Cloud-Based Application For Low-Provisioned High-Functionality Mobile Station

• US 20110153868A1
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Jones, James B., Castleberry, Michael R., Deutsch, Douglas A.
• Application Number:
  US12/641,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20110153868A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/59 Providing operational support to end devices by off-loading in the network or by emulation, e.g. when they are unavailable
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 by downloading data to substation equipment

Abstract

A communication system includes a low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station, a wireless service provider, Internet, and a PSTN. The wireless service provider includes a mobile smart cloud server that provides applications to the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station. The mobile smart cloud servers can include servers that allow the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station to perform voice communications, web browsing applications, and applications for reading email and email attachments.

Claims

1. A mobile smart cloud server comprising:

an input port for receiving a message from a low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station;

a processor for determining a screen image based upon the message; and

an output port for sending the screen image to the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station.

2. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 1, wherein the processor utilizes a software application to determine the screen image.

3. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 2, wherein the software application is a web browsing application.

4. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 2, wherein the software application is a voice communication application.

5. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 4, wherein the voice communication application is a SIP User Agent.

6. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 4, further comprising a text-to-speech conversion processor.

7. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 4, further comprising a speech-to-text conversion processor.

8. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 4, further comprising a real-time software-driven language translation service.

9. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 8, wherein the real-time software-driven language translation service comprises voice-to-voice translation service.

10. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 8, wherein the real-time software-driven language translation service comprises voice-to-text translation service.

11. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 8, wherein the real-time software-driven language translation service comprises text-to-voice translation service.

12. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 2, wherein the software application is an email application.

13. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 2, wherein the software application is an application for opening email attachments.

14. A mobile smart cloud server in accordance with claim 1, wherein the processor utilizes application data to determine the screen image.

15. A low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station comprising:

an input device for accepting commands from a user of the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station;

a transmitter for sending messages to a mobile smart cloud server;

a receiver for receiving a screen image from the mobile smart cloud server; and

a display for displaying the screen image.

16. A low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station in accordance with claim 15, the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station further comprising a voice coder.

17. A low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station in accordance with claim 15, wherein the transmitter comprises a USB-interfaced device.

18. A low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station in accordance with claim 17, wherein the USB-interfaced device comprises a Network Layer Interface (NLI) device.

19. A low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station in accordance with claim 18, wherein the NLI device is integrated into a chipset.

20. A method for providing applications from a mobile smart cloud server to a low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station, the method comprising:

receiving a message from the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station at the mobile smart cloud server;

determining at the mobile smart cloud server a screen image to be displayed on the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station based upon the message;

sending the screen image from the mobile smart cloud server to the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station; and

displaying the screen image on the low-provisioned high-functionality mobile station.