Service delivery through wireless access systems

• US 9,614,919 B1
• Filed: 08/05/2016
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise S.A. (China Huaxin Post & Telecommunication Economy Development Center)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise S.A. (China Huaxin Post & Telecommunication Economy Development Center)
• Inventors: Helbert, Emmanuel
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US15/229,481
• Time in Patent Office: 242 Days
• Field of Search: 709217, 709227, 709230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/11 Allocation or use of connection identifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A communication terminal comprising: a radio interface and a WLAN communication module configured to: generate and send an association request; receive an association response; and establish IP connectivity. The communication terminal also comprises a service selection module configured to select a computer-implemented service to be accessed; and a service execution control module configured to execute software application code implementing the selected computer-implemented service. The WLAN communication module is further configured to: in response to receiving a service selection command from the service selection module, generate an association request comprising a service identifier which identifies the selected service; parse the association response received through the radio interface to detect a link carried in the association response, wherein the link points to a network address of an application server suitable for delivering application data corresponding to the selected computer-implemented service; and initiate data communication with the network address for downloading application data.

Claims

1. A communication terminal comprising:

a radio interface;

a WLAN communication module configured to;

generate and send an association request to a wireless access system through the radio interface;

receive an association response from the wireless access system through the radio interface;

establish IP connectivity with the wireless access system;

a service selection module configured to select a computer-implemented service to be accessed;

a service execution control module configured to execute software application code implementing the selected computer-implemented service;

wherein the WLAN communication module is further configured to;

in response to receiving a service selection command from the service selection module, generate an association request comprising a service identifier which identifies the selected service;

parse the association response received through the radio interface to detect a link carried in the association response, wherein the link points to a network address of an application server suitable for delivering application data corresponding to the selected computer-implemented service;

initiate data communication with the network address for downloading the application data;

parse beacon signals received through the radio interface;

detect a service advertisement carried in the beacon signals indicative of a service available for selection;

communicate the service advertisement to the service selection module;

wherein the service selection module is further configured to;

generate a graphical user interface for displaying a set of computer-implemented services available for selection;

filter the services available for selection as a function of information carried in the service advertisement; and

generate the graphical user interface so as to display the filtered set of computer-implemented services available for selection.

2. The communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the information carried in the service advertisement comprises at least one of a traffic requirement of the computer-implemented service, a Quality-of-Service requirement of the computer-implemented service, an operating-system requirement of the computer-implemented service, a version number of the computer-implemented service, a security level of the computer-implemented service and a price of the computer-implemented service.