Provision of services through communication networks

• US 20100069052A1
• Filed: 01/12/2007
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Airwide Solutions OY (Mavenir Private Holdings II Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ahomaki, Timo, Vuorjoki, Risto, Koponen, Juha, Ikonen, Teemu
• Granted Patent: US 8,732,231 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for providing services through a communication network to an end user device connected to the communication network, the method comprising allowing a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, reading content from the standard format file, and sending at least some part of said content through said communication network to the end user device.

Claims

1. A method for providing services through a mobile communication network to an end user device connected to the mobile communication network, the method comprising:

allowing a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, the standard format file being a web feed file, wherein the standard format file contains sufficient information to define the service;

reading content from the standard format file; and

sending at least a portion of the content through the mobile communication network to the end user device.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the standard format file has been generated by blogging tools.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the standard format file is an external standard format file.

5. A method according to claim 1, further comprising creating at least one of the following based on sending content to the end user device:

billing information and settlement information.

6. A method according to claim 1, further comprising reading content from the standard format file periodically or upon receiving a request for content.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the reading and sending is conducted responsive to predefined conditions, wherein the predefined conditions include at least one of the following:

receiving a request for content, finding new content in the standard format file, and finding content matching a predefined definition in the standard format file.

12. A method according to claim 1, further comprising

receiving a response message from the end user device,

parsing response content from the response message, and

writing at least a portion of said response content into a standard format file.

27. A method according to claim 1, wherein the reading or sending is conducted responsive to predefined conditions, wherein the predefined conditions include at least one of the following:

receiving a request for content, finding new content in the standard format file, and finding content matching a predefined definition in the standard format file.

4. (canceled)

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13. An apparatus for providing services through a mobile communication network to an end user device connected to the mobile communication network, the apparatus comprising:

a user interface operable to allow a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, the standard format file being a web feed file, wherein the standard format file contains sufficient information to define the service; and

a processing unit configured;

to co-operate with a reader component operable to read content from the standard format file; and

to send at least a portion of the content through the mobile communication network to the end user device.

14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the standard format file has been generated by blogging tools.

15. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the standard format file is an external standard format file.

16. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the standard format file is an Atom and/or RSS feed file.

17. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the apparatus is further configured to create at least one of the following based on sending content to the end user device:

billing information and settlement information.

18. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processing unit is further configured to control the reader component to read content from the standard format file periodically or upon receiving a request for content.

19. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said processing unit is configured to control the reader component to read content from said standard format file and/or to send said at least portion of said the content responsive to predefined conditions, wherein the predefined conditions include at least one of the following:

receiving a request for content, finding new content in the standard format file, and finding content matching a predefined definition in the standard format file.

20. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the apparatus is further configured to select which parts of the content to send depending on one of the following:

the properties of the end user device and connection properties between the communication network and the end user device.

24. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processing unit is further configured:

to receive a response message from the end user device;

to parse response content from the response message; and

to co-operate with a writer component operable to write at least a portion of the response content into a standard format file.

21-23. -23. (canceled)

25. (canceled)

26. A memory medium comprising computer executable program code adapted to cause an apparatus

to allow a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, the standard format file being a web feed file, wherein the standard format file is contains sufficient information to define the service;

to read content from the standard format file; and

to send at least a portion of the content through the mobile communication network to the end user device.