Method and system for a digital diary system

• US 9,426,272 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2012
• Issued: 08/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Karaoguz, Jeyhan
• Primary Examiner(s): Pezzlo, John
• Application Number:
  US13/534,995
• Publication Number:
  US 20120266072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,518 Days
• Field of Search: 370/252, 370/329, 370/419, 370/490
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

A wireless communication device may generate an interactive digital diary for one or more users. The device may handle location information, multimedia data, transactions and/or secure communications via a plurality of technologies. Digital diary information may be stored internally or externally, it may be searchable and/or may comprise moving images, still images, audio, text, geographic location, entity information, time, date, transactions, financial information, consumer information, security information, user input, communications, user contacts, software applications, user profiles, scheduled events, prompts and/or reminders. The digital diary may comprise an interactive user interface which may have mapping capability and may provide link access to digital diary information and/or associated entities. User input methods may comprise screen touch, pressure sensor, key entry and/or voice. Information may be captured via a camera, microphone, geo-location data receiver, transaction write/reader, digital clock, digital calendar, key entry and/or tactile sensor.

Claims

1. A method for a digital diary system, the method comprising:

at a wireless communication device,

storing in a memory digital diary information of a user of the wireless communication device;

automatically capturing a financial transaction conducted by the wireless communication device or the user of the wireless communication device; and

updating the stored digital diary information using the captured financial transaction.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein updating the stored digital diary information comprises:

storing in the memory one or more digital diary records including storing multimedia information along with transaction information about the captured financial transaction.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein storing one or more digital diary records comprises storing information about a product, a service, a price, a vendor, parties or entities involved, tax information, an account number, security information, time, date or location of the captured financial transaction.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein updating the stored digital diary information comprises:

linking a plurality of stored digital diary records according to a specified theme or a shared factor.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining location information of the captured financial transaction; and

storing a digital diary record for the captured financial transaction along with the location information.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining time and date information of the captured financial transaction; and

storing a digital diary record for the captured financial transaction along with the time and date information.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a user interface on a display of the wireless communication device; and

presenting user interactive information of the digital diary information on the user interface.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

accepting user input via a touch screen of the user interface; and

modifying a digital diary record stored in the memory in response to the user input.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein storing the digital diary information in the memory comprises storing at least part of the digital diary information in a network memory remote from the wireless communication device.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving from the user, through a user interface of the wireless communication device, search criteria;

searching digital diary records stored in the memory for records matching the search criteria; and

presenting through the user interface the matching records.

11. A wireless communication device comprising:

memory to store data and instructions;

a processor in data communication with the memory and responsive to the stored data and instructions to control the wireless communication device;

a diary management module operative to organize digital diary information for accessing, updating, outputting and processing of the digital diary information, the digital diary information including a plurality of digital diary records stored in the memory by the diary management module;

a transaction capture module operative to automatically capture commercial transactions that a user of the wireless communication device may conduct; and

a user interface module operative to accept user input and provide user information to the user of the wireless communication device, the user input for use in a digital diary record of the plurality of digital diary records or for linking various digital diary information according to user-specified factors, the user input controlling the user interface module to modify a digital diary record stored in the memory in response to the user input.

12. The wireless communication device of claim 11 further comprising:

a communication module configured for wireless communication of data including digital diary data with one or more remote data resources.

13. The wireless communication device of claim 12 further comprising:

an external information source module configured to

automatically seek availability of updated digital diary data from a remote data resource,

receive the updated diary data when available, and

update appropriate digital diary records stored in the memory with the updated diary data.

14. The wireless communication device of claim 12 further comprising:

a multi-user management module configured to provide access to the digital diary information stored in the memory of the wireless communication device by a plurality of users of the wireless communication device.

15. The wireless communication device of claim 14 wherein the multi-user management module is configured to tailor digital diary functionality of the wireless communication device to each respective user of the plurality of users of the wireless communication device.

16. The wireless communication device of claim 11 further comprising:

a location capture module operable to acquire location information, wherein the wireless communication device is operative to link the acquired location information with items of the digital diary information.

17. A method comprising:

at a wireless communication device, receiving user input at a user interface to define digital diary information;

storing the digital diary information as one or more digital diary records in a memory of the wireless communication device;

determining a location associated with the user input;

storing location information for the determined location in a digital diary record;

automatically capturing a financial transaction involving the wireless communication device;

automatically determining a location of the captured financial transaction; and

automatically updating the digital diary information when some or all of the digital diary information has become obsolete or new information associated with digital diary information is available, including updating the stored digital diary information with information about the captured financial transaction and the location of the captured transaction.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

receiving multimedia data at the wireless communication device; and

based on content of the received multimedia data, updating the stored digital diary information.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

automatically capturing a credit card purchase as the captured financial transaction involving the wireless communication device;

automatically determining a location of the captured credit card purchase; and

updating the stored digital diary information with information about the captured credit card purchase and the location of the captured credit card purchase.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising:

based on user input, grouping a plurality of digital diary records of the one or more digital diary records, the grouping being according to a shared factor of the plurality of digital diary records.