Method for over the air mobile station management

• US 20050096028A1
• Filed: 12/15/2004
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Oommen, Paul P.
• Granted Patent: US 7,809,365 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

The invention provides a system and method for managing a mobile station wirelessly. The control software includes a dynamic agent operating program and a group of objects linked to the dynamic agent operating program. Some of the objects allow the mobile station to utilize services, such as accessing the Internet or E-mail services. Additional objects for providing access to new services may be wirelessly transmitted from a management server to the mobile station over the air and stored in the mobile station. Users may selectively delete and download objects to customize the services available through their mobile stations while minimizing the memory requirements of the mobile station.

Claims

1. A method of modifying control software installed on a mobile station, wherein the control software includes a dynamic agent operating program linked to a group of objects, the method comprising the steps of:

wirelessly transmitting a new object from a management server to a mobile station;

receiving the new object at the mobile station; and

storing the new object in a memory of the mobile station.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the new object comprises a data file containing a list of phone numbers.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the list of phone numbers comprises a list of phone numbers corresponding to employees of an enterprise.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the new object comprises a data file containing a list of E-mail addresses.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the list of E-mail addresses comprises a list of E-mail addresses corresponding to employees of an enterprise.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the new object comprises a script.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the new object comprises software that allows a user to access the Internet.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the new object is comprises diagnostic software designed to evaluate the operation of the mobile station.

9. The method of claim 1, further including the steps of:

executing the new object; and

automatically deleting the new object from the memory.

10. A mobile station that allows a user to communicate in a wireless manner comprising:

a controller that manages the operation of the mobile station;

a control program comprising;

a group of current objects stored in an object memory;

a dynamic agent operating program stored in a program memory that uses the group of current objects to control the operation of the mobile station; and

wherein the controller and the dynamic agent operating program are configured to allow the mobile station to receive additional objects broadcast in a wireless manner and to store the additional objects in the object memory.

11. The mobile station of claim 10, wherein the object memory comprises a read only memory and a random access memory.

12. A system for reconfiguring control software stored in a mobile station, wherein the control software includes a dynamic agent operating program linked to a group of objects, said system comprising:

a mobile station configured to receive and store new objects; and

a management server configured to wirelessly transmit the new objects to the mobile station.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one of the new objects comprises a data file containing a list of phone numbers.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one of the new objects comprises a script.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one of the new objects comprises software that allows a user to access the Internet.

16. A management server that transmits data to reconfigure control software stored in a mobile station, wherein the control software includes a dynamic agent operating program linked to a group of objects, said management server comprising:

a memory containing new objects; and

a transmitter that transmits the new objects to a mobile station.

17. The management server of claim 16, further including a controller configured to compile a list of new objects not stored in a memory of a mobile station.

18. The management server of claim 17, wherein the transmitter transmits to the mobile station the list of new objects not stored in the memory of the mobile station along with the size of the new objects.

19. The management server of claim 16, wherein the transmitter transmits new objects after receiving a request from the mobile station for the new objects.