METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS
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Abstract
A method is shown in which a wireless picture phone receives updated contact data from a computer utilizing a wireless connection.
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67 Claims
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33. A method of automatically updating a database in a wireless portable communication device, wherein the database contains contact data that is associated with actual or potential communicants, comprising:
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initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator;
receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device;
causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device;
maintaining contact data in a database resident in a computer system, the contact data comprised of at least one of name, telephone number, address, sound or image information;
transmitting updated and/or new contact data from the computer system to the wireless portable communication device using a radio frequency communication link, and;
receiving the transmitted updated and/or new contact data in the wireless portable communication device and updating the database resident in the wireless portable communication device. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A method of automatically updating a database in a wireless portable communication device, wherein the database contains contact data that is associated with actual or potential communicants, comprising:
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initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator;
receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator, and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device;
causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device;
maintaining contact data in a database resident in a computer system, the contact data comprised of at least a name;
transmitting updated and/or new contact data from the computer system to a wireless portable communication device using a radio frequency communication link, and;
receiving the transmitted updated and/or new contact data in the wireless portable personal communication device and updating the database resident in the wireless portable communication device.
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64. A method of automatically updating a database in a wireless portable communication device, wherein the database contains contact data that is associated with actual or potential communicants, comprising:
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initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator;
receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator, and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device;
causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device;
maintaining contact data in a database resident in a computer system, the contact data comprised of at least a telephone number;
transmitting updated and/or new contact data from the computer system to a wireless portable communication device using a radio frequency communication link, and;
receiving the transmitted updated and/or new contact data in the wireless portable communication device and updating the database resident in the wireless portable communication device.
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65. A method of automatically updating a database in a wireless portable communication device, wherein the database contains contact data that is associated with actual or potential communicants, comprising:
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initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator;
receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device;
causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device;
maintaining contact data in a database resident in a computer system, the contact data comprised of at least an address;
transmitting updated and/or new contact data from the computer system to a wireless portable personal communication device using a radio frequency communication link, and;
receiving the transmitted updated and/or new contact data in the wireless portable communication device and updating the database resident in the wireless portable communication device.
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66. A method of automatically updating a database in a wireless portable communication device, wherein the database contains contact data that is associated with actual or potential communicants, comprising:
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initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator;
receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device;
causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device;
maintaining contact data in a database resident in a computer system, the contact data comprised of at least a sound;
transmitting updated and/or new contact data from the computer system to a wireless personal communication device using a radio frequency communication link, and;
receiving the transmitted updated and/or new contact data in the wireless portable communication device and updating the database resident in the wireless portable communication device.
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67. A method of automatically updating a database in a wireless portable communication device, wherein the database contains contact data that is associated with actual or potential communicants, comprising:
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initiating a message from a message originator to a message recipient under the control of the message originator;
receiving at a message center coupled to a communications network both message originator information provided automatically by the communications network as the caller ID identifying the telephone number of the message originator, and a picture obtained from the message originator prior to transmitting the caller ID to a wireless portable communication device;
causing the communications network to wirelessly transmit the caller ID and the picture from the message center to the wireless portable communication device;
maintaining contact data in a database resident in a computer system, the contact data comprised of at least image information;
transmitting updated and/or new contact data from the computer system to a wireless portable communication device using a radio frequency communication link, and;
receiving the transmitted updated and/or new contact data in the wireless portable communication device and updating the database resident in the wireless portable communication device.
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Specification