Compound wireless mobile communication services

• US 7,424,292 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2004
• Issued: 09/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thaddeus John Kobylarz
• Original Assignee: Thaddeus John Kobylarz
• Inventors: Kobylarz, Thaddeus John
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung; Nay
• Assistant Examiner(s): Young; Janelle N.
• Application Number:
  US10/798,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20050215247A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,643 Days
• Field of Search: 455/305, 455/418, 455/424, 455/425, 455/426.1
• US Class Current: 455/425
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42 Systems providing special services or facilities to subscribers specially adapted for wireless communication networks H04W4/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

Described are the concept, processes, and methods to combine an assortment of individually available and executable wireless mobile communication services for the purpose of achieving a desired objective(s). The activity of combining these individual services can be performed by a wireless communication user/subscriber, or a wireless communication service provider, or a wireless communication equipment supplier, or a wireless communication equipment manufacturer, etc. Once combined, these individual services represent an executable sequence that can be appropriately stored in a memory for future invocations by a user/subscriber. That is, a single invocation of the built service combination will execute the sequence of services whenever desired by a user/subscriber.

Claims

1. A process of combining services to build a wireless mobile communication service utilizing a graphical user interface or GUI to form a graphical representation of the wireless mobile communication in a flow chart style, wherein a built wireless mobile communication service, termed herein compound wireless mobile communication service or CWS, consists of component services and a compiled CWS is enacted as a sequence of the combined services by a mobile station or MS and executed by a mechanism used to communicate to a MS, and such a built CWS can also be used as a component service to build another CWS thereby incorporating the property of recursion into the graphical building process, whereby the following building steps comprise a unique and a novel software process to build a CWS:

a) A builder selects a component service from a menu and drags an image or icon of the selected component service to a build area of a computer screen used for building a CWS;

b) After the builder locates the component service icon in the build area for building a CWS, for those component services having parameters, a compiler displays a window containing the component service'"'"'s parameter names and default values for these parameters;

c) The CWS builder is now permitted by the compiler to substitute new parameter names and to change default parameter values to represent initial condition values for the parameters when the compiled CWS begins its execution;

d) After completion of the preceding step, the compiler'"'"'s window disappears and a graphical icon representation of the component service remains containing the CWS builder'"'"'s decided parameter names, along with a window of the CWS builder'"'"'s decided parameters'"'"'initial condition values;

e) If the CWS is to contain another component service, steps a), b), c), and d) are iterated such that for more than one component service, the builder identifies the sequence of component service executions by selecting an arrowed line icon from a menu and dragging the icon line to interconnect a pair of component services such that the tail of the arrowed line begins at the antecedent component service icon and the arrow head terminates on the succeeding component service icon.

2. The process of claim 1, further comprising a combination of fundamental wireless mobile communication services or FWS wherein the FWS are elementary component services, representing building block services, that are produced by conventional coding via a suitable software language, and these FWS are considered by the process to be single services;

meaning that the FWS represent the bases or kernels from which all CWS originate or are comprised.

3. The process of claim 1, wherein the following methods apply:

a) building a CWS in a flow chart graphical representation using computer facilities and then compiling into appropriate computer code and downloading the computer coded representation of the CWS into a MS;

b) using computer facilities to select graphical or textual images that represent component services to build a CWS where the component services are represented by named operational or functional expressions that can contain dependent parameters or independent parameters;

c) using computer facilities to request “

help”

to explain and clarify the application and use of a selected graphical or textual image.

4. The process of claim 3 wherein further improvements comprise a MS that contains the GUI and the compiler to build a CWS.

5. The processes of claim 2, wherein a menu of facility services icons are used for providing one or more of the following operations as component services in compound wireless mobile communication services:

a) computing arithmetic functions;

b) assigning values to parameters;

c) conditioning the execution of said component service on an event determination;

d) determining if parameters are equal;

e) determining if parameters are unequal;

f) pausing the execution of a CWS;

g) branching on a condition;

h) displaying a parameter value;

i) announcing or playing an audible parameter value;

j) invoking a CWS;

k) evaluating a service constraint.

6. The process of claim 5 further comprising a menu of special capabilities that achieve the following;

a) drawing lines with arrowheads that manifests the execution sequence of component services;

b) entering alphanumeric characters into a geometric element when building a CWS;

c) drawing geometric elements as rectangles and ellipses when building a CWS.

7. The process of claim 6 further comprising a menu for:

a) testing a built CWS for proper performance;

b) assigning an operational or functional expression to a CWS;

c) recording and storing a voice message as a value to be used in the facility service that audibly announces comments;

d) adding a CWS operational or functional expression to the repertoire of component services for use to build other CWS;

e) saving a built CWS in specified memory location;

f) copying a selected group of component services into a temporary memory;

g) undoing changes made while building a CWS;

h) opening a CWS display of interconnected said component services;

i) opening any menu used to build a CWS;

j) selecting line widths of geometric shapes in a displayed CWS.