Method for providing access to data

• US 20010051528A1
• Filed: 04/12/2001
• Published: 12/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lielbriedis, Aleksander
• Granted Patent: US 6,738,636 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/00 Communication routing or communication path finding

Abstract

Short messages, of the kind by a digital radio communication network, are used in connection with providing access to stored digital data over the digital radio communication network. Information identifying a piece of data stored by an application is first transmitted to, and later received from, a mobile communication station by using the address data space of short messages transmitted between the application and the mobile communication station.

Claims

1. A method at a server in connection with providing a mobile communication station with access to stored digital data, said server and said mobile communication station being operatively connected to a digital radio communication network, the method comprising:

assigning an identifier to a particular piece of stored digital data;

initiating transmission of a short message to said mobile communication station by using a short message service provided by said digital radio communication network, wherein said identifier is provided to be included in an originating address data space of said short message;

extracting said identifier from a destination address data space of a short message received from said mobile communication station; and

identifying to which piece of stored digital data access is requested based on the extracted identifier.

2. The method as claimed in

claim 1

, wherein said initiating act includes submitting a request to a node of said digital radio communication network to transmit said short message to said mobile communication station, wherein said identifier is combined with an address of the server and submitted in said request as an originating address.

3. The method as claimed in

claim 2

, wherein said identifier is combined with the server address by adding the identifier as a suffix to the server address.

4. The method as claimed in

claim 1

, further comprising:

receiving digitally coded information from an external network; and

storing said information as said piece of digital data.

5. The method as claimed in

claim 1

, wherein said piece of digital data is stored in a storage area allocated to a service subscription with an operator of the server, said service subscription being associated with said mobile communication station, wherein said identifier is unique with respect to said storage area.

6. The method as claimed in

claim 1

, further comprising:

extracting a mobile subscription number, which is associated with said mobile communication station in accordance with a telecommunications numbering plan, from said originating address data space of the short message received by the server,

wherein said identifying step is performed based on a combination of said mobile subscription number and said identifier.

7. The method as claimed in

claim 6

, wherein said identifying act includes:

identifying a defined storage area to which the extracted mobile subscription is associated; and

identifying said particular digital data, which is stored in said defined storage area, using the extracted identifier.

8. The method as claimed in

claim 1

, wherein said server is a mail server and said digital data are e-mail.

9. The method as claimed in

claim 5

, wherein said server is a mail server and said storage are is a mailbox administrated by said mail server.

10. A computer readable medium storing computer program code means for performing the method as claimed in

claim 1

when said computer program code means is run on a computer.

11. A method of using a data space designated for addressing information in a short message, the short message being of the kind provided by a short message service in a digital radio communication network, for bi-directional communication of identifiers with a mobile communication station, the method comprising:

transmitting an identifier in an originating address data space of a short message transmitted to said mobile communication station; and

extracting an identifier from a destination address data space of a short message received from said mobile communication station.

12. The method as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein said originating address data space includes the transmitted identifier as a suffix to an originating address and said destination address data space includes the received identifier as a suffix to a destination address.

13. The method as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the transmitted identifier notifies said mobile communication station of the presence of a particular piece of stored digital data.

14. The method as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the received identifier identifies a particular piece of digital data to which said mobile communication station is to be provided with access.

15. The method as claimed in

claim 11

, wherein the received identifier is identical to a previously transmitted identifier.

16. The method as claimed in

claim 13

, wherein said particular piece of digital data is stored in a storage area associated with a mobile subscription number which in turn is associated with said mobile communication station in accordance with a tele-communication communications numbering plan, wherein said transmitted identifier is associated with said particular piece of digital data and unique within said storage area.

17. The method as claimed 16, wherein said particular piece of digital data is an e-mail and said storage area is a mailbox for storing received e-mails.

18. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components comprising:

a component for assigning an identifier to a piece of stored digital data;

a component for deriving an originating address which includes at least said identifier; and

a component for requesting a short message service provided by a digital radio communication network to transmit a short message with said originating address in its originating address data space, thereby notifying the presence of said piece of stored digital data to a recipient of said short message;

a component for extracting an identifier from the destination address data space of a received short message; and

a component for identifying said piece of stored digital data based on the extracted identifier, thereby identifying the piece of digital data to which an originator of said received short message requests access.

19. The computer-readable medium as claimed in

claim 18

, wherein the derived originating address in addition to said identifier includes an address to a server, which server is operatively connected to said digital radio communication network and which server stores said piece of digital data.

20. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claimed 18, further comprising:

a component for extracting a subscription number associated with said originator from said originating address data space of said received short message,

wherein said component identifying said piece of stored digital data first identifies a storage area associated with said subscription number within which storage area said piece of digital data is stored.