Platform system for mobile terminals

• US 20030224769A1
• Filed: 02/07/2003
• Published: 12/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Kirchner, Elmar, Smeets, Bernard, Bock, Michael, Weber, Sebastian, Esswein, Matthias, Svener, Johan, Dahlman, Rikard, Lind, Jan, Solve, Torbjorn, Bjare, Bjorn, Moller, Bernd
• Granted Patent: US 7,536,181 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0003 Software-defined radio [SDR] systems, i.e. systems wherein components typically implemented in hardware, e.g. filters or modulators/demodulators, are implented using software, e.g. by involving an AD or DA conversion stage such that at least part of the signal processing is performed in the digital domain digital baseband systems H04L25/00; digital modulation/demodulation H04L27/00; CDMA H04B1/707; TDMA H04B7/2643; image transmission H04N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A platform system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system. The platform system comprises a mobile terminal platform assembly including a software services component having a plurality functional software units, a hardware component having a plurality of hardware units associated with and controlled by the plurality of functional software units, and an interface component having at least one interface for providing access to the mobile terminal platform assembly. The platform system further includes application software loaded, installed and run in said mobile terminal platform assembly via the at least one interface of the interface component. The mobile terminal platform assembly is adapted to be manufactured as a unit and transferred to a user who then loads, installs and runs the application software in the assembly to provide the platform system.

Claims

1. A platform system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system, comprising:

a mobile terminal platform assembly, the mobile terminal platform assembly including a software services component having a plurality functional software units, a hardware component having a plurality of hardware units associated with and controlled by the plurality of functional software units, and an interface component having at least one interface for providing access to the mobile terminal platform assembly; and

application software loaded, installed and run in said mobile terminal platform assembly via said at least one interface in the interface component.

2. The platform system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of functional software units comprise a plurality of vertical functional stacks.

3. The platform system according to claim 2, wherein each of said plurality of vertical functional stacks further includes associated hardware units of said hardware component.

4. The platform system according to claim 1, wherein said interface component comprises a middleware services layer that includes said at least one interface for providing said application software with access to said mobile terminal platform assembly.

5. The platform system according to claim 4, wherein said middleware services layer further isolates said application software from said mobile terminal platform assembly via said at least one interface.

6. The platform system according to claim 2, wherein software of said software services component is also organized in a plurality of horizontal layers arranged in order from a higher level service layer to a lower level service layer.

7. The platform system according to claim 6, wherein said software of said software services component is further organized into a plurality of software modules.

8. The platform system according to claim 6, wherein at least one of said plurality of functional software stacks comprises a security mechanism for providing a security function for an application.

9. The platform system according to claim 1, wherein said wireless telecommunications system comprises a cellular telecommunications system.

10. The platform system according to claim 9, wherein said cellular telecommunications system comprises a third generation cellular telecommunications system.

11. A mobile terminal platform assembly for a platform system for a wireless telecommunications system, comprising:

a software services component having a plurality functional software units;

a hardware component having a plurality of hardware units associated with and controlled by the plurality of functional software units; and

an interface component having at least one interface for providing at least one application with access to the mobile terminal platform assembly for loading, installing and running said at least one application in said mobile terminal platform assembly.

12. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 11, wherein said plurality of functional software units comprise a plurality of vertical functional stacks.

13. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 12, wherein each of said plurality of vertical functional stacks further includes associated hardware units of said hardware component.

14. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 11, wherein said interface component comprises a middleware services layer that includes said at least one interface for providing said at least one application with access to said mobile terminal platform assembly, and that isolates said mobile terminal platform assembly from said at least one application except through said at least one interface.

15. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 12, wherein software of said software services component is also organized in a plurality of horizontal layers arranged in order from a higher level service layer to a lower level service layer.

16. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 15, wherein said software is further organized into a plurality of software modules.

17. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 11, wherein said wireless telecommunications system comprises a cellular telecommunications system.

18. The mobile terminal platform assembly according to claim 17, wherein said cellular telecommunications system comprises a third generation cellular telecommunications system.

19. A method for providing a platform system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system, comprising:

assembling a mobile terminal platform assembly that includes a software services component having a plurality of functional software units, a hardware component having a plurality of hardware units controlled by the plurality of functional software units, and an interface component having at least one interface for providing access to the mobile terminal platform assembly; and

thereafter adding at least one application software to said mobile terminal platform assembly via said at least one interface in said interface component.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein said step of adding at least one application software comprises a user of said platform system adding said at least one application software to said mobile terminal platform assembly.

21. The method according to claim 20, and further including the step of transferring said mobile terminal platform assembly to said user before said step of adding said at least one application software to said mobile terminal platform assembly.

22. The method according to claim 19, wherein said step of adding at least one application software comprises loading, installing and running said at least one application software in said mobile terminal platform assembly via said at least one interface in said interface component.

23. A method for providing a platform system for a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system, comprising:

a manufacturer manufacturing a mobile terminal platform assembly that includes a software services component having a plurality of functional software units, a hardware component having a plurality of hardware units controlled by the plurality of functional software units, and an interface component having at least one interface for providing access to the mobile terminal platform assembly;

transferring said mobile terminal platform assembly to a user; and

said user thereafter adding at least one application software to said mobile terminal platform assembly via said at least one interface of said interface component.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein said user develops said at least one application software before the step of adding the at least one application software to said mobile terminal platform assembly.