Data Communications

• US 20070101011A1
• Filed: 12/18/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dynamical Systems Research Ltd., ST-Ericcson SA (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: ST Wireless SA
• Inventors: Mrsic-Flogel, Janko, Bianchessi, Marco, Sojat, Zorislav, Sala, Stefano, Reynolds, Derek
• Granted Patent: US 7,565,210 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The present invention provides methods of, computer programs for and apparatus for control and/or observation of a device with communication capabilities by a controller device with hypertext or hypermedia communication capabilities. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to methods of, computer programs for and apparatus for control and observation of a consumer electronics device with communications capability from a mobile controller device with hypertext or hypermedia communications capability over a proximity bearer.

Claims

1. A method of providing a remote data processing device with control data that enables a user to control the operation of a consumer electronics device, the method comprising:

generating a hypermedia data message, the hypermedia data message comprising data representing one or more menu options, the menu options corresponding to one or more actions configured to be performed by the consumer electronics device in response to receiving a control message corresponding to one or more of the menu options; and

sending the hypermedia data message to the remote data processing device using a hypermedia data communications protocol,

wherein both the remote data processing device and the consumer electronics device are configured to communicate using the hypermedia data communications protocol.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

presenting the one or more menu options to the user using a man-machine interface; and

generating and sending to the consumer electronics device a hypermedia request message corresponding to selected menu options in response to a user instruction.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more menu options correspond to one or more actions currently performable by the consumer electronics device.

3. A method of providing a remote data processing device with data representing the operational state of a consumer electronics device, the method comprising:

generating a hypermedia data message in dependence on the operational state of the consumer electronics device; and

sending the hypermedia data message to the remote data processing device using a hypermedia data communications protocol,

wherein both the remote data processing device and the consumer electronics device are configured to perform communication using the hypermedia data communications protocol.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising communicating the remote data processing device and the consumer electronics device using a proximity bearer.

6. The method according to claim 3, further comprising generating the hypermedia data message in two or more hypermedia mark-up languages.

7. A computer readable medium for storing one or more computer programs for performing a method of providing a remote data processing device with data representing the operational state of a consumer electronics device, the method comprising:

generating a hypermedia data message in dependence on the operational state of the consumer electronics device; and

sending the hypermedia data message to the remote data processing device using a hypermedia data communications protocol,

wherein both the remote data processing device and the consumer electronics device are configured to communicate using the hypermedia data communications protocol.

8. An apparatus for providing a remote data processing device with data representing the operational state of a consumer electronics device, the apparatus comprising:

means for generating a hypermedia data message in dependence on the operational state of the consumer electronics device; and

means for sending the hypermedia data message to the remote data processing device using a hypermedia data communications protocol,

wherein both the remote data processing device and the consumer electronics device are configured to communicate using the hypermedia data communications protocol.