ASYNCHRONOUS URL NOTIFICATION

• US 20100087214A1
• Filed: 10/16/2008
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Rey-Robert, Xavier, Tassy, Vincent, Bournel, Isabelle, Marmigere, Gerard
• Application Number:
  US12/252,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20100087214A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A method for sending a URL from a computing device to a recipient'"'"'s mobile device, the method includes: generating a URL notification during an Internet session on a computing device; sending the URL notification to an Asynchronous URL Notification daemon; composing a Control SMS that comprises the URL; locating compatible communication devices; wherein the locating is performed with the daemon interacting with a local Bluetooth stack to identify the communication devices; wherein the communication devices are Bluetooth enabled devices that support an Asynchronous URL Notification profile; generating a list of communication devices; receiving the user'"'"'s selection of a communication device; pairing the selected communication device with the computing device; retrieving an address book from the selected communication device; and displaying a list of recipients from the address book; sending the Control SMS to a recipient'"'"'s mobile device in response to the user selection from the list of recipients.

Claims

1. A method for sending a uniform resource locator (URL) notification from a computing device to a recipient'"'"'s mobile communication device, wherein the method comprises:

generating a URL notification emission during an Internet session on a computing device in response to a user command;

sending the URL notification emission to an Asynchronous URL Notification daemon;

composing a Control SMS (short message service) that comprises the URL notification emission;

locating one or more compatible communication devices;

wherein the locating is performed with the Asynchronous URL Notification daemon interacting with a local Bluetooth stack to identify the one or more compatible communication devices;

wherein the one or more compatible communication devices are Bluetooth enabled devices in the vicinity of the computing device that support an Asynchronous URL Notification profile;

generating a list of one or more compatible communication devices;

receiving the user'"'"'s selection of a compatible communication device from the list of one or more compatible communication devices;

pairing the selected compatible communication device with the computing device;

retrieving an address book from the selected compatible communication device;

displaying a list of recipients from the address book; and

sending the Control SMS to a recipient'"'"'s mobile communication device in response to the user selection from the list of recipients.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a text message is appended to the URL notification emission.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the Control SMS at the recipient'"'"'s mobile device;

notifying the recipient of the receiving of the Control SMS with the URL notification emission;

locating one or more recipient compatible computing devices;

wherein the locating is performed with the Asynchronous URL Notification daemon interacting with a local Bluetooth stack to identify the one or more recipient compatible computing devices;

wherein the one or more recipient compatible computing devices are Bluetooth enabled devices in the vicinity of the recipient'"'"'s mobile device that support the Asynchronous URL Notification profile;

generating a list of one or more recipient compatible computing devices;

receiving the recipient'"'"'s selection of a compatible computing device from the list of one or more recipient compatible computing devices;

pairing the selected recipient compatible computing device with the recipient'"'"'s device;

sending the URL notification emission from the recipient'"'"'s mobile device to the recipient'"'"'s compatible computing device; and

opening a Web browser to the received URL notification emission through standard Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type associations on the recipient'"'"'s compatible computing device.