Method and architecture for an interactive two-way data communication network

• US 6,405,037 B1
• Filed: 11/24/1998
• Issued: 06/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unwired Planet LLC (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Openwave Systems Incorporated (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Rossmann, Alain
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US09/199,121
• Time in Patent Office: 1,295 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/411, 455/412, 455/422, 455/426, 455/445, 455/528, 455/550, 455/517, 455/413, 455/414, 455/552, 455/466, 455/418, 455/419, 455/557, 455/556, 455/566, 455/424
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2871 Implementation details of single intermediate entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/14 Multichannel or multilink protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2478 Telephone terminals specially adapted for non-voice services, e.g. email, internet access centralized arrangements where telephones services are combined H04M7/0024; for recording text messages H04M3/5322; for accessing Internet H04M3/4938
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/00 Telephonic communication systems specially adapted for combination with other electrical systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• 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 7/0054 : where the data service is an electronic mail service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1235 : where one of the core networks is a wireless network
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/128 : Details of addressing, directories or routing tables
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 : Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices

Abstract

A two-way data communication device such as a data ready cellular telephone, a two-way pager, or a telephone communicates via a two-way data communication network with a server computer on a computer network that has an interface to the two-way data communication network, i.e, is coupled to the two-way data communication network. For example, the computer network can be a corporate wide area network, a corporate local area network, the Internet, or any combination of computer networks. The two-way data communication device utilizes a client module to transmit message including a resource selector chosen by the user to a server on a server computer on the computer network. The server processes the message and transmits a response over the two-way data communication network to the client module. The client module interprets the response and presents the response to the user via a structured user interface. Alternatively, the user transmits a request that directs the server to transmit the response to the request to another location or to another user.

Claims

1. A method for making available a newer version of an application to a mobile device with no changes in the mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving a message over a wireless network from a first server, the message pertaining to the newer version of the application offered from a second server;

displaying, on a screen of the mobile device, a graphic user interface in response to the message;

generating a response message in response to an interaction by a user with the graphic user interface; and

providing access to the newer version of the application from the second server after the response message is successfully transported by the first server to the second server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first server is the second server.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first server, remotely located with respect to the second server, coupled to the second server over a landline data network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless network complies with a first protocol and the landline data network complies with a second protocol.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are compliant to each other.

6. The method and claim 4, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are based on the Internet Protocol (IP) but function differently.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are respectively User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the first server functions as a protocol conversion to facilitate data communication between the mobile device and the second server.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the landline data network is one or more of a corporate wide area network, a corporate local area network and the Internet.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein the first server maintains an authority to control access by the mobile device to the second server.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the response message is authenticated by the first server upon being received in the first server.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the message includes information for the mobile device to generate the graphic user interface.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the displaying of the graphic user interface in response to the message comprises:

extracting the parameters from the message received from the first server; and

interacting appropriately with hardware of the mobile device with respect to the extracted information to formulate the graphic user interface for display.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the new application is resident on either the first server or the second server.

15. A method for making available a newer version of an application to a mobile device with no changes in the mobile device, the method comprising:

sending from a first server a message over a wireless network to the mobile device, the message pertaining to the newer version of the application being offered in a second server and including parameters that are to be extracted by the mobile device to generate a graphic user interface for display on the mobile device in response to the message;

receiving in the first server a response from the mobile device, the response including an interaction by a user of the mobile device with the graphic user interface; and

providing access to the newer version of the application by the mobile device when the response message is successfully transported by the first server to the second server.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the first server is the second server.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the first server, remotely located with respect to the second server, coupled to the second server over a landline data network.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the wireless network complies with a first protocol and the landline data network complies with a second protocol.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the landline data network is one or more of a corporate wide area network, a corporate local area network and the Internet.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are compliant to each other.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are based on the Internet Protocol (IP) but function differently.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the first protocol and the second protocol are respectively User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the first server functions as a protocol conversion to facilitate data communication between the mobile device and the second server.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein the first server maintains an authority to control access by the mobile device to the second server.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the response message is authenticated by the first server upon being received in the first server.

26. The method of claim 15, wherein the message includes information for the mobile device to generate the graphic user interface.

27. A computer product for making available a newer version of an application to a mobile device with no changes in the mobile device, the computer product to be executed in the mobile device, the computer product comprising:

program code for receiving a message over a wireless network from a first server, the message pertaining to the newer version of the application offered from a second server;

program code for displaying, on a screen of the mobile device, a graphic user interface in response to the message;

program code for generating a response message in response to an interaction by a user with the graphic user interface; and

program code for providing access to the newer version of the application from the second server after the response message is successfully transported by the first server to the second server.

28. A computer product for making available a newer version of an application to a mobile device with no changes in the mobile device, the computer product to be executed in a first server, the computer product comprising:

program code for sending from the first server a message over a wireless network to the mobile device, the message pertaining to the newer version of the application being offered in a second server and including parameters that are to be extracted by the mobile device to generate a graphic user interface for display on the mobile device in response to the message;

program code for receiving in the first server a response message from the mobile device, the response including an interaction by a user of the mobile device with the graphic user interface; and

program code for providing access to the newer version of the application by the mobile device when the response message is successfully transported by the first server to the second server.