Thermal controlled by a subscriber's identification module for running an application

• US 6,671,522 B1
• Filed: 10/20/1999
• Issued: 12/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Societe Francaise De Radiotelephone SA (Altice Europe NV), Societe Francaise Du Radiotelephone
• Original Assignee: Societe Francaise De Radiotelephone SA (Altice Europe NV)
• Inventors: Beaudou, M. Patrice
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US09/512,996
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 455/88, 455/407, 455/408, 455/410, 455/411, 455/414, 455/420, 455/425, 455/557, 455/558, 455/418, 455/419
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A process for running an application has a terminal, which runs at least part of a terminal application under the control of a subscriber identification module cooperating with the terminal. The subscriber identification module and the terminal form part of a mobile station included in a radio communication system. Generally, the subscriber identification module sends a command to the terminal for the terminal to run at least part of a terminal application. The terminal executes the command, to run at least part of a terminal application and to take control.

Claims

1. A process in which a terminal runs at least part of a terminal application under the control of a subscriber identification module cooperating with the said terminal, initiating the process using technical choices made by the radio communication system operator, by means of additional functions within an operator menu, the subscriber identification module and the terminal forming part of a mobile station included in a radio communication system;

characterized in that the said process comprises the following steps;

the subscriber identification module sends a first generic command to the terminal, to make the terminal start a second specific command to run at least part of a terminal application, the said first generic command including at least an identifier of the second specific command as a parameter, the said second specific command being specific to the said part (or all) of a terminal application;

the terminal executes the said first generic command so as to extract the said second specific command, and then executes the said second specific command so as to run the said part (or all) of a terminal application and to take control.

2. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that the second specific command belongs to a set comprising a number of second distinct specific commands, each of which can run at least part of a distinct terminal application.

3. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that the said second specific command is an “

AT”

command.

4. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that the first said generic command is a new command in the “

SIM Application Toolkit”

command set.

5. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that the said step in which the subscriber identification module sends the first generic command to the terminal is associated with a choice of an additional function, the said choice being offered to a user when the said subscriber identification module executes an operator application, the said send step being carried out if the user validates the choice of the additional function.

6. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that the terminal application, at least part of which is run by the terminal, belongs to the group comprising:

service applications which, if executed, enable the terminal to benefit from services offered by a services server after communication has been setup between the terminal and the services server;

message editing applications; and

agenda editing applications.

7. Process according to claim 6, characterized in that some particular examples of the services are:

browsers, which enable the terminal to browse through an Internet type computer network, after a communication has been setup between the terminal and an access platform;

payment and/or booking and/or viewing applications, enabling the terminal to benefit from at least one payment service and/or booking and/or viewing service available through the services server, after communication has been setup between the terminal and the server.

8. Process according to claim 1, the terminal application being a services application, characterized in that the said second specific command is configured with a set of parameters comprising:

a services server telephone number identifier, and

possibly, one or more call parameters, and in that the step in which the terminal executes the specific command comprises the following steps;

the terminal attempts to setup a communication with a services server, according to the set of parameters; and

if the communication with the services server is actually setup, the terminal starts execution of the at least part of the services application, such that the terminal can benefit from the service(s) offered by the services server.

9. Subscriber identification module of a type included in a mobile station in a radio communication system cooperating with a terminal, characterized in that the subscriber identification module comprises means of implementing a process according to claim 1, by which the terminal runs the at least part of the terminal application, under control of the said subscriber identification module.

10. Terminal of a type included in a mobile station in a radio communication system and cooperating with a subscriber identification module, characterized in that the terminal comprises means of implementing a process according to claim 1, in which the terminal runs at least part of the terminal application, under control of the subscriber identification module.