Mobile address book population using SMS polling

• US 8,467,815 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Collet, Jean-Luc, Marmigere, Gerard, Menguy, Eric, Truntschka, Carole
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US12/483,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20100261463A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,468 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/663 Preventing unauthorised calls to a telephone set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A system, method and program product that automatically populates address book fields. A system is described that includes: a system for sending and receiving SMS messages; an address book that includes an entry for an owner and entries for contacts associated with the owner, wherein each entry includes a set attributes and at least one piece of attribute data; a system for parsing an incoming SMS message to identify a request for attribute data of the owner and for generating a responsive SMS message with attribute data of the owner; and a system for issuing SMS messages to contacts in the address book requesting additional attribute data and for loading received attribute data into the address book.

Claims

1. A mobile communication device that automatically populates address book fields, the device comprising:

a system for sending and receiving short message service (SMS) messages;

an address book that includes an entry for an owner and entries for contacts associated with the owner, wherein each entry includes a set of attributes and at least one piece of attribute data;

a system for parsing an incoming SMS message to identify a request for attribute data of the owner and for generating a responsive SMS message with attribute data of the owner;

a system for determining whether any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book for contacts associated with the owner without prompting from a user associated with the owner; and

a system for;

issuing SMS messages to contacts in the address book requesting additional attribute data to automatically complete the any non-filled attributes in response to determining the any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book; and

loading received attribute data associated with the any non-filled attributes into the address book.

2. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising an access controller that authorizes access to attribute data of the owner based on at least one of a white list and a black list.

3. The mobile communication device of claim 2, further comprising a system for discarding SMS messages that request attribute data from an unauthorized requester.

4. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising an attributes filter that filters the responsive SMS message based on an authorization model.

5. The mobile communication device of claim 1, further comprising a system for breaking up the responsive SMS messages into a set of smaller SMS messages.

6. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein the entry of the owner comprises a virtual card.

7. The mobile communication device of claim 1, wherein SMS messages for requesting and providing attribute data utilize an information element identification (IEI) field to determine if a received SMS message is a request for attribute data or contains attribute data.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer program product stored thereon, which when executed by a computing device, automatically populates address book fields on a mobile device, comprising:

program code for sending and receiving short message service (SMS) messages;

program code for accessing an address book that includes an entry for an owner and entries for contacts associated with the owner, wherein each entry includes a set of attributes and at least one piece of attribute data;

program code for parsing an incoming SMS message to identify a request for attribute data of the owner and for generating a responsive SMS message with attribute data of the owner;

program code for determining whether any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book for contacts associated with the owner without prompting from a user associated with the owner; and

program code for;

issuing SMS messages to contacts in the address book requesting additional attribute data to automatically complete the any non-filled attributes in response to determining the any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book; and

loading received attribute data associated with the any non-filled attributes into the address book.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, further comprising program code that authorizes access to attribute data of the owner based on at least one of a white list and a black list.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, further comprising program code for discarding SMS messages that request attribute data from an unauthorized requester.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 8, further comprising program code that filters the responsive SMS message based on an authorization model.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 8, further comprising program code for breaking up the responsive SMS messages into a set of smaller SMS messages.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the entry of the owner comprises a virtual card.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein SMS messages for requesting and providing attribute data utilize an information element identification (IEI) field to determine if a received SMS message is a request for attribute data or contains attribute data.

15. A method for automatically populating address book fields on a mobile device, comprising:

providing access to an infrastructure for sending and receiving short message service (SMS) messages;

providing access to an address book that includes an entry for an owner and entries for contacts associated with the owner, wherein each entry includes a set of attributes and at least one piece of attribute data;

determining whether any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book for contacts associated with the owner without prompting from a user associated with the owner;

issuing SMS messages to contacts in the address book requesting additional attribute data to automatically complete the any non-filled attributes in response to determining the any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book; and

loading received attribute data associated with the any non-filled attributes into the address book.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

parsing an incoming SMS message to identify a request for attribute data of the owner; and

generating a responsive SMS message with attribute data of the owner.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

authorizing access to attribute data of the owner based on at least one of a white list and a black list; and

discarding SMS messages that request attribute data from an unauthorized requester.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising filtering the responsive SMS message based on an authorization model.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising breaking up the responsive SMS messages into a set of smaller SMS messages.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the entry of the owner comprises a virtual card.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein SMS messages for requesting and providing attribute data utilize an information element identification (IEI) field to determine if a received SMS message is a request for attribute data or contains attribute data.

22. A method for deploying a system for automatically populating address book fields on a mobile device, comprising:

providing a computer infrastructure being operable to;

send and receive short message service (SMS) messages;

access an address book that includes an entry for an owner and entries for contacts associated with the owner,

wherein each entry includes a set of attributes and at least one piece of attribute data;

parse an incoming SMS message to identify a request for attribute data of the owner and for generating a responsive SMS message with attribute data of the owner;

determine whether any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book for contacts associated with the owner without prompting from a user associated with the owner; and

issue SMS messages to contacts in the address book requesting additional attribute data to automatically complete the any non-filled attributes in response to determining the any non-filled attributes exist in the entries in the address book and;

load received attribute data associated with the any non-filled attributes into the address book.