Method and device for speeding up and simplifying information transfer between electronic devices
Method and device for transmitting information between electronic devices, which are able to send and to receive information as well as be in wireless communication connection with each other. In the method an active communication connection is identified and in case the communication connection is active following phases are carried out: the first earlier mentioned electronic device sends automatically the information the user of the earlier mentioned device has chosen as a response to the identified communication connection and the earlier mentioned information is automatically presented by the other electronic device to the user of the other electronic device as a response to the identified communication connection.
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The present invention relates to a method and system for mobile telecommunication and especially, but not necessary to a method and system for editing a user interface of an electronic device on the basis of operation performed by a user and communication connection of an electronic device.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUNDNowadays it is possible to send and receive information, such as text messages during a voice connection with telecommunication devices, such as mobile telecommunication devices operating in GSM-system. Sending text messages during a voice connection is difficult to realize by the user and through text messages there can be given no such additional information that could not be sent as spoken information.
In the future apart from text messages it is also possible to send multimedia with a mobile phone, such as voice and moving pictures. While operation possibilities and various kinds of information transmitting possibilities, for example, are increasing it is important that the use of a telecommunication device is even then easy and simple. This is advantageous especially in case two users of telecommunication devices are in connection with each other and want to share also other information during this communication connection.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONNow is invented a method and a system, purpose of which is to simplify and speed up the use of an electronic device, such as a wireless telecommunication device in connection with sending various kinds of multimedia messages from one device to another advantageously when the device is in communication connection with the other device. When a user performs an operation (for example, takes an image with a camera that is placed in the device or that is integrated to it) the device identifies the mode of the device at that moment (is a call active or not) and edits the user interface on the basis of the identified mode by offering a possibility to send the taken image straight to the device with which the communication connection had been made (for example, from A-subscriber to B-subscriber).
The use of multimedia functions increases when a telecommunication device is able to offer the user such functions that he probably would like to use in each case.
The objective of the invention is that on the basis of its mode and operations performed by a user the telecommunication device may automatically edit the user interface offered to a user. Taking an image (creating a digital image information) and sending it to B-subscriber while the phone connection is active is only one example. The invention may also be applied to other multimedia. According to a first aspect of the invention a method is provided for transferring information between the first electronic device and at least one other electronic device, the first electronic and the at least one other electronic device being able to send and receive information as well as being able to be in a wireless communication connection with each other, the first electronic device being able to perform an operation associated with processing of information, and the first electronic device being able to identify the wireless communication connection between said first electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, wherein the method comprising as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified to be active and a performance of an operation associated with processing of information is identified, a first command is provided as an option of a user interface of the first electronic device, which first command includes a possibility to send said information to the at least one other electronic device, and the first command is used for sending said information to the at least one other electronic device.
According to a second aspect of the invention an electronic device is provided comprising means for establishing a wireless communication connection for creating a wireless communication connection between the electronic device and at least one other electronic device, sending means for sending information, receiving means for receiving information, a user interface for presenting information to a user of the electronic device, processing means for performing an operation associated with processing of information, identifying means for identifying the wireless communication connection between the first electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, and first controlling means of the user interface for providing a first command that is an option of the user interface as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified to be active and a performance of an operation associated with processing of information is identified, which first command comprises a possibility to send said information to the at least one other electronic device.
According to a third aspect of the invention a computer program product is provided for an electronic device the electronic device comprising means for creating a wireless communication connection for establishing a wireless communication connection with at least one other electronic device, sending means for sending information, receiving means for receiving information, and a user interface for presenting information to a user of the electronic device, wherein the computer program product comprises computer program means for performing an operation associated with Processing of information, computer program means for identifying a wireless communication connection between the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, and computer program means for providing a command that is an option of the user interface as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified as being active and a performance of an operation associated with Processing of information is identified, which command comprises a possibility to send said information to the at least one other electronic device.
Next, the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Through the user interface the user is offered to choose the first operation, which may advantageously be producing of information, such as taking an image with a camera 252. The user directs the camera 252 to the object and chooses “take a picture” from the menu offered by the user interface. The camera carries out the functions related to taking an image and the image is stored, for example, to the memory of the camera 252. The system identifies the function carried out by the camera, for example, by the user interface. Next the system identifies the mode of the device 250, i.e. whether the device is in state of readiness or is the device in communication connection with another device. On the basis of identified operation carried out and the identified mode the user interface of PDA device is edited advantageously such that the user is offered another operation through the user interface to choose, which another operation is advantageously sending the earlier mentioned image by the device 250, for example, to another device. The operation may be offered, for example, in a menu, which includes options, such as a send-command for sending information to the opposite part of the communication connection and a cancel-command with which the sending of the information may be cancelled. The menu may also include other commands apart from earlier mentioned.
The device 220 of the user 302 receives the image information advantageously such that the device 220 identifies the operation performed by the user 301 of the device 210, i.e. the forming of the image information and sending it to the device 220 and the mode of the device 220, i.e. that the communication connection is active between devices 210 and 220. On the basis of this the device 220 presents automatically the image information to the user 302 on the display of the device 220.
The above disclosure illustrates the implementation of the invention and its embodiments by means of examples. A person skilled in the art will find it apparent that the invention is not restricted to the details of the above-described embodiments and that there are also other ways of implementing the invention without deviating from the characteristics of the invention. The above embodiments should thus be considered as illustrative and not restrictive. Hence the possibilities of implementing and using the invention are only restricted by the accompanying claims and therefore the different alternative implementations of the invention, including equivalent implementations, defined in the claims also belong to the scope of the invention.
Claims
1. A method for transferring information between a first electronic device and at least one other electronic device,
- the first electronic and the at least one other electronic device being able to send and receive information as well as being able to be in a wireless communication connection with each other,
- the first electronic device being able to perform an operation associated with processing of information, and
- the first electronic device being able to identify the wireless communication connection between said first electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, wherein the method comprising:
- as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified to be active and a performance of an operation associated with processing of information is identified, a first command is provided as an option of a user interface of the first electronic device, which first command includes a possibility to send said information to the at least one other electronic device, and
- the first command is used for sending said information to the at least one other electronic device.
2. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said information is provided to the user of the at least one other electronic device as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified to be active by the at least one other electronic device.
3. A method in accordance with claim 2, wherein said information is provided to the user of the at least one other electronic device by providing a second command that is an option of a user interface of the at least one other electronic device, which second command comprises a possibility to receive said information.
4. A method in accordance with claim 2, wherein the operation associated with processing of information is one of the following: retrieving information stored in a memory of the first electronic device and creating information by the first electronic device.
5. A method in accordance with claim 4, wherein said information is at least one of the following: real time visual information, real time audio information, real time audio-visual information, stored visual information, stored audio information and stored audio-visual information.
6. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein in the user interface of the first electronic device a cancel-command is provided, which cancel-command includes a possibility to cancel the sending of said information to the at least one other electronic device.
7. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said wireless communication connection is at least one of the following: voice connection and data connection between the users of said electronic devices.
8. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the wireless communication connection is a phone connection and operation associated with processing of information is a video clip created in the first electronic device, wherein the first electronic device comprises a camera, a microphone, a loudspeaker, and a transmitter-receiver.
9. An electronic device comprising
- means for establishing a wireless communication connection for creating a wireless communication connection between the electronic device and at least one other electronic device,
- sending means for sending information,
- receiving means for receiving information,
- a user interface for presenting information to a user of the electronic device,
- processing means for performing an operation associated with processing of information,
- identifying means for identifying the wireless communication connection between the first electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, and
- first controlling means of the user interface for providing a first command that is an option of the user interface as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified to be active and a performance of an operation associated with processing of information is identified, which first command comprises a possibility to send said information to the at least one other electronic device.
10. An electronic device in accordance with claim 9, wherein the electronic device further comprises a second controlling means of the user interface for providing information that is received in the electronic device to the user of the electronic device as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified to be active.
11. An electronic device in accordance with claim 10, wherein said second controlling means of the user interface have been arranged to provide a second command that is an option of the user interface, which second command comprises a possibility to accept said information that is received in the electronic device.
12. An electronic device in accordance with claim 10, wherein said first and second controlling means of the user interface have been arranged to provide said first command and said second command in a menu, which menu further comprises a cancel-command, with which a sending of said information to said at least one other electronic device is capable of being cancelled by the user of the electronic device.
13. An electronic device in accordance with claim 9, wherein said processing means have been arranged to carry out one of the following: retrieving information stored in a memory of the electronic device and creating information by the electronic device.
14. An electronic device in accordance with claim 13, wherein said information stored in the memory is one of the following: visual information, audio information, audio-visual information.
15. An electronic device in accordance with claim 13, wherein said information to be created by the electronic device is one of the following: real time visual information, real time audio information, real time audio-visual information.
16. A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium for an electronic device, the electronic device comprising means for creating a wireless communication connection for establishing a wireless communication connection with at least one other electronic device, sending means for sending information, receiving means for receiving information, and a user interface for presenting information to a user of the electronic device, wherein the computer program product comprises:
- computer program means for performing an operation associated with processing of information,
- computer program means for identifying a wireless communication connection between the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, and
- computer program means for providing a command that is an option of the user interface as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified as being active and a performance of an operation associated with processing of information is identified, which command comprises a possibility to send said information to the at least one other electronic device.
17. A computer program product embodied in a the non-transitory computer readable medium in accordance with claim 16, wherein the computer program product further comprises a computer program means for providing information that is received in the electronic device to the user of the electronic device as a response to a situation in which the wireless communication connection is identified as being active.
18. A computer program product embodied in a the non-transitory computer readable medium in accordance with claim 17, further comprising computer program means for selecting recipients of said information.
19. A computer program product embodied in a the non-transitory computer readable medium in accordance with claim 18, wherein the operation whose performance is identified is performed.
20. A computer program product embodied in a the non-transitory computer readable medium in accordance with claim 18, wherein the wireless communication connection is a phone connection and operation associated with processing of information is one of the following:
- retrieving multimedia information stored in a memory and creating multimedia information.
21. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said information is at least one of the following: real time visual information, real time audio information, real time audio-visual information, stored visual information, stored audio information and stored audio-visual information.
22. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said information comprises a photo image or a video.
23. A method in accordance with claim 22, wherein said performance of the operation associated with processing of information is at least partially identified by a user selecting the photo image or video from a memory of the first electronic device.
24. A method in accordance with claim 22, wherein said performance of the operation associated with processing of information is at least partially identified by a user using a camera of the first electronic device to take the photo image or video.
25. A method in accordance with claim 22 wherein said performance of the operation associated with processing of information is at least partially identified by a user selecting either:
- the photo image or video from a memory, or
- using a camera of the first electronic device to take the photo image or video.
26. A method in accordance with claim 22, wherein the photo image or video is sent to the at least one other electronic device during the wireless communication connection.
27. A method in accordance with claim 22, wherein a notification is shown on a display of the user interface of the first electronic device when the photo image or video is sent by the first electronic device, or when the photo image or video is received by the at least one other electronic device.
28. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the wireless communication connection is a telephone connection and said information comprises a photo image or a video, wherein the first electronic device comprises a processor, a memory, a camera, a microphone, a loudspeaker, a transmitter, and a receiver.
29. A method in accordance with claim 28, wherein the photo image or video is sent to the at least one other electronic device during the telephone connection.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Dec 23, 2014
Date of Patent: Apr 19, 2016
Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo)
Inventors: Topi Koskinen (Tampere), Juha Kalliokulju (Vesilahti)
Primary Examiner: Cameron Saadat
Application Number: 14/580,897
International Classification: H04B 7/00 (20060101); H04N 7/14 (20060101); H04N 1/00 (20060101); H04M 1/725 (20060101); H04N 101/00 (20060101);