Uploading personal agents to personalize network services

• US 20030007618A1
• Filed: 07/05/2001
• Published: 01/09/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation Of America (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Guterman, Jose
• Granted Patent: US 7,093,009 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/201.05
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/052 software update
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/553 Data upload
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42153 by subscriber

Abstract

A subscriber unit in a telephone network may receive personalized services from a network by providing personalized software to the network. The subscriber unit may prepare or have prepared particular personal agent software that implements certain enhanced functions designed by or for the subscriber. That software may then be uploaded to the network. Upon the occurrence of a certain event, the personal agent software is executed by the network to provide the personalized service desired by the subscriber. In some cases, the network may afford a variety of primitives which may implement basic functions that may be called by the personal agent software.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining personal agent software; and

uploading said personal agent software for execution by a telephone network.

2. The method of claim 1 including creating the personal agent software on a subscriber unit which communicates with the telephone network.

3. The method of claim 1 including creating personal agent software on a device other than a telephone coupled to said telephone network.

4. The method of claim 1 including uploading personal agent software over said network.

5. The method of claim 1 including uploading said personal agent software over a network other than said telephone network.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein uploading said personal agent software includes providing said software to said telephone network over a wireless link.

7. The method of claim 1 including creating the personal agent software on a device and uploading said software to the network.

8. The method of claim 1 including transferring software over a computer network and uploading said software to said telephone network.

9. An article comprising a medium storing instructions that enable a processor-based system to:

store the personal agent software on a subscriber unit which communicates with the telephone network; and

upload said software for execution by a telephone network.

10. The article of claim 9 further storing instructions that enable a processor-based system to receive personal agent software from a device other than a telephone coupled to the telephone network.

11. The article of claim 9 further storing instructions that enable the processor-based system to upload personal agent software over the network.

12. The article of claim 9 further storing instructions that enable the processor-based system to upload said personal agent software over a network other than the telephone network.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein said system is a telephone.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein said telephone is a wireless telephone.

17. The method of claim 16 including detecting the occurrence of a network event and upon detecting the occurrence of a network event, determining whether personal agent software for the event is available.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein if personal agent software for the event is not available, processing the event using network event processing.

19. The method of claim 16 including detecting the occurrence of an event, and upon the detection of the occurrence of an event, selecting an appropriate agent to run.

20. The method of claim 19 including making available service primitives to implement network call functions to personal agent software that provides personalized services to subscribers to said telephone network.

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a storage storing instructions that enable the processor to store personal agent software and upload the personal agent software for execution by a telephone network.

16. A method comprising:

receiving personal agent software from a subscriber; and

executing said software to provide services to said subscriber.

21. An article comprising a medium storing instructions that enable a processor-based system to:

receive personal agent software from a subscriber; and

execute said software to provide services to said subscriber.

22. The article of claim 21 further storing instructions that enable the processor-based system to detect the occurrence of a network event and upon detection of the network event, determine whether personal agent software for the event is available.

23. The article of claim 22 further storing instructions that enable the processor-based system to process the event using network event processing if personal agent software for the event is not available.

24. The article of claim 21 further storing instructions that enable the processor-based system to detect the occurrence of an event, and upon the detection of the occurrence of the event, select an appropriate agent to run.

25. The article of claim 24 further storing instructions that enable a processor-based system to make available service primitives to implement network call functions to personal agent software that provides personalized services to subscribers to said telephone network.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein said system is coupled to the telephone network to receive said personal agent software.

28. The system of claim 26 wherein said system receives said personal agent software over the Internet.

29. The system of claim 28 wherein said storage stores a plurality of primitives to implement standard call functions and said system makes those primitives available to the personal agent software.

26. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a storage storing instructions that enable the processor to receive personal agent software from a subscriber and execute said software to provide services to said subscriber for a telephone network.