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

• US 9,210,221 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• 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): Vo, Tim T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Daley, Christopher A
• Application Number:
  US13/612,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,182 Days
• Field of Search: 710/240
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 comprising at the server: after receiving a network registration request from the device, accessing a device registry; if the device is in the device registry, determining whether a resource is may be provisioned to the device from the server, otherwise, if not, awaiting a request from the device for the resource; determining whether the resource has already been provisioned to the device or the device has been designated to be provisioned with the resource from an alternative source, and if so, not approving the resource to be provisioned to the device, otherwise providing a data transmission to the device from the server containing text and a link to the resource that can be extracted by the device.

Claims

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

after receiving a network registration request from the mobile electronic device, determining whether the mobile electronic device is in a device registry linking resources managed by the server;

if the mobile electronic device is in the device registry, determining whether a resource is approved to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device from the server, otherwise, if the mobile electronic device is not in the device registry, awaiting a request from the mobile electronic device for the resource and evaluating the request;

determining from the device registry whether 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 from the server, and if so, not approving the resource to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device, otherwise providing a data transmission to the mobile electronic device from the server, the data transmission containing text, a link to the resource and an indicator that the resource is new to the mobile electronic device if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device, the text, link and indicator for extraction by the mobile electronic device from the data transmission and for use in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device and an indication on the GUI that the resource is new if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device; and

transmitting the resource to the mobile electronic device when the link is activated through the GUI on the mobile electronic device.

2. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the resource provides information relating to a wireless carrier associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

3. The method of provisioning resources at a server 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.

4. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

providing a second resource to the mobile electronic device with a second link and second text information relating to the second resource for the mobile electronic device.

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

6. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 4, wherein:

the GUI is configured to display the second resource with the second link and the second text information relating to the second resource.

7. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 1, wherein the link is a HTML link.

8. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 1, wherein the link is an address to an FTP site.

9. The method of provisioning resources at a server 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.

10. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

checking a mobile electronic device registry when determining whether to approve or not approve the resource for the mobile electronic device.

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

12. The method of provisioning resources at a server as claimed in claim 1, wherein at the mobile electronic device

the data transmission is received;

and

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

13. A mobile server for provisioning resources to a mobile electronic device through a network, the server comprising:

a microprocessor;

memory; and

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

after receiving a network registration request from a mobile electronic device, access a device registry to determine whether a resource is approved to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device from the mobile server;

if the mobile electronic device is not in the device registry, await a request for a resource from the mobile electronic device from the mobile server and evaluating the request;

determine from the device registry whether 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 from the provisioning server and if so, to not approve the resource to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device, otherwise to provide a data transmission to the mobile electronic device from the mobile server, the data transmission containing text, a link to the resource and an indicator that the resource is new to the mobile electronic device if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device, the text, link and indicator for extraction by the mobile electronic device from the data transmission and for use in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display of the mobile electronic device to provide an interface to activate the link from the mobile electronic device and an indication on the GUI that the resource is new if the resource is new to the mobile electronic device; and

transmit the resource to the mobile electronic device when the link is activated through the GUI on the mobile electronic device.

14. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein:

the resource provides information relating to a wireless carrier associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

15. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the resource provides information relating to a user'"'"'s account associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

16. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the application instructions provide further instructions executed on the microprocessor to:

provide a second resource to the mobile electronic device with a second link and second text information relating to the second resource for the mobile electronic device.

17. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the resource provides information relating to a user'"'"'s account associated with the network and the mobile electronic device.

18. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the resource relates to another application operating on the mobile electronic device.

19. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the link is a HTML link.

20. The mobile server for provisioning resources to an electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the link is an address to an FTP site.