Communication network terminal supporting a plurality of applications

• US 20050197111A1
• Filed: 02/18/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Maenpaa, Jari `, Nykanen, Petri, Gustafsson, Patrik, Isomursu, Pekka, Alanara, Seppo, Terho, Mikko, Decker, Peter, Miettunen, Juhani, Lehtonen, Arto, Kaartinen, Kalevi, Lietsalmi, Mikko, Pihko, Pete, Kari, Hannu H., Tarnanen, Teemu
• Granted Patent: US 7,366,529 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27453 Directories allowing storage of additional subscriber data, e.g. metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/041 Encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention relates to a terminal (1) for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications (17, 18) and having means of communicating user messages. The terminal comprises means for receiving user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications (17, 18) and means (8) for addressing the data to a respective application according to the header. In an embodiment the user messages are short messages and the data comprises characters in the short message.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A terminal for a communication network, the terminal comprising a plurality of applications for displaying and processing of information and further comprising wireless communication means for communicating user messages, wherein it comprises means that have been arranged to receive a wirelessly communicated user message having information for one of said applications and a header relating to said one of said applications, and means arranged to address and store the information to a respective one of said applications according to said header.

10. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the user message has an address field (ADD) containing the address of the destination of the message and a data field (INFO) containing the information of the message, and that said header is in said data field (INFO).

11. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the user message has an address field (ADD) containing the address of the destination of the message and a data field (INFO) containing the information of the message, and that said header is in said address field (ADD).

12. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the terminal comprises a user interface (UI), and the applications are user accessible applications enabling the user to input and modify information in an application with the user interface (UI).

13. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the user message is one of a short message, a message according to the standardised Short Message Service (SMS) message, a message according to the standardised R data field message, a message according to the standardised Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) message, a message according to the standardised Service Operator Code (SOC) message, and a message according to a wireless packet radio service.

14. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the terminal is one of a mobile station capable of communicating over the mobile communications network and of a computer having a connection to the mobile communications network.

15. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the information that is received by at least one of said plurality of applications varies from one instance of a received user message to another instance of a received user message.

16. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the terminal is a mobile station and the user message is a short message.

17. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein header points to one of said applications.

18. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the terminal comprises a plurality of applications.

19. A terminal according to claim 16, wherein the short message has information in the form of characters.

20. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the means for receiving user messages are part of the wireless communication means.

22. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the user message has information in the form of characters.

23. A terminal according to claim 8, wherein the characters are alpha-numeric characters.

24. A terminal according to claim 23, wherein the information is divided into at least two data fields, the data fields being separated by field separators.

28. A method according to claim 18, wherein the user message is one of a short message, a message according to the standardised Short Message Service (SMS) message, a message according to the standardised R data field message, a message according to the standardised Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) message, a message according to the standardised Service Operator Code (SOC) message, and a message according to a wireless packet radio service.

9. A terminal for a communication network, the terminal comprising a plurality of applications for displaying and processing of information and further comprising wireless communication means for communicating user messages, wherein it comprises means that have been arranged to send information stored in one of said applications in a user message over wireless communication and means arranged to add a header to the user message, the header indicating the respective application that the information relates to.

21. A terminal according to claim 9, wherein the means for sending are part of the wireless communication means.

25. A method of transferring data between a first device and a second device, the second device being remote from the first device, and both the first and second device being one of a mobile station capable of communicating over a mobile communications network and of a computer having a connection to the mobile communications network, the method comprising:

retrieving a data entry from an application of the first device, said application containing a plurality of data entries each having a number of data fields,

transmitting said entry to the second device in a user message via the mobile communications network, the user message comprising a header for indicating, to the second device, which application of a plurality of applications comprising in the second device that the data relates to, and

storing the received data entry in corresponding data fields in a corresponding application of the second device.

26. A method according to claim 25, wherein the individual data fields are separated by field separators, and before the step of storing the retrieved data entry is received at the second device, and the step of storing comprises storing, based on the field separators, the data fields of the received data entry in corresponding data fields in a corresponding application of the second device.

27. A method according to claim 25, wherein user message has an address field portion (ADD) containing the address of the second device and a data portion (INFO) containing the data entry, and wherein the header indicating the application that the data entry relates to is added to said data portion before transmitting said user message to the second device.