System for personal management information applications

• US 20060121892A1
• Filed: 11/21/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piece Future Pte., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Gass, Raymond
• Granted Patent: US 7,856,229 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/418
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4547 for personal communications, i.e. using a personal identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27485 Appending a prefix to or inserting a pause into a dialling sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system comprising a processor, a memory unit and a display screen, wherein said memory contains instructions that when executed implement a method of importing selected information into a first application, comprising the step of capturing within a displayed screen of a second application a first format of information that includes a plurality of selectable information value types, whereby at least two out of the plurality of information value types have a different value type attribute, whereby each value type attribute is correlated with a local position of the system. The invention relates further to a process for establishing a connection between a portable computer system comprising a processor, a memory unit and a display screen and a plurality of subgroups consisting of interconnected computer systems comprising the steps, wherein said memory contains instructions that when executed implement a method of importing selected information into a first application

Claims

1. A terminal comprising a processor, a memory unit and a display screen, the terminal to be used by a near end user for a telecommunications with a far end user, the telecommunications being activated by the near end user when selecting on the terminal information corresponding to that far end user, the information including a plurality of information value types whereby at least two out of the plurality of information value types have a different value type attribute, whereby each value type attribute is correlated with the location of the terminal within different possible areas with respect to the location of the far end user while the combination of a value type and a value type attribute identifies the far end user, that combination being required to setup the telecommunications, wherein the memory unit contains instructions to be executed when such telecommunications towards a far end user is activated by the near end user, such instructions implementing a method of importing specific data from the selected information of that far end user, the method comprising the steps of:

locating the terminal of the near end user;

associating that location of the terminal with one of the different possible areas identified by a specific value type attribute; and

extracting accordingly the specific data comprising that value type attribute out of the selected information from the far end user for setting up the activated telecommunications.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein its location is determined by identifying the area within which it builds a connection prior to setup of the activated telecommunications, said connection being available for the transmission of the telecommunications.

3. The terminal according to claim 2 wherein said different possible areas correspond to different existing networks.

4. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein it comprises a memory unit where predefined rules are stored to be applied for associating the terminal location to one network when the terminal builds a connection with different existing networks.

5. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the terminal comprises a radio interface to perform said connection via a wireless link to a base station being part of the network to be used for setting up the activated telecommunications with the far end user.

6. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein it performs an attempt to identify the network within its reach, the location of the near end user terminal being determined after reception by the terminal of that the identified network identity.

7. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein it comprises a memory unit where the information of the far end user is stored in a predefined format while the property names and property parameters of the predefined format are embedded as XML-code in a webpage.

8. The terminal according to claim 7, wherein it comprises a memory unit for the storage of a directory with information of different far end users in the pre-defined format, the selection on a near end terminal by the near end user of the far end user information out of that directory being performed using a browser available on said near end terminal, said browser allowing retrieval of further information in the pre-defined format by setting up a connection with a gateway, the gateway comprising a parser adapted to retrieve information originally in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to forward to the terminal the retrieved information in said predefined format embedded in a web page.

9. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein said combination of a value type and a value type attribute corresponds to a telephone number.

10. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein at least one said combination corresponds to a telephone number expressed as a canonical representation of the phone number and at least one further combination corresponds to a telephone number expressed as a non-canonical representation.

11. A computer readable medium having a computer program recorded thereon, the computer program being executable on a near end terminal after being activated by a near end user when selecting on the near end terminal information corresponding to a far end user for setting up a telecommunications using said near end terminal between the near end user and the far end user, the information including a plurality of information value types whereby at least two out of the plurality of information value types have a different value type attribute, whereby each value type attribute is correlated with the location of the terminal within different possible areas with respect to the location of the far end user while the combination of a value type and a value type attribute identifies the far end user, said combination being required to setup the telecommunications, the computer program comprising codes adapted to perform the following steps:

locating the near end terminal of the near end user;

associating the location of said near end terminal with one of the different possible areas identified by a specific value type attribute; and

extracting accordingly the specific data comprising said specific value type attribute out of the selected information from the far end user for setting up the activated telecommunications.