System and method for coupling remote data stores and mobile devices via an internet based server

• US 6,823,373 B1
• Filed: 08/11/2000
• Issued: 11/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Informatica LLC (Informatica, Inc. (California))
• Original Assignee: Informatica Corporation
• Inventors: Pancha, Girish, Wilson, A. Adam, Lord, Spencer A., Suresh, Sankaran
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, VIET DUY
• Application Number:
  US09/637,958
• Time in Patent Office: 1,565 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/225, 709/328, 709/329, 709/202, 719/328, 719/329, 707/10, 707/104
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

The present invention provides a mobile data communication system which couples application specific remote data sources and mobile devices via an internet based server. An interface is provided by the server for extracting data from the application specific remote data sources. The extracted data is then generalized into generic objects and presented on the mobile devices by device specific application templates.

Claims

1. A method of compiling data from a plurality of remote application data sources to present on a mobile device via a system server, comprising:

extracting a first set of data from a first application data source to the system server;

constructing a first generic data object based upon the first set of extracted data;

identifying a crossover data point in the first data set corresponding to a target data point contained in a second application data source;

extracting to the system server a second set of data from the second application data source corresponding to the target data point

constructing a second generic data object based upon the second set of extracted data; and

presenting the second data object on the mobile device based upon device specific rules.

2. The method recited in claim 1 further comprising:

transmitting the extracted data to the system server; and

transmitting the generalized data to the mobile device via the internet.

3. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising:

generalizing the extracted first and second set of data based upon application specific rules prior to presenting on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a first request to the first application data source from the mobile device wherein the first set of data is extracted from the first application data source based upon the first request; and

sending a second request to the second application data source from the mobile device wherein the second set of data is extracted based upon the second request.

5. The method recited in claim 1 further comprising:

presenting the first and second data objects within a generic application template on the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting the first data object on the mobile device based upon device-specific rules.

7. A mobile data communication system comprising:

an internet based server coupled to the application specific remote data sources comprising;

a server database,

interface means for extracting a first set of data from a first application specific remote data source of the application specific remote data sources,

means for generalizing the extracted first set of data,

means for presenting the generalized first set of data;

means for identifying crossover data points in the first application specific remote data source corresponding to a target data point in a second of the plurality of application specific remote data sources;

means for extracting a second set of data from the second application specific remote data source corresponding to the target data point;

means for generalizing the extracted second set of data;

means for presenting the generalized second set of data.

8. The mobile communication system recited in claim 7, wherein the means for generalizing constructs generic objects from the extracted data.

9. The mobile communication system recited in claim 7, wherein mobile devices generate requests for the application specific remote data sources that are used by the interface means as a basis for extracting data.

10. A data communications server apparatus for communicating data between a plurality of remote application data sources and at least one mobile device, comprising:

interface means for extracting data from a first of the application specific remote data sources,

means for generalizing the extracted data based upon application specific rules,

means for presenting the generalized data to the at least one mobile device based upon device specific rules,

means for identifying crossover data points in the first application specific remote data source corresponding to a target data point in a second of the plurality of application specific remote data sources.

11. The server apparatus recited in claim 10, wherein the means for generalizing constructs generic objects from the extracted data.

12. The server apparatus recited in claim 10, wherein the interface means and means for generalizing are application specific object oriented adapters.

13. The server apparatus recited in claim 10, wherein the means for presenting is a servlet engine having device specific rules.