Mobile interactive kiosk method

• US 9,860,305 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Manna LLC
• Original Assignee: Manna LLC
• Inventors: Raboin, James P.
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US14/206,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,392 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709228, 709226, 709229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

An information exchange system includes a mobile electronic device and a stationary electronic device. The mobile electronic device generates a transient or mobile information cloud around the user and includes a range selector module associated that receives input from the user regarding a physical range to extend the mobile information cloud around the user. The stationary electronic device generates a stationary information cloud. At an intersection of the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud, information is exchanged between the mobile electronic device and the stationary electronic device.

Claims

1. An information exchange system, comprising

a mobile electronic device that generates a transient or mobile information cloud around the user;

a range selector module associated with the mobile electronic device that receives input from the user regarding a physical range to extend the mobile information cloud around the user;

a stationary electronic device that generates a stationary information cloud; and

an intersection of the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud where information is exchanged between the mobile electronic device and the stationary electronic device; and

an information cloud that includes at least a mobile information cloud and a stationary information cloud.

2. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein information between the mobile electronic device and the stationary electronic device via the intersection of the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud includes at least one of push, pull, and two-way communication.

3. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein the mobile electronic device includes one or more privacy filters to control information shared with the stationary electronic device via the intersection of the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud.

4. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein the stationary cloud is in proximity to one or more of a street, highway, road, house, retail store, bank, church, stadium, and service business.

5. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein the mobile electronic device comprises one or more of a cellular phone, tablet computer, laptop computer and desktop computer.

6. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of information exchanged via the intersection of the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud is deleted once contact between the mobile information cloud and the stationary information cloud is removed.

7. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein the mobile electronic device is paired with a user.

8. The information exchange system of claim 1, wherein the stationary information cloud is generated in a location that is remote from the stationary electronic device.

9. An information exchange system, comprising

a mobile electronic device that generates a first transient or mobile information cloud around the user;

a temporary cloud environment generated by one or more other electronic devices; and

an intersection of the first mobile information cloud and the temporary information cloud where information is exchanged between the mobile electronic device and the one or more other electronic devices.

10. The information exchange system of claim 9, wherein information exchanged between the mobile electronic device and the one or more other electronic devices is deleted from at least the mobile electronic device when intersection between the first mobile information cloud and the temporary information cloud is terminated.

11. The information exchange system of claim 9, wherein the mobile electronic device includes one or more privacy filters to control information shared with the temporary cloud environment via the intersection of the first mobile information cloud and the temporary cloud environment.

12. The information exchange system of claim 11, wherein private communications between the mobile electronic device and a selected one or more electronic devices is initiated through the intersection of the first mobile information cloud and the temporary information cloud.

13. The information exchange system of claim 12, wherein the one or more privacy filters determines whether private communications may be initiated between the mobile electronic device and the selected one or more electronic devices.

14. The information exchange system of claim 13, wherein the one or more privacy filters determines whether private communications may be received by the mobile electronic device from the one or more electronic devices.

15. The information exchange system of claim 12, further including:

a range selector module associated with the mobile electronic device that receives input from the user regarding a physical range to extend the first mobile information cloud around the user.

16. The information exchange system of claim 13, wherein the user dynamically modifies the physical range to modify the intersection of the first mobile information cloud and the temporary information cloud.

17. The information exchange system of claim 9, wherein the mobile electronic device is paired with a user.

18. The information exchange system of claim 9, wherein the temporary cloud environment is generated in a location remote from the one or more other electronic devices.

19. The information exchange system of claim 9, wherein the temporary cloud environment is a second transient or mobile information cloud generated by a second mobile electronic device associated with a second user.

20. The information exchange system of claim 19, wherein user identification and location information is exchanged between the first and second mobile electronic devices in response to an intersection between the first mobile information cloud and the second mobile information cloud.