Method for admitting an information provider to a data transmission process, and transmission device

• US 20060247935A1
• Filed: 06/14/2004
• Published: 11/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IP3 2017, Series 200 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Zahimann, Dr. Gudrun, Schmidt, Markus, Schreiner, Horst
• Granted Patent: US 8,671,160 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/20 the monitoring system or the monitored elements being virtualised, abstracted or software-defined entities, e.g. SDN or NFV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass networks security protocols H04L9/40; wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

A method is for admitting an information provider to a process for transmitting data between information providers and information searchers via a transmission device. According to the method, test data that is transmitted by an information provider to a transmission device and represents data supplied by the information provider is received, and the quality thereof is assessed by the transmission device. The information provider is then admitted by the transmission device to the data transmission process between information providers and information searchers according to the quality of the test data.

Claims

1. A method for admitting an information provider to a method for switching transmitting information between information providers and information seekers via a transmission device, the method comprising:

receiving test data transmitted by an information provider to the transmission device, representing information offered by the information provider;

evaluating quality of the test data by the transmission device; and

admitting the information provider by the transmission device to the method for transmitting information between information providers and information seekers in dependence on the quality of the test data.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reception of test data is preceded by the following steps:

receiving offer signaling data which have been transmitted to the transmission device by an information provider,

sending test request data from the transmission device to the information provider.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method for transmitting information between information providers and information seeker via a transmission device comprises the following steps:

receiving information enquiry data which have been transmitted to the transmission device by information seekers,

receiving information offer data which have been transmitted to the transmission device by an admitted information provider and which represent information offered by the respective information provider,

comparing the information enquiry data and the information offer data for determining corresponding information enquiry data and information offer data, and

transmitting search result data to a terminal of an information seeker if the information enquiry data of the information seeker correspond to the information offer data of an information provider.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of test data and information offer data are transmitted encrypted between an information provider and the transmission device.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein at least one of information enquiry data and search result data are transmitted encrypted between an information seeker and the transmission device.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the evaluation of the quality of the test data is stored correlated with the corresponding information provider in the transmission device in order to generate an evaluation history correlated with the corresponding information provider, and wherein the admission of the information provider by the transmission device to the method for transmitting information between information providers and information seekers is made dependent on the evaluation history of the information provider.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the quality of the information transmitted to an information seeker is evaluated by the information seeker, wherein

that the evaluation of the quality is transmitted from the information seeker to the transmission device and is stored correlated with the corresponding information provider in the transmission device in order to generate an evaluation history correlated with the corresponding information provider, and wherein the admission of the information provider by the transmission device to the method for transmitt information between information providers and information seekers is made dependent on the evaluation history of the information provider.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of,

an information seeker first transmits the information enquiry data to an enquirer function unit allocated to the information seeker and the information enquiry data are automatically forwarded from there at least partially to the transmission device, and

the transmission device transmits the search result data to the enquirer function unit which

sorts or normalizes at least one of information offer data contained therein and associated information provider data, before they are transmitted to the information seeker.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of,

an information provider first transmits the information offer data to a provider function unit associated with the information provider and the information offer data are automatically forwarded from there at least partially to the transmission device, and

the transmission device information enquiry data matching the information offer data of the information provider to the provider function unit which initiates the more detailed comparison with the information represented by the information offer data by the associated data comparison device.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the evaluation of at least one of the quality and the evaluation history is transmitted to the information seeker.

15. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein at least one of information enquiry data and search result data are transmitted encrypted between an information seeker and the transmission device.

11. A transmission device, comprising:

a provider test interface device to receive test data, transmitted to the transmission device by an information provider, representing information offered by the information provider;

an evaluation device, constructed to evaluate the quality of test data; and

a control unit, constructed in such a manner that the admission of the information provider to a method for transmitting information is made dependent on the quality of the test data.

12. The transmission device as claimed in claim 11, further comprising:

a number of enquirer interface devices to receive information enquiry data transmitted to the transmission device by information seekers, and for sending search result data to terminals of the relevant information seekers;

a number of provider interface devices to receive information offer data which were transmitted to the transmission device by information providers and which represent information offered by the respective information provider;

a comparison unit to compare the information enquiry data and the information offer data for determining corresponding information enquiry data and information offer data; and

a control unit which causes search result data to be transmitted to the terminal of an information seeker if the information enquiry data of the relevant information seeker correspond to the information offer data of an information provider.

13. The transmission device as claimed in claim 11, further comprising a storage device to store the evaluation of the quality of test data.

14. The transmission device as claimed in claim 12, further comprising a storage device to store the evaluation of the quality of test data.

16. A transmission device, comprising:

test interface means for receiving test data, transmitted to the transmission device by an information provider, representing information offered by the information provider;

evaluation means for evaluating the quality of test data; and

control means for making the admission of the information provider to a method for transmitting information dependent on the quality of the test data.

17. The transmission device as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

a number of enquirer interface means for receiving information enquiry data transmitted to the transmission device by information seekers, and for sending search result data to terminals of the relevant information seekers;

a number of provider interface means for receiving information offer data which were transmitted to the transmission device by information providers and which represent information offered by the respective information provider;

comparison means for comparing the information enquiry data and the information offer data for determining corresponding information enquiry data and information offer data; and

control means for causing search result data to be transmitted to the terminal of an information seeker if the information enquiry data of the relevant information seeker correspond to the information offer data of an information provider.

18. The transmission device as claimed in claim 16, further comprising storage means for storing the evaluation of the quality of test data.

19. The transmission device as claimed in claim 17, further comprising storage means for storing the evaluation of the quality of test data.