Apparatus and method for accessing services via a mobile terminal
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1. A method of accessing services on a mobile terminal, comprising:
- collectively presenting one or more selectable service items by the mobile terminal, each of the selectable service items corresponding to a service;
facilitating user selection of at least one of the service items;
activating one of a plurality of access applications associated with the selected service item; and
invoking the service associated with the selected service item using the activated access application.
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Abstract
A system, apparatus and method to allow provisioning of services and execution of those services at the mobile terminal. Services may be locally, remotely or manually provisioned within a mobile terminal and may be viewed by an end user of the mobile terminal after being filtered by context. The filtered list of services being accessible from a service panel of the mobile terminal, whereby the mere selection of the service allows execution of the service at the mobile terminal using the appropriate underlying communication technology with no further interaction required from the end user.
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1. A method of accessing services on a mobile terminal, comprising:
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collectively presenting one or more selectable service items by the mobile terminal, each of the selectable service items corresponding to a service;
facilitating user selection of at least one of the service items;
activating one of a plurality of access applications associated with the selected service item; and
invoking the service associated with the selected service item using the activated access application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of accessing services offered via a network at a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
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provisioning services onto the mobile terminal;
activating a service panel to display selectable symbols corresponding to the provisioned services;
filtering the provisioned services based on a context of the mobile terminal, and displaying the selectable symbols corresponding to context sensitive services; and
activating the context sensitive services by selecting a corresponding one of the filtered selectable symbols from the service panel. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for facilitating service execution by mobile terminals, the method comprising:
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allocating a list of predetermined services to the mobile terminal;
filtering the predetermined list of services in response to a context of the mobile terminal;
activating a service panel to allow selection from the filtered list of predetermined services; and
launching the selected service by simply selecting from one of the services displayed by the service panel. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A mobile terminal comprising:
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a provisioning means for receiving a list of services available to the mobile terminal;
a storage means to store content associated with the services;
a filter means coupled to the storage means to limit the list of services based on a context; and
a service panel means coupled to the filter means to display the services based on the context. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A system for facilitating service provisioning by mobile terminals, comprising:
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at least one provisioning device used to provide a list of services; and
a mobile terminal coupled to the at least one provisioning device, the mobile terminal comprising;
a provisioning means for receiving a list of services available to the mobile terminal from the at least one provisioning device;
a storage means to store content associated with the services;
a filter means coupled to the storage means to limit the list of services based on a context; and
a service panel means coupled to the filter means to display the services based on the context.
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