Wireless data exchange
View Patent ↗A system of exchanging and managing information includes a mobile device configured to automatically insert, exchange and update a caller's contact information into a user's phonebook. The phonebook can reside on either the UICC card, SIM, USIM, Mega SIM, any other smart card or an integrated chip, on the mobile device or on a remote server. The automatic insert and/or automatic exchange mechanism is triggered when a call is made between two people on mobile phones or other devices.
1. An application module for use with a first wireless device and for automatically sending and receiving contact information between a first user of the first wireless device and a second user of a second wireless device, the application module being configured to:
detect a communication event occurring in the first wireless device, the communication event relating to a communication between the first user of the first wireless device and the second user of the second wireless device, the communication occurring over a wireless network;
obtain caller identification information related to the second wireless device;
trigger, in response to the detection of the communication event, the first wireless device to prompt the first user using the first wireless device, the prompt requesting permission from the first user to send contact information related to the first user that is stored in a memory of the first wireless device to the second wireless device, the permission being requested after the occurrence of the communication event;
retrieve, from the memory of the first wireless device, the contact information related to the first user of the first wireless device; and
cause the sending of the retrieved contact information relating to the first user over the wireless network to the second wireless device identified by the caller identification for the second wireless device in response to obtaining permission from the first user, the causing of the sending of the retrieved contact information includes the use of the obtained caller identification information related to the second wireless device.
2. The application module of claim 1 further configured to prompt the first user to store the contact information in the memory of the first wireless device and to update the contact information stored in the memory.
3. The application module of claim 2 further configured to cause the sending of updated contact information from the first wireless device to the second wireless device when the contact information is updated.
4. The application module of claim 1 further configured to cause the prompting of the second user to insert the first user contact information into the second wireless device.
5. The application module of claim 1 further configured to cause the inserting of the first user contact information into a memory of the second wireless device.
6. The application module of claim 5 wherein the contact information related to the first user is inserted into one of a Subscriber Identity Module, a UMTS Subscriber Identity Module, a smart card and an embedded chip included in the second wireless device.
7. The application module of claim 1 further configured to cause the sending of the first user contact information within a message comprising at least one of an SMS message and an MMS message to the second wireless device.
8. The application module of claim 1 further configured to:
receive contact information related to the second user of the second wireless device; and
prompt the first user of the first wireless device to accept the contact information related to the second user for storage in the memory of the first wireless device.
9. The application module of claim 1 further configured to reside on a server, the server being configured to interact with the first wireless device and the second wireless device over the wireless network.
10. The application module of claim 1 further configured to allow entry of a permission level for the contact information stored in the first wireless device.
11. The application module of claim 10 further configured to cause the sending of information associated with the first wireless device that corresponds to the permission level to the second wireless device.
12. The application module of claim 10 , the permission level corresponding to the second wireless device.
13. The application module of claim 10 further configured to store a sent record to indicate at least one of a time of sent data, a destination number, and a permission level.