Web page to cellular phone—contact information messaging system
First Claim
1. A method for storing contact information displayed on a webpage to a mobile communication device having a memory for storing contact information, comprising:
- determining entries for various fields of a webpage contact information template associated with a selected enterprise;
determining contact information for the selected enterprise from the various fields of the webpage contact information template for the selected enterprise;
determining a specific mobile communication device the contact information is to be transmitted and stored to; and
transmitting, from a database remote from the specific mobile communication device, contact information to the specific mobile communication device, wherein the contact information is arranged in the database according to the webpage contact information template that is representative of a number of data fields, wherein each data field includes a separate, portion of the contact information; and
automatically storing the contact information for the selected enterprise in the memory of the specific mobile communication device, which includes populating a database in the memory of the specific mobile communication device according to a communication device contact information template;
that is representative of a number of data fields of the database remote from the specific mobile communication device with each data field configured to contain a separate portion of the contact information, and wherein the communication device contact information template is matched to the webpage contact information template, such that entries from the webpage contact information template for the enterprise are populated in corresponding data fields for the communication device contact information template.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for transmitting contact information published and/or product/services advertisements of a web page directly to a communication device such as a cellular phone. According to one method, advertisement containing data, voice, image and/or video files is attached to contact information published in a web page and thereafter sent to a one or more communication devices, such as cellular phones, along with the corresponding contact information. Means is provided in the communication device to save and/or display the data, voice, image and/or video files contained in the said advertisement; preferably at such a time when a caller selects or uses the contact information corresponding to the said advertisement. Means is also provided to attach different advertisements at different times to the said contact information.
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13 Claims
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1. A method for storing contact information displayed on a webpage to a mobile communication device having a memory for storing contact information, comprising:
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determining entries for various fields of a webpage contact information template associated with a selected enterprise; determining contact information for the selected enterprise from the various fields of the webpage contact information template for the selected enterprise; determining a specific mobile communication device the contact information is to be transmitted and stored to; and transmitting, from a database remote from the specific mobile communication device, contact information to the specific mobile communication device, wherein the contact information is arranged in the database according to the webpage contact information template that is representative of a number of data fields, wherein each data field includes a separate, portion of the contact information; and automatically storing the contact information for the selected enterprise in the memory of the specific mobile communication device, which includes populating a database in the memory of the specific mobile communication device according to a communication device contact information template;
that is representative of a number of data fields of the database remote from the specific mobile communication device with each data field configured to contain a separate portion of the contact information, and wherein the communication device contact information template is matched to the webpage contact information template, such that entries from the webpage contact information template for the enterprise are populated in corresponding data fields for the communication device contact information template. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for storing contact information displayed on a webpage to a mobile communication device having a memory for storing contact information, comprising:
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determining contact information for a selected enterprise by determining entries for various fields of a webpage contact information template associated with the selected enterprise; determining a specific mobile communication device the contact information is to be transmitted and stored to; pairing an advertisement with the contact information for the selected enterprise;
transmitting the contact information and the advertisement for the selected enterprise to the specific mobile communication device and storing the contact information in the memory of the specific mobile communication device, which includes populating a communication device contact information template matched to the webpage contact information template with entries from the webpage contact information template for the enterprise, wherein the transmitted contact information is first retrieved from a remote database having a number of data fields, wherein each data field includes a separate portion of the contact information for the selected enterprise and wherein the memory of the mobile communication device includes a database having data fields corresponding to the data fields of the remote database such that entries in the remote database are stored in data fields that correspond to the data fields of the database stored in memory of the mobile communication device; anddisplaying the advertisement on the mobile communication device. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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