SMS wrapper/dewrapper and mobile devices embedded with the SMS wrapper/dewrapper

• US 8,385,951 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2008
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hsu, Tony
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Nimesh
• Application Number:
  US12/055,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20080242326A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,798 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/552.1, 455/556.2, 370/401
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/08 between user and terminal device

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for providing a GUI for manipulation utilizing a SMS in PDU mode, comprising: receiving a SMS message which comprises encoded SM data; parsing said SM data for decoding to retrieve form display data; generating a UI element corresponding to said form display data; and displaying said UI element.

Claims

1. A method for providing a graphical user interface for manipulation by a user utilizing a short message service (SMS) operated in an open encoding mode, comprising:

registering with a port number to receive wireless messaging application (WMA) programming interface messages from the port;

receiving a SMS message as a WMA message via the port, the SMS message including encoded form display data;

parsing the encoded form display data;

decoding the encoded form display data to retrieve the form display data;

generating a user interface (UI) element corresponding to the form display data; and

displaying the UI element.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of generating a UI element is performed by a display class application programming interface (API) of a virtual machine environment.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the display class API comprises ChoiceGroup, DateField, StringItem and TextField.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of retrieving sender information of a sender and a server mode port number.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising a step of returning a reply message to the sender according to the information of the sender and the server mode port number.

6. A short message service (SMS) wrapper/de-wrapper for providing a GUI for manipulation utilizing a SMS in a Protocol Description Unit (PDU) mode, comprising:

means for registering with a port number to receive wireless messaging application (WMA) programming interface messages from the port;

means for receiving a SMS message as a WMA message via the port, the SMS message including encoded SM data;

means for parsing said SM data for decoding to retrieve form display data;

means for generating a user interface (UI) element corresponding to said form display data; and

means for displaying said UI element.

7. The SMS wrapper/de-wrapper according to claim 6, wherein the means for generating a UI element is performed by a display class application programming interface (API) of a virtual machine environment.

8. The SMS wrapper/de-wrapper according to claim 7, wherein the display class API comprises ChoiceGroup, DateField, StringItem and TextField.

9. The SMS wrapper/de-wrapper according to claim 6, further comprising means for retrieving sender information of a sender and a server mode port number.

10. The SMS wrapper/de-wrapper according to claim 9, further comprising means for returning a reply message to the sender according to the information of the sender and the server mode port number.

11. A data processing system implemented method for providing a GUI for manipulation utilizing a short message service (SMS) in a Protocol Description Unit (PDU) mode, comprising:

registering with a port number to receive wireless messaging application (WMA) programming interface messages from the port;

receiving a SMS message as a WMA message via the port which comprises encoded SM data;

parsing said SM data for decoding to retrieve form display data;

generating a user interface (UI) element corresponding to said form display data; and

displaying said UI element.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the step of generating a UI element is performed by a display class application programming interface (API) of a virtual machine environment.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the display class API comprises types ChoiceGroup, DateField, StringItem and TextField.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising a step of retrieving sender information of a sender and a server mode port number.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising a step of returning a reply message to the sender according to the information of the sender and the server mode port number.

16. A computer-readable non-transitory, storage medium, comprising program codes causing a data processing system comprising hardware to execute a method for providing a GUI for manipulation utilizing a short message service (SMS) in a Protocol Description Unit (PDU) mode, wherein the data processing system, upon executing the code, will:

registering with a port number to receive wireless messaging application (WMA) programming interface messages from the port;

receive a SMS message as a WMA message via the port which comprises encoded SM data;

parse said SM data for decoding to retrieve form display data;

generate a user interface (UI) element corresponding to said form display data; and

display said UI element.