Portable electronic device memory availability

• US 7,523,869 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2005
• Issued: 04/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Moilanen, Pirjo, Salmenkaita, Jukka-Pekka, Helkio, Risto
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haupt; Kristy A
• Application Number:
  US11/101,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20060226232A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,483 Days
• Field of Search: 235/472.01, 235/472.02, 235/462.24, 235/462.25, 235/462.41
• US Class Current: 235/472.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32363 at the transmitter or at the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32368 Functions of a still picture terminal memory associated with transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32448 Controlling data flow to or from the memory in relation to the available memory capacity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0096 Portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0098 User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3288 Storage of two or more complete document pages or image frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3295 Deletion of stored data; Preventing such deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3298 Checking or indicating the storage space

Abstract

A portable electronic device including a memory having a first image file; a system for transferring a copy of the first image file to a second device; and a system for permanently converting the first image file to a different second image file. The system for permanently converting is based, at least partially, upon the copy of the first image file being transferred to the second device by the system for transferring. The second image file cannot be converted back to the first image file by the portable electronic device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a memory having a first image file;

a system for transferring a copy of the first image file to a device; and

a system for permanently converting the first image file to a different second image file based, at least partially, upon the copy of the first image file being transferred to the device by the system for transferring, wherein the second image file cannot be converted back to the first image file by the apparatus,

wherein the system for transferring comprises a system for comparing the first image file to image files in the device and not transferring the copy of the first image file to the device if the device already comprises a copy of the first image file.

2. An apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the system for transferring comprises a radio telephone link.

3. An apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the system for permanently converting the first image file to a different second image file comprises permanently re-sizing the first image file.

4. An apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the system for transferring a copy comprises:

a system for determining transmitted ones of a plurality of image files in the apparatus which have been copied or transmitted from the apparatus and for determining untransmitted ones of the plurality of image files which have not been copied or transmitted from the apparatus; and

a system for selectively copying or transmitting the untransmitted image files in the apparatus, which have not been previously copied or transmitted from the apparatus, to the device based, at least partially, on the system for determining, without copying or transmitting the transmitted image files to the device at a same time.

5. An apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the system for transferring comprises a system for indicating with the first image file that a copy of the first image file has been transferred.

6. An apparatus as in claim 1 further comprising a system for suggesting to a user whether or not the first image file should be permanently converted, the suggesting system comprising:

a system for organizing entertainment files into classifications, wherein the entertainment files comprise the first image file;

a system for providing user rules for prioritization of deletion or permanent re-sizing of the entertainment files based, at least partially, upon the classifications of the entertainment files; and

a system for providing the user with a suggestion of at least one of the entertainment files for deletion or permanent re-sizing based upon a predetermined event, the prioritization rules, and the classifications of the entertainment files.

7. An apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the system for permanently converting is adapted to replace the first image file with the second image file.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a memory having a first image file;

a system for transferring a copy of the first image file to a device; and

a system for permanently converting the first image file to a different second image file based, at least partially, upon the copy of the first image file being transferred to the device by the system for transferring, wherein the second image file cannot be converted back to the first image file by the apparatus,

wherein the system for permanently converting retains both the first image file and the second image file in the apparatus for at least a limited amount of time.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a system for connecting the apparatus to a device to transmit image files from the apparatus to the device;

a system for determining first ones of the image files in the apparatus which have been copied or transmitted from the apparatus and for determining second ones of the image files which have not been copied or transmitted from the apparatus; and

a system for selectively copying or transmitting the second image files in the apparatus, which have not been previously copied or transmitted from the apparatus, to the device based, at least partially, on the system for determining, without copying or transmitting the first image files to the device at a same time,

wherein the apparatus is configured to retain both the second image files and compressed copies of the second image files in the apparatus for at least a limited amount of time.

10. An apparatus as in claim 9 wherein the system for coupling comprises a wireless link.

11. An apparatus as in claim 9 wherein the system for determining comprises each of the first image files comprising a marker which the second image files do not comprise.

12. An apparatus as in claim 9 wherein the system for determining comprises a system for comparing the image files in the first portable electronic device to image files in the second device to determine which of the image files in the first portable electronic device are the first image files and which of the image files in the first portable electronic device are the second image files.

13. An apparatus as in claim 9 wherein the first portable electronic device further comprises a system for permanently converting at least one of the first image files to a different re-sized image file based, at least partially, upon the copy of the first image file having been transferred to the second device, wherein the re-sized image file cannot be converted back to the at least one first image file by the portable electronic device.

14. An apparatus as in claim 13 wherein the system for permanently converting comprises an automatic system based upon a predetermined event.

15. An apparatus as in claim 13 wherein the system for permanently converting comprises a user activated system before re-sizing occurs.

16. An apparatus as in claim 15 wherein the system for permanently converting comprises a system for suggesting to the user whether or not the first image file should be permanently converted, the suggesting system comprising:

a system for organizing entertainment files into classifications, wherein the entertainment files comprise the first and second image files;

a system for providing user rules for prioritization of deletion or permanent re-sizing of the entertainment files based, at least partially, upon the classifications of the entertainment files; and

a system for providing the user with a suggestion of at least one of the entertainment files for deletion or permanent re-sizing based upon a predetermined event, the prioritization rules, and the classifications of the entertainment files.

17. A method comprising:

organizing entertainment files into classifications;

providing user rules for prioritization of deletion or permanent re-sizing of the entertainment files based, at least partially, upon the classifications of the entertainment files; and

providing a user with a suggestion of at least one of the entertainment files for deletion or permanent re-sizing based upon a predetermined event, the prioritization rules, and the classifications of the entertainment files.

18. A method as in claim 17 wherein organizing the entertainment files into classifications comprises a user selected classification.

19. A method as in claim 17 wherein organizing the entertainment files into classifications comprises an automatic backup determination classification.

20. A method as in claim 17 wherein organizing the entertainment files into classifications comprises a classification not based upon time or date of creation of the entertainment file.

22. A method as in claim 20 further comprising the first portable electronic device retaining both the first entertainment file and the second entertainment file in the portable electronic device for at least a limited amount of time.

21. A method comprising:

transmitting a copy of a first entertainment file from a first portable electronic device to a second device; and

permanently re-sizing the first entertainment file in the first portable electronic device into a second re-sized entertainment file based, at least partially, upon a determination that the first entertainment file has been copied, wherein the second re-sized entertainment file cannot be converted back to the first entertainment file by the first portable electronic device,

wherein the method comprises the first portable electronic device comparing the first entertainment file to entertainment files in the second device and not transferring the copy of the first entertainment file to the second device if the second device already comprises a copy of the first entertainment file.