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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2008
Richard Eric Helvick, Portland, OR (US);
Richard Eric Helvick, Portland, OR (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
Method and system for facilitating group organization using mobile devices and near field communication (NFC). Such a method in one aspect comprises the steps of selecting a first member of a group to create resources for the group, creating the resources by the first member using a mobile device belonging to the first member, bringing the mobile device belonging to the first member and a mobile device belonging to a second member of the group into proximity whereby a NFC connection is established between the mobile devices, uploading from the mobile device belonging to the second member to the mobile device belonging to the first member via the NFC connection information about the second member and adding the information about the second member to the resources.