Method and Apparatus for Efficiently Transferring Data within a Telecommunications Network

• US 20070243859A1
• Filed: 03/17/2004
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Gerdes, Martin, Quinet, Raphael, Dinsing, Torsten
• Application Number:
  US10/598,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20070243859A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/165 Combined use of TCP and UDP protocols; selection criteria therefor

Abstract

The invention relates to a new and useful method for transferring data within a telecommunications network as well as to a mobile terminal capable of engaging to the network and of carrying out the steps of the method, which advantageously may be applied where, e.g., the data transfer from or to an application running on the mobile terminal originally required two or more independent communications, according to a transport protocol, e.g., TCP connections, to the telecommunications network and where in order to enhance the efficiency of the communication the mobile terminal combines independent communication connections originally required by the application to a single communication connection.

Claims

1. A method for transferring data from or to a telecommunications network node in a telecommunications network, comprising the steps of:

utilizing a remote Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) proxy for

distributing communication requests processed through a BEEP channel established between the remote BEEP proxy and a local BEEP proxy the remote BEEP proxy establishing individual communication connections to applications addressed by the communication requests.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the communication requests comprise at least one of a profile service request, a location service request and a messaging service request.

3. The method according claim 2, wherein the profile service request, the location service request or the messaging service request are intercepted by the local BEEP proxy.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein a friend finder application sends the profile service request, the location service request or the messaging service request via the local BEEP proxy.

5. A telecommunications network node for a telecommunications network, comprising:

a remote Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) proxy for

distributing communication requests processed through a BEEP channel established between said remote BEEP proxy and a local BEEP I proxy, by establishing individual communication connections to applications addressed by the communication requests.

6. The telecommunications network node according to claim 5, wherein the communication requests comprise at least one of a profile service request, a location service request and a messaging service request.