System and method for provisioning a remote resource for an electronic device

• US 8,335,880 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2011
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Knowles, Michael, Quinn, Liam, Bocking, Andrew, Moser, Karen, Tiegs, Mark, Scott, Sherryl Lee Lorraine
• Primary Examiner(s): Myers, Paul R
• Assistant Examiner(s): DALEY, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY
• Application Number:
  US13/329,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20120089737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 365 Days
• Field of Search: 710/240, 709/217, 709/219, 709/229, 455/412.1, 370/463
• US Class Current: 710/240
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/00 Accessing, addressing or allocating within memory systems or architectures digital input from, or digital output to record carriers, e.g. to disk storage units, G06F3/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• 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: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

The disclosure recites a device, system and method for provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device. The method comprises at the mobile electronic device: generating and sending a network registration request to the server to allow the server to determine whether the mobile electronic device is in a device registry linking resources managed by the server; waiting for a data transmission from the server, the data transmission containing text and a link to the resource that can receive the data transmission at the mobile electronic device; incorporating text and a link from the data transmission into a graphical user interface (GUI) generated on a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device; and generating an indicator on the GUI that the resource is new, if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device.

Claims

1. A method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device, the method comprising at the mobile electronic device:

after receiving a data transmission from the server containing text and a link to a resource incorporating the text and the link from the data transmission into a graphical user interface (GUI) generated on a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device; and

generating an indicator on the GUI that the resource is new, if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device.

2. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the resource from the server when the link is activated through the GUI.

3. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GUI also provides information about the mobile electronic device that is stored locally on the mobile electronic device.

4. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resource provides information relating to a wireless carrier associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

5. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resource provides information relating to a user'"'"'s account associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

6. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

a second resource is provided to the mobile electronic device with a second link and second text relating to the second resource provided to the mobile electronic device; and

the GUI provides a prioritized presentation of the text of the resource and the second text of the second resource based on a ranking scheme.

7. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GUI is a help screen generated by a help module operating on the mobile electronic device.

8. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the server does not approve the resource for provisioning to the mobile device if either the resource has already been provisioned to the mobile electronic device or the mobile electronic device has been designated to be provisioned with the resource from an alternative source; and

the text is displayed on the GUI when the resource is not provisioned to the mobile electronic device.

9. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the server checks a mobile electronic device registry when determining whether to approve or not approve the resource for the mobile electronic device.

10. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resource relates to another application operating on the mobile electronic device.

11. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the link is a HTML link.

12. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the link is an address to an FTP site.

13. The method of provisioning resources from a server in a network to a mobile electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the resource is new to the mobile electronic device, a pop-up window is generated in the GUI relating to the resource.

14. A mobile electronic device that is provisioned resources from a server in a network, the mobile electronic device comprising:

a microprocessor;

a display;

memory; and

application instructions stored in the memory and providing instructions executed on the microprocessor to;

incorporate text and a link to a resource from a data transmission from the server into a graphical user interface (GUI) generated on a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device; and

provide an indicator on the GUI that the resource is new if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device.

15. The mobile electronic device that is provisioned resources from a server in a network as claimed in claim 14, wherein the application instructions further comprise instructions to:

retrieve the resource from the server when the link is activated through the GUI.

16. The mobile electronic device that is provisioned resources from a server in a network as claimed in claim 14, wherein the GUI also provides information about the mobile electronic device that is stored locally on the mobile electronic device.

17. The mobile electronic device that is provisioned resources from a server in a network as claimed in claim 14, wherein the resource provides information relating to a wireless carrier associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

18. The mobile electronic device that is provisioned resources from a server in a network as claimed in claim 14, wherein the application instructions generate help information for displaying on the display.

19. The mobile electronic device that is provisioned resources from a server in a network as claimed in claim 14, wherein the GUI is a help screen generated on the mobile electronic device.