Mediation system for browsing Internet applications and non-Internet applications

• US 20060085501A1
• Filed: 10/06/2005
• Published: 04/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Pernot, Thierry, Rojnic, Jean, Le Moing, Sandra, Delorme, Laurent
• Application Number:
  US11/244,047
• Publication Number:
  US 20060085501A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A system is dedicated to mediating between Internet applications accessible by a web browser installed in a communication equipment connected to an Internet Protocol communication network and non-Internet applications accessible by at least one secondary browser installed in the communication equipment. The system comprises mediation means adapted, each time that a user activates an Internet first application by means of a web browser and then sends this first application an interaction message in the format of the Internet browser and including data representing a non-Internet second application and at least one operation to be effected on that second application: i) to determine a non-Internet browser adapted to the second application, ii) to convert data in the received interaction message and representing at least one operation to be effected on the second application into converted activation data comprehensible to the non-Internet browser, and iii) to contact the non-Internet browser that has been determined so that it accesses the second application to effect thereon each operation represented by the converted data.

Claims

1. A system for mediating between Internet applications accessible by a web browser installed in a communication user equipment connected to an Internet Protocol communication network and non-Internet applications accessible by at least one non-Internet browser installed in said communication user equipment, which system comprises mediation means adapted, each time that a user activates an Internet first application by means of an Internet browser installed in said user equipment and then sends said Internet first application an interaction message in the format of said Internet browser and including data representing a non-Internet second application and at least one operation to be effected on that non-Internet second application:

i) to determine a non-Internet browser adapted to said non-Internet second application, ii) to convert data in said received interaction message in the format of said web browser and representing at least one operation to be effected on said non-Internet second application into converted activation data comprehensible to said non-Internet browser that has been determined, and iii) to contact the non-Internet browser that has been determined so that it accesses said non-Internet second application to effect thereon each operation represented by said converted data.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said operation to be effected comprises activating said associated non-Internet second application.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said operation to be effected comprises sending at least one message to said associated application.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein said mediation means comprise first mediation means installed in an Internet server and adapted in the event of activation of an Internet first application by means of a web browser to access a first memory storing a first table establishing the correspondences between data representing Internet applications and/or non-Internet applications and data representing addresses at which it is possible to access said applications and browsers to be used to access said applications, so as to determine said non-Internet browser associated with said non-Internet second application designated in said received interaction message, and to send an information message including at least data representing the address of said non-Internet second application and said non-Internet browser adapted thereto.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said first memory is installed in said Internet server.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein said mediation means comprise second mediation means adapted in the event of reception of an information message coming from said first mediation means to access a second memory storing a second table establishing the correspondences between data representing said non-Internet browsers and data representing data conversion modules, so as:

i) to determine the conversion module corresponding to the non-Internet browser represented by certain of the data contained in said received information message, ii) then to supply that conversion module with certain of the data contained in said received interaction message in order for it to convert it into data comprehensible to said non-Internet browser that has been determined, and iii) to contact said non-Internet browser that has been determined in order for it to access said non-Internet second application at the address represented by said data contained in said received information message and effect on that non-Internet second application each associated operation represented by said converted data.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said second mediation means are downloaded from an Internet server into said communication equipment.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein said second mediation means are installed in said communication equipment.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein said second memory is installed in said communication equipment.

10. The system according to claim 6, wherein said second mediation means comprise said data conversion module.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said non-Internet applications is installed in said communication equipment.

12. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said non-Internet applications is installed in another communication equipment connected to said communication equipment including said second mediation means.

13. Communication equipment for an Internet Protocol communication network, comprising second mediation means of a mediation system according to claim 1.

14. An Internet server for an Internet network, comprising first mediation means of a mediation system according to claim 1.