Method and apparatus for implementing alerts on a browser running on a portable handheld device

• US 7,975,067 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2009
• Issued: 07/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Mason, John, Nikzad, Arman, Watson, Richard, Joseph, Eugene
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim; Krisna
• Application Number:
  US12/499,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20100138557A1
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 709/230, 709/237, 370/349, 455/3.01
• US Class Current: 709/237
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/181 Enclosures for portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• 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: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method and apparatus for implementing alerts on a browser running on a portable handheld device is disclosed. The method generates an asynchronous notification action from the server and in response transmits an alert containing a message indicating availability of HTML pages that describe the nature of the alert. The alert is received at a node on a network and translated into the original message. An alert receipt acknowledgment is transmitted to the server. Access to the alert HTML page is provided through a URL containing the appropriate query strings necessary to present the appropriate HTML page. The invention also discloses a wireless local area network (WLAN) adapter associated with a wireless network that receives paging signals from a server on the network and returns an acknowledgment signal back to the server. The invention also discloses a client/server based method of delivering messages initiated by a client. After a connection is established between a client and server, the client requests a message from the server. In response, the server retrieves and returns the message back to the client.

Claims

1. A wireless mobile network unit, comprising:

an input device for receiving data input from a user;

a display device supporting HTML functionality allowing the user to examine data;

a processor programmed to support the user of asynchronous application alerts;

a transmission device for receiving the alerts and transmitting an alert receipt acknowledgment after each of the asynchronous application alerts is translated into an original message; and

a memory containing instructions to receive a paging signal.

2. The network unit of claim 1 further comprising:

a processor which supports user datagram protocol frames and processes protocol data units consisting of command elements constructed as ASCII, comma delimited, strings.

3. The network unit of claim 1 further comprising:

a transmission device which transmits data via user datagram protocol services.