Network updates of time and location

• US 8,781,393 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Issued: 07/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Taveau, Sebastien, Stone, Carl, Naaman, Nadav, Nahari, Hadi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jain, Ankur
• Application Number:
  US12/570,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20110076942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,749 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/456.6, 455/457
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2745 using static electronic memories, e.g. chips
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Methods and systems utilize a shake and transfer process to initiate a wireless communication provide a user device with time and location information of the communication, which can be associated with contact information of a user of the other device. As a result, a user has additional information associated with a contact, and the time and location information can be used to determine or track elapsed time and distance traveled between communications.

Claims

1. A method of wirelessly communicating information, comprising:

establishing a communication link between a first device and a second device based on a shake of the first and second devices;

transferring time and location information to the first device associated with a first user, wherein the time information is based on when the location information is received and is associated with a second user of the second device;

determining whether the second user is an existing contact stored in the first device; and

updating contact information on the first device by adding the time and location information, without replacing previously stored time and location information, to contact information under the second user each time a time and location information is transferred to the first device from the second device of the second user, the contact information visible to the first user on the first device when contact information for the second user is viewed and comprising different times and locations an in-person meeting occurred between the first user and the second user, wherein the time and location information are used to determine an elapsed time and a distance between a first and a second communication established based on a shake of the first and second devices.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising confirming the time and location information has been successfully transferred.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second devices enables a user to enter information associated with the time and location information transferred.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein both the time and location information are transferred to the first and second devices.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second devices are mobile devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device is a mobile device and the second device is a stationary device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the time information is used to determine an elapsed time between a first and a second communication established based on a shake of the first and second devices.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information is used to determine a distance between a first and a second communication established based on a shake of the first and second devices.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a server are adapted to cause the server to perform a method comprising:

establishing a communication link between a first device and a second device based on a shake of the first and second devices;

transferring time and location information to the first device associated with a first user, wherein the time information is based on when the location information is received and is associated with a second user of the second device;

determining whether the second user is an existing contact stored in the first device; and

updating contact information on the first device by adding the time and location information, without replacing previously stored time and location information, to contact information under the second user each time a time and location information is transferred to the first device from the second device of the second user, the contact information visible to the first user on the first device when contact information for the second user is viewed and comprising different times and locations an in-person meeting occurred between the first user and the second user, wherein the time and location information are used to determine an elapsed time and a distance between a first and a second communication established based on a shake of the first and second devices.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein both the time and location information are transferred to the first and second devices.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the first and second devices are mobile devices.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the time information is used to determine an elapsed time between a first and a second communication established based on a shake of the first and second devices.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the location information is used to determine a distance between a first and a second communication established based on a shake of the first and second devices.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises confirming the time and location information has been successfully transferred.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein at least one of the first and second devices enables a user to enter information associated with the time and location information transferred.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the first device is a mobile device and the second device is a stationary device.