Method for accessing an ERP from a mobile equipment unit

• US 20050160403A1
• Filed: 10/27/2004
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Original Assignee: Bouygues Telecom (Bouygues SA)
• Inventors: Nivelet, Christophe
• Application Number:
  US10/974,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20050160403A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/116
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 Wireless channel access

Abstract

A method for accessing an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) from a mobile equipment unit including downloading a Java™ application on the mobile equipment unit; and transmitting at least one request to the ERP from the mobile equipment unit, wherein the request is generated by the Java application and proceeds via the following pathway: advancing in an XML format via a mobile telecommunications network to a TM-IS gateway [Telecommunications-Information System]; and transmitting the request from the TM-IS gateway to the ERP via a Web services interface; and a system that implements the method according to claim 1, comprising: at least one mobile equipment unit, a TM-IS gateway [Telecommunications-Information System], an ERP and a Web services interface.

Claims

1. A method for accessing an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) from a mobile equipment unit comprising:

downloading a Java™

application on the mobile equipment unit; and

transmitting at least one request to the ERP from the mobile equipment unit, wherein the request is generated by the Java application and proceeds via a pathway;

advancing in an XML format via a mobile telecommunications network to a TM-IS gateway [Telecommunications-Information System]; and

transmitting the request from the TM-IS gateway to the ERP via a Web services interface.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising processing the request by the ERP and sending back a response from the ERP to the mobile equipment unit via a Web services interface.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile equipment unit is a Java-compatible mobile telecommunications terminal.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the TM-IS gateway is a Wap gateway.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Web services interface is integrated with the ERP.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Web services interface is not integrated with the ERP.

7. A system that implements the method according to claim 1, comprising:

at least one mobile equipment unit, a TM-IS gateway [Telecommunications-Information System], an ERP and a Web services interface.