Method for utilizing local resources in a communication system

• US 6,549,773 B1
• Filed: 09/20/1999
• Issued: 04/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones UK Limited (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurki, Teemu, Linden, Mikael
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US09/399,579
• Time in Patent Office: 1,303 Days
• Field of Search: 455/558, 455/412, 455/517, 455/426, 370/328, 370/338, 370/401, 709/230, 709/227, 709/228
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The invention relates to a method in data transmission between a first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), a second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), and advantageously also a server (3, SERVER), wherein the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) and the second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) comprise protocol means (100-106) for generating and directing a request (REQUEST) which contains at least address information (URI, URL, URN) for identifying the destination of the request (REQUEST), and wherein at least the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) comprises a first local resource (SC, 4), such as a smart card, connected to the same. In the information, the address information (URI, URL, URN) of the request (REQUEST) is established to identify said first local resource (SC, 4), and the request (REQUEST) is generated and directed at least partly with the help of said protocol means (100-106).

Claims

1. A method in a communication system, which system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN) is arranged for transmitting information, requests (REQUEST), between a first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), a second mobile station .(MS, MS1, MS2) and a server (3, SERVER) connected to the communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN), wherein at least the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) and at least the second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) comprise protocol means (100-106) for generating the request (REQUEST) and directing it to the communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN), which request (REQUEST) contains at least address information (URI, URL, URN) for identifying the destination of the request (REQUEST), and wherein at least the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) comprises a first local resource (SC, 4) coupled to the same, and in which method:

the request (REQUEST) is transmitted by the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), the second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), or the server (3, SERVER),

characterized in that;

the address information (URI, URL, URN) of the request (REQUEST) is generated to identify said first local resource (SC, 4), and

that the request (REQUEST) for said first local resource (SC, 4) is generated and directed at least partly with said protocol means (100-106).

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the request (REQUEST) is generated in the second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), or in the server (3, SERVER),

that the first local resource (SC, 4) coupled to the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) is selected as the destination for the request (REQUEST), and

that the request (REQUEST) is transmitted at least partly by means of the communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN).

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the request (REQUEST) is generated in the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2),

that the first local resource (SC, 4) connected to the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) is selected as the destination for the request (REQUEST), and

that the request (REQUEST) is transmitted and directed by with the protocol means (100-106) of the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2).

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the request (REQUEST) is generated at least partly by a local resource (SC, 4) connected to the second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), or to the server (3, SERVER).

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that address information (URI, URL, URN) identifying the local resource (SC, 4) is entered into the application (101, BROWSER) by the user, to retrieve information from said local resource (SC, 4), which application (101, BROWSER) is provided in the mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) advantageously to present information for the user by means of a user interface (UI) of the mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), and which application (101, BROWSER) is connected to the protocol means (100-106) to transmit said address information (URI, URL, URN).

6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the request (REQUEST) is transmitted advantageously to receive an indication (INDICATION) from the local resource (SC, 4), which indication (INDICATION) is directed at least partly with the help of said protocol means (100-106) to the mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) or server (3, SERVER) which made the request (REQUEST).

7. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a WAP application protocol is applied to establish the protocol means (100-106).

8. The method according to claim 7, characterized in that a connection is established at least from a WSP layer (102), a WTP layer (103), a WTLS layer (104), or a WDP layer (105) to an interface (4, SC INTERFACE) of said local resource (SC, 4), which interface (4, SC INTERFACE) is connected to said local resource (SC, 4), and which WSP layer (105), WTP layer (103), WTLS layer (104), or WDP layer (105) forms at least a part of the protocol means (100-106) of the WAP application protocol.

9. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a URI address, a URL address, or a URN name is used as address information.

10. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a smart card, such as a SIM card, connected to the mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) is used as a local resource (SC, 4).

11. A communication system, which system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN) is arranged for transmitting information requests (REQUEST) between a first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2), a second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) and a server (3, SERVER) connected to the communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN), wherein these comprise protocol means (100-106) for generating a request (REQUEST) and directing it to the communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN), which request (REQUEST) contains at least address information (URI, URL, URN) for identifying the destination of the request (REQUEST), and wherein at least the first mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) comprises a first local resource (SC, 4) connected thereto,

characterized in that:

said first local resource (SC, 4) is arranged to be identified by means of the address information (URI, URL, URN) of the request (REQUEST),

that the request (REQUEST) addressed to said first local resource (SC, 4) is arranged to be generated and directed to said first local resource (SC, 4) at least partly with the help of said protocol means (100-106), and that the communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN) is arranged to transmit the request (REQUEST) addressed to said first local resource (SC, 4) by the second mobile station (MS, MS1, MS2) and/or the server (3, SERVER).

12. A wireless communication device comprising protocol means (100-106) for generating a request (REQUEST) and directing it to a communication system (N, PLMN, PSTN, PDN), which request (REQUEST) contains at least address information (URI, URI, URN) to identify the destination of the request (REQUEST), and which wireless communication device (MS, MS1, MS2) advantageously comprises a local resource (SC, 4) connected thereto, characterized in that:

the local resource (SC, 4) is arranged to be identified by means of the address information (URI, URL, URN) of the request (REQUEST), and

that said protocol means (100-106) are arranged for directing the request (REQUEST), addressed to said local resource (SC, 4), to said local resource (SC, 4).

13. The wireless communication device according to claim 12, characterized in that said protocol means (100-106) are arranged for directing and transmitting a request (REQUEST) received by said wireless communication device (MS, MS1, MS2), a request (REQUEST) generated in said wireless communication device (MS, MS1, MS2), or a request (REQUEST) according to both these alternatives, to said local resource (SC, 4).

14. The wireless communication device according to claim 12, characterized in that said protocol means (100-106) are arranged also to direct and transmit an indication (INDICATION) received as a response to the request (REQUEST) from the local resource (SC, 4).

15. The wireless communication device according to claim 12, characterized in that said protocol means (100-106) are also arranged for directing and transmitting the request (REQUEST) generated by said local resource (SC, 4).

16. The wireless communication device according to claim 12, characterized in that the local resource (SC, 4) is a smart card, such as a SIM card.

17. The wireless communication device according to claim 12, characterized in that the address information (URI, URL, URN) comprises a URI address, a URL address, or a URN name.