Architecture optimized for application data sharing within a mobile communications device
View Patent ↗The present disclosure discloses a scheme for sharing data among multiple applications within a mobile communications device. The scheme involves performing a remote database inquiry with respect to a remote database accessible via a wireless packet data service network, wherein the remote database inquiry is performed as part of a first application available on the mobile communications device. The information resulting from the remote database inquiry is then stored in a local common database object that is accessible to a second application available on the mobile communications device.
1. A method for sharing address data among multiple applications on a mobile communications device, comprising:
receiving, at the mobile communication device, a query from a query source, wherein the query source is an application disposed on the mobile communication device;
searching a local common database disposed on the mobile communications device for a local matching record meeting conditions of the received query, the local common database being accessible to an address book application and a messaging application disposed on the mobile communications device;
if at least one local matching record is found in the local common database:
presenting the at least one local matching record to the query source; and
receiving an indication from the query source indicating whether any of the at least one local matching record is acceptable;
if no local matching record is found in the local common database or if none of the at least one local matching record is indicated as being acceptable:
querying, via a wireless packet data service network, a remote address database disposed on a remote server, for a remote matching record meeting conditions of the received query;
if at least one remote matching record is found in the remote address database:
receiving via the wireless packet data service network the at least one remote matching record;
presenting the at least one remote matching record to the query source;
receiving an indication from the query source indicating whether any of the at least one remote matching record is acceptable; and
updating the local common database to incorporate a remote matching record if a remote matching record is indicated as being acceptable.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the query source is the messaging application.
3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:
accessing the local common database to use the incorporated remote matching record from an application other than the messaging application.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein the application is the address book application.