Mobile device address book builder

• US 20070053335A1
• Filed: 05/19/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Synchronoss Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Synchronoss Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Onyon, Richard, Stannard, Liam, Ridgard, Leighton
• Application Number:
  US11/437,554
• Publication Number:
  US 20070053335A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• 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

Technology is provided to allow users of wireless mobile devices to propagate personal contact information to other users in an automated fashion. Users can create a “persona” of information which is made public, or destined for groups or individual friends, which is then distributed and added to the mobile device'"'"'s address book or other data store in an automated or semi-automated fashion. A process for installing personification information to a first wireless device includes: detecting a communication initiation between the first wireless device and a second wireless device user; in response to said detecting, retrieving published persona information of the second wireless device user; and storing the published persona information in an address book on the first wireless device.

Claims

1. A process for installing personification information to a first wireless device, comprising:

detecting a communication initiation between the first wireless device and a second wireless device user;

in response to said detecting, retrieving published persona information of the second wireless device user; and

storing the published persona information in an address book on the first wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first wireless device user is a persona service subscriber and the information is transferred automatically.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the first wireless device user is not a subscriber service user.

4. The method of claim 3 said retrieving step requires the first user to subscribe to a persona service.

5. The method of claim 4 further including inviting the first wireless device user to become a persona service subscriber.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said method further includes prompting the first user to indicate whether the user wishes to receive persona information, and said step of retrieving is responsive to said prompting.

7. The method of claim 2 wherein the second wireless device user is a persona subscriber and said retrieving step retrieves persona information following a prompt to the first user to indicate whether the first user wishes to receive persona information for the second user.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of retrieving includes retrieving persona information from the second wireless device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of retrieving includes retrieving persona information from an enterprise service provider.

10. The method of claim 1 further including the step of updating the persona information on the second wireless device following changes to the personal information by the first wireless device user.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication is an SMS message.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication is a phone call between the devices.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication is an email between the devices.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication is initiated by the first wireless device to the second wireless device user.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication is initiated by the second wireless device user to the first wireless device user.

16. A computer implemented process for transferring user published persona information to a first wireless device, comprising:

receiving said user published persona information;

detecting a communication between the first wireless device and the user operating a second wireless device; and

forwarding the user published persona information to the first wireless device.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein a first wireless device user is a persona service subscriber and the information is transferred automatically.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein a first wireless device user is not a subscriber service user.

19. The method of claim 18 said forwarding step is initiated only after the first user subscribes to a persona information service.

20. The method of claim 19 further including inviting the first wireless device user to become a persona information service subscriber.

21. The method of claim 16 wherein said method further includes prompting a user on the first wireless device to indicate whether the user wishes to receive persona information, and said step of forwarding is responsive to said prompting

22. The method of claim 16 wherein the step of detecting comprises receiving a signal from an agent on said first wireless device indicating that a communication establishment has occurred.

23. A computer implemented process for automatically installing user defined persona information to a contact store on a wireless device, comprising:

maintaining a data store of user defined persona information for a persona information service subscriber;

detecting a communication between the subscriber and a wireless device user;

providing user defined persona information for the subscriber from data store to the wireless device via the wireless link.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the wireless device user is also a subscriber and the persona information is transferred automatically.

25. The method of claim 23 wherein the wireless device user is not a subscriber and the method further includes inviting the wireless device user to become a persona information service subscriber.

26. The method of claim 23 wherein the wireless device user is not a subscriber and the method further includes providing user defined persona information for the subscriber to the wireless device user following a request from said subscriber.

27. The method of claim 23 wherein the step of detecting comprises receiving a signal from an agent on said wireless device indicating that a communication establishment has occurred.