Method and apparatus for detecting specified events in a mobile station

• US 6,542,734 B1
• Filed: 03/30/2000
• Issued: 04/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Gilkey, Harold, Abrol, Nischal
• Primary Examiner(s): TO, DORIS HA
• Application Number:
  US09/539,498
• Time in Patent Office: 1,097 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414, 455/422, 455/412, 455/445, 455/550, 455/575, 370/449, 370/450, 370/351, 370/368, 370/363, 379/229, 379/220, 379/220.01
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• 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: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for detecting a specified event in a wireless communication system. The present invention includes an application program interface (API) that facilitates communications between a mobile station communication protocol stack, which communicates with a communication network, and a mobile station application. The mobile station communication protocol stack polls a memory when the mobile station application registers a specified event. Based on the polling, the mobile station communication protocol stack then detects the specified event. In another implementation of the present invention, the mobile station communication protocol stack detects the specified event by an interrupt notice, which is triggered when the specified event occurs.

Claims

1. A method for a mobile station communication protocol stack to detect a specified event, the method comprising:

communicating between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a communication network;

communicating between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a mobile station application through a mobile station application interface;

polling, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, a memory whenever the mobile station application registers the specified event; and

detecting, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, the specified event based on the polling.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, the specified event whenever the memory is available to accept a sufficient amount of data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the data is transmitted from the mobile station application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the specified event is at least one of a write, read and close events.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

registering, by the mobile station application, the specified event, and

disabling, by the mobile station application, the specified event.

6. A method for a mobile station communication protocol stack to detect a specified event, the method comprising:

communicating between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a communication network;

communicating between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a mobile station application through a mobile station application interface;

registering, by a mobile station application, the specified event;

triggering an interrupt notice whenever the specified event occurs; and

detecting, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, the specified event by the interrupt notice.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the specified event occurs whenever data is written into a memory.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the specified event is at least one of a write, read and close events.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising disabling, by the mobile station application, the specified event.

10. An apparatus for detecting a specified event, the apparatus comprising:

a mobile station communication protocol stack to communicate with a communication network;

a mobile station application interface to facilitate communications between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a mobile station application; and

a memory to poll by the mobile station communication protocol stack whenever the mobile station application registers the specified event,

wherein the mobile station communication protocol stack is adapted to detect the specified event based on the polls.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the mobile station application interface is adapted to detect the specified event whenever the memory is available to accept a sufficient amount of data.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the specified event is at least one of a write, read and close events.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the data is transmitted from the mobile station application.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the mobile station application is adapted to disable the specified event.

15. An apparatus for detecting a specified event, the apparatus comprising:

a mobile station communication protocol stack to communicate with a communication network; and

a mobile station application interface to facilitate communications between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a mobile station application,

wherein the mobile station application is adapted to register the specified event,

wherein an interrupt notice is adapted to trigger whenever the specified event occurs, and

wherein the mobile station communication protocol stack is adapted to detect the specified event by the interrupt notice.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the specified event is at least one of a write, read and close events.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the specified event occurs whenever data is written into a memory.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the mobile station application is adapted to disable the specified event.

19. A machine-readable medium comprising encoded information, which when read by a machine causes the processes of:

communicating between a mobile station communication protocol stack and a communication network;

communicating between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a mobile station application through a mobile station application interface;

polling, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, a memory whenever the mobile station application registers a specified event; and

detecting, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, the specified event based on the polling.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, further comprising detecting, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, the specified event whenever the memory is available to accept a sufficient amount of data.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the specified event is at least one of a write, read and close events.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the data is transmitted from the mobile station application.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, further comprising,

registering, by the mobile station application, the specified event, and

disabling, by the mobile station application, the specified event.

24. A machine-readable medium comprising encoded information, which when read by a machine causes the processes of:

communicating between a mobile station communication protocol stack and a communication network;

communicating between the mobile station communication protocol stack and a mobile station application through a mobile station application interface;

registering, by a mobile station application, a specified event;

triggering an interrupt notice whenever the specified event occurs; and

detecting, by the mobile station communication protocol stack, the specified event by the interrupt notice.

25. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the specified event occurs whenever data is written into a memory.

26. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, wherein the specified event is at least one of a write, read and close events.

27. The machine-readable medium of claim 24, further comprising disabling, by the mobile station application, the specified event.