SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPENLY SHARING AND SYNCHRONIZING INFORMATION ACROSS A PLURALITY OF MOBILE CLIENT APPLICATION COMPUTERS

摘要

A system and method for interactively sharing, synchronizing and controlling information among a plurality of users with different electronic contact types using network-based communication between a plurality of client applications on a plurality of mobile devices and a central controller computer, are described. In an exemplary embodiment, an information context may be configured as open by a first client application. A plurality of client applications may then share information within the information context whereby the plurality of client applications may join the information context using the information context identifier. A method for synchronization allows for shared information on different client devices to be controlled and automatically synchronized by the central controller. Messages, data structures, communications, and protocols between clients and the central controller allowing at least the creation, update, and deletion of information data related to the event, are described.

主权项

1. A method for interactively sharing, synchronizing and controlling shared information across a plurality of mobile devices, comprising the steps of:
deploying a central controller computer coupled to a packet network device comprising a memory and a processor and further comprising programmable code stored in the memory of the computer, the code adapted to sharing, synchronizing, and controlling shared information across a plurality of client applications; receiving, at the central controller, registrations from the plurality of client applications; creating, at the central controller, a unique user identifier for each client application; receiving, at the central controller, a plurality of contact information for each client application; mapping, at the central controller, the plurality of contact information to the unique user identifier wherein the plurality of contact information comprises at least an email address, a phone number, or a website address belonging to a user corresponding to the unique user identifier; creating and maintaining, at the central controller, a plurality of unique mobile device identifiers corresponding to the plurality of mobile devices wherein the plurality of client applications run on the plurality of mobile devices, further wherein a first user identifier, corresponding to a first client application, is associated to one or more mobile device identifiers; receiving, at the central controller, a request from a second client application wherein the central controller creates and maintains an information context identifier for establishing a context for information sharing to facilitate sharing of information between the first client application and the second client application via the central controller; exchanging, at the central controller, a plurality of request and response messages comprising the first user identifiers and a second user identifier for synchronization of information for an established information context between the first client application and a second client application wherein the first user identifier is associated to the first client application and the second user identifier is associated to the second client application; sending, from the central controller, a notification message to the first client application and the second client application wherein the notification message comprises at least the first user identifier and the second user identifier wherein the first user identifier and the second user identifier are associated to the established information context; creating, updating, or deleting, at the central controller, the information related to the information context for information sharing by the first client application or the second client application; wherein the central controller automatically formats and sends the request and response messages according to a preferred contact type configured for the first client application wherein the preferred contact type comprises at least an email format, a multimedia message format, or a web communication; and wherein the established information context is flagged as open thereby allowing any user identifier to be added to the established information context by the central controller.