Device, system, method and computer readable medium for selectively attaching to a cellular data service

• US 20040081129A1
• Filed: 07/14/2003
• Published: 04/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IXI Mobile (R&D) Ltd. (IXI Mobile, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IXI Mobile (R&D) Ltd. (IXI Mobile, Inc.)
• Inventors: Fornell, Peter, Levi, Yosi, Haller, Amit, Haparnas, Ziv, Itzchak, Avraham, Kvetny, Eduard
• Application Number:
  US10/619,857
• Publication Number:
  US 20040081129A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/56 Packet switching systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5084 Providing for device mobility network addressing or numbering for mobility support in wireless networks H04W8/26; mobile IP H04W80/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 : adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 : Gateway arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 : Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

A device, method, system and computer readable medium allows for selectively attaching a cellular data service, such as a general packet radio service (“GPRS”), in a cellular network, such as a Global System for Mobile communication (“GSM”) network, to a short distance wireless network. In an embodiment of the present invention, a device, such as a cellular telephone, includes a processor and memory to store a software component for selectively attaching a cellular data service to a short distance wireless network responsive to a terminal in the short distance wireless network communicating with the device. In an embodiment of the present invention, the communicating includes identifying the type of terminal, the terminal generating a message to the device, the terminal requesting a private IP address form the cellular data service or the terminal requesting a service from the cellular network. In an embodiment of the present invention, the selectively attaching includes establishing a short-range LAN access profile or dial-up network session. In an alternate embodiment of the present invention, a cellular data service is selectively connected to a short distance wireless network responsive to a device communicating with multiple terminals.

Claims

1. A device for attaching a cellular data service to a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a processor; and

,

a memory, coupled to the processor, capable to store a software component for selectively attaching the cellular data service to the short distance wireless network responsive to a first terminal in the short distance wireless network communicating with the device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the communicating includes identifying a type of the first terminal.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the communicating includes the first terminal generating a message to the device.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the communicating includes requesting a private IP address in the short distance wireless network.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the communicating includes the first terminal requesting the cellular data service.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the communicating includes transferring IP packets to the device.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the selectively attaching includes establishing a short-range LAN access profile session.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the selectively attaching includes establishing a dial-up network session.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the software component selectively attaches the cellular data service to the short distance wireless network response to the first and a second terminal in the short distance wireless network communicating with the device.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the cellular data service is a general packet radio service (“

GPRS”

) in a Global System for Mobile communications (“

GSM”

) cellular network.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the short distance wireless network is a Bluetooth™

wireless local area network.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the short distance wireless network is an 802.11 wireless local area network.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the device further includes a short-range LAN Access profile software component.

14. A method for communicating with a cellular network, comprising the steps of:

generating a short-range radio message, by a terminal, in a short distance wireless network;

receiving, by a device, the short-range radio message;

generating a cellular signal, by the device, requesting a public IP address from a cellular data service responsive to the short-range radio message;

receiving a cellular signal containing the public IP address, by the device, for the device; and

,

transferring a plurality of IP packets, by the device, between the cellular network and the terminal using the public IP address.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the short-range message includes a type of terminal.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the short-range message includes a request for a cellular data service in the cellular network.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the short-range message includes an IP packet to be transferred to the cellular network.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the terminal is a messaging terminal and the device is a cellular telephone.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the cellular network is a Global System for Mobile communications (“

GSM”

) cellular network and the cellular data service is a general packet radio service (“

GPRS”

).

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the short distance wireless network is a Bluetooth™

wireless local area network.

21. The method of claim 14, wherein the short distance wireless network is an 802.11 wireless local area network.

22. A method for communicating with a cellular network, comprising the steps of:

receiving, by a device, a plurality of requests in a plurality of short-range radio messages, from a respective plurality of terminals, in a short distance wireless network for a cellular data service in the cellular network; and

,

attaching to the cellular data service, by the device, responsive to the plurality of requests.

23. A system for providing communication between a cellular network and a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a hand-held wireless device, including;

a cellular transceiver to communicate with the cellular network, including to receive a public IP address from a cellular data service for the hand-held wireless device;

a short-range transceiver to communicate with the short-range radio network, including to receive a short-range radio message requesting a plurality of packets from the cellular data service;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range radio transceivers, to store a software component to selectively transfer a plurality of packets, using the public 1P address, between the cellular data service in the cellular network and the short distance wireless network responsive to the short-range radio message; and

,

a first wireless device to generate the short-range radio message.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the first wireless device is selected from a group consisting of a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant, a headset, a pager, a pen, a printer, a watch, a digital camera and an equivalent.

25. An article of manufacture, including a computer readable medium, comprising:

a short-range radio software component to provide a short-range radio signal in a short distance wireless network;

a cellular software component to provide a communication signal in a cellular network; and

,

a software component to selectively transfer a plurality of packets, using a cellular network address provided by a cellular data service in the cellular network, between the cellular network and the short distance wireless network responsive to a short-range radio message requesting the cellular data service in the cellular network.