System and method of linking user identification to a subscriber identification module

• US 6,742,038 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2001
• Issued: 05/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Danger Incorporated (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Britt, Joe Freeman Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lin, Wen Tai
• Application Number:
  US09/948,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20020032785A1
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 709/228, 709/246, 709/313, 342/457, 455/426.1, 455/418, 717/146, 710/62
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/756 adapting media to device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2871 Implementation details of single intermediate entities
• 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 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A system and method for providing access to a server by a wireless computing device is described. A server and a wireless computing device and a communications link between the wireless computing device and the server are provided. The wireless computing device includes a hardware component including a processor and a memory. The server generates instructions and converted data based on data requested by the wireless computing device. The wireless computing device also includes an identification module. The identification module can provide identification data to the server.

Claims

1. A server system comprising:

a portal device comprising a processor for processing native program code and an interpreter module for interpreting bytecodes and converting the bytecodes into the native program code for processing by the processor;

a portal server to forward a request for data on behalf of the portal device;

receive said data on behalf of the portal device;

the portal server comprising

a content conversion module to convert the requested data to bytecodes which the interpreter module on the portal device can convert into native program code;

the portal server to transmit the converted data to the wireless computing device;

wherein the portal device further comprises a wireless radio module to communicatively link the portal server and the portal device, wherein the wireless radio module includes an identification module containing identification data related to an end user, and wherein the portal server automatically reads the identification data and responsively logs the end user in to the server; and

wherein the identification module is removable from the portal device and wherein the identification module can be installed in a second portal device and wherein the second portal device transmits identification data from the identification module and wherein the portal server;

receive the identification data;

validates the identification data; and

communicates with the second portal device if the identification data is valid.

2. The server system as recited in claim 1, wherein the wireless radio module comprises a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) compliant wireless radio module.

3. The server system as recited in claim 2, wherein the GSM compliant radio module provides user identification data to the portal server.

4. The server system as recited in claim 2, wherein the identification module comprises a subscriber identification module (SIM).

5. The server system as recited in claim 4, wherein the portal server:

receives the SIM data;

validates the SIM data; and

communicates with portal device if the SIM data is valid.

6. The server system as recited in claim 1, wherein the portal server:

receives the identification data;

validates the identification data; and

communicates with the portal device if the identification data is valid.

7. The server system as recited in claim 1, wherein the forwarded request for data on behalf of a portal device includes data from an Internet site.

8. A method for providing access to a portal server by a wireless computing device comprising:

automatically reading identification data from an identification module within a wireless radio module of the portal device, the identification data uniquely identifying a particular end user, and responsively logging the end user in to the portal server;

forwarding a request for data to an Internet site on behalf of the portal device;

receiving said data from said Internet site on behalf of said portal device;

converting said data to bytecodes which an interpreter module on said portal device can convert into native program code which a processor on said portal device can process; and

transmitting said bytecodes to said portal device;

wherein the identification module is removable from the portal device and wherein the identification module can be installed in a second portal device and wherein the second portal device transmits identification data from the identification module and wherein the portal server;

receives the identification data;

validates the identification data; and

communicates with the second portal device if the identification data is valid.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, further comprising:

transmitting identification data from the identification module;

receiving the identification data in the portal server;

validating the identification data at the portal server; and

providing the data from the server to the wireless computing device only if the identification data is valid.

10. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein the wireless radio module comprises a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) compliant wireless radio module.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the identification module includes a subscriber identification module (“

SIM”

).

12.The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the GSM system includes an identification data link to the portal server wherein the GSM provides user identification data to the portal server.