Web-Based Access to Data Objects

• US 20090193130A1
• Filed: 01/28/2009
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Fiatal, Trevor
• Granted Patent: US 8,838,744 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/026 Details of "hello" or keep-alive messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

Providing a mobile device with web-based access to data objects is disclosed. Authentication information is sent from a mobile device to a relay server. The relay server executes a connection application to establish a connection to a web access server. The authentication information is provided to the web access server associated with a data store hosting a data object. Upon authentication, the data object is provided to the relay server from the data store. The data object is then provided to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of providing a mobile device with web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:

receiving at a relay server authentication information for a data store hosting the data object, the information sent from the mobile device;

executing a connection application stored in memory at the relay server, wherein execution of the connection application by a processor at the relay server establishes a connection between the relay server and a web access server associated with the data store hosting the data object;

transmitting the received authentication information from the relay server to the web access server via the established connection, whereby the web access server may subsequently authenticate a user seeking access to the data store based on the authentication information received from the relay server;

receiving the data object at the relay server following authentication of the user to the data store by the web access server; and

transmitting the received data object from the relay server to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data object is received at the relay server via the web access server.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving at the relay server other information sent from the mobile device and transmitting the other information to the data store via the web access server, wherein the other information is not authentication information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting that the established connection between the relay server and the web access server has been terminated; and

executing the connection application to re-establish a connection between the relay server and the web access server.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising periodically polling the web access server when the connection cannot immediately be re-established, wherein polling continues until the connection between the relay server and the web access server can be re-established.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data store is located in a Microsoft Outlook Exchange environment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the data store is located in a Lotus Domino environment.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data object may be used by the mobile device in an application other than a web browser.

9. A computing device for providing a mobile device with web-based access to a data object, the computing device comprising:

a memory configured to store a connection application executable to establish a connections with a web access server;

a processor configured to execute the connection application, whereby a connection to the web access server is established, the web access server being associated with a data store hosting the data object; and

a network interface configured to;

receive authentication information for the data store, the authentication information received from the mobile device;

transmit the received authentication information to the web access server via the established connection for subsequent authentication of a user seeking access to the data store based on the transmitted authentication information,

receive the data object following authentication of the user to the data store by the web access server, and

transmit the data object to the mobile device.

10. A computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor to perform a method of providing a mobile device web-based access to data objects, the method comprising:

receiving authentication information for a data store hosting the data object, the authentication information received from the mobile device;

establishing a connection to a web access server associated with the data store;

transmitting the received authentication information to the web access server via the established connection for subsequent authentication of a user seeking access to the data store based on the transmitted authentication information;

receiving the data object following authentication of the user to the data store by the web access server; and

transmitting the data object to the mobile device.