System and method for mobile access to resources

• US 20050074028A1
• Filed: 10/02/2003
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Openwave Systems Incorporated (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Openwave Systems Incorporated (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Hartmaier, Peter J., Wills, Fergus, Wugofski, Theodore D.
• Application Number:
  US10/677,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20050074028A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/468
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

A system and method for accessing resources comprising entering a code on a mobile device, and launching a browser on the mobile device in response to the activation of a web button on the mobile device, wherein the code is automatically used as a resource identifier when the browser launches. A system and method for establishing a data session for a mobile device comprising receiving a request to establish the data session, wherein the request includes a resource identifier code that is an invalid resource identifier, converting the resource identifier code to a valid resource identifier, and establishing the data session between the mobile device and a resource associated with the valid resource identifier.

Claims

1. A method for accessing resources, comprising:

receiving, at a mobile device, a code entered by a user;

detecting the activation of a web button on the mobile device; and

launching an application on the mobile device, wherein the code is used as a resource identifier when the application launches.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the application is a browser.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending the code as the resource identifier from the mobile device to a gateway server, wherein the code is not a complete resource identifier.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

identifying, by the gateway server, a complete resource identifier that has been associated with the short code by a user.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying, at the mobile device, a complete resource identifier that has been associated with the short code by a user; and

sending the complete resource identifier from the mobile device to a gateway server.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

establishing a data session between the mobile device and a resource that is associated with the code.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the code is a string of one or more characters entered via a keypad on the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the web button is a dedicated button on the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the web button is a programmable key on the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the web button is a menu selection on the mobile device.

11. A method for establishing a data session for a mobile device, comprising:

receiving a request to establish the data session, wherein the request includes a resource identifier code that is an invalid resource identifier;

converting the resource identifier code to a valid resource identifier; and

establishing the data session between the mobile device and a resource associated with the valid resource identifier.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

querying a database using the resource identifier code to identify the valid resource identifier.

13. The method of claim 12 the database comprises one or more user profiles that associate the resource identifier code with the valid resource identifier.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the resource identifier code is string of characters entered via a keypad on the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

retrieving a plurality of valid resource identifiers associated with the resource identifier code; and

sending the plurality of valid resource identifiers to the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein the resource identifier code is a standardized code for a particular resource.

17. A mobile device comprising:

a browser application; and

a web button operable to launch the browser on the mobile device in response to the activation of the web button, wherein a code that has been entered into the mobile device is automatically used as a resource identifier when the browser launches.

18. The mobile device of claim 17 wherein the web button is a dedicated button on the mobile device.

19. The mobile device of claim 17 wherein the web button is a programmable key on the mobile device.

20. The mobile device of claim 17 wherein the web button is a menu selection on a display on the mobile device.

21. The mobile device of claim 17 further comprising:

a transmitter for sending the code as the resource identifier from the mobile device to a gateway server.

22. The mobile device of claim 17 wherein the code is not a complete resource identifier.

23. The mobile device of claim 17 wherein the browser is operable to establish a data session between the mobile device and a resource that a user has associated with the code.

24. The mobile device of claim 17 wherein the code corresponds to a plurality of resource identifiers associated with the code, and wherein the plurality of resource identifiers are displayed on the mobile device.

25. A system comprising:

a server coupled to a wireless network and operable to receive requests from mobile devices; and

a database coupled to the gateway server, the database comprising profile information that associates codes sent from the mobile devices with desired resource identifiers.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the server further comprises:

means for detecting data session requests from the mobile devices, wherein the data session requests comprise a code as the resource identifier; and

means for querying the database to determine the desired resource identifier.

27. A method for connecting a mobile device to a data service, comprising:

receiving a digit string at the mobile device, wherein a length of the digit string does not correspond to a standard telephone number;

detecting the activation of a call connection button on the mobile device;

determining that the digit string does not correspond to a telephone number; and

launching an application on the mobile device, wherein the application is associated with the digit string.

28. The method of claim 27 wherein the application is a browser and wherein the digit string is used as a resource identifier when the browser launches.

29. The method of claim 27 wherein the application retrieves data that is requested by a user and wherein the digit string is used to identify the requested data.

30. The method of claim 27 wherein the call connection button is a button labeled “

talk”

or “

send”

on the mobile device.

31. The method of claim 27 wherein the digit string comprises one or more characters that appear on a key pad of the mobile device.

32. A method for requesting information using mobile device comprising:

receiving, at a mobile device, digits entered by a user;

detecting the activation of a call connection button on the mobile device; and

launching an application on the mobile device, wherein the code is used as a resource identifier when the application launches.

33. The method of claim 32 further comprising:

determining, at the mobile device, that the digits are not a valid resource identifier;

replacing the digits with an associated valid resource identifier; and

sending a data connection request using the associated valid resource identifier.

34. The method of claim 32 further comprising:

determining, at the mobile device, that the digits are not a valid resource identifier; and

searching a stored list of resource identifiers for a valid resource identifier that is associated with the digits.

35. A method for providing information to a mobile device, comprising:

receiving a request to establish a data session with the mobile device, wherein the request includes a resource identifier code that is an invalid resource identifier;

determining that the resource identifier code is not a valid resource identifier; and

sending the resource identifier code to an SMS application.

36. The method of claim 35 further comprising:

creating an SMS message directed to the mobile device.

37. The method of claim 35 further comprising:

obtaining information associated with the resource identifier code; and

creating an SMS message directed to the mobile device, wherein the SMS message comprises the information associated with the resource identifier code.

38. The method of claim 35 wherein the resource identifier code comprises a digit string entered by a user on the mobile device.