Networked provision of mobile telephone application data

• US 8,285,261 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2008
• Issued: 10/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Starhome GmbH
• Original Assignee: Starhome GmbH
• Inventors: Wolfman, Shlomo, Biran, Ory
• Primary Examiner(s): Beamer, Temica M
• Application Number:
  US12/517,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20100056117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,721 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/550.1, 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/557
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2748 by matching character strings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/554 Data synchronization
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/2218 Call detail recording
• 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: H04M 3/4931 Directory assistance systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5322 for recording text messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A network based host comprising an agent for mobile telephones, the agent being associated with a mobile telephone users the agent comprising: mobile telephone application data; and an interface to make the application data available over the network to devices of the mobile telephone user and to provide the data for telephony operations by a remotely connecting mobile telephony device of the mobile telephone user.

Claims

1. A network-based agent for a cellular telephone user, implemented on an electronic processor, said network-based agent being located on a network and supporting at least one telephone application, the application involving network data storage and network-based communication functionality associated with said at least one application to communicate with a destination party device, said network-based agent being configured to operate with at least one of a plurality of different networked end-user devices of said user to carry out said network based communication functionality associated with said at least one application in response to application interface activity at said at least one user device, said application interface activity being communicated to said network-based agent via said network connection to communicate with said destination party device.

2. The network-based agent of claim 1, further comprising call related data retrieval activity including obtaining a telephone number in response to identification of a call destination from said interface activity.

3. The network based agent of claim 1, configured to provide address book functions.

20. The network agent of claim 1, wherein said user device comprises a non-telephony networked user device.

21. The network agent of claim 1, wherein said application communication activity comprises dialing, said dialing being in response to interface activity at said user device communicated to said network agent via said network connection and wherein said application data comprises address information.

4. The network-based agent, wherein said call to said destination party device comprises making a connection, said connection being one member of the group comprising a wireless application protocol (WAP) connection a general packet radio service (GPRS) connection, a WiFi connection, a WiMAX connection and an LTE connection.

5. A network based host implemented on an electronic processor and comprising an agent for mobile telephone users, the agent being associated with a respective mobile telephone user, being located on said network and supporting at least one telephone application, the application involving data storage associated with said at least one application and functionality to communicate with a destination party communication device, said software agent comprising:

mobile telephone application data; and

an interface to make said application data available over said network to at least one of a plurality of devices of said mobile telephone user and to use said data to carry out telephony operations in response to a connecting device of said mobile telephone user to connect to said destination party communication device.

6. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 5, wherein said application is an addressbook application accepting query information and providing a corresponding dialing sequence.

7. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 6, wherein said addressbook application comprises a customized addressbook layer for a respective mobile telephone user.

8. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 7, wherein said addressbook application further comprises a common directory layer provided in common to a plurality of users.

9. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 8, wherein said addressbook application is configured to receive a search query from said user, carry out an initial search in said customized layer, return any result found, and if no result is found then to carry out a further search in said common directory layer.

10. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 8, wherein said common directory layer comprises a global directory.

11. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 9, configured to receive said search query from a first device, and to return said corresponding dialing sequence to a second device, said first and second devices both being associated with said respective user.

12. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 11, wherein said first device is an Internet-enabled device and said second device is a telephony-enabled device.

13. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 5, further associated with a signaling detection unit to detect telephony events of said cellular user.

14. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 13, comprising a call log application, said data comprising call log information obtained from said signaling detection unit.

15. The network-based hosting agent of claim 14, wherein said call log information comprises at least one member of the group consisting of:

missed call information, incoming call information, and received call information.

16. The network-based hosting agent of claim 13, comprising a messaging log application for logging messaging events.

17. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 16, wherein said messaging events comprise at least one member of the group of events consisting of SMS events and IM (Instant Messaging) events.

18. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 13, comprising a messaging application, and wherein said data comprises messages sent to and from mobile telephone devices of said user.

19. The network-based host comprising an agent of claim 6, further comprising a call log application storing recently used telephone numbers, combined with said addressbook application, therewith to provide data of said recently used telephone numbers as initial query results.