Compound wireless mobile communication services

• US 20050215247A1
• Filed: 03/11/2004
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thaddeus John Kobylarz
• Original Assignee: Thaddeus John Kobylarz
• Inventors: Kobylarz, Thaddeus John
• Granted Patent: US 7,424,292 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/426.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

Described are the concept, processes, and methods to combine an assortment of individually available and executable wireless mobile communication services for the purpose of achieving a desired objective(s). The activity of combining these individual services can be performed by a wireless communication user/subscriber, or a wireless communication service provider, or a wireless communication equipment supplier, or a wireless communication equipment manufacturer, etc. Once combined, these individual services represent an executable sequence that can be appropriately stored in a memory for future invocations by a user/subscriber. That is, a single invocation of the built service combination will execute the sequence of services whenever desired by a user/subscriber.

Claims

1. A process which comprises combining wireless mobile communication services to build a more complex wireless mobile communication service, wherein:

a more complex wireless mobile communication service, termed herein a compound wireless mobile communication service, is enacted as a sequence of the combined services.

2. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

a combination of fundamental wireless mobile communication services (fundamental wireless mobile communication services is defined in the BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION section).

3. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

a combination of compound wireless mobile communication services.

4. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

a combination of fundamental wireless mobile communication services and a combination of compound wireless mobile communication services.

5. The processes of claim 2, claim 3, or claim 4, further comprising:

the use of other services, for convenience termed “

facility services”

, in the building process to assist in achieving the intended objectives of a compound wireless mobile communication service;

moreover, the facility services are not in themselves wireless mobile communication services, but essential for properly executing a compound wireless mobile communication service.

6. The processes of claim 1, wherein:

a compound wireless mobile communication service may have as its builder one or more of the following—

a wireless mobile communication subscriber;

a wireless mobile communication user;

a wireless mobile communication service provider;

a wireless mobile communication equipment manufacturer;

a wireless mobile communication equipment supplier;

a software manufacturer;

a software supplier;

a third party applications provider;

a third party service provider.

7. The processes of claim 1, wherein the following methods apply:

a compound wireless mobile communication service may be built using computer facilities and then compounded and downloaded onto a wireless mobile terminal;

the computer facilities include software to assist in the building of compound wireless mobile communication services;

the computer facilities provide graphical and/or textual images that can be selected by means of computer accessories as a computer “

mouse”

;

the graphical and/or textual images represent wireless mobile communication services, including compound wireless mobile communication services and facility services (for convenience the term “

component services”

is to apply to any of the services);

the component services are represented by named operational or functional expressions and possibly have one or more dependent parameters and possibly one or more independent parameters;

the computer facilities include an opportunity to request “

help”

to explain and clarify the application and use of a selected graphical and/or textual image.

8. The methods of claim 7, wherein:

the selected graphical and/or textual images can be “

dragged”

to form a pictorial representation of a compound wireless mobile communication service;

the pictorial representation of a compound wireless mobile communication service may be transformed or compiled into appropriate executable software prior to wireless mobile terminal downloading, whenever a wireless mobile terminal requires this transformation or compilation.

9. The methods of claim 7 or claim 8, inclusively, wherein:

a wireless mobile terminal itself contains facilities to build compound wireless mobile communication services.

10. The process of claim 5, wherein:

facility services provide one or more of the following operations (or processes) in compound wireless mobile communication services—

arithmetic functions (e.g., addition, division);

transcendental functions (e.g., trigonometric, exponential);

assignment of values (e.g., equality);

event determination (e.g., determine if a traffic delay message exists);

equality determination (e.g., determine when a wireless mobile terminal is at a certain location);

inequality determination (e.g., determine if the computed travel time exceeds a specified limit);

pause compound wireless mobile communication service execution (i.e., go into an idle state for specified time duration);

event conditioned execution (i.e., go to a component service when a certain event occurs);

truth determination (i.e., determine if a condition or an assertion is true or false);

logical assignment (i.e., assign a true or false value to a condition or an assertion);

negation (i.e., reverse the logical assignment of a condition or an assertion);

conjunction (i.e., apply the logical connective “

and”

between a pair of conditions or between a pair of assertions);

disjunction (apply the logical connective “

or”

between a pair of conditions or between a pair of assertions);

compound assertion (i.e., form an assertion from other assertions by the use of some combination of negation, and/or conjunction, and/or disjunction);

compound condition (i.e., form a condition from other conditions by the use of some combination of negation, and/or conjunction, and/or disjunction);

branch on a condition (i.e., go to a component service when a certain condition exists);

display a value (e.g., show the computed travel time to a destination on a wireless mobile terminal);

announce a value (e.g., verbalize that a new travel route has been determined on a wireless mobile terminal).

11. The methods of claim 7 or claim 8, inclusively, further comprising:

A menu for selecting component services exists that provide for one or more of the following—

to incorporate any of the facility services of claim 7 into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the fundamental wireless mobile communication services made available by the wireless mobile communication service provider into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a wireless mobile communication subscriber into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a wireless mobile communication user into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a wireless mobile communication service provider into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a wireless mobile communication equipment manufacturer into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a wireless mobile communication equipment supplier into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a software manufacturer into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a software supplier into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a third party applications provider into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

to incorporate any of the compound wireless mobile communication services made available by a third party service provider into the compound wireless mobile communication service being built.

12. The methods of claim 7 or claim 8, inclusively, further comprising:

a menu of one or more special capabilities that achieve the following—

to draw lines with arrowheads that manifests the sequence of component services;

to enter alphanumeric characters when building a compound wireless mobile communication service;

to enter geometric elements as rectangles, diamonds, triangles, ellipses, etc. when building a compound wireless mobile communication service.

13. The methods of claim 7 or claim 8, inclusively, further comprising:

a menu of one or more building tools that achieve the following—

test a built compound wireless mobile communication service for proper performance;

evaluate the price charged by a wireless mobile service provider to execute a compound wireless mobile communication service;

assign an operational or functional expression to a compound wireless mobile communication service;

record and store a voice message as a value to be used in the facility service that audibly announces comments;

add a compound wireless mobile communication service operational or functional expression to the repertoire of component services for use to build other compound wireless mobile communication services;

save a built compound wireless mobile communication service in specified memory location;

compile a compound wireless mobile communication service for a wireless mobile terminal;

download a compound wireless mobile communication service to a wireless mobile terminal;

select a group of component services;

copy a selected group of component services into a temporary memory;

place the copied group of component services into a specified section of a compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

delete a selected group of component services;

undo changes made while building a compound wireless mobile communication service;

find a sequence of typographical characters within a component service;

replace one sequence of typographical characters with another sequence of typographical characters within a component service;

print the interconnection of component services for a partially or fully built compound wireless mobile communication service;

go to the next/previous page of a compound wireless mobile communication service, when represented by more than one page of interconnected of component services;

go to the next/previous page of the component services menu, if they are represented on more than one page;

check the spelling of words;

zoom in/out of a compound wireless mobile communication service displayed by an interconnection of component services;

zoom in in/out of any menu used to build a compound wireless mobile communication service;

scroll up up/down a page on which a compound wireless mobile communication service is displayed by an interconnection of component services;

scroll up/down a page of any menu display used to build a compound wireless mobile communication service;

minimize/maximize/close a compound wireless mobile communication service being displayed by an interconnection of component services;

minimize/maximize/close any menu display used to build a compound wireless mobile communication service;

open a compound wireless mobile communication service display of interconnected component services;

open any menu used to build a compound wireless mobile communication service;

insert a compound wireless mobile communication service display of interconnected component services into a compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

justify or align typographical characters left/center/right in a displayed component service;

select size and/or font of typographical characters in a displayed component service;

highlight typographical characters with a selected color in a displayed component service;

select line widths of geometric shapes in a displayed compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

fill geometric shapes with a selected color in a displayed compound wireless mobile communication service being built;

erase selected colors and/or geometric shapes in a displayed compound wireless mobile communication service being built.

14. A subject matter, regarded as this invention, was originally described in a provisional patent having the application No. 60/454,412.