Wireless services provider network system and method

• US 20040196815A1
• Filed: 07/27/2001
• Published: 10/07/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OptiMorphix, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bytemobile Inc. (Cloud Software Group)
• Inventors: Thompson, David, Acosta, Edward
• Granted Patent: US 7,209,474 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• 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 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 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• 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 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An application service provider provides wireless access to a packetized data network, such as the Internet. The application 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. Data is communicated over the network, both wired and wireless, via OSI models, for example, according to TCP/IP protocols or specialized variants. A wireless device, such as a modem-equipped laptop computer or personal digital assistant, a web-enabled telephone, or the like, is communicatively connected to the cellular wireless communications system. The application service provider can maintain a website, including targeted content, on the server computer for access by the wireless device.

Claims

1. A wireless communications network, comprising:

a wired network;

a wireless channel;

a wireless application service provider server computer connected to the wired network;

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

a wireless device communicatively connected via the wireless channel to the wireless packetized data communications provider.

2. The wireless communications network of claim 1, further comprising a client software stored on the wireless device for communicating via specialized protocols with the wireless application service provider server computer over the wireless channel and the wired network.

3. The wireless communications network of claim 2, wherein the wired network operates according to an open systems interconnect model protocol.

4. The wireless communications network of claim 3, wherein the protocol is TCP/IP.

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 wireless application service provider server computer for communicating via specialized protocols with the wireless device over the wired network and the wireless channel.

9. A method of wireless communications, comprising the steps of:

serving data over a wired network;

receiving the data from the wired network;

transmitting the data over a wireless channel; and

receiving the data over the wireless channel.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

transmitting second data over a wireless channel;

receiving the second data from the wireless channel;

transmitting the second data over the wired network; and

receiving the second data over the wired network.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the data and the second data are packetized data formats on the wireless channel.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the wired network is the Internet.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of serving is performed according to specialized protocols.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of transmitting second data over the wireless channel is performed according to specialized protocols.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the specialized protocols include an OSI model protocol.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the specialized protocols include an OSI model protocol.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the wireless channel comprises a CDPD cellular network.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the data is selected from the group consisting of:

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

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

providing a wireless device with an on-line access to a website, the website maintained on a server computer connected to a wired network;

transmitting a packetized data to the wireless device at least in part over a wireless channel;

receiving the packetized data by the wireless device;

transmitting a second packetized data to the server computer at least in part over a wireless channel; and

receiving the second packetized data by the server computer.

20. The computer readable substrate of claim 19, wherein the computer program further comprises the steps of communicating the packetized data at least in part over the wired network.

21. The computer readable substrate of claim 19, wherein the computer program further comprises the steps of communicating the second packetized data at least in part over the wired network.

22. The computer readable substrate of claim 19, wherein the packetized data and the second packetized data are each formatted according to an OSI model.

23. The computer readable substrate of claim 19, wherein the packetized data and the second packetized data on the wireless channel conform to specialized protocols optimized for wireless communications.

24. An application service provider for providing network access, comprising:

a server computer;

a wired network connected to the server computer;

a cellular wireless communications system connected to the wired network; and

a wireless device communicatively connected to the cellular wireless communications system.

25. The application service provider of claim 24, further comprising:

a website stored on the server computer, the website including a content selected for the wireless device.

26. The application service provider of claim 25, further comprising a communication of packetized data between the server computer and the wireless device, the communication occurring at least in part over the cellular wireless communications system.

27. The application service provider of claim 26, wherein the cellular wireless communications system includes a CDPD cellular channel.