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Abstract
A method relating to film photography and digital delivery of images wherein a consumer can preview images of processed film sent from a film development laboratory to the consumer's cell phone equipped with a visual display. The consumer dropped the film at a service where the film is developed, and then scanned to create digital picture data. The picture data is then sent to the consumer's cell phone or similar device with wireless capability equipped for reception of digital image data, and in response to the data, the cell phone displays the pictures on the camera's image display. The consumer then views the pictures and can make decisions concerning how many prints of each image to order. The print order can then be placed with the service through the cell phone. Additional features include the consumer processing the digital image data including forwarding the images to another cell phone or to a computer.
Abstract
In accordance with the principles of the present invention utilizing the BLUETOOTH specification Cordless Telephony profile, incoming calls to a cell phone including a Gateway role can be routed to another piconet device (e.g., another cell phone including a Terminal role. Two cell phones with BLUETOOTH capability each include the Cordless Telephony Profile. The cell phone receiving the call acts as a PSTN cordless telephone Gateway cell phone via the cellular network, while the other cell phone acts as a cordless telephone Terminal cell phone. The cordless telephone Terminal cell phone then acts as an extension to the Gateway cell phone allowing both calls to the Gateway cell phone to be answered at the Terminal cell phone, and even allowing calls by the Gateway cell phone to be originated by the Terminal cell phone. Moreover, the present invention includes the ability for any one of a number of authorized Terminal devices (e.g., Terminal cell phone) to answer an incoming call to a Gateway cell phone `on the fly` after hearing the ringing at the Gateway cell phone. Telephone calls may be remotely initiated from the Terminal cell phone via the Gateway cell phone. Inexpensive or featureless Terminal devices can tap into advanced features of more expensive Gateway cell phones, without the need to implement the hardware and/or software for the features themselves in the Terminal device. An authorized terminal list identifies Terminal devices authorized to answer an incoming call to a Gateway cell phone, and may be expanded to include other feature enable/disable configuration. The present invention also provides an interface between devices having differing telephony standards, e.g., between an IS-41 cell phone acting as a Terminal and a GSM cell phone acting as a Gateway cell phone.
Abstract
A cell phone-hand set combination unit making it possible to operate a cell phone in the manner of a hand set. The unit includes a hand set provided with a mouthpiece having a microphone therein, an earpiece having a miniature loudspeaker therein, and a yoke bridging the mouthpiece and the earpiece, said yoke having a socket therein adapted to cradle a cell phone. The unit also includes a cell phone provided with a microwave transceiver to which is coupled a microphone and an ear phone; and an interface network housed in the yoke and operative when the cell phone is cradled in the socket to couple the cell phone to the hand set so that the microphone and earphone of the cell phone are supplanted by the microphone and speaker of the hand set which then functions like a cordless hand set. |
