Method and device for accessing files stored in a mobile terminal device supporting an internet protocol

• US 20020173294A1
• Filed: 03/15/2002
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Bakacak, Suleyman, Zillikens, Frank, Nemeth, Zoltan
• Application Number:
  US10/097,565
• Publication Number:
  US 20020173294A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A method and device for accessing files stored in a mobile terminal device supporting a wireless application protocol (WAP), wherein the mobile terminal executes a wireless markup language (WML) script received from a service provider via WAP for accessing of the files of said terminal.

Claims

1. A method for accessing files stored in a mobile terminal device supporting an internet protocol, wherein said mobile terminal device executes a function received from a remote server via said internet protocol for accessing said files.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said internet protocol is a wireless application protocol (WAP) or a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said function is a wireless markup language (WML) script, or a HTML script.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said function is a program.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein said remote server is a service provider or a contents provider

6. A method according to claim 1, comprising the steps of:

selecting a desired service in said terminal device;

transferring said selected service to said service or content provider via an internet protocol;

re-transferring a script or a program to said terminal device according to said service;

executing said script or said program by said terminal device to provide said service on said terminal device.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein said service is a particular file transaction.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the particular file transaction comprises additional internet protocol transfers with said service provider.

9. A method according to claim 7, wherein said file transaction is the transfer of a file to a printer.

10. A method according to claim 7, wherein said file transaction is the transfer of the file to a file viewer.

11. A method according to claim 7, wherein said file transaction is the transfer to a file editor.

12. A method according to claim 7, wherein said file transaction is a file conversion.

13. A method according to claim 7, wherein said file transaction is the attachment of one file to another file.

14. A method according to claim 1, wherein said file is a short message-(SM), a text-, an E-mail-, a sound-, a music-, a voice-, a binary, or any other type file.

15. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of transferring the data contents of the files of said terminal device to said service provider.

16. A method according to claim 1, wherein the files transferred between said service provider and said terminal device contain binary data.

17. A method according to claim 16, wherein said binary data is transferred as a string of characters having hexadecimal representation.

18. A method according to claim 1, wherein said script is used to digitise speech data.

19. A method according to claim 1, wherein files and scripts are transferred or executed via an external functionality interface (EFI).

20. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of storing said script in an accessible memory of said terminal device.

21. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of recalling said stored script from said accessible memory, to execute or re-execute said WML script.

22. A software tool for executing a method for accessing files stored in a mobile terminal device, comprising program code means for carrying out the steps of claim 1, when said software tool is implemented in a program run on a Server, mobile terminal device, Service Centre or a network device.

23. A computer program for executing a method for accessing files stored in a mobile terminal device, comprising program code means for carrying out the steps of claim 1, when said program is run on a server, a Service Centre or a network device.

24. A computer program product comprising program code means stored on a computer readable medium for carrying out the steps of claim 1, when said program code means is run on a server, Service Centre, or a network device.

26. A mobile terminal device according to claim 25, wherein said internet protocol is a wireless application protocol (WAP) or a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

28. A method according to claim 8, wherein said file transaction is the transfer of a file to a printer.

29. A method according to claim 8, wherein said file transaction is the transfer of the file to a file viewer.

30. A method according to claim 8, wherein said file transaction is the transfer to a file editor.

31. A method according to claim 8, wherein said file transaction is a file conversion.

32. A method according to claim 8, wherein said file transaction is the attachment of one file to another file.

33. A method terminal device according to one of claims 26, wherein said function is a wireless markup language (WML) script, or a HTML script.

25. A mobile terminal device adapted for accessing files stored therein, wherein said mobile terminal device is supporting an internet protocol, said mobile terminal device being capable of executing a function received from a remote server via said internet protocol for accessing said files.

27. A mobile terminal device according to one of claims 25, wherein said function is a wireless markup language (WML) script, or a HTML script.