Network updates of time and location

• US 9,769,593 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2014
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Taveau, Sebastien, Stone, Carl, Naaman, Nadav, Nahari, Hadi
• Primary Examiner(s): Jain, Ankur
• Application Number:
  US14/331,148
• Publication Number:
  US 20140323052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• Field of Search: 455 412
• 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 and 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 system for wirelessly communicating information, comprising:

a non-transitory memory; and

one or more hardware processors in communication with the memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

establishing a second communication link between a first device and a second device;

in response to the establishing, determining a time based on a movement of the first device associated with a first user and a movement of a component in the second device associated with a second user;

determining a location based on the movement of the first device and the movement of the component of the second device;

analyzing the time location to determine if a previously stored time and location for the second user exists, the analyzing including searching for a downloaded first time and first movement of the component in the second device received during a first communication link established between the first device and the second device;

locating the second user on a contact list of the first user; and

adding the time and the location to information corresponding to the second user on a contact list of the first user, without replacing the previously stored first time and first location for the second user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication link between the first device and the second device is established based on the movement of the first device and the movement of the component of the second device at the same time.

3. The system 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 to the information corresponding to the second user.

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

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

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

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the information is visible to the first user on the first device when contact information for the second user is viewed.

8. 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 second communication link between a first device and a second device;

in response to the establishing, determining a time based on a movement of a first device associated with a first user and a movement of at least a component in a second device associated with a second user;

determining a location based on the movement of the first device and the movement of at least a component of the second device;

analyzing the time and the location to determine if a previously stored time and location for the second user exists, the analyzing including searching for a downloaded first time and first movement of the component in the second device received during a first communication link established between the first device and the second device;

locating the second user on a contact list of the first user; and

adding the time and the location to information corresponding to the second user on the contact list of the first user, without replacing previously stored time location for the second user.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein at least one of the first and second devices enables a user to enter information associated with the time and location to the information corresponding to the second user.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein both the time and location information are transferred to the first and second devices.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the information is visible to the first user on the first device when contact information for the second user is viewed.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the information is used to determine an elapsed time between a first and a second communication established based on movements of the first and second devices.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the information is used to determine a distance between a first and a second communication established based movements of the first and second devices.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, 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 movements of the first and second devices.