Patent ID: 7295833
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile device registered with a mobile service provider including a content sharing system, the mobile device comprising: means for receiving user input; means for providing output; memory means; radio transceiver and processing means coupled to the memory means; means for presenting privacy management options via an output component, wherein the privacy management options allow the user of the mobile device to specify the extent to which the user would like to receive share content messages initiated by another user of the content sharing system who has complied with privacy management functions imposed by the content sharing system; means for inputting a set of privacy management settings associated with the privacy management options; means for transmitting the inputted set of privacy management settings associated with the privacy management options to the content sharing system; and means for receiving share content messages in accordance with the inputted set of privacy management settings.