Method for sending a data message during a telephone call

• US 8,670,790 B2
• Filed: 11/25/2003
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Ford, Peter J., Nash, Ian, Bird, Ron, Wilkinson, Alan, Cooper, Lee, Asikainen, Minna, Espigares, Inmaculada, Tourunen, Ari, Hakkarainen, Vesa-Matti
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisner, Ronald
• Application Number:
  US10/725,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20050111417A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,759 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 4554121-420, 455/556.2, 455/557, 455/422.1, 455450-455, 455/464, 455/509, 370328-337, 370/339, 370341-348, 370431-463, 715/764, 715810-845, D14/485, D14/486
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A method of sending data from a first party participating in a telephone call to a second party participating in the telephone call, comprising, in the terminal of the first party, storing, as a consequence of the telephone call, identifier data that identifies the second party; using the stored identifier data to determine automatically a destination address for a data message; and sending, during the telephone call, the data message with the automatically determined destination address. A method for sending data from a first party participating in a telephone call to a second party participating in the telephone call, comprising, in the terminal of the first party: providing, while the telephone call is on-going, a user selectable option to transfer data to another party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in a wireless terminal of a first party participating in a telephone call, storing, as a consequence of the telephone call, identifier data that identifies a second party participating in the telephone call;

using the stored identifier data to determine automatically a destination address for a data message;

in response to receiving, during the telephone call, a selection by the first party to send the data message, controlling, during the telephone call, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for a transfer of the data message from the wireless terminal of the first party to a wireless terminal of the second party, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to send the data message is made from;

in response to receiving a selection by the first party of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input by the first party, controlling the wireless terminal of the first party to send, during the telephone call, the data message to the automatically determined destination address, wherein said wireless terminal of the first party is controlled to send said data message out-of-band relative to the telephone call using the selected delivery mechanism.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the telephone call is initiated at the wireless terminal of the first party and storing the identifier data comprises storing the destination of the telephone call.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the telephone call is a circuit switched telephone call and the identifier data is a telephone number of the second party.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the telephone call is terminated at the wireless terminal of the first party and storing identifier data comprises storing the origin of the telephone call.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the telephone call is a circuit switched telephone call and the identifier data is a telephone number of the second party.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a database of contact information stored in the wireless terminal is used to associate the identifier data with at least one contact address of the second party.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the destination address is any one of:

an email address, a telephone number, a BLUETOOTH device address.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

controlling a display to provide, temporarily during the telephone call, a user selectable option to transfer data to the second party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the user selection of the temporarily provided transfer option enables, in the terminal of the first party, using the stored identifier data to determine automatically a destination address for a data message.

28. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein using the stored identifier data to determine automatically the destination address for the data message comprises automatically interrogating a database using the stored identifier data to obtain the destination address.

34. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of information processed by the application from which the selection to send the data message is made.

10. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor, the at least one memory configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

to store in the memory, as a consequence of a telephone call between a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, identifier data identifying the second wireless terminal or its user;

to automatically determine a destination address for a data message using the stored identifier data,

in response to receiving, during the telephone call, a selection by the first wireless terminal to send the data message, to control, during the telephone call, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for a transfer of the data message from the first wireless terminal to the second wireless terminal, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to send the data message is made from;

in response to receiving a selection by the first wireless terminal of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input at the first wireless terminal, to control the first wireless terminal to send the data message to the automatically determined destination address during the telephone call, out-of-band relative to the telephone call using the selected delivery mechanism.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the stored identifier data is a dialed telephone number.

12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the stored identifier data is a telephone number received via a radio cellular transceiver of the first wireless terminal.

13. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the destination address is any one of:

an email address, a telephone number, a BLUETOOTH device address.

14. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control a user interface to provide a user selectable option to transfer data to a second party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address.

15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 14, wherein the user selectable option is provided only during the telephone call.

29. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is configured to interrogate a database using the identifier data to obtain the destination address.

30. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the apparatus is the first wireless terminal, and the apparatus further comprises a radio cellular transceiver configured to enable participation in the telephone call, and configured to send the data message.

35. An apparatus as claimed in claim 29, wherein the database associates each of a plurality of different identifier data with respective different contact addresses.

16. A method comprising, in a wireless terminal of a first party participating in a telephone call:

controlling a display to provide, while the telephone call is on-going, a user selectable option to transfer data to a second party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address, in response to receiving, while the telephone call is on-going, a selection of the provided option by the first party to transfer the data, controlling, while the telephone call is on-going, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for the data transfer from the wireless terminal of the first party to a wireless terminal of the second party, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the user-selectable option to transfer data is made from; and

in response to receiving a selection by the first party of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input by the first party, controlling the wireless terminal of the first party to send, while the telephone call is on-going, the data message with the determined destination address, wherein the wireless terminal of the first party is controlled to send the data message out-of-band relative to the telephone call using the selected delivery mechanism.

17. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein receiving the selection of the provided option enables user selection of the one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms.

18. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein receiving the selection of the provided option enables automatic selection the one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms.

19. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein controlling a display to provide, while the telephone call is on-going, a user selectable option to transfer data to the second party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address comprises controlling the display to provide more than one user selectable option to transfer data to the second party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address, wherein each option enables a different delivery mechanism.

20. A method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising automatically storing, as a consequence of the telephone call, data that identifies the second party, wherein receiving the selection of the provided option enables using the stored data to determine automatically a destination address for a data message.

21. A method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the destination address is any one of:

email address, telephone number, BLUETOOTH device address.

22. A method as claimed in claim 16, wherein controlling a display to provide, while the telephone call is on-going, a user selectable option to transfer data to the second party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address temporarily augments automatically a user selectable data transfer option for transferring data to a user determined destination address.

23. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor, the at least one memory and a computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

to control a display to provide, temporarily while a telephone call is on-going, a user selectable option to transfer data to another party participating in the telephone call without user specification of a destination address;

in response to receiving, while the telephone call is on-going, a selection to transfer data to control, while the telephone call is on-going, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for the data transfer from a first wireless terminal of a user to a second wireless terminal of the other party, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to transfer data is made from; and

in response to receiving a selection by the user of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input by the user, controlling the first wireless terminal to send, while the telephone call is on-going, the data to the destination address, wherein said first wireless terminal of the user is controlled to send the data out-of-band relative to the telephone call using the selected delivery mechanism.

24. An apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the at least one processor is configured to respond to user selection of the option by controlling the display to provide a plurality of user selectable delivery mechanisms.

27. An apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the at least one processor is configured to respond to user selection of the provided option by automatically selecting a delivery mechanism.

33. An apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to automatically store, as a consequence of the telephone call, data that identifies the second party in the memory and is responsive to the user selection of provided option to automatically determine, using the stored data, a destination address for a data message.

36. An apparatus as claimed in claim 33, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the first wireless terminal of the user to send a data message to the determined destination address using the selected delivery mechanism.

37. An apparatus as claimed in claim 33, wherein the destination address is any one of:

an email address, a telephone number, and a BLUETOOTH device address.

25. A method comprising:

in a wireless terminal of a first party, storing, as a consequence of a communication between the first party and a second party, identifier data that identifies the second party;

using, subsequent to the communication between the first party and the second party, the stored identifier data to determine automatically a destination address for a data message;

in response to receiving, during the communication, a selection by the first party to send the data message, controlling, during the communication, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for a transfer of the data message from the wireless terminal of the first party to a wireless terminal of the second party, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to send the data message is made from;

in response to receiving a selection by the first party of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed and without a destination address input by the first party, controlling the wireless terminal of the first party to send, during the communication, the data message to the automatically determined destination address using the selected delivery mechanism, wherein the wireless terminal of the first party is controlled to send the data message out-of-band relative to the communication.

26. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor, the at least one memory and a computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

to store in the memory, as a consequence of communication between a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, identifier data identifying the second wireless terminal or its user,

to automatically determine a destination address for a data message using the stored identifier data,

in response to receiving, during the communication, a selection by a user of the first wireless terminal to send the data message, to control, during the communication, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for a transfer of the data message from the first wireless terminal to the second wireless terminal, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to send the data message is made from,

in response to receiving a selection by the first wireless terminal of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input by the user of the first wireless terminal, to control the first wireless terminal to send, during the communication, the data message to the automatically determined destination address using the selected delivery mechanism, wherein the first wireless terminal is controlled to send said data message out-of-band relative to the communication.

31. A method comprising:

in a wireless terminal of a first party participating in a telephone call, storing, as a consequence of the telephone call, identifier data that identifies a second party participating in the telephone call;

using the stored identifier data to determine automatically a destination address for a data message;

in response to receiving, during the telephone call, a selection by the first party to send the data message, controlling, during the telephone call, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for a transfer of the data message from the wireless terminal of the first party to a wireless terminal of the second party, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to send the data message is made from;

in response to receiving a selection by the first party of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input by the first party, controlling the wireless terminal of the first party to send, during the telephone call, the data message to the automatically determined destination address using the selected delivery mechanism, wherein said wireless terminal of the first party is controlled to send said data message via a new channel that runs in parallel with the voice channel used for the telephone call.

32. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

at least one processor, the at least one memory and a computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

to store in the memory, as a consequence of a telephone call between a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal, identifier data identifying the second wireless terminal or its user,

to automatically determine a destination address for a data message using the stored identifier data,

in response to receiving, during the telephone call, a selection at the first wireless terminal to send the data message, to control, during the telephone call, a display to display a plurality of delivery mechanisms for a transfer of the data message from the first wireless terminal to the second wireless terminal, wherein said plurality of delivery mechanisms is selected in dependence of a type of said destination address, and in dependence of which application the selection to send the data message is made from,

in response to receiving a selection at the first wireless terminal of one of the plurality of delivery mechanisms displayed, and without a destination address input at the first terminal, to control of the first wireless terminal to send, during the telephone call, the data message to the automatically determined destination address during the telephone call, via a new channel that runs in parallel with the voice channel used for the telephone call using the selected delivery mechanism.