Idea: Datatransfer during conversation

[Matthew S. Hamrick]

Yup.. This is the "vCard Bursting" concept.

One of the designs we're working on at the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club  
includes a mobile phone where the audio path goes through the apps  
processor so it can start sending data over the GSM voice channel.  
There's a little more info on that at:

http://www.hbmobile.org/wiki/index.php?title=Data_over_GSM_Voice

vCard bursting is described at:

http://www.hbmobile.org/wiki/index.php?title=VCard_burst

Great minds think alike! One of my objectives for building my own  
phone was so I could have control over the audio path so I could  
implement something like this without having to sell the handset  
vendors on the concept.

-Cheers
-Matt H.

On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Ole Tange wrote:

> I am not sure if this idea is already described.
>
> When you have a conversation with another OpenMoko user you may want
> to transfer some data. It may be a business card or an URL or
> something similar.
>
> My idea is to have the smartphone send a synchronizing sound and then
> do the data transfer. During the transfer the voice quality will be
> degraded or completely missing. After the data transfer the call will
> continue normally.
>
> When the receiving smartphone gets the synchronizing sound it will
> present to the recipient: "The caller want to transfer 'foo'. It will
> take approx 20 seconds to transfer. Do you want to accept?"
>
> The actual data transfer may be done with some modem technology or
> simply DTMF-sounds.
>
>
> /Ole
>
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