Remotely provisioned wireless proxy

• US 8,712,408 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2013
• Issued: 04/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Artax LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsurutome, Kevin, Barcklay, Robert, Wang, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAHEED, KHALID W
• Application Number:
  US13/738,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20130122898A1
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 455/426.1, 455/569.2, 455/575.9, 455/99, 455/152.1, 455/297, 455/345, 455/404.2, 455/456.1
• US Class Current: 455/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy

Abstract

A remotely provisioned proxy within a wireless/mobile phone that proxies a wireless communication path between a disconnected piconet (e.g., BLUETOOTH™) device and a network resource such as a universal resource locator (URL) via a mating mobile phone. Thus, an application proxy module embodied within the mobile phone provides managed access of a piconet device connected to the mating mobile phone to remote services. A disconnected piconet device uses the full data bandwidth available to a wireless phone, without the need for the disconnected piconet device to include its own separate wireless front end, or to require use of a modem within the mobile phone. Thus, using a mobile phone with application proxy, the user need not pay for the luxury of a tethered data plan.

Claims

1. A method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device, comprising:

establishing, in a mobile phone proxy application, a local communication between a mobile phone and an in-vehicle piconet device; and

transmitting, from said mobile phone to said in-vehicle piconet device, a list of allowed universal resource locators (URLs) for access by said in-vehicle piconet device via said mobile phone.

2. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, further comprising:

establishing a remote communication between said mobile phone and a remote service device; and

forwarding said list of allowed URLs from said remote service device, via said mobile phone, to said in-vehicle piconet device.

3. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, wherein:

said mobile phone further transmits to said in-vehicle piconet device Global Positioning System (GPS) based information.

4. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, wherein:

a vehicle associated with said in-vehicle piconet device lacks navigation functionality.

5. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device is a navigation device.

6. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device interacts with remote Internet services.

7. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 6, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device interacts with said remote Internet services via said list of universal resource locators (URLs).

8. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 7, wherein:

said list of URLs is included on a white list of URLs.

9. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device interacts with services available on said mobile phone.

10. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 1, wherein:

said list of URLs include point-of-interest (POI) information.

11. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 10, wherein:

said POI information is a location of a business.

12. The method of forwarding information from a proxy device to a piconet device according to claim 11, wherein:

said business is a pizza business.

13. A mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device, comprising:

a mobile phone proxy application, at said mobile phone, to establish a local communication between said mobile phone and an in-vehicle piconet device;

wherein a list of allowed universal resource locators (URLs) information provided by said mobile phone is transmitted from said mobile phone to said in-vehicle piconet device.

14. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

said mobile phone proxy application establishes a remote communication between said mobile phone and a remote service device, and forwards said list of allowed URLs information from said remote service device to said in-vehicle piconet device.

15. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

said mobile phone further transmits to said in-vehicle piconet device Global Positioning System (GPS) based information.

16. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

a vehicle associated with said in-vehicle piconet device lacks navigation functionality.

17. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device is a navigation device.

18. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device interacts with remote Internet services.

19. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 18, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device interacts with said remote Internet services via said list of universal resource locators (URLs).

20. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 19, wherein:

said list of URLs is included on a white list of URLs.

21. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

said in-vehicle piconet device interacts with services available on said mobile phone.

22. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 13, wherein:

said list of URLs include point-of-interest (POI) information.

23. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 22, wherein:

said POI information is a location of a business.

24. The mobile phone for forwarding information to a piconet device according to claim 23, wherein:

said business is a pizza business.