Server processing of interactive screens for a wireless device

• US 7,039,398 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2002
• Issued: 05/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Sprigg, Stephen A., Minear, Brian, Chmaytelli, Mazen, Oliver, Mitchell B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US10/232,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20040198334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: 455/418, 455/419, 455/556, 455/557, 455/412.1, 455/420, 455/414.1, 455/410, 455/411, 455/412, 455/422, 455/3.01, 455/566, 455/517, 455/2.01, 709/206, 709/207, 709/219, 379/201.04, 379/201.05
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/253 where a visual mode is used instead of a voice mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/382 using authorisation codes or passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 by downloading data to substation equipment
• 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 7/0036 where the data service is an information service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/12 for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1235 where one of the core networks is a wireless network

Abstract

A system and method for displaying an interactive screen, such as an end-user license agreement or verification form, on the graphic display of a wireless device when the wireless device connects to a network server on a wireless network and attempts to access or download software applications and data. The user of the wireless device must then affirmatively interact with the interactive screen in order to access or download a software application or data from the network server. The interactive screen can be transmitted from the network server where the wireless device seeks to access or download an application or data, or can be transmitted from a separate server to the wireless device. The records of the wireless device-server interactions can be stored on a network server or other data stores on the wireless network.

Claims

1. A method for processing interactive screens for a wireless device, comprising:

receiving a request sent across a wireless network to download data to the wireless device; and

transmitting an interactive screen destined for the wireless device prior to transmitting data destined for the wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a signal indicating an interaction of the wireless device and the interactive screen; and

transmitting the downloaded data requested by the wireless device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein receiving the request sent across a wireless network is received by a first network server.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein transmitting the interactive screen is performed by a second network server.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein upon receiving a signal indicating an interaction of the wireless device is received by the second network server, wherein upon the second network server sending a signal to the first network server indicating the interaction and the first network server transmitting the downloaded data requested by the wireless device.

6. A system for processing an interactive screen for a wireless device with a first network server and a second network server, comprising:

the first network server in selective communication with a wireless network and in selective communication with the second network server; and

the second network server in selective communication with a wireless network and in selective communication with the first network server,

wherein the first network server receives a request for download data from the wireless device, communicates the request to the second network server and the second network server transmits an interactive screen to the wireless network destined for the wireless device.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the first network server transmits data to the wireless network destined for the wireless device upon receiving a signal from the second network server indicating an interaction with the wireless device.

8. A method for processing an interactive screen on the graphic display of a user-interactive wireless devices including a computer platform, the wireless device selectively communicating with a network server and downloading applications and data therefrom, the method comprising:

attempting to transmit data to the wireless device from the network server across the wireless network; and

transmitting a interactive screen to the computer platform of the wireless device across the wireless network prior to downloading the requested data to the wireless device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein attempting to transmit data to the wireless device from the network server across the wireless network includes attempting to download a software application to the wireless device from a network server across the wireless network.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein transmitting an interactive screen to the wireless device across the wireless network includes transmitting an interactive screen from the network server to the wireless device across the wireless network.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the interactive screen allows user input of data at the wireless device, and further comprising:

receiving inputted data from the wireless device at the network server;

processing the input data at the network server; and

selectively transmitting the requested data from the network server destined for the computer platform of the wireless device.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein, attempting to transmit data to the wireless device from the network server across the wireless network includes attempting to transmit data destined for the wireless device from a first network server across the wireless network and transmitting an interactive screen destined for the wireless device across the wireless network includes transmitting an interactive screen destined for the wireless device from a second network server across the wireless network.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a signal from the wireless device to the second network server indicating the interaction;

sending a signal from the second network server to the first network server indicating the interaction at the wireless device; and

transmitting the requested data from the first network server to the wireless network destined for the wireless device.

14. A system for processing an interactive screen, comprising:

means for attempting to transmit data to the wireless device from the network server across the wireless network; and

means for transmitting a interactive screen to the computer platform of the wireless device across the wireless network prior to downloading the requested data to the wireless device.

15. A computer readable medium containing computer readable instructions for processing an interactive screen that when executed perform the method:

attempting to transmit data to the wireless device from the network server across the wireless network; and

transmitting a interactive screen to the computer platform of the wireless device across the wireless network prior to downloading the requested data to the wireless device.