Method and apparatus for accessing a common database from a mobile device and a computing device

• US 7,328,030 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2004
• Issued: 02/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unwired Planet LLC (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Openwave Systems Incorporated (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Laursen, Andrew L., Martin, Jr., Bruce K., Rossmann, Alain S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D.
• Application Number:
  US10/870,852
• Publication Number:
  US 20040229595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,329 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/450, 455/466, 709/217, 726/5
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/41 where a single sign-on provides access to a plurality of computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/445 by mutual authentication, e.g. between devices or programs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/108 Remote banking, e.g. home banking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0435 wherein the sending and receiving network entities apply symmetric encryption, i.e. same key used for encryption and decryption cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for symmetric key encryption H04L9/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0815 providing single-sign-on or federations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0869 for achieving mutual authentication cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for mutual authentication H04L9/3273
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• 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: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• 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 88/02 : Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 : Query formulation, input preparation, or translation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 : Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method for accessing data contained in a data network using a mobile device or a different computing device. Common data may be accessed by both the mobile device and the computing device, with the mobile device communicating over a wireless data network and the computing device communicating over a data network such as the Internet, a private network or a network of public and private networks. A different format may be used to process and display the data on each of the two devices, with the data being converted as necessary for display on the devices. The data may be updated by the computing device and then made available to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for accessing data contained in a data network system, comprising:

receiving a request from a mobile device through a wireless data network to access the data, the data being associated with an account for the mobile device and the mobile device having a display screen, wherein the data is accessible by a computing device remotely located and coupled to a data network selected from a group consisting of the Internet, a private network and a network of public and private networks;

retrieving the data after the request is authenticated with respect to the account; and

forwarding the data to the mobile device in a first format displayable on the display screen of the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prompting the computing device for credential information when the computing device attempts to access the data; and

providing access to the data in a second format after the credential information is verified.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

updating the data upon receiving updated information from the computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first format is used to display the data on the mobile device and the second format is used to display the data on the computing device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first format is a first markup language and the second format is a second markup language.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises a plurality of hyperlinks, and further, wherein the retrieving further comprises:

contacting a resource identified by the one of the hyperlinks over the data network;

fetching the data in a second format from the resource; and

converting the fetched data to the first format.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the first format is a first markup and the second format is a second markup language.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises data for configuring or reconfiguring a feature of the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a wireless telephone.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device includes a processor, and further, wherein the processor controls a telephony function.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the request includes an update to the data and causes the data to be updated.