Method for configuring technical systems via mobile telephone terminals

• US 7,151,926 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2001
• Issued: 12/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unify Patente GmbH & Co. KG (Atos Se)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Prehofer, Christian
• Primary Examiner(s): TIEU, BINH KIEN
• Application Number:
  US10/344,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20030162532A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,951 Days
• Field of Search: 455418-420, 455/414.1, 455/426.1, 455/413, 455/433, 455/445, 455/458, 455/466, 455/557, 455/552.1, 455/556.2, 455/412.1, 455/412.2, 709/206, 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• 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 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A user profile is set for a technical system controlled by an electronic device by transmitting user profile data representing the user profile from a mobile telephone terminal to the electronic device via a wireless transmission link.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting a user profile in technical systems which are controlled by an electronic device, comprising:

transmitting user profile data representing the user profile from the electronic device to a mobile telephone terminal via a wireless transmission link;

storing the user profile data by the mobile telephone terminal for administrating in the mobile telephone terminal the user profile data for different electronic devices by one of reading out, storing and modifying adjustment values of the electronic device; and

restoring the user profile in the electronic device by transmitting the user profile data from the mobile telephone terminal to the electronic device via the wireless transmission link.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising transmitting an access code as component of the user profile data to enable access authorization at the electronic device.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising transmitting an identification identifying the electronic device from the mobile telephone terminal before said transmitting of the user profile data.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising administrating different user profiles for different electronic devices in the mobile telephone terminal.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said transmitting between the mobile telephone terminal and the electronic device is carried out via an infrared interface.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said transmitting between the mobile telephone terminal and the electronic device is carried out via a wireless interface according to a Bluetooth standard.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising inputting a confirmation at the technical system prior to said transmitting of the user profile data.

8. An electronic system for control of adjusting a user profile in electronic devices, the system comprising:

a first storage device that stores the user profile data in an electronic device;

a second storage device in a mobile telephone terminal for administrating different user profiles for different electronic devices using the mobile telephone terminal by at least one of reading out, storing, and modifying adjustment values of the electronic device;

a first transceiver device that transmits user profile data representing the user profile from the electronic device to the mobile telephone terminal via a wireless transmission link;

a second transceiver device for restoring the user profile in the electronic device by transmitting the user profile data from the mobile telephone terminal to the electronic device via the wireless transmission link, the second transceiver device including an access code as a component of the user profile data to enable access authorization at the electronic device and an identification identifying the electronic device from the mobile telephone terminal before said transmitting of the user profile data.

9. The electronic system as in claim 8, further comprising an infrared interface for transmitting between the mobile telephone terminal and the electronic device.

10. The electronic system as in claim 8, further comprising a wireless interface for transmitting between the mobile telephone terminal and the electronic device according to a Bluetooth standard.

11. The electronic system as in claim 10, wherein the second transceiver device inputs a confirmation at the technical device prior to said transmitting of the user profile data.