SMART ARTEFACT AND USER TERMINAL HAVING A SHORT RANGE INTERFACE AND LONG RANGE INTERFACE

• US 20080057867A1
• Filed: 08/21/2007
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: TRAPPENIERS, Lieven Leopold Albertine, Godon, Marc Bruno Frieda
• Application Number:
  US11/842,924
• Publication Number:
  US 20080057867A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

A smart artefact (101) and user terminal (102) according to the invention have a first, short range interface (112, 121) for initiating an interactive session, and a second, long range interface (111, 124), for continuing the interactive session. The smart artefact (101) and user terminal (102) thereto also contain means that transfer the interactive session from the first interface (112, 121) towards the second interface (121, 124).

Claims

1. A smart artefact (101) having first interfacing means (112), active within a short range, for initiating an interactive session with a user terminal (102),

CHARACTERIZED IN THAT said smart artefact (101) further has:

second interfacing means (111), active within a substantially longer range than said short range, for continuing said interactive session with said user terminal (102), and

means for transferring said interactive session from said first interfacing means (112) towards said second interfacing means (111).

2. A smart artefact (101) according to claim 1,

CHARACTERIZED IN THAT said first interfacing means (112) are an instantiation of one or more of:

a touch-based interface;

a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag;

a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag reader;

a barcode;

a barcode scanner;

a shotcode;

a shotcode scanner;

a Uniform Resource Locator (URL);

a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) reader;

a Near Field Communication (NFC) interface;

an infrared interface;

a Bluetooth interface.

3. A smart artefact (101) according to claim 1,

CHARACTERIZED IN THAT said second interfacing means (111) are an instantiation of one or more of:

a Bluetooth interface or IEEE 802.15 interface;

a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interface;

a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) interface or IEEE 802.11 interface;

a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) interface or IEEE 802.16 interface;

a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) interface;

a HomeRF interface;

a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) interface;

a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) interface;

a Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) interface.

4. A user terminal (102) having first interfacing means (121), active within a short range, for initiating an interactive session with a smart artefact (101),

CHARACTERIZED IN THAT said user terminal (102) further has

second interfacing means (124), active within a substantially longer range than said short range, for continuing said interactive session with said smart artefact (101), and

means for transferring said interactive session from said first interfacing means (121) towards said second interfacing means (124).