Mobile apparatus data sharing method, system for sharing data through mobile apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing the method

• US 9,031,587 B2
• Filed: 06/12/2012
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Chou, Shih-Chun, Liu, Bo-Fu, Lin, Yu-Ting, Lin, Jih-Yiing
• Primary Examiner(s): Behnamian, Shahriar
• Application Number:
  US13/494,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20130150097A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455517-519
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A mobile apparatus data sharing method includes the following steps: receiving a request for activating a sharing functionality on sharing data; obtaining context information of the mobile apparatus and a contact list which includes information of several candidate contacts; classifying the information of the candidate contacts into several candidate groups according to the context information; displaying the candidate groups via the mobile apparatus; determining a target contact group from the candidate contact groups according to a contact group selecting signal generated by the mobile apparatus; and transmitting the sharing data to the target contact group according to the information of the candidate contacts in the target contact group.

Claims

1. A mobile apparatus data sharing method comprising:

(a) receiving, via a mobile apparatus, a request for activating a sharing functionality on sharing data;

(b) obtaining context information of the mobile apparatus and a contact list, wherein the contact list comprises information of a plurality of candidate contacts;

(c) classifying the information of the candidate contacts into a plurality of candidate contact groups according to the context information;

(d) displaying the candidate contact groups via the mobile apparatus;

(e) determining, via the mobile apparatus, a target contact group from the candidate contact groups according to a contact group selecting signal which is generated by the mobile apparatus; and

(f) transmitting the sharing data to the target contact group, via the mobile apparatus, according to the information of the candidate contacts in the target contact group.

2. The mobile apparatus data sharing method of claim 1, wherein operation (c) comprises:

generating a suggested classification attribute sequence according to the context information, wherein the suggested classification attribute sequence comprises a plurality of classification attributes in a classification attribute order; and

classifying the information of the candidate contacts into the candidate contact groups according to the classification attributes and the classification attribute order.

3. The mobile apparatus data sharing method of claim 2, wherein operation (c) further comprises:

selecting at least one attribute from the classification attributes as at least one first layer attribute according to the classification attribute order; and

classifying the information of the candidate contacts into a plurality of first layer contact groups, which are taken as candidate contact groups, according to the at least one first layer attribute.

4. The mobile apparatus data sharing method of claim 3, wherein operation (c) further comprises:

selecting, via the mobile apparatus, one of the first layer contact groups;

selecting at least one of the classification attributes as at least one second layer attribute according to the classification attribute order corresponding to the selected first layer contact group; and

classifying the information of the candidate contacts in the selected first layer contact group into a plurality of second layer contact groups, which are taken as the candidate contact groups, according to the at least one second layer attribute.

5. The mobile apparatus data sharing method of claim 1, wherein operation (f) is performed by utilizing an email service, a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) or a Short Message Service (SMS) to transmit the sharing data to the target contact group.

6. The mobile apparatus data sharing method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the contact group selecting signal through an input unit of the mobile apparatus.

7. The mobile apparatus data sharing method of claim 1, wherein the mobile apparatus comprises a touch screen, the candidate contact groups is displayed by the touch screen, and when the touch screen is touched at a position, the contact group selecting signal is generated according to the touched position at operation (e).

8. A system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus comprising:

a display unit;

a data transmission unit;

an activation unit for generating a request for activating a sharing functionality on sharing data;

a storage unit for storing a contact list, wherein the contact list comprises information of a plurality of candidate contacts; and

a processing unit connected with the display unit, the data transmission unit, the activation unit and the storage unit, wherein the processing unit comprises;

an obtaining module for obtaining context information of the mobile apparatus and the information of the candidate contacts in the contact list when the request for activating the sharing functionality is generated;

a classifying module for classifying the information of the candidate contacts into a plurality of candidate contact groups according to the context information;

a selecting-signal generating module for generating a contact group selecting signal for selecting a target contact group from the candidate contact groups through the mobile apparatus, such that the target contact group is determined from the candidate contact groups according to the contact group selecting signal; and

a data transmission module for activating the data transmission unit to transmit the sharing data to the target contact group according to the information of the candidate contacts in the target contact group.

9. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 8, wherein the system is installed on the mobile apparatus.

10. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 8, wherein the system is discretely installed on the mobile apparatus and a server, the mobile apparatus builds a communication connection with the server through a communication network;

the mobile apparatus comprises the display unit, the data transmission unit, the activation unit, the selecting-signal generating module and the data transmission module, and the server comprises the storage unit and the processing unit.

11. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing unit further comprises:

a sequence generating module for generating a suggested classification attribute sequence according to the context information, wherein the suggested classification attribute sequence comprises a plurality of classification attributes in a classification attribute order,

wherein the classifying module classifies the information of the candidate contacts into the candidate contact groups for selection according to the classification attributes and the classification attribute order.

12. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 11, wherein the classifying module comprises:

a first-layer-attribute selector for selecting at least one first layer attribute from the classification attributes according to the classification attribute order; and

a first classifier for classifying the information of the candidate contacts into a plurality of first layer contact groups, which are taken as the candidate contact groups for selection, according to the at least one first layer attribute.

13. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 12, wherein the classifying module further comprises:

an input unit for selecting one of the at least one of the candidate contact groups;

a second-layer-attribute selector for selecting at least one of the classification attributes as at least one second layer attribute according to the classification attribute order corresponding to the selected first layer contact group; and

a second classifier for classifying the information of the candidate contacts in the selected first layer contact group into a plurality of second layer contact groups, which are taken as the candidate contact groups for selection, according to the at least one second layer attribute.

14. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 8 further comprising:

an input unit, electrically connected with the processing unit, wherein the contact group selecting signal is generated through the input unit and transmitted to the selecting-signal generating module.

15. The system for sharing data through a mobile apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display unit is a touch screen.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium with a computer program to execute a mobile apparatus data sharing method wherein the mobile apparatus data sharing method comprises:

(a) receiving, via a mobile apparatus, a request for activating a sharing functionality on sharing data;

(b) obtaining context information of the mobile apparatus and a contact list, wherein the contact list comprises information of a plurality of candidate contacts;

(c) classifying the information of the candidate contacts into a plurality of candidate contact groups for selection according to the context information;

(d) displaying the candidate contact groups through the mobile apparatus;

(e) determining, via the mobile apparatus, a target contact group from the candidate contact groups according to a contact group selecting signal which is generated by the mobile apparatus; and

(f) transmitting the sharing data to the target contact group, via the mobile apparatus, according to the information of the candidate contacts classified in the target contact group.