Unified mobile platform

• US 20070168953A1
• Filed: 11/16/2006
• Published: 07/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Myriad Group AG
• Original Assignee: Myriad Group AG
• Inventors: Diez, Daniel, Mancuso, Davide
• Granted Patent: US 8,490,070 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45516 Runtime code conversion or optimisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45537 Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE I/O emulation G06F13/105

Abstract

The present invention teaches a variety of systems, platforms, applications, and methods, and relates to mobile platforms, embedded native applications, Java virtual machines, user interfaces, and the like. The present invention discloses a mobile platform which unifies the worlds of the Java virtual machine and native applications to provide a unified and consistent environment for multitasking both Java and native applications within a mobile device.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

a target hardware platform including a terminal chipset and peripherals;

a target software platform including a protocol stack, i/o drivers, and a target platform interface;

a native application platform including a native application API, a native application porting layer;

a multi-tasking virtual machine (MVM) including;

a porting layer for coupling said virtual machine with said native application platform;

a multi-tasking manager;

an event manager;

a brand manager;

a display manager, wherein said multi-tasking manager, said event manager, said brand manager, and said display manager supplement and/or replace equivalent functions in said native application platform; and

a JAVA application API enabling MIDlets to be installed through a combined verification and compilation process allowing compiled MIDlet code to be executed on said native application platform.

2. A mobile device as recited in claim 1, wherein said mobile device is a cellular telephone.

3. A mobile device as recited in claim 2 wherein said MVM further includes a phone man-machine interface (MMI) process.

4. A computer implemented method for providing a unified mobile computing platform, said method characterized by providing a multitasking environment that enables both JAVA and native applications to execute on said unified mobile computing platform.

5. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 4, further comprising a combined verification and compilation process during installation of JAVA byte-code.

6. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 5, wherein said JAVA byte-code is found in MIDlets.

7. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 6, wherein said MIDlets are pre-installed and are running constantly.

8. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 4 further including providing a multitasking virtual manager (MVM).

9. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 8, further including coupling said MVM with a native application platform via a porting layer.

10. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 9, wherein said multitasking virtual manager is a JBED MVM.

11. A computer implemented method as recited in claim 10, wherein said MVM includes a brand manager, an event manager, and a JAVA GUI process.

12. A computer implemented method for providing a unified mobile computer platform for a cellular telephone implementing a JAVA virtual machine comprising:

instantiating a JAVA multitasking virtual machine (MVM), wherein processes implemented within said MVM are installed through a combined verification and compilation process;

instantiating a native application platform;

implementing a JAVA GUI within said MVM;

switching control from a GUI within said native application platform to said JAVA GUI within said MVM;

implementing an event manager within said MVM;

executing a brand manager within said MVM;

implementing native applications within said native platform; and

installing MIDlets within said MVM.