Method, device, and system to share information between mobile computing devices

• US 8,776,193 B2
• Filed: 05/16/2011
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Li, Xintian
• Primary Examiner(s): Barron, Jr., Gilberto
• Assistant Examiner(s): KANAAN, SIMON P
• Application Number:
  US13/108,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297466A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,149 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 726/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/1085 Content sharing, e.g. peer-to-peer [P2P]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/42 using separate channels for security data

Abstract

A mobile computing device comprising a first application adapted to provide information to a server. The information is adapted to be shared by the server with at least one additional mobile computing device when the at least one additional mobile computing device is located within a specified range of the mobile computing device. Additionally, a password entered through a second application located on the additional mobile computing device may be required to correspond to a password received from the mobile computing device in order to share the information. Furthermore, the additional mobile computing device may be required to access the information within a specified time period.

Claims

1. A mobile computing device comprising a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium encoded with processor-readable instructions to provide information to a server, wherein,

the information is identified to be shared by the server with at least one additional mobile computing device at a first time, wherein,

the at least one additional mobile computing device is located within a user specified range of the mobile computing device;

one or more sharing criterion provided from the mobile computing device corresponds to one or more sharing criterion received from the at least one additional mobile computing device, wherein the one or more sharing criterion comprises a password; and

the information is accessed by the at least one additional mobile computing device at a second time within a non-coincident user-specified time period, wherein the second time being later than the first time.

2. The mobile computing device of claim 1 wherein the password comprises at least one of,

text;

a picture;

a sound; and

a device movement.

3. The mobile computing device of claim 1 further comprising,

an open source mobile operating system;

and wherein,

the information comprises HTML content.

4. The mobile computing device of claim 1 wherein,

the information comprises, at least one of,

contact information,

one or more photos, and

one or more documents;

and

the one or more sharing criterion further comprise a location of the first mobile computing device, a location of the at least one additional mobile computing device, and a user-specified sharing range.

5. A method of sharing information between mobile computing devices comprising,

locating a first mobile computing device at a first location;

locating a second mobile computing device at a second location without touching the first mobile computing device, wherein, the second location being proximate the first location;

sending content from the first mobile computing device to a network device, wherein the content includes,

the first location,

a user-specified location range for sharing the content, and

a first time of a non-coincident user-specified period of time for accessing the content;

sending a request for the content from the second mobile computing device to the network device, the request comprising,

the second location, and

a second time of a non-coincident user-specified period of time, the second time being later than the first time; and

providing the content from the network device to the second mobile computing device.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein,

sending content from the first mobile computing device to a network device comprises sending the content over a first connection between the first mobile computing device and the network device;

sending a request for the content from the second mobile computing device to the network device comprises, sending the request and providing a password to the network device over a second connection between the second mobile computing device and the network device; and

further comprising,

providing the password from the first mobile computing device to the second mobile computing device over a third connection between the first mobile computing and the second mobile computing device prior to sending the request for the content from the second mobile computing device to the network device over the second connection between the second mobile computing device and the network device.

7. The method of claim 5 further comprising, sending a content update from the first mobile computing device to the network device.

8. The method of claim 5 wherein, providing the content from the network device to the second mobile computing device comprises,

creating a content list, and

providing the content list to the second mobile computing device;

and further comprising,

selecting at least one content item from the content list; and

sending content associated with the at least one content item from the network device to the second mobile computing device.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising, filtering the list on one of the network device and the second mobile computing device, wherein the filtering is based on a content type.

10. The method of claim 5 wherein, one of the first location and the second location comprise(s) a location determined from a network initiated location service.

11. The method of claim 5 wherein the first mobile computing device comprises,

at least one first non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium adapted to provide the content;

a first API adapted to enable a first mobile computing device sharing criteria; and

a first mobile operating system adapted to add sharing criteria comprising a first mobile computing device location to the content.

12. The method of claim 5 wherein, the second mobile computing device comprises,

at least one second non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium adapted to request the content;

a second API adapted to enable a second mobile computing device sharing criteria; and

a second mobile operating system adapted to add a second mobile computing device location to the request to receive content.

13. The method of claim 5 further comprising,

writing the content to at least one database on the network device after sending the content from the first mobile computing device to a network device;

and

reading the content from the at least one database after sending the request for the content.

14. The method of claim 11 further comprising, reviewing the first mobile computing device sharing criteria prior to providing the content.

15. The method of claim 12 further comprising, reviewing the second mobile computing device sharing criteria prior to providing the content.

16. The method of claim 5 further comprising,

comparing the second location to the first location;

and

determining whether the second mobile computing device is located within the location range.

17. A non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method of sharing content from a first mobile computing device comprising,

enabling one or more sharing parameters;

providing the content to a server through a first communication channel connection between the first mobile computing device and the network device;

providing a password to a second mobile computing device, wherein,

the second mobile computing device is adapted to,

provide the password to the server through a second communication channel between the second mobile computing device and the network device, and

request the content from the server through the second communication channel, and

the password is provided to the second mobile computing device through a third communication channel between the first mobile computing and the second mobile computing device; and

providing to the server,

a user-specified range from a first mobile computing device location to share the content, and

a first time in a non-coincident user-specified period of time for the second mobile computing device to access the content, wherein, the second mobile computing device access the content at a second time in the non-coincident user-specified period of time, the second time being different than the first time.

18. The non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the content comprises HTML content.

19. The non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, the method further comprising, using a first mobile computing device secured platform software to attach a first mobile computing device location to the content.

20. The non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, the method further comprising, disabling sharing of the content.