Interactive profile cards for mobile device

• US 8,793,615 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Issued: 07/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Stallings, Heath, Roberts, Brian F., Relyea, Donald H. Jr., Dunnam, Daniel Spurgeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar
• Assistant Examiner(s): BHARGAVA, ANIL K
• Application Number:
  US12/341,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20100162167A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,045 Days
• Field of Search: 715/811
• US Class Current: 715/811
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27457 Management thereof, e.g. manual editing of data
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/575 Means for retrieving and displaying personal data about calling party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A device receives a request to display an interactive profile card for a particular contact and retrieves contact-related items for the particular contact. The device also retrieves a template for the interactive profile card and generates a graphic representing a contact-related item. The device displays the template with the graphic and executes a peripheral application to present the contact-related item when the graphic is selected by a user of the computing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a request to display an interactive profile card for a particular contact;

retrieving, by the computing device, one or more contact-related items associated with the interactive profile card,

the one or more contact-related items being provided by the particular contact;

associating, by the computing device, the one or more contact-related items with a particular peripheral application, of a plurality of peripheral applications associated with the computing device;

identifying, by the computing device, one or more other contact-related items associated with the particular peripheral application,

the one or more other contact-related items being provided by a user of the computing device;

presenting, by the computing device and based on receiving the request, the interactive profile card,

the interactive profile card including a plurality of categories,

each category, of the plurality of categories, including one of the one or more contact-related items associated with the particular contact;

receiving, by the computing device, a selection of a category of the plurality of categories;

retrieving, by the computing device and based on the selection, a plurality of items, associated with the selected category, for the particular contact,

the plurality of items including;

at least one of the one or more contact-related items provided by the particular contact and at least one of the one or more other contact-related items provided by the user;

generating, by the computing device, a plurality of graphics representing the plurality of items;

displaying, on a display of the computing device, the plurality of graphics;

receiving, by the computing device, a selection of a graphic of the plurality of graphics,

the graphic being associated with an item of the plurality of items; and

executing, by the computing device and based on receiving the selection of the graphic, the particular peripheral application to present the item for display to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

associating the graphic with a link to the particular peripheral application.

3. The method of claim 1, where the one or more contact-related items provided by the particular contact is retrieved from a server of a service provider.

4. The method of claim 3, where the one or more contact-related items are included in a contact profile of the particular contact that is stored on the server and is managed by the particular contact.

5. The method of claim 1, where the graphic includes:

a time indicator,

an item indicator, or

a peripheral application identifier.

6. The method of claim 1, where the particular peripheral application includes:

a telephone application,

a text-messaging application,

an email application,

an instant messaging (IM) application,

a calendar application,

a multimedia messaging service (MMS) application,

a short message service (SMS) application,

a navigation application, or

a social networking service.

7. The method of claim 1, where the computing device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal, or

a personal digital assistant (PDA).

8. The method of claim 1, where the request to display the interactive profile card is generated during a phone call on the computing device.

9. The method of claim 1, where the computing device comprises one or more of:

a laptop computer,

a personal computer,

a tablet computer,

an ultra-mobile personal computer,

a personal gaming system, or

a global positioning system (GPS) unit.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prompting the user, during a telephone call, to request the interactive profile card for the particular contact; and

where retrieving the one or more contact-related items includes;

retrieving the one or more contact-related items during the telephone call.

11. A device comprising:

a memory to store a plurality of instructions; and

a processor to execute instructions in the memory to;

receive a request to display an interactive profile card for a particular contact;

retrieve a plurality of contact-related items, associated with a selected contact-related category, of a plurality of contact-related categories, for the particular contact,

the plurality of contact-related items being provided by the particular contact;

associate each contact-related item, of the plurality of contact-related items, with a corresponding peripheral application of a plurality of peripheral applications;

identify one or more other contact-related items associated with each peripheral application of the plurality of peripheral applications,

the one or more other contact related items associated with each peripheral application being provided by a user of the device;

retrieve a template for the interactive profile card,

the template including indications of the plurality of contact-related categories, the one or more other contact-related items associated with each peripheral application, and the plurality of contact-related items;

generate a plurality of graphics representing the plurality of contact-related items and the one or more other contact-related items associated with each peripheral application;

display, based on the template, the interactive profile card including plurality of graphics;

receive a selection of a graphic of the plurality of graphics,

the graphic being associated with a contact-related item of the plurality of contact-related items or a contact-related item of the one or more other contact-related items associated with each peripheral application; and

execute, based on receiving the selection of the graphic, a peripheral application, of the plurality of peripheral applications, to present the contact-related item of the plurality of contact-related items or the contact-related item of the one or more other contact-related items to the user.

12. The device of claim 11, where the peripheral application includes:

a telephone application,

a text-messaging application,

an email application,

an instant messaging (IM) application,

a calendar application,

an image viewing application,

a video application,

an audio application,

a multimedia messaging service (MMS) application,

a short message service (SMS) application,

a navigation application, or

a social networking service.

13. The device of claim 11, where, when retrieving the plurality of contact-related items for the particular contact, the processor is further to execute the instructions in the memory to:

retrieve a contact profile of the particular contact,

the contact profile including the plurality of contact-related items, and

the plurality of contact-related items, included in the contact profile, including one or more of;

an image file provided by the particular contact,

a video file provided by the particular contact, or

an audio file provided by the particular contact.

14. The device of claim 13, where the contact profile of the particular contact is retrieved from a server of a service provider.

15. The device of claim 13, where the contact profile of the particular contact is managed by the particular contact.

16. The device of claim 11, where the processor further executes instructions in the memory to:

associate the graphic with a link to the peripheral application.

17. The device of claim 11, where the processor further executes instruction in the memory to:

prompt the user, during the telephone call, to request the contact-related items associated with the particular contact.

18. The device of claim 11, where the device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal,

a personal digital assistant (PDA),

a laptop computer,

a personal computer,

a tablet computer,

an ultra-mobile personal computer,

a gaming system, or

a global positioning system (GPS) unit.

19. A device comprising:

one or more processors to;

receive, during a telephone call, a request to display an interactive profile card for a particular contact;

retrieve, from a remote server, a profile for the particular contact,

the profile including contact-related items provided by the particular contact;

associate each contact-related item, of the contact-related items, with a corresponding peripheral application of a plurality of peripheral applications;

identify one or more other contact-related items associated with each peripheral application of the plurality of peripheral applications;

display, on a display of the device, the interactive profile card,

the interactive profile card including;

a plurality of contact-related categories associated with the plurality of peripheral applications and the particular contact;

graphics associated with one or more of the contact-related items provided by the particular contact and associated with a particular contact-related category of the plurality of contact-related categories, and

graphics associated with the one or more other contact-related items identified as being associated with a peripheral application, of the plurality of peripheral applications, associated with the particular contact-related category; and

execute the peripheral application to;

present a particular contact-related item, of the one or more contact-related items provided by the particular contact, when a graphic of the graphics associated with the one or more contact-related items is selected by the user,

the graphic being associated with the particular contact related item, and

present a particular other contact-related item, of the one or more other contact-related items identified as being associated with the peripheral application, when a graphic of the graphics associated with the one or more other contact-related items identified as being associated with the peripheral application is selected by the user.

20. The device of claim 19, where the one or more processors are further to:

identify a type of peripheral application associated with each contact-related item, of the contact-related items, and

where, when associating each contact related item, of the contact-related items, with the corresponding peripheral application, the one or more processors are to;

associate each contact-related item, of the contact-related items, with the corresponding peripheral application based on the type of peripheral application associated with each contact-related item.

21. The device of claim 19, where the one or more processors are further to:

prompt the user, during the telephone call, to request the interactive profile card for the particular contact.