Business to business engine and system for facilitating information interexchange using realtime data

• US 20020038386A1
• Filed: 01/05/2001
• Published: 03/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ericsson, Inc. (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: Ericsson, Inc. (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Hussain, Tahir, Bhatia, Ranjit, Betrabet, Arvind, Kavi, Shashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,181,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/250
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating information interexchange between a wireless telecommunications system having at least one telecommunications device therein and an information service provider. A Business-to-Business (B2B) engine is connected to the telecommunications system for receiving realtime information related to a telecommunications device within the telecommunications system. This realtime information is provided by the B2B engine to the information service provider, which consequently provides content data to the telecommunications device within the telecommunications system.

Claims

1. A telecommunication system for facilitating information interexchange, said telecommunication system comprising:

a realtime network having at least one telecommunications device therein;

an Internet service provider associated with an Internet network, said Internet service provider employing non-realtime operations; and

a Business-to-business (B2B) engine interfacing said realtime network and said Internet service provider, said B2B engine exchanging information therebetween and providing a plurality of data from said Internet network to said at least one telecommunications device, said plurality of data being provided to said at least one telecommunications device.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said interfacing between said realtime network and said Internet service provider facilitates providing realtime information regarding said at least one telecommunications device to said Internet service provider.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein said B2B engine further comprises filtering means for filtering said realtime information, said filtered realtime information being provided to said Internet service provider.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine provides realtime information associated with said at least one telecommunications device to said Internet service provider, said at least one telecommunications device being registered to receive data from said Internet service provider.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine further comprises collecting means for collecting realtime information related to said at least one telecommunications device within said realtime network.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine further comprises a polling means for polling at least one network element in said realtime network.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine further comprises:

polling means for selectively polling said at least one network element within said realtime network; and

requesting means for requesting said at least one network element to report selected realtime information related to said at least one telecommunications device.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine further comprises a receiving means for receiving said realtime information from at least one network element in said realtime network.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein said receiving means further comprises a filtering means for filtering said received realtime information.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine further comprises a receiving means for receiving said realtime information from said at least one telecommunications device.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein said Internet service provider comprises a portal that collects content from the Internet network.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein said at least one telecommunications device is selected from the group consisting of:

a wireless mobile terminal, a personal data assistant (PDA) and a wireless communications device.

13. The system according to claim 1, wherein said B2B engine further comprises a plurality of application modules, said plurality of application modules facilitating the information interexchange between the realtime network and the Internet service provider.

14. The system according to claim 1, wherein said Internet service provider is within said B2B engine, said Internet service provider containing content data, said content data being selectively provided to said at least one telecommunications device.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein said at least one telecommunications device is selected from the group consisting of:

a mobile station, a personal data assistant (PDA) and a wireless communications device.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein the B2B engine further comprises a plurality of modules therein, said plurality of modules facilitating the information interexchange between said wireless telecommunications system and said Internet portal.

18. The system according to claim 15, wherein said first interface module uses a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

19. The system according to claim 15, wherein said first interface module receives realtime information related to said at least one telecommunications device.

20. The system according to claim 15, wherein said at least one telecommunications device is registered with said Internet portal.

21. The system according to claim 15, wherein said B2B engine further comprises polling means for polling at least one system element within said wireless telecommunications system for realtime information of said at least one telecommunications device therein.

22. The system according to claim 15, wherein said B2B engine further comprises a receiving means for receiving reported realtime information from at least one system element within said wireless telecommunications system.

23. The system according to claim 15, wherein said B2B engine further comprises receiving means for receiving reported realtime information from said at least one telecommunications device.

24. The system according to claim 15, further comprising at least one operator interface for facilitating operation of said B2B engine and at least one developer interface used for developing and updating said B2B engine.

25. The system according to claim 15, wherein said Internet portal comprises a plurality of content providers for providing content to said at least one telecommunications device.

27. The method according to claim 26, further comprising, prior to said providing step, the step of:

filtering, by said B2B engine, said realtime information, said B2B engine providing said filtered realtime information to said Internet portal.

28. The method according to claim 26, wherein said plurality of content data is transferred from said Internet portal to said at least one telecommunications device according to a feature of said realtime information.

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein said feature of said realtime information is location-based.

30. The method according to claim 26, further comprising the step of:

monitoring said realtime information, by at least one system element within said wireless telecommunications system.

31. The method according to claim 26, further comprising the step of:

polling at least one system element in said wireless telecommunications system.

32. The method according to claim 26, further comprising the steps of:

selectively polling at least one system element associated with said wireless telecommunications system; and

requesting said at least one system element to report selected realtime information to said B2B engine.

33. The method according to claim 26, wherein said at least one telecommunications device is selected from the group consisting of:

a mobile station, a personal data assistant (PDA) and a wireless communications device.

34. The method according to claim 26, wherein said realtime information comprises location information associated with said at least one telecommunications device.

35. The method according to claim 26, wherein said realtime information is selected from the group consisting of:

subscriber status information, subscriber preferences information and subscriber rules information.

36. The method according to claim 26, further comprising, prior to said receiving step, the step of:

registering said at least one telecommunications device to receive said plurality of content data from said Internet portal, said receiving step comprising receiving said realtime information associated with the registered at least one telecommunications device.

15. A Business-to-business (B2B) system for facilitating information interexchange between a wireless telecommunications system having at least one telecommunications device therein and an Internet portal, said B2B system comprising:

a Business-to-business (B2B) engine;

a first interface module for interfacing with said wireless telecommunications system; and

a second interface module for connecting with said Internet portal and providing data from said Internet portal to said B2B engine, said B2B engine exchanging information between said wireless telecommunications system and said Internet portal via said first interface module and said second interface module, respectively, said B2B engine providing realtime information from said wireless telecommunication system to said Internet portal, thereby enabling transference of a plurality of content data from said Internet portal to said at least one telecommunications device.

26. A method for facilitating information interexchange between a wireless telecommunications system having at least one telecommunications device therein and an Internet portal, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving realtime information at a first interface module associated with a Business-to-Business (B2B) engine in communication with said wireless telecommunications system; and

providing said realtime information to said Internet portal by a second interface module associated with said B2B engine, said B2B engine exchanging information between said wireless telecommunications system and said Internet portal via said first interface module and said second interface module, respectively, said B2B engine providing realtime information from said wireless telecommunication system to said Internet portal, thereby enabling transference of a plurality of content data from said Internet portal to said at least one telecommunications device.