Apparatus and method for creating, addressing and modifying related data

• US 9,146,924 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2009
• Issued: 09/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vayyoo, Inc. (Chimespaces)
• Original Assignee: Vayyoo, Inc. (Chimespaces)
• Inventors: Munje, Arun, Kaul, Shailesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Matt
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shiberou, Mahelet
• Application Number:
  US12/551,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20100058217A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,220 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/41 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/436 using biological or physiological data of a human being, e.g. blood pressure, facial expression, gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

A method for creating a structured data collection comprising collecting at least two data components using a data capture device assigning the same unique identifier to all of the data components whereby the items of data identified by the same unique identifier form a bundle of data.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising a screen, a data capture device, a device memory, and a data capture user interface comprising:

functionality configured to invoke a data capture session for bundling data objects into a DataPack comprising a structured data collection at the mobile device;

data capture functionality configured to activate the data capture device for capturing, a plurality of captured data objects during the data capture session, wherein at least one of the plurality of captured data objects is newly acquired by the mobile device from a data source during the data capture session;

functionality configured to store the plurality of captured data objects in the device memory as associated with the data capture session;

at least one preview panel for only displaying a representation of the plurality of captured data objects associated with the data capture session for editing on the screen;

functionality configured to select at least one of the plurality of captured data objects in response to a user input at the user interface and bundle the selected at least one of the plurality of captured data objects into the DataPack at the mobile device; and

functionality configured to invoke assignment of a unique identifier on the mobile device during a data capture session to the selected at least one of the plurality of captured data objects to create the DataPack.

2. The device of claim 1 further comprising functionality configured to display a field on the screen containing at least one type-in line for the input of textual notations.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein activation of the data capture functionality causes capture of a captured data object and display of a representation of the data object in the preview panel.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein the captured data objects are selected from the group consisting of an image, a digital audio recording, a video recording, data from a wireless connection, and location data.

5. The device of claim 1 further comprising functionality configured to launch transmission of the Datapack.

6. The device of claim 5 wherein the functionality configured to launch the transmission is selected from the group consisting of a hot key and a widget on the mobile device whereby the hot key or widget is mapped to a particular transmission destination.

7. The device of claim 5 wherein the transmission occurs in the background without impeding, other applications.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the functionality configured to invoke assignment of a unique identifier is selected from the group consisting of a hot key and a widget on the mobile device which is mapped to the data capture functionality whereby activation of the hot key or widget activates the data capture functionality.

9. The device of claim 1 further comprising functionality to generate a template form to which one or more data objects can be assigned.

10. The device of claim 1 further comprising functionality configured to invoke the data capture session through a selected application, wherein a context for the DataPack is provided by the selected application.

11. The device of claim 1 further comprising a context based status indicator that indicates a status of the Datapack.

22. The device of claim 1 further comprising functionality configured to acquire other data and wherein the functionality configured to bundle the selected at least one of the plurality of captured data objects to create a DataPack further comprises bundling the other data with the selected at least one of the captured data objects.

23. The device of claim 1 further including functionality configured to continuously collect data objects during a data capture session.

12. A method of capturing and displaying data on a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a device memory, a data capture device, a preview panel and a data capture bundling application, the method comprising:

(a) activating the data bundling application and opening a data capture session on the mobile device for bundling data objects into a DataPack comprising a structured data collection;

(b) activating the data capture device in response to activation of the data bundling application;

(c) acquiring, during the data capture session, a plurality of data objects using the data capture device and storing the data objects in the device memory as associated with the data capture session, wherein at least one of the plurality of captured data objects is newly acquired by the mobile device from a data source during the data capture session;

(d) displaying, during the session, only the plurality of captured data objects associated with the data capture session for editing in a preview panel on the mobile device;

(e) selecting at least one of the plurality of captured data objects for bundling into the DataPack in response to a user input at the user interface;

(f) bundling the selected at least one of the plurality of captured data objects acquired by the data capture device to create the DataPack; and

(g) assigning a unique identifier on the mobile device to the DataPack during the data capture session.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising a send application and activating the send application to send the DataPack to at least one destination.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the data newly acquired from the mobile device from a data source during the data session is selected from the group consisting of an image, a digital audio recording, a video recording, data from a wireless connection, and location data.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the data not newly acquired by the mobile device from a data source during the data session is selected from the group consisting of an image, a digital audio recording, location data, a video recording, data from a wireless connection, and text.

16. The method of claim 12 further comprising opening a session of another application, activating the data bundling application from the another application and providing a context for the DataPack through the another application.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising transferring data from the another application to the DataPack.

18. The method of claim 12 further comprising providing a functionality key mapped to a certain destination and sending the DataPack to the certain destination.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising displaying the status of the sending of the DataPack.

20. The method of claim 12 further comprising a template associated with the DataPack and auto-populating at least a portion of the template.

21. The method of claim 12 further comprising acquiring other data and storing the other data in the device memory and bundling the other data with the selected at least one of the plurality of captured data objects to create a DataPack.

24. The method of claim 12 wherein in step (c), further comprising continuously collecting at least some data objects during the session.