Method and apparatus for providing a card application toolkit command for reporting terminal environmental information

• US 8,180,401 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2009
• Issued: 05/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Stougaard, Keld, Svare, Joergen
• Primary Examiner(s): YOUNG, BRIAN K
• Application Number:
  US12/467,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20100291971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• Field of Search: 455/558, 455/343.1, 455/343.4, 455/423
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/94 Smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/43 using wireless personal area networks [WPAN], e.g. 802.15, 802.15.1, 802.15.4, Bluetooth or ZigBee
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/75 by polling or interrogating the sub-stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

An apparatus for providing a card application toolkit command for reporting terminal environmental information may include at least one processor and at least one memory storing computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus or another apparatus to perform at least providing a command associated with a card application toolkit, from a user identity module of a mobile terminal, to direct the mobile terminal to provide environmental condition information to the user identity module, receiving the environmental condition information via a response to the command, and performing a function with respect to the environmental condition information.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory storing computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus or another apparatus to at least perform the following;

providing a command associated with a card application toolkit, from a user identity module of a mobile terminal, to direct the mobile terminal to provide environmental condition information to the user identity module;

receiving the environmental condition information via a response to the command; and

performing a function with respect to the environmental condition information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to provide the command includes instructions for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to direct the mobile terminal to provide the user identity module with temperature information defining a temperature to which a portion of the mobile terminal is exposed.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to provide the command includes instructions for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to provide a coded message indicating an identity of the environmental condition information to be provided and a format in which the environmental condition information is to be provided.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to perform the function includes instructions for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to record the temperature information in a memory of the user identity module.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to perform the function includes instructions for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to record the temperature information in a memory of the mobile terminal.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to perform the function includes instructions for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to report the temperature information to a remote network device.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to provide the command includes instructions for causing the apparatus or the other apparatus to provide predefined criteria to the mobile terminal, the predefined criteria defining conditions under which the mobile terminal is to communicate the environmental condition information to the user identity module.

8. A method comprising:

providing a command associated with a card application toolkit, from a user identity module of a mobile terminal, to direct the mobile terminal to provide environmental condition information to the user identity module;

receiving the environmental condition information via a response to the command; and

performing a function with respect to the environmental condition information.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein providing the command comprises directing the mobile terminal to provide the user identity module with temperature information defining a temperature to which a portion of the mobile terminal is exposed.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein providing the command comprises providing a coded message indicating an identity of the environmental condition information to be provided and a format in which the environmental condition information is to be provided.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein performing the function comprises recording the temperature information in a memory of the user identity module or in a memory of the mobile terminal.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein performing the function comprises reporting the temperature information to a remote network device.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein providing the command comprises providing predefined criteria to the mobile terminal, the predefined criteria defining conditions under which the mobile terminal is to communicate the environmental condition information to the user identity module.

14. A computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having computer-executable program code portions stored therein, the computer-executable program code portions comprising:

program code instructions for providing a command associated with a card application toolkit, from a user identity module of a mobile terminal, to direct the mobile terminal to provide environmental condition information to the user identity module;

program code instructions for receiving the environmental condition information via a response to the command; and

program code instructions for performing a function with respect to the environmental condition information.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein program code instructions for providing the command include instructions for directing the mobile terminal to provide the user identity module with temperature information defining a temperature to which a portion of the mobile terminal is exposed.

16. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein program code instructions for providing the command include instructions for providing a coded message indicating an identity of the environmental condition information to be provided and a format in which the environmental condition information is to be provided.

17. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein program code instructions for performing the function include instructions for recording the temperature information in a memory of the user identity module.

18. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein program code instructions for performing the function include instructions for recording the temperature information in a memory of the mobile terminal.

19. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein program code instructions for performing the function include instructions for reporting the temperature information to a remote network device.

20. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein program code instructions for providing the command include instructions for providing predefined criteria to the mobile terminal, the predefined criteria defining conditions under which the mobile terminal is to communicate the environmental condition information to the user identity module.