Communications robot

• US 20050281206A1
• Filed: 07/26/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Combots Product GmbH
• Original Assignee: WEB.DE AG (Cinetic Gesellschaft zur Entwicklung & Vertrieb von Medien)
• Inventors: Cotte, Pierre-Alain, Greve, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/189,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20050281206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/14 for detecting or protecting against malicious traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• 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: H04M 3/432 Arrangements for calling a subscriber at a specific time, e.g. morning call service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/003 Click to dial services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0048 where the text-based messaging service is a Short Message Service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0054 where the data service is an electronic mail service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/123 where the packet-switched network is an Internet Protocol Multimedia System-type network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/128 Details of addressing, directories or routing tables

Abstract

A method for providing communications includes defining a communications parameter under control of a communications offering entity; implementing the communications parameter in a communications offering element; assigning the communications offering element to a target entity; providing at least a part of the communications offering element to the target entity; and providing, using the communications offering element, a communications offer to the target entity to communicate according to the communications parameter.

Claims

1. A method for providing communications, comprising:

defining a communications parameter under control of a communications offering entity;

implementing the communications parameter in a communications offering element;

assigning the communications offering element to a target entity;

providing at least a part of the communications offering element to the target entity; and

providing, by the communications offering element, a communications offer to the target entity to communicate according to the communications parameter.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the providing at least a part of the communications offering element includes transferring the at least a part of the communications offering means to the target entity.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the providing at least a part of the communications offering element includes installing the at least a part of the communications offering element at the target entity.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the providing at least a part of the communications offering element includes putting the communications offering element into an idle operational status.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the providing the at least a part of the communications offering element is performed using at least one of an electronic message and a portable data storage.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the providing the at least a part of the communications offering element is performed in a manner uncontrolled by the target entity.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising varying the communications parameter by implementing a varied communications parameter in the communications offering element.

8. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one of:

controlling the communications offering element when the at least part of the communications offering element has been provided so as to control a current condition of the communications offering element;

controlling the communications offering element when the at least part of the communications offering element has been provided so as to control a current condition of the communications offering element using a control element associated with the communications offering entity;

controlling the communications offering element when the at least part of the communications offering element has been provided so as to control a current condition of the communications offering element as a function of at least one event related to at least one of the communications offering entity and the target entity; and

controlling the communications offering element when the at least part of the communications offering element has been provided so as to control a current condition of the communications offering element as a function of at least one condition related to at least one of the communications offering entity and the target entity.

9. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the providing of the communications offer is performed as a function of at least one of a condition of the target entity and a condition of the communications offering entity.

10. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising synchronizing the communications offering element with respect to at least one of a condition of the target entity and a condition of the communications offering entity.

11. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one of:

providing information of a condition of the target entity to the communications offering entity using the communications offering element; and

providing information of a condition of the communications offering entity to the target entity using the communications offering element.

12. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the implementing is performed using a building element.

13. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising generating the communications offering element using a building element.

14. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising controlling the communications offering element using a control element associated with the communications offering entity.

15. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising providing, using the communications offering element, a representation of the communications offering entity at least during a period the communications offering element is activated.

16. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

providing a further communications offering element to the target entity by a further communications offering entity; and

communicating with the further communications offering element by the communications offering element.

17. The method as recited in claim 16 further comprising enabling the communicating when the communications offering element and the further communications offering element are stored in a specific group or directory.

18. The method as recited in claim 16 further comprising at least one of:

providing the communications parameter to the further communications offering element using the communications offering element; and

providing a second communications parameter of the further communications offering element to the communications offering element using the further communications offering element.

19. The method as recited in claim 16 further comprising at least one of:

providing information of the communications offering entity to the further communications offering element using the communications offering element; and

providing information of a second communications offering entity to the communications offering element using the further communications offering element, the further communications offering element being associated with the second communications offering entity.

20. The method as recited in claim 16 further comprising at least one of:

providing, using the communications offering element, to the communications offering entity information provided by the further communications offering element; and

providing, using the further communications offering element, to a second communications offering entity information provided by the communications offering element, the further communications offering element being associated with the second communications offering entity.

21. A communications system comprising:

a communications offering entity configured to control a definition of a communications parameter;

a target entity configured to communicate in a network;

a communications offering element assigned to the target entity and being at least partially provided to the target entity;

a building element configured to implement the communications parameter in the communications offering element;

wherein the communications offering element is configured to provide a communications offer to the target entity according to the communications parameter.

22. The system as recited in claim 21 wherein the building element is configured to generate the communications offering element.

23. The system as recited in claim 21 wherein the building element is associated with the communications offering entity.

24. The system as recited in claim 21 wherein at least one of the communications offering entity, the communications offering element and the building element is configured to vary the implemented communications parameter.

25. The system as recited in claim 21 further comprising a control element configured to control the communications offering element.