TECHNIQUES FOR TIMING OPTIMIZATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS THAT UTILIZE A UNIVERSAL SERVICES INTERFACE

• US 20110113091A1
• Filed: 01/14/2011
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Pouya Taaghol
• Original Assignee: Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Pouya Taaghol
• Inventors: Taaghol, Pouya, Venkatachalam, Muthaiah
• Granted Patent: US 8,606,849 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• 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 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 370/905 Asynchronous transfer mode, ASN

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a mobile station (MS) operable to communicate with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network, the wireless network including a USI proxy in the line of a data path from the MS to the ASP and performs stateful content inspection of all packets passing through the US proxy; and wherein when the USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message, it appends the USI context to the ASP request message if not already present in the message and in order to fetch the USI context of the MS, a USI proxy sends the USI context request to a USI server and the USI server sends a USI context response back to the USI proxy which contains the USI context for the MS.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a mobile station (MS) operable to communicate with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network, said wireless network including a USI proxy in the line of a data path from said MS to said ASP and performs stateful content inspection of all packets passing through said US proxy; and

wherein when said USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message, it appends the USI context to said ASP request message if not already present in the message and in order to fetch said USI context of said MS, a USI proxy sends said USI context request to a USI server and said USI server sends a USI context response back to said USI proxy which contains said USI context for said MS.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said USI proxy in said network is collocated with the USI server.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said USI proxy in said network is not collocated with the USI server.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message on HTTP/XML.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said USI context comprises said MS'"'"'s current location information and/or quality of service (QoS).

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message on HTTP/XML.

6. A method, comprising:

communicating with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network by a mobile station (MS) via a universal services interface (USI) proxy in the line of a data path from said MS to said ASP and performing stateful content inspection of all packets passing through said USI proxy; and

appending universal services interface (USI) context to said ASP request message when said USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message it if not already present in the message and in order to fetch said USI context of said MS, a USI proxy sends said USI context request to a USI server and said USI server sends a USI context response back to said USI proxy which contains said USI context for said MS.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising collocating said USI proxy in said network with a USI interface.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said USI proxy in said network is not collocated with the USI server.

10. A non-transitory machine-accessible medium that provides instructions, which when accessed, cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

communicating with an application service provider (ASP) in a wireless network by a mobile station (MS) via a universal services interface (USI) proxy in the line of a data path from said MS to said ASP and performing stateful content inspection of all packets passing through said USI proxy; and

appending universal services interface (USI) context to said ASP request message when said USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message it if not already present in the message.

12. The machine-accessible medium of claim 10, further comprising said instructions causing said machine to perform operations further comprising wherein said USI proxy intercepts an ASP request message on HTTP/XML.

11. The non-transitory machine-accessible medium of claim 21, further comprising said instructions causing said machine to perform operations further comprising collocating said USI proxy in said network with a USI interface.