Remotely provisioned wirelessly proxy

• US 20100087167A1
• Filed: 10/06/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Artax LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Inventors: Wang, Robert, Barcklay, Bob, Tsurutome, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 8,594,627 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy

Abstract

A remotely provisioned proxy within a wireless/mobile phone that proxies a wireless communication path between a disconnected piconet (e.g., BLUETOOTH™) device and a network resource such as a universal resource locator (URL) via a mating mobile phone. Thus, an application proxy module embodied within the mobile phone provides managed access of a piconet device connected to the mating mobile phone to remote services. A disconnected piconet device uses the full data bandwidth available to a wireless phone, without the need for the disconnected piconet device to include its own separate wireless front end, or to require use of a modem within the mobile phone. Thus, using a mobile phone with application proxy, the user need not pay for the luxury of a tethered data plan.

Claims

1. A method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone, comprising:

compiling a black list of universal resource locator (URL) addresses to a wireless phone, said black list relating to at least one URL that can be requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone; and

providing said black list of URLs to said wireless phone from a network server via a wireless phone connection;

whereby said wireless phone can autonomously reject a request by said piconet device to a given URL in said black list.

2. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is BLUETOOTH™

compatible.

3. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is disconnected from said wireless phone when said black list is provided to said wireless phone.

4. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is a portable navigation device.

5. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is a music player.

6. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is telematics hardware.

7. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is an ultra mobile personal computer.

8. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is a handheld computer game.

9. A method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously permit a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone, comprising:

compiling a white list of universal resource locator (URL) addresses to a wireless phone, said white list relating to at least one URL that can be requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone; and

providing said white list of URLs to said wireless phone from a network server via a wireless phone connection;

whereby said wireless phone can autonomously permit and pass on a request by said piconet device to a given URL in said white list.

10. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously permit a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 9, wherein:

said piconet device is BLUETOOTH™

compatible.

11. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously permit a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 10, wherein:

said piconet device is disconnected from said wireless phone when said white list is provided to said wireless phone.

12. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 9, wherein:

said piconet device is a portable navigation device.

13. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 9, wherein:

said piconet device is a music player.

14. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 9, wherein:

said piconet device is telematics hardware.

15. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 9, wherein:

said piconet device is an ultra mobile personal computer.

16. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 9, wherein:

said piconet device is a handheld computer game.

17. A method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously redirect a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone, comprising:

compiling a redirect list of universal resource locator (URL) addresses to a wireless phone, said redirect list relating to at least one URL that can be requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone; and

providing said redirect list of URLs to said wireless phone from a network server via a wireless phone connection;

whereby said wireless phone can autonomously pass on a request by said piconet device to a replacement URL from said redirect list based on a match to said requested URL.

18. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously redirect a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 17, wherein:

said replacement URL is assigned by a service provider as an alternative to said requested URL.

19. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously redirect a given URL requested by a piconet device connected to said wireless phone according to claim 17, wherein:

said piconet device is BLUETOOTH™

compatible.