Remote token based information acquistion system

• US 6,208,839 B1
• Filed: 12/19/1996
• Issued: 03/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Davani, Shouresh Tony
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US08/769,813
• Time in Patent Office: 1,559 Days
• Field of Search: 455/413, 455/412, 455/426, 455/458, 455/459, 455/31.3, 455/32.1, 455/38.1, 455/507, 455/38.4, 395/200.36, 395/200.37, 340/825.44, 340/311, 707/10, 707/104
• US Class Current: 340/7.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/40 using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/12 for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/022 Selective call receivers

Abstract

A remote token based information acquisition system (100) operates generate the wireless request and delivery of information corresponding with a uniform resource locator. The system includes a personal messaging device (200) having a receiver (205) that receives a selective call message including a selective call address and a canned message representing the uniform resource locator. A microprocessor (207) operates to determine selection of the personal messaging device, decoding, storage, and presentation the canned message. A transmitter (204) coupled to the processor operates to send a reverse channel message requesting information corresponding with the uniform resource locator.

Claims

1. A remote token based information acquisition system, comprising:

a paging terminal, comprising

a processor,

a receiver coupled to the processor, the receiver operating to receive the reverse channel message requesting information corresponding with the uniform resource locator,

a transmitter coupled to and responsive to the processor, that based upon the reverse channel message, controls the transmitter to broadcast a return selective call message with an information content representing information corresponding with the uniform resource locator,

a network connection device coupled to the processor, the network connection device operating to acquire an actual information content as pointed to by the uniform resource locator in response to the processor matching a token returned in the reverse channel message with one of the corresponding default bookmark canned message and the corresponding personalized bookmark canned message,

a default bookmark database coupled to the processor, the default bookmark database containing a default bookmark and a corresponding default bookmark canned message, and

a personalized bookmark database coupled to the processor and the default bookmark database, the personalized bookmark database containing personalized bookmark as selected by a user, and a corresponding personalized bookmark canned message; and

a personal messaging device, comprising

a receiver that receives a selective call message comprising a selective call address and a canned message representing a uniform resource locator,

a processor coupled to the receiver, the processor operating to determine selection of the personal messaging device, decode, store, and present the canned message representing a uniform resource locator, wherein the processor in the personal messaging device operates to allow a user to selectively include and exclude default bookmarks from a default bookmark database as personalized bookmarks in a personalized bookmark database,

a random access memory coupled to the processor for storing the canned message representing a uniform resource locator, and

a transmitter coupled to the processor, the transmitter operating to send a reverse channel message requesting information corresponding with the uniform resource locator.

2. The remote token based information acquisition system according to claim 1 wherein the personal messaging device further comprises:

a non-volatile memory that stores the canned message representing a uniform resource locator.

3. The remote token based information acquisition system according to claim 1 wherein the random access memory stores an information content of a return selective call message, the information content representing information corresponding with the uniform resource locator.

4. The remote token based information acquisition system according to claim 1 wherein the personal messaging device further comprises:

an information display that presents a representation of the information corresponding with the uniform resource locator.

5. The remote token based information acquisition system according to claim 4 wherein the processor in the personal messaging device operates to format the information corresponding with the uniform resource locator for presentation on the information display in a manner that substantially corresponds with an intended mode of presentation.

6. The remote token based information acquisition system according to claim 1 wherein the the default bookmark database and personalized bookmark database resides in a paging terminal.

7. The remote token based information acquisition system according to claim 6 wherein a copy of the personalized bookmark database is maintained in a non-volatile memory of the personal messaging device.

8. A paging terminal, comprising:

a processor;

a receiver coupled to the processor, the receiver operating to receive a reverse channel message requesting information corresponding with a uniform resource locator;

a transmitter coupled to and responsive to the processors that based upon the reverse channel message, controls the transmitter to broadcast a return selective call message with an information content representing information corresponding with the uniform resource locator;

a network connection device coupled to the processor, the network connection device operating to acquire an actual information content as pointed to by the uniform resource locator in response to the processor matching a token returned in the reverse channel message with one of the corresponding default bookmark canned message and the corresponding personalized bookmark canned message;

a default bookmark database coupled to the processor, the default bookmark database containing a default bookmark and a corresponding default bookmark canned message; and

a personalized bookmark database coupled to the processor and the default bookmark database, the personalized bookmark database containing a personalized bookmark as selected by a user, and a corresponding personalized bookmark canned message.