile device and directed at a receiving device in the computer system, transmitting the selected call initiation details to the receiving device using near field communications, the receiving device being a unified communications telephone;

the receiving device receiving the call initiation details from the mobile device in response to the tap;

the receiving device using the call initiation details to place the telephone call represented by the call initiation details without using the mobile device as a telephone for the call; and

automatically deleting the call initiation details from the receiving device.