Device, system, method and computer readable medium obtaining a network attribute, such as a DNS address, for a short distance wireless network

• US 20050030917A1
• Filed: 03/25/2004
• Published: 02/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: US Mobile Limited
• Original Assignee: US Mobile Limited
• Inventors: Cohen, Alon, Levi, Yosi, Holostov, Vladimir, Itzachak, Avraham, Kvetny, Eduard, Fornell, Peter, Haller, Amit, Haparnas, Ziv, Glick, Amir
• Application Number:
  US10/809,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20050030917A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5084 Providing for device mobility network addressing or numbering for mobility support in wireless networks H04W8/26; mobile IP H04W80/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/58 Caching of addresses or names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0236 Filtering by address, protocol, port number or service, e.g. IP-address or URL
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/00 Communication routing or communication path finding
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• 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 device, method, system and computer readable medium allows for selectively obtaining a cellular network attribute, such as a DNS address. In an embodiment of the present invention, a device, such as a cellular telephone, includes a processor and memory capable to store a software component for selectively obtaining a cellular network attribute from a cellular network responsive to a first terminal in a short distance wireless network communicating with the device. In an embodiment of the present invention, the cellular network is a Global System for Mobile communications (“GSM”) cellular network and the DNS address is obtained using cellular data service, such as a general packet radio service (“GPRS”)

Claims

1. ) A device in a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a processor; and

,

a memory, coupled to the processor, capable to store a software component for selectively obtaining a cellular network attribute.

2. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the cellular network attribute includes a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address.

3. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the cellular network attribute includes a private Internet Protocol (“

IP”

) address for the first terminal.

4. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the communicating includes the first terminal establishing a short-range LAN access profile session with the device.

5. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the software component establishes a cellular data service session responsive to a comparison of a current public IP address and current access point name (“

APN”

) and a previous public IP address and a previous APN, and wherein the software component obtains a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address using the cellular data service session.

6. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the software component establishes a cellular data service session, and wherein the software component obtains a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address using the cellular data service session.

7. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the software component establishes a cellular data service session and obtains a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address in the cellular network responsive to a threshold time value.

8. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the software provides a first domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address, stored in the device, to the first terminal and obtains a second DNS address in the cellular network using a cellular data service session and provides the second DNS address to the first terminal.

9. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the software provides a previous domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address to the first terminal and terminates a connection with the first terminal responsive to a comparison of the previous DNS and a current DNS address obtained from the cellular network using a cellular data service session.

10. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the network attribute is obtained using a general packet radio service (“

GPRS”

) in a Global System for Mobile communications (“

GSM”

) cellular network.

11. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the short distance wireless network is a Bluetooth™

wireless local area network.

12. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the short distance wireless network is an 802.11 wireless local area network.

13. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the device further includes a short-range LAN Access profile software component.

14. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the device is a cellular telephone.

15. ) A method, comprising the steps of:

generating a first short-range radio message requesting a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address by a terminal in a short distance wireless network;

receiving by a device in the short-range radio message;

generating a cellular signal, by the device, to obtain a cellular data service in a cellular network;

obtaining, by the device, a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address in the cellular network; and

generating a second short-range radio message, by the device to the terminal, including the DNS address.

16. ) A method, comprising the steps of:

comparing a current IP address and current access point name (“

APN”

) to a previous IP address and a previous APN;

generating a cellular signal, by the device, to obtain a cellular data service in a cellular network responsive to the comparing;

obtaining, by the device, a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address in the cellular network; and

generating a second short-range radio message, by the device to a terminal, including the DNS address.

17. ) A method, comprising the steps of:

measuring an amount of time since a device established a cellular data service session;

comparing the measured amount of time to a threshold value.

generating a cellular signal, by the device in the short distance wireless network, to obtain a cellular data service in a cellular network responsive to the comparing;

obtaining, by the device, a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address in the cellular network; and

,

generating a short-range radio message, by the device to a terminal, including the DNS address.

18. ) A method, comprising the steps of:

generating a first short-range radio message requesting a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address by a terminal in a short distance wireless network;

receiving, by a device in the short distance wireless network, the first short-range radio message;

obtaining a first DNS address stored in the device;

generating a second short-range radio message including the DNS address, by the device to the terminal;

generating a cellular signal, by the device, to obtain a cellular data service in a cellular network;

obtaining, by the device, a second DNS address in the cellular network; and

generating a third short-range radio message, by the device to the terminal, including the second DNS address.

19. ) A method, comprising the steps of:

generating, by a terminal in a short distance wireless network, a first short-range radio message requesting a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address;

receiving, by a device in the short distance wireless network, the first short-range radio message;

obtaining a first DNS address stored in a device;

generating a second short-range radio message including the first DNS address, by the device to the terminal;

generating a cellular signal, by the device, to obtain a cellular data service in a cellular network;

obtaining, by the device, a second domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address in the cellular network;

comparing the first DNS and the second DNS;

terminating communication between the terminal and the device responsive the comparing step;

establishing a communication between the terminal and the device; and

,

generating, by the device, a third short-range radio message including the second DNS address to the terminal

20. ) The method of claim 19, wherein the device is a cellular telephone.

21. ) The method of claim 19, wherein the cellular network is a Global System for Mobile communications (“

GSM”

) cellular network and the cellular data service is a general packet radio service (“

GPRS”

).

22. ) The method of claim 19, wherein the short distance wireless network is a Bluetooth™

wireless local area network.

23. ) The method of claim 19, wherein the short distance wireless network is an 802.11 wireless local area network.

24. ) A system for providing communication between a cellular network and a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a hand-held wireless device, including;

a cellular transceiver capable to communicate with the cellular network, including to receive a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address from a cellular data service;

a short-range transceiver capable to communicate with the short distance wireless network, including to receive a first short-range radio message and to generate a second short-range radio message including the DNS address;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range transceivers, capable to store a software component to obtain the DNS address; and

,

a first wireless device capable to generate the first short-range radio message and to receive the second short-range radio message.

25. ) A system for providing communication between a cellular network and a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a hand-held wireless device, including;

a cellular transceiver capable to communicate with the cellular network, including to receive a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address from a cellular data service;

a short-range transceiver capable to communicate with the short distance wireless network, including to generate a first short-range radio message including the DNS address;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range transceivers, capable to store a software component to obtain the DNS address responsive to a comparison of a current cellular network address and current access point name (“

APN”

) and a previous cellular network address and a previous APN; and

,

a first wireless device to receive the first short-range radio message.

26. ) A system for providing communication between a cellular network and a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a hand-held wireless device, including;

a cellular transceiver to communicate with the cellular network, including to receive a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address from a cellular data service;

a short-range transceiver to communicate with the short distance wireless network, including to generate a short-range radio message including the DNS address;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range transceivers, capable to store a software component to establish a cellular data service session and obtaining the DNS address in the cellular network responsive to a threshold time value; and

,

a first wireless device to receive the first short-range radio message.

27. ) A system for providing communication between a cellular network and a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first wireless device to generate a first short-range radio message including a a first domain naming service (“

DNS”

) request and to receive a second short-range radio message including an IP address responsive to the DNS request; and

,

a hand-held wireless device, including;

a cellular transceiver to communicate with the cellular network, including to receive a DNS address from a cellular data service;

a short-range transceiver to communicate with the short distance wireless network, including to receive the first short-range radio message and to generate the second short-range radio message;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range transceivers, capable to store a software component to relay the DNS request to the DNS address using a cellular data service session.

28. ) A system for providing communication between a cellular network and a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first wireless device capable to receive a first and a second short-range radio message; and

,

a hand-held wireless device, including;

a cellular transceiver to communicate with the cellular network, including to receive a first and a second domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address from a cellular data service;

a short-range transceiver to communicate with the short-range radio network, including to generate the first and the second short-range radio messages including the first and the second DNS addresses, respectively;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range transceivers, capable to store a software component to provide a first DNS address to the first wireless device and terminate communication with the first wireless device responsive to a comparison of the first DNS and the second DNS addresses obtained from the cellular network using a cellular data service session.

29. ) The system of claim 28, wherein the first wireless device is selected from a group consisting of a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant, a headset, a pager, a pen, a printer, a watch, a digital camera and an equivalent.

30. ) An article of manufacture, including a computer readable medium, comprising:

a short-range radio software component to receive a first short-range radio signal in a short distance wireless network;

a cellular software component to provide a communication signal in a cellular network; and

,

a software component to obtain a domain naming service (“

DNS”

) address in a cellular network responsive to receiving the first short-range radio signal, wherein the short-range radio software component generates a second short range radio signal including the DNS address.