Mobile communication device dynamic service application and dynamic service application scripting

• US 7,725,103 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2004
• Issued: 05/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Lili, Milstein, David, Marcjan, Cezary, Odinak, Gilad, Boss, Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, HEMANT SHANTILAL
• Application Number:
  US11/013,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20050113139A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,988 Days
• Field of Search: 379/201.03, 379/10.03, 379/27.04, 37910202-10203, 379/106.01, 379/201.05, 379/201.12, 455418-420, 455/423, 455/425, 717172-173, 370/241, 709202-203, 709/208
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

A dynamic service application is stored and executed on a mobile or wireless communication device (e.g., a cellular telephone) to enable it to be programmed without specialized hardware, software, and other proprietary information. For example, dynamic service application programs or scripts may be entered directly by a user or may be received as a wireless or radiated digital message transmission. The dynamic service application executes the dynamic service application script, which is of a format to accommodate wireless or radiated transmission and storage on the device. The dynamic service application script may be written directly by a user on a computer or a mobile communication device or may be written with the aid of scripting “wizard” software that runs on a computer and guides the writing of script without the user having to work directly with the dynamic service application script. In addition to being received as radiated transmissions, dynamic service application scripts may also be sent as radiated transmissions from mobile communication devices to other devices or computers.

Claims

1. A mobile device dynamic service method in a mobile digital communication device that utilizes a radiated data signal having embodied thereon a short text message configured as a dynamic service script program having a data structure, the method comprising:

receiving, by the mobile digital communication device, the short text message embodied on the radiated data signal;

extracting, by the mobile digital communication device, the dynamic service script program having the data structure from the short text message, the data structure comprising;

a message header component comprising a first data field containing data indicative of a message identifier, a second data field containing data indicative of a message option of the identified message, and a third data field containing data indicative of a name of an application in a body of the short text message; and

a command component comprising a fourth data field containing a single character indicative of a command, and a fifth data field containing data to be used by the command when executed; and

executing, by a dynamic service application within the mobile digital communication device, the dynamic service script program to facilitate programming of the mobile digital communication device, wherein the dynamic service application is configured to execute variables, operators, program control elements, error indicators, iteration and displaying information of the dynamic service script program.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data field and the second data field are concatenated without an immediate space.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the message identifier includes only numeric characters.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the message option includes at least one of a group consisting of an acknowledgement indicator, an acknowledgement requestor, an installation command, and an incomplete message indicator.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the fifth data field contains a plurality of command bodies, each command body separated by a single separation character.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the data structure contains a plurality of command components, each command component separated by a single separation character.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the command is indicative of a command to:

select an item from a list contained in the command body, print text contained in the command body, and operate on a file indicated in the command body.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the data structure further comprises a sixth data field containing data indicative of a command option of the command, wherein the sixth data field has a length of no more than 2 characters.

9. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing acts for forming applications for a mobile digital communications device, the acts comprising:

providing a user input interface for;

specifying an application property;

specifying a manner of execution of the application as one of a group comprising;

manual execution, upon receipt of a message, at a delay time after receiving the message, at a specified date and time, with a specified interval time, and upon occurrence of a user selected event;

specifying an initial interaction between the application and the mobile digital communications device;

specifying a short text message to send to a specified destination; and

converting the application property, the manner of execution, the initial interaction, and the short text message into a short text message script file, the short text message script file comprising a message header component comprising a first data field containing data indicative of a message identifier, a second data field containing data indicative of a message option of the identified message, and a third data field containing data indicative of a name of an application in a body of the short text message file,

wherein the first data field, the second data field, and the third data field are a spaceless string of characters containing only a single separation character,

wherein the short text message script file comprises a dynamic service script program for execution by a dynamic service application within the mobile digital communication device, and

wherein the dynamic service application executes variables, operators, program control elements, error indicators, and information of the dynamic service script program to facilitate programming of the mobile digital communication device.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, further comprising computer executable instructions for performing accessing a script formation process wizard which facilitates specifying the application property, specifying the manner of execution, specifying the short text message, and converting into the short text message script file.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the short text message script file is compatible with a short message service format.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the short text message script file has a length not greater than a single fixed length text message compatible with a cellular telephone protocol.

13. A mobile digital communication device that receives radiant transmission of short text messages comprising:

a dynamic service application that receives a radiantly transmitted short text message dynamic service script and interprets and executes the short text message dynamic service script on the mobile digital communication device to facilitate programming of the mobile digital communication device, the short text message dynamic service script comprising a message header component that includes a first data field ending with a numeric character containing data indicative of a message identifier, a second data field starting with an alphabetic character containing data indicative of a message option, and a third data field containing data indicative of a name of an application in a body of the short text message dynamic service script, wherein the second data field is appended to the first data field such that an ending numeric character of the first data field followed by the starting alphabetic character of the second data field distinguishes and end of the first data field from a start of the second data field; and

a subscriber identity module or other chip card that is distinct from a base portion of the mobile digital communication device and that stores at least one executable operation indicated in the short text message dynamic service script.

14. The device of claim 13 in which the dynamic service application is stored on the subscriber identity module or other chip card.

15. The device of claim 13 in which the dynamic service application is stored and executed on the subscriber identity module or other chip card.

16. The device of claim 13 in which the short text message dynamic service script is stored on the mobile digital communication device for execution thereon more than once.

17. The device of claim 13 in which execution of the short text message dynamic service script on the mobile digital communication device includes obtaining information from an operator of the mobile digital communication device.