Mobile web services

• US 7,155,425 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2001
• Issued: 12/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Nykänen, Petri
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Debbie M.
• Application Number:
  US09/854,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20020174117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,051 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 455/414.1, 455/432.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• 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 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method is disclosed to enable a mobile phone or wireless PDA to discover Internet businesses and services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry. The method facilitates the formation of a query to the UDDI registry for the wireless device user. The method constructs a personal user profile of the user'"'"'s UDDI searching strategies and Internet accessing preferences. The user profile can be used as a shortcut for online or offline queries to the UDDI registry or for accessing pages from web sites, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of abbreviated inputs to the wireless device. The method is embodied as programmed instructions which may be executed within the user'"'"'s wireless device to query the UDDI registry. Alternately, method is embodied as programmed instructions which may be executed within a separate knowledge engine server to query the UDDI registry in response to commands from the user'"'"'s wireless device. The server can be used to cache files accessed from web sites, for selective forwarding to the user'"'"'s wireless device.

Claims

1. A method to enable a wireless device to discover Internet businesses or services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry, comprising:

entering a search handle in a wireless device that will be associated with the user'"'"'s search strategy;

entering query terms in the wireless device as at least part of a business name;

transmitting the search handle and query terms to a knowledge engine server;

sending with the knowledge engine server a find_business XML inquiry to the UDDI registry;

receiving back at the knowledge engine server from the UDDI registry, a businessList message that contains a list of business names satisfying the find_business inquiry;

selecting an item from the returned message for a drill-down query to the UDDI registry;

using the item from the returned message as data for a UDDI registry search strategy stored with the query terms in a user profile at the knowledge engine server; and

providing a shortcut for queries to the UDDI registry using the UDDI registry search strategy stored in the user profile, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of the query terms to the wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1, which further comprises:

selecting an item from the returned businessList message;

drilling down in the selected business'"'"' entity data;

sending with the knowledge engine server a find_service XML inquiry to the UDDI registry;

receiving back at the knowledge engine server from the UDDI registry, a serviceList message that contains a list of names of services offered by the selected business.

3. The method of claim 2, which further comprises:

selecting an item from the returned serviceList message;

drilling down in the selected service data;

sending with the knowledge engine server a_get_serviceDetail_ XML inquiry to the UDDI registry;

receiving back at the knowledge engine server from the UDDI registry, a serviceDetail message that includes bindingTemplate data that contains the details of the selected service.

4. The method of claim 3, which further comprises:

including in the bindingTemplate data an accessPoint URL, which is the URL of the selected service on the web site of the selected business.

5. The method of claim 4, which further comprises:

displaying the accessPoint URL to the user.

6. The method of claim 4, which further comprises:

storing with the knowledge engine server the search handle in a user profile with the selected accessPoint URL;

providing the user with a shortcut for accessing pages from web sites, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of abbreviated search handle to the wireless device.

7. The method of claim 4, which further comprises:

storing with the knowledge engine server the search handle in a user profile with a UDDI registry search strategy;

providing the user with a shortcut for online or offline queries to the UDDI registry, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of abbreviated search handle to the wireless device.

8. The method of claim 7, which further comprises:

said search strategy including the business name query, the selected businessEntity data, the selected businessService data, the selected bindingTemplate data, and the selected accessPoint URL.

9. The method of claim 7, which further comprises:

replaying a UDDI registry search strategy by entering a search handle into the wireless device;

transmitting the search handle to the knowledge engine server;

automatically accessing with the knowledge engine server the UDDI registry search strategy from user profile corresponding to the search handle;

loading with the knowledge engine server query values from said UDDI registry search strategy as each respective operand that would have been otherwise entered by the user.

10. The method of claim 9, which further comprises:

said query values including the business name query, the selected businessEntity data, the selected businessService data, and the selected bindingTemplate data.

11. A method to enable a wireless device to discover Internet businesses or services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry, comprising:

entering a search handle in a wireless device that will be associated with the user'"'"'s search strategy;

entering query terms in the wireless device as at least part of a business name;

transmitting the search handle and query terms to a knowledge engine server;

forming at the knowledge engine server a first query to the UDDI registry for the wireless device user;

receiving at the knowledge engine server a returned message from the UDDI registry in response to the first query;

selecting an item from the returned message for a drill-down query to the UDDI registry;

using the item from the returned message as data for a UDDI registry search strategy stored with the first query in a user profile at the knowledge engine server;

providing a shortcut for queries to the UDDI registry using the UDDI registry search strategy stored in the user profile, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of the first query to the wireless device;

searching web sites using URLs contained in stored binding templates using said shortcut for queries;

retrieving documents resulting from the search of the web sites; and

applying a filter prescribed by the user and stored in the user'"'"'s profile, to limit the returned documents to only those of particular interest to the user.

12. The method of claim 11, which further comprises:

sorting the documents in a list having an order established in accordance with user'"'"'s profile.

13. The method of claim 12, which further comprises:

storing the filtered documents and the sorted list in a cache for later, selective accessing by the user.

14. The method of claim 13, which further comprises:

receiving the user'"'"'s selections from the list and updating the user'"'"'s profile with the user'"'"'s preferences.

15. The method of claim 14, which further comprises:

associating the search handle with user'"'"'s selections and with the user'"'"'s search strategy;

storing that association in user'"'"'s profile.

16. The method of claim 15, which further comprises:

providing the user with a shortcut for accessing pages from web sites, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of abbreviated search handle to the wireless device.

17. A system to enable a wireless device to discover Internet businesses or services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor, programmed to perform the steps of;

entering a search handle in a wireless device that will be associated with the user'"'"'s search strategy;

entering query terms in the wireless device as at least part of a business name;

transmitting the search handle and query terms to a knowledge engine server;

sending with the knowledge engine server a find_business XML inquiry to the UDDI registry;

receiving back at the knowledge engine server from the UDDI registry a businessList message that contains a list of business names satisfying the find_business inquiry;

selecting an item from the returned message for a drill-down query to the UDDI registry;

using the item from the returned message as data for a UDDI registry search strategy stored with the query terms in a user profile at the knowledge engine server; and

providing a shortcut for queries to the UDDI registry using the UDDI registry search strategy stored in the user profile, in response to the user'"'"'s entry of the query terms to the wireless device.