Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for wireless communication networks

• US 20030114138A1
• Filed: 08/28/2002
• Published: 06/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Li, Jun, Ramaswamy, Kumar
• Application Number:
  US10/229,760
• Publication Number:
  US 20030114138A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/403
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

The present invention comprises apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for wireless communication networks. A mobile communication device includes a geographic drive, which is used to upload and/or download files from the network. Uploading and downloading of files occurs through a connection point, and thus the transfer of files can be controlled throughout the network.

Claims

1. A wireless communication network comprising a host (20, 60), with a mobile communication device (10, 50) further comprising a geographic drive (11, 51), connected to said host (20, 60) via a wireless network connection (a, b).

2. A wireless communication network as in claim 1 with said host (20, 60) further comprising a content redirection component (12, 21).

3. A wireless communication network as in claim 1 further comprising a delayed downloading area (22), wherein, after said mobile communication device requests a file from said host (20, 60), said file is transferred to said delayed downloading area (22).

4. A wireless communication network as in claim 3 wherein said delayed downloading area (22) further comprises a cache.

5. A wireless communication network as in claim 3 further comprising a proxy receiving component, wherein said proxy receiving component receives a proxy agent from said content redirection component located on said mobile communication device.

6. A wireless communication network comprising a host (60), a mobile communication device (50) further comprising a geographic drive (51), and a connection point so that, after a file is either to be transferred to said geographic drive (51) from said host (60), or from said geographic drive (51) to said host (60), said file is transferred through said connection point.

7. A wireless communication network as in claim 6, wherein said connection point further comprises a predetermined connection point.

8. A wireless communication network as in claim 6, wherein said connection point further comprises a dynamically established connection point.

9. A wireless communication network as in claim 6, wherein said geographic drive further comprises a dynamically sized drive.

10. A wireless communication network as in claim 6, wherein said geographic drive further comprises a virtual drive.

11. A method of wireless network communication comprising:

providing a wireless communication network (15, 55);

connecting a mobile communication device (10, 50) further comprising a geographic drive (11, 51), to a host (20, 60) on the network; and

,

transferring a file either to said host (20, 60) from said geographic drive (11, 51), or from said host (20, 60) to said geographic drive (11, 51).

12. A method as in claim 11 wherein the step of transferring a file either to said host (20, 60) from said geographic drive (11, 51), or from said host (20, 60) to said geographic drive (11, 51), is preceded by the step of requesting a file on said host (20, 60), via said mobile communication device, to be transferred to said geographic drive (11, 51).

13. A method as in claim 12 wherein the step of transferring a file either to said host (20, 60) from said geographic drive (11, 51), or from said host (20, 60) to said geographic drive (11, 51), further comprises the step of transferring a file from said host (20, 60) to said geographic drive (11, 51) via a connection point.

14. A method as in claim 13 further comprising the step of transferring said file to a delayed downloading area (22).

15. A method as in claim 13 further comprising the step of sending a proxy agent to said host (20, 60) from a content redirection component (12, 21) located on said mobile communication device.

16. A method as in claim 11 wherein the step of transferring a file either to said host (20, 60) from said geographic drive (11, 51), or from said host (20, 60) to said geographic drive (11, 51) further comprises the step of transferring a file from said geographic drive (11, 51) to said host (20, 60) via a connection point.

17. A wireless communication network as in claim 16, wherein said connection point further comprises a predetermined connection point.

18. A wireless communication network as in claim 16, wherein said connection point further comprises a dynamically established connection point.