Providing a customized application to a user terminal

• US 8,756,271 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2010
• Issued: 06/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pekka Aarne Rehtijarvi
• Original Assignee: Pekka Aarne Rehtijarvi
• Inventors: Rehtijrvi, Pekka Aarne
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Dustin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mesa, Joel
• Application Number:
  US12/817,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20100325202A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/201
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method for providing a user terminal with an application, which is customized in respect of user-specific parameters and terminal-specific properties. An application server stores a template for the customized application and a feature set for each of several terminal types; receives a request (2-2) for creation of the customized application, and determines the user-specific parameters based on the request; sends the user terminal a data message (2-10) which triggers a request (2-14) from the user terminal; determines the user terminal'"'"'s type based on the request (2-14); determines the terminal-specific properties based on the determined type; creates the customized application based on the template, the user-specific parameters and the terminal-specific properties; inserts the customized application into a set of delivery files for a data communication system and transmits (2-26) the set of delivery files to the user terminal.

Claims

1. A method performed by an application server, the application server comprising an equipment database for storing terminal-specific properties of a plurality of different user terminals, the application server being configured to:

store a template for a customized identification document application and a feature set for each of several terminal types;

receive a request for creation of the customized identification document application for a user, and based on the request for the creation of the customized identification document application, the application server determining user-specific parameters of the user;

send a user terminal corresponding to the user a first data message, the first data message triggering a response from the user terminal, the response from the user terminal enabling the application server to determine a type of the user terminal, wherein the first data message comprises an identifier that identifies the user and the identification document application to be customized to the application server;

receive the response from the user terminal, the response comprising the identifier that identifies the user and the identification document application to be customized to the application server;

determine the type of the user terminal based on a data packet header of the response from the user terminal, without a separate login feature;

determine the terminal-specific properties based on the determined type of the user terminal;

create the customized identification document application based on the template, the user-specific parameters and the terminal-specific properties; and

insert the customized identification document application into a set of delivery files for a data communication system and transmitting the set of delivery files to the user terminal.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

performing header manipulation on the set of delivery files, so as to be able to provide the customized identification document application as a response to the request from the user terminal.

3. The method of claim 2, where the header manipulation on the set of delivery files enables the application server to send the customized identification document application to the user terminal as a program responsive to the response from the user terminal, the response from the user terminal comprising a web page request.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determination of the terminal-specific properties based on the determined type of the user terminal comprises an inquiry to an equipment database.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the creation of the customized identification application based on the terminal-specific properties comprises formatting image information based on screen properties of the user terminal.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the template for the customized identification document application comprises information common to several human languages, and the creation of the customized identification document application also comprises determination of a specific human language and retrieval of human-language-dependent text elements from a language database.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the customized identification document application comprises a concatenation of a network address and identifying information, wherein the network address specifies an address for contacting by the user terminal and the identifying information identifies at least one of the user terminal, its user and the customized application.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the customized identification document application comprises said concatenation in an encrypted form.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first data message comprises a header that comprises identifying information that identifies said user terminal.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determination of the terminal-specific properties comprising determination of at least a dimension and a resolution of the user terminal.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data message comprises a network address of the application server and the identifier.

12. The method of claim 11, comprising the application server:

extracting a header of a data packet included in the response;

determining the type of the user terminal from the header;

sending the equipment database a terminal parameter inquiry for the terminal-specific properties corresponding to the determined type of user terminal; and

obtaining the terminal-specific properties in response to the terminal parameter inquiry to the equipment database.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data message comprises a network address of the application server and the response from the user terminal comprises a web page request corresponding to the network address of the application server, and wherein the application server is configured to receive the web page, extract a header from a data packet of the request for the web page, determine the type of the user terminal from the header, send a terminal parameter inquiry to the equipment database for the terminal-specific properties corresponding to the determined type of user terminal, and obtain the terminal-specific properties in response to the terminal parameter inquiry to the equipment database.

14. The method of claim 13, comprising the application server sending the customized identification document application as a program to the user terminal responsive to the web page request from the user terminal.

15. A computer system, comprising:

an equipment database for storing terminal-specific properties of a plurality of different user terminals;

an application server, the application server including a processor, the processor being configured to execute instructions to cause the computer system to;

store a template for defining functionality of a customized identification document application and a feature set for each of several terminal types;

receive a request for creation of the customized identification document application, the application server determining user-specific parameters based on the request;

send a user terminal corresponding to the user specific parameters a first data message, the first data message triggering a response from the user terminal, the response from the user terminal enabling the application server to determine a type of the user terminal, wherein the first data message comprises an identifier that identifies the user and the identification document application to be customized to the application server;

receive the response from the user terminal, the response comprising the identifier that identifies the user and the identification document application to be customized to the application server;

determine the type of the user terminal without a separate login procedure based on a data packet header of the response from the user terminal;

determine the terminal-specific properties based on the determined type of the user terminal;

create the customized identification document application based on the template, the user-specific parameters and the terminal-specific properties; and

insert the customized identification document application into a set of delivery files for a data communication system; and

transmit the set of delivery files to the user terminal.

16. The computer system according to claim 15, wherein the first data message comprises a header that comprises identifying information that identifies said user terminal.

17. The computer system according to claim 15, wherein the application server is configured to determine at least a dimension and a resolution of the user terminal based on the response.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the first data message comprises a network address of the application server and the response from the user terminal comprises a web page request corresponding to the network address of the application server, and wherein the application server is configured to receive the web page, extract a header from a data packet of the request for the web page, determine the type of the user terminal from the header, send a terminal parameter inquiry to the equipment database for the terminal-specific properties corresponding to the determined type of user terminal, and obtain the terminal-specific properties in response to the terminal parameter inquiry to the equipment database.

19. A software product, embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium and executable in an application server, the application server comprising an equipment database for storing terminal-specific properties of different user terminals, and wherein execution of the software product in the application server causes the application server to carry out the following acts:

storing a template for defining functionality of the customized identification document application and a feature set for each of several terminal types;

receiving a request for creation of a customized identification document application, the request configured to permit the application server to determine user-specific parameters of a user;

sending a terminal corresponding to the user-specific parameters a first data message, the first data message configured to trigger a response from the user terminal that enables the application server to determine a type of the user terminal, wherein the first data message comprises an identifier that identifies the user and the identification application to be customized to the application server;

receiving the response from the user terminal, the response comprising the identifier that identifies the user and the identification document application to be customized to the application server;

determining the type of the user terminal without a separate login feature based on the response from the user terminal;

determining the terminal-specific properties based on the determined type of the user terminal;

creating the customized identification document application based on the template, the user-specific parameters and the terminal-specific properties; and

inserting the customized identification document application into a set of delivery files for a data communication system and transmitting the set of delivery files to the user terminal.

20. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the first data message comprises a header that comprises identifying information that identifies the user terminal.

21. The software product according to claim 19, wherein the determination of the terminal-specific properties comprising determination of at least a dimension and a resolution of the user terminal.