Wireless services provider network system and method

• US 7,209,474 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2001
• Issued: 04/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: OptiMorphix, Inc.
• Original Assignee: BYTE Mobile Incorporated
• Inventors: Thompson, David, Acosta, Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah; Chirag G.
• Application Number:
  US09/917,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20040196815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,097 Days
• Field of Search: 370352-356, 370/395.5, 370/395.52, 370/230, 370/259, 370/310, 370/322, 370/338, 370/348, 370/400, 370/401, 370/466, 709/217, 709/219, 709/225, 709/226, 709/229, 709/230, 709/203, 709/212
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1642 Formats specially adapted for sequence numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1809 Selective-repeat protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1848 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An application service provider provides wireless access to a packetized data network, such as the Internet. The application service provider includes a server computer. The server computer is connected to the network, which is at least in part a wired network. The wired network is connected to a cellular wireless communications system. Data is communicated over the network, both wired and wireless, via OSI models, for example, according to TCP/IP protocols or specialized variants. A wireless device, such as a modem-equipped laptop computer or personal digital assistant, a web-enabled telephone, or the like, is communicatively connected to the cellular wireless communications system. The application service provider can maintain a website, including targeted content, on the server computer for access by the wireless device.

Claims

1. A wireless communications network, comprising:

a wired network;

a wireless channel;

a wireless application service provider server computer connected to the wired network, operating via network protocols of the wired network for wired communications over the wired network, and operatively dedicated for effecting communications over the wireless channel via specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel for wireless communications over the wireless channel;

a wireless packetized data communications provider equipment connected to the wireless application service provider server computer, for effecting communications of the server computer over the wireless channel in accordance with the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel; and

a wireless device for communicating over the wireless channel, via the wireless packetized data communications provider equipment in accordance with the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel, with the server computer;

the server computer is dedicated for communications with the wireless device, through the provider equipment over the wireless channel, via the specialized transport layer protocols;

the server computer intermediates communications of the wireless device to be carried over the wired network, by communicating with the wireless device via the specialized transport layer protocols and correspondingly communicating over the wired network via the network protocols of the wired network;

the specialized transport layer protocols for communications on the wireless channel reduce acknowledgement communications required per the network protocols of the wired network.

2. The wireless communications network of claim 1, further comprising a client software stored on the wireless device for enabling wireless communications over the wireless channel by the wireless device with the server computer, via the provider equipment, according to the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel.

3. The wireless communications network of claim 2, the wired network operates according to an open systems interconnect model protocol.

4. The wireless communications network of claim 2, the wired network is Internet.

5. The wireless communications network of claim 1, the wireless channel is a cellular packetized data system.

6. The wireless communications network of claim 1, the wireless channel is a CDPD system.

7. The wireless communications network of claim 2, further comprising:

a server software operable on the wireless application service provider server computer for enabling wireless communications via the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel, between the server computer and the wireless device, having the client software, over the wireless channel.

8. The wireless communications network of claim 1, further comprising:

a manager, connected to the wireless channel, for varying communications via the specialized transport layer protocols of the wireless channel, between the wireless device and the server computer in accordance with characteristics of the wireless channel.