Processor system, access server system, method and computer program product

• US 20020194334A1
• Filed: 04/25/2002
• Published: 12/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Trappeniers, Lieven, Handekyn, Koen, Focant, Stephane, Batsleer, Claudine, Chantrain, Dominique, Marly, Nick, Daenen, Koen
• Application Number:
  US10/131,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20020194334A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2856 Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

The efficiency of processor systems—pc-modem-gateway—for allowing users contacting service systems via access systems comprising stored service system codes defining and allowing access to these service systems and comprising stored user profiles related to service system codes, can be increased by, in response to download signals, downloading service system codes from the access systems to the processor system and storing these downloaded service system codes in the processor system'"'"'s memory. Then users have these service system codes available in their processor system. The storing of downloaded service system codes may be temporarily, in case of the processor system generating access signals, and the access systems in response generating download signals, or may be for a longer period, in which case both said service system codes stored in the access systems and downloaded service system codes stored in the memory should be synchronized.

Claims

1. Processor system to be coupled to a network for allowing at least one user to contact at least one service system via an access server system, which access server system comprises stored service system codes each defining a service system and allowing access to this service system and comprises stored user profiles each being related to at least one service system code, wherein said processor system comprises a memory for in response to a download signal storing downloaded service system codes.

2. Processor system according to claim 1, wherein said processor system comprises a generator for generating an access signal comprising a user profile code and defining said user wishing to access at least one service system via said access server system, which processor system further comprises a detector for detecting said download signal which has been generated in said access server system in response to said access signal, with said user accessing a service system by selecting a downloaded service system code and sending it to the access server system.

3. Processor system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said processor system comprises a synchronizer for generating a sync signal for synchronizing service system codes stored in the access server system and downloaded service system codes stored in the memory.

4. Processor system according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein said downloaded service system codes are stored in said memory in relation to user profiles.

5. Access server system for allowing at least one user via a processor system to contact at least one service system via said access server system, which access server system comprises a server for storing service system codes each defining a service system and allowing access to this service system and for storing user profiles each being related to at least one service system code, wherein the access server system comprises a generator for generating a download signal, with said processor system in response to said download signal storing downloaded service system codes.

6. Access server system according to claim 5, wherein said access server system comprises a detector for detecting an access signal comprising a user profile and defining said user wishing to access at least one service system via said access server system, which generator is coupled to said detector for in response to said detecting generating said download signal, with said processor system generating said access signal, with said user accessing a service system by selecting a downloaded service system code and sending it to the access server system.

7. Acces server system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein said access server system comprises a synchronizer for generating a sync signal for synchronizing service system codes stored in the server and downloaded service system codes stored in the processor system.

8. Access server system according to claim 5, 6 or 7, wherein said downloaded service system codes are downloaded per user profile.

9. Method for allowing at least one user via a processor system to contact at least one service system via an access server system, which access server system comprises a server for storing service system codes each defining a service system and allowing access to this service system and for storing user profiles each being related to at least one service system code, wherein said method comprises the steps of generating a download signal in said access server system, of sending said download signal from said access server system to said processor system, and of storing downloaded service system codes in said processor system in response to said download signal.

10. Computer program product for allowing at least one user via a processor system to contact at least one service system via an access server system, in which access server system service system codes each defining a service system and allowing access to this service system and user profiles each being related to at least one service system code have been stored, wherein said computer program product comprises a storage function for in response to a download signal downloading and storing service system codes from said access server system into said processor system.