Device, system, method and computer readable medium for attaching to a device identifited by an access point name in a wide area network providing particular services

• US 20040125762A1
• Filed: 09/18/2003
• Published: 07/01/2004
• 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, Holostov, Vladimir, Haller, Amit, Haparnas, Ziv, Itzchak, Avraham, Glick, Amir, Kvetny, Eduard
• Application Number:
  US10/666,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20040125762A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/313
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/375 Access point names [APN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2525 Translation at a client
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/35 involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
• 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 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: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/20 Manipulation of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A device, method, system and computer readable medium allows for simultaneously attaching multiple APNs in a WAN, having a cellular 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 simultaneously attaching to multiple APNs providing services 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 receiving a short-range radio message including a destination address, such as an IP address and port number, identifying the selected APN.

Claims

1. ) A wireless handheld device, comprising:

a processor; and

,

a memory, coupled to the processor, capable to store a software component for simultaneously attaching a short distance wireless network to a wide area network having a first address providing a first service and a second address providing a second service.

2. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first and second addresses identify a domain providing respective predetermined privileges.

3. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first and second addresses are access point names (“

APNs”

).

4. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first and second addresses include a first and second port number.

5. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first service provides a wireless application protocol (“

WAP”

)

6. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first service provides access to the Internet.

7. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first service provides a hypertext transfer (“

HTTP”

) protocol.

8. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the first service is a multimedia messaging Service Center (“

MMSC”

).

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

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

11. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the software component selectively attaches response to a first terminal in the short distance wireless network communicating with the device.

12. ) The device of claim 11, wherein the communicating includes the terminal transmitting an IP message including a port number.

13. ) The device of claim 1, wherein the wide area network is a Global System for Mobile communications (“

GSM”

) cellular network.

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

wireless local area network.

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

16. ) The device of claim 3, wherein the software component further includes a table of available APNs.

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

GSM”

) cellular network and the first service is a WAP service and the second service is Internet access.

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.

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

generating a first short-range radio message including a first IP address and a first port number for the cellular network, by a terminal, in a short distance wireless network;

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

determining whether the device is attached to the first port number;

generating a cellular signal, by the device, requesting a first service from the cellular network responsive to the first short-range radio message;

generating a second short-range radio message including a second IP address and a second port number for the cellular network, by a terminal, in a short distance wireless network;

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

determining whether the device is attached to the second port number; and

,

generating a cellular signal, by the device, requesting a second service from the cellular network responsive to the second short-range radio message.

18. ) The method of claim 17, wherein the terminal is a messaging terminal and the device is a cellular telephone.

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

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

,

attaching simultaneously to the respective services, by the device, responsive to the plurality of requests.

23. ) An 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;

a short-range transceiver to communicate with the short-range radio network, including to receive a first short-range radio message having a first APN and a second short-range radio message having a second APN;

a memory, coupled to the cellular and short-range radio transceivers, to store a software component to simultaneously transfer a plurality of packets to the first APN and the second APN responsive to the first and second short-range radio messages; and

,

a first wireless device to generate the first and second short-range radio messages.

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 simultaneously transfer a plurality of packets between the a first APN and a second APN in the cellular network and the short distance wireless network responsive to a first short-range radio message including a first IP address and fir port number and a second short-range radio message including a second IP address and a second port number.