System and method for processing wireless files based on filename extension

• US 6,535,729 B1
• Filed: 05/20/1998
• Issued: 03/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Shah, Nitin J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US09/082,214
• Time in Patent Office: 1,763 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426, 455/412, 455/517, 455/466, 707/104, 707/1, 707/3, 707/10, 707/103
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A system for, and method of, processing a wireless file in a computer network and a communications infrastructure incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an examiner that receives at least a portion of the wireless file and identifies a filename thereof and (2) a file processor that modifies a content of the wireless file based on the filename.

Claims

1. A system for processing a wireless file in a computer network, comprising:

an examiner that receives at least a portion of said wireless file and identifies said wireless file as a wirelessly communicated file based on a filename employed to distinguish a wirelessly communicated file from a wireline file; and

a file processor that modifies error in a content of said wireless file based on said filename.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said examiner identifies an extension of said filename.

3. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said wireless file contains a wireless datastream.

4. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said examiner is associated with the Internet.

5. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said file processor modifies said content by performing an action selected from the group consisting of:

correcting an error in said content, and

filtering said content.

6. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said content is compressed.

7. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said content is selected from the group consisting of:

audio data,

video data,

image data, and

wireless information.

8. A method of processing a wireless file in a computer network, comprising:

receiving at least a portion of said wireless file;

identifying said wireless file as a wirelessly communicated file based on a filename employed to distinguish a wirelessly communicated file from a wireline file; and

modifying error in a content of said wireless file based on said filename.

9. The method as recited in claim 8 wherein said identifying comprises identifying an extension of said filename.

10. The method as recited in claim 8 wherein said wireless file contains a wireless datastream.

11. The method as recited in claim 8 wherein said step of receiving is carried out over the Internet.

12. The method as recited in claim 8 wherein said modifying comprises modifying said content by performing an action selected from the group consisting of:

correcting an error in said content, and

filtering said content.

13. The method as recited in claim 8 wherein said content is compressed.

14. The method as recited in claim 8 wherein said content is selected from the group consisting of:

audio data,

video data,

image data, and

wireless information.

15. A communications infrastructure, comprising:

a plurality of wireless mobile stations;

a plurality of wireless base stations, couplable to ones of said plurality of wireless mobile stations for communication of data thereamong;

a computer network coupling ones of said plurality of wireless base stations, said data contained in wireless files communicated among said wireless base stations over said computer network; and

a system for processing said wireless files, including;

an examiner that receives at least a portion of said wireless files and identifies said wireless files as wirelessly communicated files based on filenames employed to distinguish wirelessly communicated files from wireline files, and

a file processor that modifies error in said data in said wireless files based on said filenames.

16. The infrastructure as recited in claim 15 wherein said examiner identifies an extension of said filename.

17. The infrastructure as recited in claim 15 wherein said computer network is the Internet.

18. The infrastructure as recited in claim 15 wherein said file processor modifies said content by performing an action selected from the group consisting of:

correcting an error in said content, and

filtering said content.

19. The infrastructure as recited in claim 15 wherein said data in said wireless files are compressed.

20. The infrastructure as recited in claim 15 wherein said data are selected from the group consisting of:

audio data,

video data,

image data, and

wireless information.