Method and device for restricted access contact information datum

• US 8,204,491 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2009
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc. (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Richardson, Roger D.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, NHAN T
• Application Number:
  US12/621,938
• Publication Number:
  US 20100069055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412.1, 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/550.1, 709/224, 709/225, 709/228
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/66 with means for preventing unauthorised or fraudulent calling verifying user identity or authority in secret or secure digital communications H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device

Abstract

A method in a mobile communication device and a network for transmitting, receiving, and processing a user-accessible contact information data entry in a contact information storage medium (214). User-accessible contact information data, such as a telephone book entry, is transmitted by a sender'"'"'s device to the mobile communication device (202) with particular restrictions on the entry that trigger a processor (212) to carry out instructions (226, 224, 222) to restrict annunciation, transmission, and/or modification of the telephone book entry and also to trigger instructions (218) to delete all or part of the telephone book entry upon fulfillment of an expiration criterion specified by the sender'"'"'s device.

Claims

1. A method for processing a telephone book entry in a mobile communication device having at least one transceiver, the method comprising:

receiving, via the transceiver, information for the telephone book entry including an expiration criterion, wherein the information for the telephone book entry includes at least one telephone number;

storing the information for the telephone book entry in a memory;

suppressing an annunciation of at least a portion of the telephone number; and

deleting the information of the telephone book entry when the expiration criterion is met.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the telephone number includes an area code, the method further comprising:

annunciating the area code of the telephone number.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the information for the telephone book entry includes identification data, the method further comprising:

annunciating at least a portion of the identification data.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the expiration criterion is that the mobile communication device places a call to the telephone number of the telephone book entry, the method further comprising:

deleting the telephone number from the telephone book entry when the call to the telephone number has been placed.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

disabling modification of the telephone book entry by a user of the mobile communication device.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an instruction, via the transceiver, to delete the information for the telephone book entry.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is capable of annunciating an outgoing call list, the method further comprising:

disabling the annunciation of at least a portion of the telephone number from the outgoing call list.