Method for providing event information of a mobile application and mobile phone, server, communication system and software program product for carrying out the method

• US 20040132436A1
• Filed: 10/21/2003
• Published: 07/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nextenso Co.
• Original Assignee: Nextenso Co.
• Inventors: Dupont, Marc, Demathieu, Jean-Georges, Barre, Francois
• Application Number:
  US10/689,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20040132436A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic

Abstract

A Method for providing event information of a mobile application, in particular of a mobile applications executed on a mobile phone, to a server comprising the steps of:

generating of event information with respect to the mobile application by the respective mobile application

storing the event information in an event database at the mobile phone

generating a communication stream comprising event database information, and

transferring the communication stream to a server over a radio communication and by using the mobile phone. A mobile phone, a server, a communication system and a software program product are adapted for carrying out the method

Claims

1. Method for providing event information of a mobile application, in particular of a mobile application executed on a mobile phone, to a server comprising the steps of:

generating event information with respect to the mobile application by the respective mobile application

storing the event information in an event database on the mobile phone

generating a communication stream comprising event database information, and

transferring the communication stream to a server over a radio communication and by using the mobile phone.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the event information are generated and stored in the form of event codes.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the event database comprises at least the following fields:

a field for a mobile application identification

a field for the event codes or event information

a field for the number of the respective events.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein the event information or the event codes are stored in the event database by the respective mobile application.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the event information or the event codes are stored in the event database by a Federator Application of the mobile phone.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein the communication stream comprising event database information is generated by the Federator application.

7. Method according to claim 6, wherein the Federator Application generates the communication stream in such manner, that the communication stream comprises the content of the event database, wherein the event database is emptied after successfully transferring the event database content into the communication stream.

8. Method according to claim 1, wherein the Federator Application adds further information to the communication stream.

9. Method according to claim 1, wherein, a server application adds further information to the communication stream.

10. Method according to claim 1, wherein the transferring of the communication stream to the server is performed or caused by the Federator Application and by using the mobile phone.

11. Method according to claim 1, wherein the generating and/or transferring of the communication stream is performed in response to specific triggering criteria.

12. Method according to claim 11, wherein the specific triggering criteria is at least one of the following criteria:

a request, in particular from the server,

date and/or time information,

specific error messages

and/or

a specific memory status of the event data base.

13. Method according to claim 1, wherein the communication stream is transferred to the server in form of an Short Message Service).

14. Mobile phone for executing the method according to claim 1, characterised in that, that the mobile phone comprises an event database for storing event information related to events of a mobile application and a Federator Application for handling the event information of the event database.

15. Server for executing the method according to claim 1, wherein that the server comprises a server application which co-operates with the Federator Application, evaluates the communication stream possibly adding information to the communication stream.

16. Communication system for providing event information of a mobile application, in particular of a mobile application executed on a mobile phone, to a server, wherein said communication system comprises the mobile phone according to claim 14 and the server according to claim 15.

17. Software program product for executing the method according to claim 1, wherein the software program product comprises the event database and the Federator Application.

18. Software program product according to claim 17, wherein the software program product is stored on a mobile phone memory.

19. Software program product according to claim 17, wherein the software program product is stored on a SIM-card

20. Software program product for executing the method according to claims 17, characterised in that, the software program product comprises a server application, which co-operates with the Federator Application, evaluates the communication stream possibly adding information to the communication stream.