Mobile telephony application platform
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1. A mobile telephony system, comprised of:
- a plurality of mobile telephone devices, at least some mobile devices having differing amounts of data processing resources;
a first mobile application; and
a server in communication with said mobile telephone devices, said server and a first mobile device collectively performing said first mobile application, wherein the amount of data processing resources of the server utilized in the performance of the first mobile application is variably in accordance with the amount of data processing resources available at the first mobile device.
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Abstract
A cellular telephone system and method for using low-cost low-memory cellular handsets is disclosed. The system and method allow for cellular telephony with inexpensive “dumb” cellular telephones that request code, data, and processing power from an application platform. The application platform is also capable of pushing code, data and processing power to the cellular telephones.
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1. A mobile telephony system, comprised of:
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a plurality of mobile telephone devices, at least some mobile devices having differing amounts of data processing resources;
a first mobile application; and
a server in communication with said mobile telephone devices, said server and a first mobile device collectively performing said first mobile application, wherein the amount of data processing resources of the server utilized in the performance of the first mobile application is variably in accordance with the amount of data processing resources available at the first mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A mobile telephony application platform in communication with a plurality of mobile telephone devices, said mobile telephony application platform comprised of:
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a user storage manager that allocates data storage resources at a fixed site to each of a plurality of mobile devices; and
a common storage manager that maintains storage for application data received from each of a plurality of mobile devices. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A mobile telephony system, comprised of:
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(i) a first mobile application;
(ii) a mobile device, comprised of;
(a) a local resource manager that allocates a resource on said mobile device for said first mobile client application; and
(b) a bootstrap processor that initiates said first mobile client application; and
an application platform, comprised of;
(iii) a user storage manager that allocates a resource on said application platform for said mobile device;
(iv) a common storage manager that maintains stateless data for said mobile device; and
(v) a processor manager that allocates a computational resource to said mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. A mobile telephony device comprising:
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data processing resources capable of performing at least a part of a first mobile application; and
a bootstrap processor that initiates the mobile application in conjunction with a server that performs at least a part of the application using data processing resources at a location remote from the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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