Synchronization of Mobile Terminals

• US 20090163244A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piece Future Pte., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Titola, Johanna Maria, Kaarela, Kari Pentti Ilari, Mikkonen, Kimmo Matti, Hyvarinen, Mikko Antti Juhani, Keinanen, Antti Pekka Juhani, Bergstrom, Terje Kennet, Leukkunen, Marko Johannes, Parkkinen, Jukka Antero, Majava, Laura Johanna, Koistinen, Kirmo Kalevi
• Granted Patent: US 8,010,158 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/60 logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs logging of telephone numbers H04M1/56, H04M1/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

Embodiments are directed to activation and performance of multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“multi-SIM”) automatic synchronization of mobile devices. A user may specify one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed, which may include incoming calls, sent text messages, and the like. Information about an answered incoming call may be sent from a first mobile device to at least one additional mobile device so that the at least one mobile device may update at least one call log and may remove at least one notification for the call accordingly. When multi-SIM automatic synchronization is performed for sent text messages, the first mobile device may send a copy of the sent text message to the at least one additional mobile device so that the received copy may be stored in the sent messages folder of the at least one additional mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying a query for user input regarding activation of multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“

multi-SIM”

) automatic synchronization;

in response to user input indicating that multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be activated, displaying a query for user input regarding one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed;

sending from a first mobile device to at least one additional mobile device a request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device for the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed; and

upon receiving from the at least one additional mobile device notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device, activating multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the first mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes incoming calls and further comprising:

sending from the first mobile device to the at least one additional mobile device information about an answered incoming call.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes sent text messages and further comprising:

sending from the first mobile device to the first mobile device and the at least one additional mobile device a copy of a sent text message.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

deleting the copy of the sent text message received by the first mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile device wirelessly sends the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization directly to the at least one additional mobile device and wirelessly receives the notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization directly from the at least one additional mobile device.

6. A method comprising:

receiving at one or more additional mobile devices a request from a first mobile device to activate multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“

multi-SIM”

) automatic synchronization on the one or more additional mobile devices for one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed;

displaying a query for user input regarding activation of multi-SIM automatic synchronization; and

in response to user input indicating that multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be activated, sending from the one or more additional mobile devices to the first mobile device notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the one or more additional mobile devices and activating multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the one or more additional mobile devices.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes incoming calls and further comprising:

receiving at the one or more additional mobile devices information about an answered incoming call from the first mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

in response to receiving the information about the answered incoming call from the first mobile device, updating one or more logs on the one or more additional mobile devices to show that the call was answered and removing one or more notifications that erroneously indicate that the answered call is a missed call.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes sent text messages and further comprising:

receiving at the one or more additional mobile devices one or more copies of a sent text message from the first mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

storing the one or more copies of the sent text message received by the one or more additional mobile devices in one or more sent messages folders of the one or more additional mobile devices.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization is wirelessly received directly from the first mobile device, and the notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization is wirelessly sent directly to the first mobile device.

12. An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory containing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

displaying a query for user input regarding activation of multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“

multi-SIM”

) automatic synchronization;

in response to user input indicating that multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be activated, displaying a query for user input regarding one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed;

sending from a first mobile device to at least one additional mobile device a request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device for the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed; and

upon receiving from the at least one additional mobile device notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device, activating multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the first mobile device.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes incoming calls and containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

sending from the first mobile device to the at least one additional mobile device information about an answered incoming call.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes sent text messages and containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

sending from the first mobile device to the first mobile device and the at least one additional mobile device a copy of a sent text message.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

deleting the copy of the sent text message received by the first mobile device.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first mobile device wirelessly sends the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization directly to the at least one additional mobile device and wirelessly receives the notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization directly from the at least one additional mobile device.

17. An apparatus comprising a processor and a memory containing executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

receiving at one or more additional mobile devices a request from a first mobile device to activate multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“

multi-SIM”

) automatic synchronization on the one or more additional mobile devices for one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed;

displaying a query for user input regarding activation of multi-SIM automatic synchronization; and

in response to user input indicating that multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be activated, sending from the one or more additional mobile devices to the first mobile device notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the one or more additional mobile devices and activating multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the one or more additional mobile devices.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes incoming calls and containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

receiving at the one or more additional mobile devices information about an answered incoming call from the first mobile device.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

in response to receiving the information about the answered incoming call from the first mobile device, updating one or more logs on the one or more additional mobile devices to show that the call was answered and removing one or more notifications that erroneously indicate that the answered call is a missed call.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes sent text messages and containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

receiving at the one or more additional mobile devices one or more copies of a sent text message from the first mobile device.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, containing further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

storing the one or more copies of the sent text message received by the one or more additional mobile devices in one or more sent messages folders of the one or more additional mobile devices.

22. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization is wirelessly received directly from the first mobile device, and the notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization is wirelessly sent directly to the first mobile device.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes sent text messages and the computer-readable medium has recorded thereon further executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform:

sending from the first mobile device to the first mobile device and the at least one additional mobile device a copy of a sent text message; and

deleting the copy of the sent text message received by the first mobile device.

23. A computer-readable medium having recorded thereon computer-executable instructions, that, when executed, perform operations comprising:

displaying a query for user input regarding activation of multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“

multi-SIM”

) automatic synchronization;

in response to user input indicating that multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be activated, displaying a query for user input regarding one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed;

sending from a first mobile device to at least one additional mobile device a request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device for the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed; and

upon receiving from the at least one additional mobile device notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device, activating multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the first mobile device.

25. The computer-readable medium of claim 23, wherein the first mobile device wirelessly sends the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization directly to the at least one additional mobile device and wirelessly receives the notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization directly from the at least one additional mobile device.

26. Apparatus comprising:

means for displaying a query for user input regarding activation of multiple-subscriber-identity-module (“

multi-SIM”

) automatic synchronization;

means for displaying a query for user input regarding one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed in response to user input indicating that multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be activated;

means for sending from a first mobile device to at least one additional mobile device a request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device for the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed; and

means for activating multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the first mobile device upon receiving from the at least one additional mobile device notification of acceptance of the request to activate multi-SIM automatic synchronization on the at least one additional mobile device.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the one or more data types for which multi-SIM automatic synchronization should be performed includes incoming calls and further comprising:

means for sending from the first mobile device to the at least one additional mobile device information about an answered incoming call.