Internet appliance proxy protocol to support location-based services

• US 20040148438A1
• Filed: 01/20/2004
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
• Inventors: Liscano, Ramiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,966,423 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A method for providing location and contact information about a user to a location-based service includes sending a request containing substitutable variables via an Internet portal. The Internet portal replaces the variables, en-route to the message'"'"'s destination, thus eliminating the need for the location-based service to further query the Internet portal for the data, or for the data to be available to the sender when the message is sent.

Claims

1. A method for providing local information about a network portal to a destination server, comprising:

creating a message containing substitutable variables and addressed to said destination server;

sending said message;

receiving said message at said network portal;

detecting said substitutable variables in said message;

amending said message at said network portal in response to detecting said substitutable variables by replacing said substitutable variables in said message with said local information; and

sending amended message to said destination server.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said message and said amended message are formatted according to a text-based Internet protocol.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said text-based Internet protocol is Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein said text-based Internet protocol is Session Initiation Protocol.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein said text-based Internet protocol is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

6. The method of claim 2, where said network portal-is an Internet Appliance.

7. A network portal configured to provide local information to a destination server, comprising:

memory for storing said local information in association with a substitutable variable;

a receiver for receiving a message, said message addressed to said destination server and consisting partly of said substitutable variable;

means for identifying said substitutable variable in said message;

a processor for replacing said substitutable variable in said message with said local information from said memory, thereby creating an amended message; and

a transmitter for sending said amended message to said destination server.

8. The network portal of claim 7 wherein said message and said amended message are formatted according to a text-based Internet protocol.

9. The network portal of claim 8, wherein said text-based Internet protocol is Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

10. The network portal of claim 8, wherein said text-based Internet protocol is Session Initiation Protocol.

11. The network portal of claim 8, wherein said text-based Internet protocol is Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

12. The network portal of claim 8, wherein said network portal may be an Internet Appliance.