Wireless network architecture and method

• US 20030105879A1
• Filed: 10/10/2002
• Published: 06/05/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Erlend Olson
• Original Assignee: Erlend Olson
• Inventors: Olson, Erlend
• Application Number:
  US10/270,706
• Publication Number:
  US 20030105879A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

A wireless network architecture is disclosed which effects substantial gains in security and efficiency. Data, graphics, or other data residing on a network server which is desired to be provided to the user of a wireless communication device (WCD) is formatted into an appropriate WCD display-compatible data by the wireless server, instead of by the WCD itself. For example, a “WCD display-compatible data” would be a matrix of pixel values, each value representing the intensity of illumination or reflection of a specific spot or pixel on the WCD screen, as it can be directly displayed on the WCD screen without interpretive processing by a WCD. Instead of a high cost and power-hungry operating system residing on the WCD, those processing capabilities are rendered by the wireless server, with the result that the functionality of the WCD can be made into a fixed hardware on the WCD.

Claims

1. A wireless network apparatus comprising:

one or more wireless communications devices (WCDs) comprising a display;

a base-station coupled to the one or more WCDs; and

a wireless server coupled to the base-station and a network server, wherein the wireless server converts an internet-compatible data from the network server into a WCD display-compatible data, and converts an other WCD display-compatible data from the base-station into an other internet-compatible data.

2. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the wireless server compresses or decompresses the WCD display-compatible data.

3. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the wireless server encrypts or decrypts the WCD display-compatible data.

4. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the WCD compresses or decompresses the WCD display-compatible data.

5. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the WCD encrypts or decrypts the WCD display-compatible data.

6. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the WCD comprises a system hardware comprising

a single chip coupled to a transceiver for sending and receiving the WCD display-compatible data, wherein the single chip comprises a first module for wireless protocol processing and a second module coupled to the first module for compressing/decompressing and encrypting/decrypting of the WCD display-compatible data.

7. The wireless network of claim 1, wherein the wireless server receives the WCD display-compatible data from the base-station for sending the WCD display-compatible data to an other WCD using the base-station.

8. The wireless network of claim 1 wherein the WCD display comprises a touchscreen.

9. The wireless network of claim 1 wherein the WCD display-compatible data comprises a compressed and encrypted screen matrix, a set of actions to take by the WCD, and a set of potential action instructions, wherein the set of potential action instructions comprise a set of user options wherein each user option is coupled to a corresponding WCD action instruction.

10. A method for wireless data transmission comprising the steps of:

sending data from a network server to a wireless server;

converting the data into a WCD display-compatible data by the wireless server;

sending the WCD display-compatible data from the wireless server to a base station;

sending the WCD display-compatible data from the base station to a WCD; and

receiving the WCD display-compatible data for display by the WCD.

11. The method of claim 10 comprising the further step of compressing the WCD display-compatible data by the wireless server.

12. The method of claim 10 comprising the further step of decompressing the WCD display-compatible data by the WCD.

13. The method of claim 10 comprising the further step of encrypting the WCD display-compatible data by the wireless server.

14. The method of claim 10 comprising the further step of decrypting the WCD display-compatible data by the WCD.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the WCD comprises a system hardware comprising a single chip coupled to a transceiver for sending and receiving the WCD display-compatible data, wherein the single chip comprises a first module for wireless protocol processing and a second module coupled to the first module for decompressing and decrypting of the WCD display-compatible data.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein the WCD display-compatible data comprises a compressed and encrypted screen matrix, a set of actions to take by the WCD, and a set of potential action instructions, wherein the set of potential action instructions comprise a set of user options wherein each user option is coupled to a corresponding WCD action instruction.

17. A method of wireless data transmission comprising the steps of:

notifying of a WCD by a user to send a WCD image;

sending the WCD image from the WCD to a base station;

sending the WCD image from the base station to a wireless server;

converting the WCD image into an internet-compatible data by the wireless server; and

sending the internet-compatible data from the wireless server to a network server.

18. The method of claim 17 comprising the further step of compressing the WCD image by the WCD.

19. The method of claim 17 comprising the further step of decompressing the WCD image by the wireless server.

20. The method of claim 17 comprising the further step of encrypting the WCD image by the WCD.

21. The method of claim 17 comprising the further step of decrypting the WCD image by the wireless server.

22. The method of claim 17 wherein the WCD comprises a system hardware comprising a single chip coupled to a transceiver for sending and receiving the WCD display-compatible data, wherein the single chip comprises a first module for wireless protocol processing and a second module coupled to the first module for compressing and encrypting of the WCD display-compatible data.

23. The method of claim 17 comprising the further step of creating the WCD image on the touchscreen by the user, wherein the WCD image comprises a natural language script.

24. The method of claim 23 comprising the further step of performing script recognition on the WCD image by the wireless server.

25. The method of claim 17 comprising the further step of selecting from one or more images on the touchscreen by the user.

26. The method of claim 17 wherein the WCD display-compatible data comprises a compressed and encrypted screen matrix, a set of actions to take by the WCD, and a set of potential action instructions, wherein the set of potential action instructions comprise a set of user options wherein each user option is coupled to a corresponding WCD action instruction.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein a user option from the set of user options comprises the further step of selecting from one or more images on a touchscreen of the WCD by the user.

28. The method of claim 27 comprising the further step of executing the corresponding action instruction coupled to the user option.

29. The method of claim 17 comprising the further steps of:

receiving the WCD image by the wireless server;

sending the WCD image from the wireless server to the base-station; and

receiving the WCD image from the base-station for display by an other WCD.

30. A wireless communications device (WCD) architecture comprising:

a display;

a wireless link coupled to a base-station for sending and receiving a WCD display-compatible data; and

a system hardware for wireless data packet assembly.

31. The WCD of claim 30 wherein the wireless link is coupled to the base-station for sending and/or receiving a compressed WCD display-compatible data.

32. The WCD of claim 30 wherein the wireless link is coupled to the base-station for sending and/or receiving an encrypted WCD display-compatible data.

33. The WCD of claim 30 wherein the system hardware comprises a single chip coupled to a transceiver for sending and receiving the WCD display-compatible data, wherein the single chip comprises a first module for wireless protocol processing of the WCD display-compatible data, and a second module coupled to the first module for compressing/decompressing and encrypting/decrypting of the WCD display-compatible data.

34. The WCD of claim 30 wherein the display comprises a touchscreen entry device.

35. The WCD of claim 34 wherein the WCD display-compatible data comprises a set of coordinates touched on the touchscreen by the user.

36. The WCD of claim 30 wherein the WCD display-compatible data received from the wireless link comprises a compressed and encrypted screen matrix, a set of action instructions and a set of potential action instructions.

37. The WCD of claim 34 wherein the WCD display-compatible data comprises a natural language script drawn on the touchscreen by the user.

38. The WCD of claim 30 further comprising a user controlled switch wherein one of the possible states of operation of the switch comprises a power down state of the display.

39. A wireless server architecture comprising:

a first link coupled to a network server for sending and receiving an internet-compatible data;

one or more processors; and

a second link coupled to a base-station for sending and receiving a WCD display-compatible data, wherein the internet compatible-data received from the first link is converted by the one or more processors into the WCD display-compatible data for sending over the second link, and wherein an other WCD display-compatible data received from the second link is converted by the one or more processors into an other internet-compatible data for sending over the first link.

40. The wireless server of claim 39 wherein the WCD display-compatible data received from the second link is in the form of a natural language script.

41. The wireless server of claim 40 wherein the first processor performs script recognition on the WCD display-compatible data.

42. The wireless server of claim 39 wherein the WCD display-compatible data comprises a compressed and encrypted screen matrix, a set of actions to take by the WCD, and a set of potential action instructions, wherein the set of potential action instructions comprise a set of user options wherein each user option is coupled to a corresponding WCD action instruction, and wherein the WCD action instruction comprises a request for data stored on the wireless server.

43. The wireless server of claim 42 wherein the WCD display-compatible data received from the second link comprises one or more requests for data stored on the wireless server.

44. The wireless server of claim 39 wherein the one or more processors comprises a first and a second processes for image compression and data encryption and a third and a fourth processes for image decompression and data decryption.

45. The wireless server of claim 44 wherein the internet compatible-data received from the first link is converted by the first and second processes into a compressed and encrypted WCD display-compatible data for sending over the second link.

46. The wireless server of claim 44 wherein a compressed and encrypted WCD display-compatible data received from the second link is converted by the third and fourth processes into an other internet-compatible data for sending over the first link.

47. The wireless server of claim 39 wherein the other WCD display-compatible data received from the second link by the wireless server is sent by the wireless server over the second link.

48. The wireless server of claim 39 further comprising a database comprising a set of data pertaining to one or more WCD users.

49. The wireless server of claim 48 wherein the set of data comprises a user preference data set pertaining to one or more WCD users.

50. The wireless server of claim 48 wherein the set of data comprises a compression algorithm data set pertaining to one or more WCD users.