Data downloading initiated by portable communicating objects during a campaign

• US 8,073,937 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2006
• Issued: 12/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thales DIS France SA (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Bretagne, Eric, Amiel, Patrice, Martinent, Frédéric
• Primary Examiner(s): Neurauter, George
• Application Number:
  US11/989,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20100017499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,957 Days
• Field of Search: 709/221, 717/173, 455/418
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Content data available in a server is downloaded to portable communicating objects via a radio communication network during a data downloading campaign initiated by a portable communicating object upon transmission of a request of content availability to the server when at least one request transmission triggering element fulfills a rule stored in the portable communicating object. Upon reception of the content availability request, one of the devices including the server and the portable communicating object determines whether the content data are available for the portable communicating object so as to transmit the same thereto.

Claims

1. A method for downloading content data available in a server means to portable communicating objects via a radio communication network during a data downloading campaign in which a portable communicating object initiates downloading of data to said object upon the transmission of a content availability request to the server means, as soon as at least one request transmission triggering element fulfills a rule stored in the portable communicating object, wherein the portable communicating object performs the following steps consisting in:

determining, upon reception of a response to the content availability request, whether content data are available by comparing data characterizing the portable communicating object to content descriptions which are associated with the content data stored in the server means and transmitted by the server means in response to the content availability request, and

transmitting content identifiers relating to the determined available content data, to cause the server means to transmit said determined available content data to the portable communicating object.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein upon reception of the content data from the server means, the portable communicating object processes the received content data and transmits a notification to the server means.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the server means successively transmits, for each of the applications implemented in the portable communicating object, a content data processing command in response to an acknowledgement notification of the data processing for the preceding application, transmitted by the portable communicating object.

4. A system for downloading content data available in a server means to portable communicating objects via a radio communication network during a data downloading campaign, comprising, in each portable communicating object, means for initiating a data downloading to said object via the transmission of a content availability request to the server means, as soon as at least one request transmission triggering element fulfills a rule stored in portable communicating object, and wherein each portable communicating object includes means for determining, upon reception of a response to the content availability request, whether content data are available by comparing data characterizing the portable communicating object with content descriptions which are associated with the content data stored in the server means and transmitted by the server means, in response to the content availability request, and means for transmitting content identifiers relating to the determined available content data, to cause the server means to transmit said determined available content data to the portable communicating object.

5. A system according to claim 4, wherein the communicating objects are user chip cards removable from mobile terminals.

6. A system according to claim 4, wherein the communicating objects are mobile terminals.

7. A system according to claim 4, wherein the radio communication network is a code division multiple access network.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having encoded thereon a program capable of being implemented in a communication system for downloading content data available in a server means to portable communicating objects via a radio communication network during a data downloading campaign, the program comprising, instructions for initiating from a portable communicating object the downloading of data to said object upon the transmission of a content availability request to the server means, as soon as at least one requested transmission triggering element fulfills a rule stored in the portable communicating object, and wherein the program further comprises instructions for determining, upon reception of a response to the content availability request, whether content data are available by comparing data characterizing the portable communicating object with content descriptions which are associated with the content data stored in the server means and transmitted by the server means in response to the content availability request, and sending content identifiers relating to the data to the determined available content data, to cause the server means to transmit said determined available content data to the portable communicating objects.

9. A method for downloading data content available from a server to a portable communicating object via a radio communication network, comprising:

detecting, at the portable communicating object, a triggering condition;

in response to detecting the triggering condition, transmitting a content availability request from the portable communicating object to the server;

receiving a response to the request that contains descriptions of content data stored in the server;

comparing the content descriptions in the received response to data characterizing the portable communicating object;

determining, from said comparison, whether content data is available for the portable communicating object; and

transmitting content identifiers relating to content data that is determined to be available, from the portable communicating object to the server, to cause the server to transmit said determined available content to the portable communicating object.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions which, when executed by a processor in a portable communicating object, cause the portable communicating object to perform the following operations:

detect a triggering condition;

in response to detecting the triggering condition, transmit a content availability request from the portable communicating object to the server;

receive a response to the request that contains descriptions of content data stored in the server;

compare the content descriptions in the received response to data characterizing the portable communicating object;

determine, from said comparison, whether content data is available for the portable communicating object; and

transmit content identifiers relating to content data that is determined to be available, from the portable communicating object to the server, to cause the server to transmit said determined available content to the portable communicating object.