Wireless ASP systems and methods

• US 20020115407A1
• Filed: 10/17/2001
• Published: 08/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: OptiMorphix, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Broadcloud Communications, Inc.
• Inventors: Chou, James, Thompson, David
• Application Number:
  US09/982,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20020115407A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/3.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1642 Formats specially adapted for sequence numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/18 Automatic repetition systems, e.g. Van Duuren systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1809 Selective-repeat protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1848 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/188 Time-out mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/161 Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/162 involving adaptations of sockets based mechanisms secure socket layer H04L63/168
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/326 in the transport layer [OSI layer 4] H04L69/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 : Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 : Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 : Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 : Wireless channel access

Abstract

A communications service provider provides wireless access to a packetized data network, such as the Internet. The service provider includes a server computer. The server computer is connected to the network, which is at least in part a wired network. The wired network is connected to a cellular wireless communications system. Features of the network and the server computer include group messaging, co-processors, dynamic protocol dictionaries, and cache synchronization and optimization. The features speed and improve communications over the network, including over wireless channels and dynamic conditions of those channels.

Claims

1. A wireless communications network, comprising:

a wired network;

a wireless channel;

a server computer connected to the wired network;

a wireless packetized data communications provider equipment connected to the wired network;

a first client device communicatively connected via the wireless channel to the wireless packetized data communications provider, and

a second client device communicatively connected to the network.

2. The wireless communications network of claim 1, further comprising a detector for detecting a first location of the first client device and a second location of the second client device.

3. The wireless communications network of claim 2, wherein the detector is selected from the group consisting of:

a software and a hardware of the server computer.

4. The wireless communications network of claim 3, wherein the first client device communicates an indicator of the first location to the server computer.

5. The wireless communications network of claim 2, wherein the wired network is the Internet.

6. The wireless communications network of claim 1, wherein the wireless channel is a cellular packetized data system.

7. The wireless communications network of claim 1, wherein the wireless channel is a CDPD system.

8. The wireless communications network of claim 1, further comprising a server software stored on the server computer for relating the first location to the first client device and the second location to the second device and for making available an information corresponding to the first location and the second location for communication over the network.

9. A method of wireless communications, wherein a first client device has a first location and a second client device has a second location, comprising the steps of:

serving a first information indicative of the first location to the second client device;

serving a second information indicative of the second location to the first client device;

enabling, by virtue of the first information and the second information, the first client device to communicate with the second client device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the steps of serving comprise the steps of:

performing a look-up in a relational database; and

making known the look-up result to at least one of the first client device and the second client device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the wireless channel communicates a message, selected from the group consisting of:

text, graphic, image, voice, and streaming media.

12. A computer readable substrate having a computer program saved thereupon, the computer program comprising the steps of:

relating a first location to a first client device;

relating a second location to a second client device; and

enabling messaging communication between the first client device and the second client device because of the steps of relating.