US 10,372,710 B2Granted

Using metadata to take action on an SMS message on a proprietary system

AssigneeFitbit, Inc.

InventorsBrian Jett, Henry Levak, Robert Earl Yawn

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Abstract

Apparatuses, systems, and processes are discussed for using metadata to take action on an SMS message on a proprietary system. In some embodiments, a wearable electronic device has a wearable device application that can present an SMS notification from an SMS application of a mobile computing device. The wearable device application can provide SMS notification data to a partner application of the mobile computing device. The partner application can perform a reverse look-up in a contacts application of the mobile computing device and construct a first contacts list with potential SMS-message senders. The wearable device application can present one or more SMS-message actions to a user of the wearable electronic device for a user selection thereof. The partner application can communicate with a partner server, which, in turn, can communicate with an SMS provider to effect the user selection of the one or more SMS-message actions.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a wearable electronic device configured to cooperate with one or more processors to execute instructions to present a short message service (“SMS”) notification of an SMS message on a display screen of the wearable electronic device,
a first memory configured to cooperate with a security algorithm to store an access token for access to an SMS account of a user as an encrypted access token in the first memory and to store user-provided authentication information for the SMS account as encrypted data in the first memory,
a first routine configured to periodically refresh the access token for access to the user's SMS account from an SMS provider by periodically supplying the user-provided authentication information in an encrypted form to one or more SMS-message servers, and
a first application configured to analyze the SMS notification, rather than the SMS message itself, and derive a set of notification data from the SMS notification to be sent with the access token for access to the user's SMS account on one or more SMS-message servers to obtain an instance of the SMS message itself from that SMS-message server.

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A method for a wearable electronic device, comprising:

configuring the wearable electronic device to cooperate with one or more processors to execute instructions to present a short message service (“SMS”) notification of an SMS message on a display screen of the wearable electronic device,
configuring a first memory to cooperate with a security algorithm to store an access token for access to an SMS account of a user as an encrypted access token in the first memory and to store user-provided authentication information for the SMS account as encrypted data in the first memory,
configuring a first routine to periodically refresh the access token for access to the user's SMS account from an SMS provider by periodically supplying the user-provided authentication information in an encrypted form to one or more SMS-message servers, and
configuring a first application to analyze the SMS notification, rather than the SMS message itself, and derive a set of notification data from the SMS notification to be sent with the access token for access to the user's SMS account on one or more SMS-message servers to obtain an instance of the SMS message itself from that SMS-message server.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/682,360Filed 21 Aug 2017 · continuation
Priority: 22 Feb 2016
Published: US 2018/0032578 A11 Feb 2018
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 16/2455
Query processing: query execution
G06F 1/163
For portable computers: wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
H04M 3/42025
Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers: calling or Called party identification service
H04M 3/42042
Calling party identification service: notifying the called party of information on the calling party

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Application15/050,080Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Feb 2016
US 2018/0032578 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Feb 2018
US 9,740,740 B1Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0242890 A1Published application
US 10,372,710 B2This patent

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