Mobile device sharing facilitation methods and systems featuring a subset-specific source identification

• US 9,813,891 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2014
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bengzon, Greg C
• Application Number:
  US14/326,847
• Publication Number:
  US 20150094040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,217 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/43 Billing software details
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/765 Linked or grouped accounts, e.g. of users or devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/7652 shared by users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Structures and protocols are presented for using or otherwise relating to a first mobile device (a smartphone or tablet computer or wearable device, e.g.) configured to be shared by two or more parties such that a subset of the parties may be addressed selectively (in content directed to such parties, e.g.) in a cost-effective manner.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

at least one server device including one or more electronic devices including at least

circuitry configured for receiving, from a mobile device configured to be shared by two or more parties, a first communication including at least first user communication data, at least one first network routing tag indicating a second device, and at least one account-specific header designating the two or more parties;

circuitry configured for analyzing at least the first user communication data including at least image data sensed by at least one camera associated with the mobile device, the analyzing including at least analyzing the image data by data recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication;

circuitry configured for transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties;

circuitry configured for determining at least one response protocol based at least partly on the second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties; and

circuitry configured for triggering, in the second device, the determined at least one response protocol.

2. The communication system of claim 1 wherein the circuitry configured for transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties includes:

circuitry configured for transmitting a second communication including an account-specific header identifying the subset of the two or more parties.

3. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured for causing the mobile device to undergo a wireless linkage handover to or from a wireless local area network (WLAN) hotspot.

4. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for receiving, from a mobile device configured to be shared by two or more parties, a first communication including at least first user communication data, at least one first network routing tag indicating a second device, and at least one account-specific header designating the two or more parties includes:

circuitry configured for receiving, from the mobile device, a first communication including first user communication data and at least one telephone number associated with the second device.

5. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured for configuring a wireless transmission to include a channel establishment request as a component of the second communication.

6. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured for obtaining at least one virtual guest initiation control parameter proactively establishing a first guest period starting after a programmatic delay at the first mobile device.

7. The communication system of claim 1 wherein the circuitry configured for transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties includes:

circuitry configured for transmitting the second communication responsive to a determination whether the first communication lacked a party indication tag.

8. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured for posting a charge for a component of the second communication to an account specifically associated with one or more members of the first subset of the two or more parties.

9. The communication system of claim 1 wherein the circuitry configured for transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties includes:

circuitry configured for transmitting at least one interpersonal text message as a component of the first user communication data of the second communication.

10. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured for associating the mobile device including a handset with a specific routing tag.

11. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

circuitry configured for identifying the mobile device with a first virtual device identifier that corresponds to the identified subset of the two or more parties and to a single real mobile number that uniquely identifies the mobile device; and

circuitry configured for identifying the mobile device with a second virtual device identifier that corresponds to a second subset of the two or more parties and to the single real mobile number that uniquely identifies the mobile device.

12. The communication system of claim 1 wherein the circuitry configured for determining at least one response protocol based at least partly on the second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties includes:

circuitry configured for mapping a response protocol at the second device to an anonymous communication context where the second communication does not include a virtual device identifier identifying one or more members of the first subset of the two or more parties.

13. The communication system of claim 1 further comprising:

at least one of;

circuitry configured for terminating a temporary virtual guest privilege responsive to a user input before a guest period previously assigned to the mobile device expires automatically;

or

circuitry configured for obtaining a virtual guest initiation control parameter establishing a guest period starting after a programmatic delay at the first mobile device.

14. The communication system of claim 1 wherein the circuitry configured for determining at least one response protocol based at least partly on the second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties includes:

circuitry configured for determining at least one response protocol including at least one of passing a text message to a determined recipient, passing a voice mail silently to a determined recipient, passing an email directly to a determined recipient, determining a ring tone indicative of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties, causing a speaker on the second device to generate a “

traditional ring”

sound in a context of an incoming phone call, causing a speaker on the second device to generate a “

simple chime”

sound in a context of an incoming text, causing a speaker on the second device to generate at least one context-specific sound, routing a communication to a determined recipient, routing a communication to a default user, causing a speaker on the second device to generate a sound indicative of a sender of a communication, mapping an operational parameter to a specific recipient party identifier and to a context of a communication, mapping an invocation parameter to a specific destination party identification and to a context of a communication, determining an audible component, determining a party-specific response message, determining a response dependent upon whether another party is present in the image data, determining a response dependent upon whether a particular device initiated a communication, or determining a response dependent upon whether another entity apparently initiated a communication.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties includes:

at least one of;

transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes the first user communication data, and at least one of a virtual device identifier or spoofed source address indicative of the mobile device and the identified subset of the two or more parties;

or

transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes the first user communication data and at least one of a server-assigned virtual device identifier or server-assigned spoofed source address indicative of the mobile device and the identified subset of the two or more parties.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for analyzing at least the first user communication data including at least image data sensed by at least one camera associated with the mobile device, the analyzing including at least analyzing the image data by data recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication includes:

circuitry configured for analyzing at least audio data acquired by at least one microphone in the first user communication data by voice recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the circuitry configured for analyzing at least the first user communication data including at least image data sensed by at least one camera associated with the mobile device, the analyzing including at least analyzing the image data by data recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication includes:

circuitry configured for analyzing at least one image or video data acquired by at least one camera in the first user communication data by face recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication.

18. A communication system comprising:

at least one processor; and

one or more instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, program the at least one processor device for performing operations including at least;

receiving, from a mobile device configured to be shared by two or more parties, a first communication including at least first user communication data, at least one first network routing tag indicating a second device, and at least one account-specific header designating the two or more parties;

analyzing at least the first user communication data including at least image data sensed by at least one camera associated with the mobile device, the analyzing including at least analyzing the image data by data recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication;

transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties;

determining at least one response protocol based at least partly on the second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties; and

triggering, in the second device, the determined at least one response protocol.

19. A communication method comprising:

receiving, from a mobile device configured to be shared by two or more parties, a first communication including at least first user communication data, at least one first network routing tag indicating a second device, and at least one account-specific header designating the two or more parties;

analyzing at least the first user communication data including at least image data sensed by at least one camera associated with the mobile device, the analyzing including at least analyzing the image data by data recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication;

transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties;

determining at least one response protocol based at least partly on the second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties; and

triggering, in the second device, the determined at least one response protocol.

20. One or more non-transitory, computer readable medium configured to bear a device-detectable implementation of a method including at least:

receiving, from a mobile device configured to be shared by two or more parties, a first communication including at least first user communication data, at least one first network routing tag indicating a second device, and at least one account-specific header designating the two or more parties;

analyzing at least the first user communication data including at least image data sensed by at least one camera associated with the mobile device, the analyzing including at least analyzing the image data by data recognition and identifying at least presence or absence of a subset of the two or more parties sharing the mobile device who originated the first communication;

transmitting, to the second device, a second communication that includes at least the first user communication data and at least one second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of the subset of the two or more parties;

determining at least one response protocol based at least partly on the second network routing tag indicative of the mobile device and identification of at least presence or absence of the subset of the two or more parties; and

triggering, in the second device, the determined at least one response protocol.