Remotely provisioned wireless proxy

• US 9,420,398 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2014
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• 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, Bob, Wang, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAHEED, KHALID W
• Application Number:
  US14/219,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20140206334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 881 Days
• Field of Search: 455/410, 455/411, 455/418, 455/419, 455/420
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device, comprising:

establishing a mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone;

establishing a short range wireless communication between said physical mobile phone and a physical piconet device;

transmitting a white list of authorized network resource addresses from said physical mobile phone to said piconet device over said short range wireless communication; and

permitting, via said mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone, a universal resource locator (URL) request by said physical piconet device to a URL in said transmitted white list;

wherein said piconet device comprises an in-vehicle mounted piconet device.

2. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 1, wherein said piconet device comprises:

a portable navigation device.

3. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 1, wherein said piconet device comprises:

an in-vehicle telematics device.

4. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 1, wherein said white list of allowed network resource addresses comprises:

a plurality of URLs.

5. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 4, wherein said plurality of URLs include:

at least one network resource address including a wildcard portion.

6. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining said white list of authorized network resource addresses from a provisioning server.

7. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting Global Positioning System (GPS) based information from said physical mobile phone to said piconet device over said short range wireless communication.

8. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 1, further comprising:

said piconet device interacts with remote Internet services via access to an addressed network resource included in said white list.

9. A method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device, comprising:

establishing a mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone;

establishing a short range wireless communication between said physical mobile phone and a physical piconet device;

transmitting a white list of authorized network resource addresses from said physical mobile phone to said piconet device over said short range wireless communication; and

permitting, via said mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone, a universal resource locator (URL) request by said physical piconet device to a URL in said transmitted white list;

wherein said plurality of URLs include at least one network resource address including a wildcard portion.

10. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 9, wherein said piconet device comprises:

a portable navigation device.

11. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 9, wherein said white list of allowed network resource addresses comprises:

a plurality of URLs.

12. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 9, further comprising:

obtaining said white list of authorized network resource addresses from a provisioning server.

13. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 9, further comprising:

transmitting Global Positioning System (GPS) based information from said physical mobile phone to said piconet device over said short range wireless communication.

14. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 9, further comprising:

said piconet device interacts with remote Internet services via access to an addressed network resource included in said white list.

15. A method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device, comprising:

establishing a mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone;

establishing a short range wireless communication between said physical mobile phone and a physical piconet device;

transmitting a white list of authorized network resource addresses from said physical mobile phone to said piconet device over said short range wireless communication; and

permitting, via said mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone, a universal resource locator (URL) request by said physical piconet device to a URL in said transmitted white list;

wherein said piconet device comprises an in-vehicle telematics device.

16. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 15, wherein said piconet device comprises:

a portable navigation device.

17. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 15, wherein said white list of allowed network resource addresses comprises:

a plurality of URLs.

18. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 15, further comprising:

obtaining said white list of authorized network resource addresses from a provisioning server.

19. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 15, further comprising:

transmitting Global Positioning System (GPS) based information from said physical mobile phone to said piconet device over said short range wireless communication.

20. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical piconet device according to claim 15, further comprising:

said piconet device interacts with remote Internet services via access to an addressed network resource included in said white list.