Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080222625 | SMART CONTACT LIST - An application for a mobile communications device includes a contact list application providing contact list operations for contact details of at least one contact, the contact details including at least one instance of updatable contact data associated with the contact, and an updater updating the updatable contact data from an external update source specified in the updatable contact data. A contact list update method includes, for each contact having an updatable contact detail, accessing an update source specified in the updatable contact detail, receiving at least one of the updated versions from the update source, and assigning the updated version to the contact. A mobile communication device includes a contact list application displaying a media clip upon communication with an entity listed as part of the contact details of a contact and an updater updating the media clip from an external update source specified as part of the contact details. | 09-11-2008 |
20090203391 | CONTACT MATCHING OF CHANGING CONTENT ACROSS PLATFORMS - A method includes matching at least one device-associated contact from a list of contacts on a mobile device with at least one web-associated contact from another list of contacts associated with a web-based application and downloading media content associated with the at least one web-associated contact to the mobile device with an indication of the device-associated contact with which it is to be associated. The mobile device launches media content associated with a contact on the occasion of call related activity with the contact. | 08-13-2009 |
20110010630 | PERSONALIZATION CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method includes enabling a user to define his/her buddies from among members of a community and enabling the user to select media content to be played on devices of his/her buddies. Another method includes providing media content chosen by a first user to be played by a media player on a device of a second user in response to an identification of the first user. | 01-13-2011 |
20110015970 | VOTING SYSTEM WITH CONTENT - An apparatus includes a database of content and a content system. The database stores content related to a set of entities to be voted upon in a voting system, wherein there is at least one piece of content for each selection. The content system receives a vote of a user from the voting system and at least an identifier of a cellphone of the user and provides content related to the vote from the database to the cellphone. At least a portion of the content is playable on the cellphone. | 01-20-2011 |
20110183724 | GENERATION OF VIDEO CLIPS FROM A FRIEND'S RECENT SOCIAL STREAM - A method for playing ringtones on a user's communications device includes requesting a media ringtone to be generated from at least a media stream of a friend, where the media stream is accessible to the user via a social network, receiving the media ringtone on the device, associating the media ringtone with said friend; and playing the media ringtone upon an occasion of a communications related triggering event between the user and the friend. | 07-28-2011 |
20120071142 | GENERATION OF MULTI-MEDIA RINGTONES FROM A FRIEND'S RECENT SOCIAL DATA - A communications device includes a receiver to receive social data of a friend of a user of the communications device and an animator to animate the social data for playing on the communications device upon an occasion of a communications related triggering event between the user and the friend. | 03-22-2012 |
20120094726 | Personalization content sharing system and method - A method for playing video ringtones on a communication device of a user includes a downloadable application on the communication device receiving a video ringtone to be associated with a buddy of the user, the communication device receiving a call-related triggering event related to the buddy and in response to the call-related triggering event, the communication device playing the video ringtone. A further method includes the communication device receiving a call-related triggering event related to a buddy of the user; and in response to the call-related triggering event, the communication device activating a functionality of the communication device. | 04-19-2012 |
20120264464 | PERSONALIZATION CONTENT SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for a downloadable personalization content manager to present media content on a communication device of a user includes the downloadable personalization content manager receiving video content and in response to a non-call activating event, the downloadable personalization content manager enabling presentation of said video content to take precedence over the activating of other applications for said non-call activating event. | 10-18-2012 |