METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA ON MOBILE TERMINALS AND MOBILE TERMINAL FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD

• US 20120042165A1
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Georg Wittenburg
• Original Assignee: Georg Wittenburg
• Inventors: Wittenburg, Georg
• Application Number:
  US13/264,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20120042165A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method for providing data on mobile terminals is provided. The method comprising the following steps: providing a continuous network connectivity of the plurality of mobile terminals of different users executing a local application on one of the terminals, which leads to a creation or a change of a data set and automatically providing the created or changed data set on the other terminals. The created or changed data set is automatically provided on the other terminals in that the created or changed data set is transmitted to the other terminals by means of a push service and the created or changed data set is transparently integrated into the corresponding local application on the other terminals.

Claims

1-23. -23. (canceled)

21. A method for providing data on mobile terminals with the steps:

providing a continuous network connectivity of a plurality of mobile terminals of different users,

executing a local application on one of the terminals, which leads to a creation or a change of a data set,

automatically providing the created or changed data set to the other terminals, wherein

the created or changed data set is transmitted to the other terminals by the means of a PUSH service and

the created or change data set is transparently integrated into the corresponding local application on the other terminals.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein the mobile terminals are continuously connected via a network, which comprises a client-server architecture.

23. The method according to claim 21, wherein the mobile terminals are connected continuously via a network, which comprises a Peer-to-Peer architecture.

24. The method according to claim 21, wherein the local application is a standard application of a mobile terminal, in particular an address book application, an appointment calendar application, a user profile, a note pad application, a photo album application, a multimedia application or general status determining information of the terminal.

25. The method according to claim 21, wherein an authentification occurs, which determines which data set are transmitted to which users and terminals.

26. The method according to claim 22, wherein an authentification occurs by means of centrally stored access control lists.

27. The method according to claim 23, wherein an authentification occurs between two users in each case immediately by using an additional encoding of the data sets, wherein especially only one user recognition is assigned in each case to the users and the encoding of the data set occurs by using of a key pair associated to the respective user recognition, wherein said key pair comprises in each case a private and a public key.

28. The method according to claim 27, wherein

the created or changed data set is encoded with its own symmetrical key,

the symmetrical key is encoded by the public key of the user who shall receive the data set, and

the encoded data set is deposited together with the encoded symmetrical key in the Peer-to-Peer network.

29. The method according to claim 27, wherein the owner of the data set signs the user recognition with its private key.

30. The method according to claim 29, wherein the signed user recognition is part of an identification data set, which is deposited in the Hash value of the user recognition in the peer-to-peer network, wherein especially the identification data set contains an additional information about the activity of the user and/or the current address of the mobile terminal used by said user.

31. The method according to claim 21, wherein the data set to be distributed are identified via a code number, wherein a code number characterizes each case a data set in its temporarily changeable form, wherein especially the code number contains the user recognition of the user of the data set.

32. The method according to claim 28, wherein the encoded data set is deposited together with the encoded symmetrical key in the Hash value of its code number in the peer-to-peer network.

33. The method according to claim 21, wherein the users of the mobile terminals are identified via code numbers.

34. The method according to claim 21, wherein the PUSH service is superimposed on the application interface of the operating system of the respective terminal.

35. The method according to claim 21, wherein the integration of a changed data set into a local application is displayed to the user of the mobile terminal.

36. The method according to claim 21, wherein the created or changed data set is again changed by the local application of a mobile terminal, which receives the data set and the again changed data set is transmitted back via a PUSH service to the mobile terminal, which created or changed the data set previously, and is again integrated into the application of this terminal.

37. A mobile terminal for executed a method according to claim 21, which comprises:

at least one local application and means for executing the local application, which provides a creation or a change of the data set,

a service adapter assigned to the application,

an authentification component in which access rights to the created or changed data set are deposited, wherein

the service adapter is formed and configured to

provide the user of the mobile terminal by using the authentification component the possibility to allow accession rights to the created or changed data set to other users of mobile terminals,

to transmit a created or changed data set by means of a PUSH service automatically to the terminals of other users, wherein the PUSH service provides the distribution of the data set by considering the data set deposited in the authentification components and the created or changed data set is transparently in the terminals of the other users into the corresponding local application,

and comprises furthermore means, which integrate transparently when receiving a created or changed data set of another device the created or changed data set into the corresponding own application.

38. The terminal according to claim 37, wherein the means, which when receiving a created or changed data set of another terminal transparently integrate the created or changed data set into the corresponding own application, are also provided by the service adapter.

39. The terminal according to claim 37, wherein the service adapter is designed and configured to provide the user of the mobile terminal via an expansion in the user interface of the application the possibility to allow other users of the communication network accession rights to the created or changed data sets.

40. A computer program with programming code for executing the method according to claim 21, if the computer program is executed on a computer.