Method and device in a telecommunication network having a communication product

• US 6,801,934 B1
• Filed: 06/30/2000
• Issued: 10/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sampo Simojoki, Timo Eranko
• Original Assignee: Sampo Simojoki, Timo Eranko
• Inventors: Eranko, Timo
• Primary Examiner(s): Harvey, Jack B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phan, Tam T.
• Application Number:
  US09/608,641
• Time in Patent Office: 1,558 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/217, 709/203, 709/205, 709/218, 709/219, 707/3, 707/4, 707/10
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management

Abstract

The method is performed in a telecommunication network that comprise one or more terminals, a data server and a network interface. The terminal requests a communication product stored in a data server after which the terminal gets access to the requested product. The steps required by the communication product are performed as an interactive real-time communication between the terminal and the data server. The results of the performed steps are then received at the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for sending communication in a telecommunication network, comprising:

(a) providing a first terminal in communication with a first data server and a database unit;

(b) the first terminal requesting a first communication product stored in the first data server;

(c) the first terminal obtaining access to the requested first communication product;

(d) the first data server sending a first question signal to the first terminal via the first communication product as a first interactive communication between the first terminal and the first data server;

(e) the first terminal sending a first response signal to the first data server, the first response signal triggering a second question signal from the first data server;

(f) the first data server sending the second question signal to the first terminal via the first communication product as a second interactive communication between the first terminal and the first data server;

(g) the first terminal sending a second response signal to the first data server, the first data server producing a first result on the basis of the second response signal and forwarding a first result signal to a database unit for storage;

(h) a second terminal requesting a second communication product stored in a second data server;

(i) the second terminal obtaining access to the requested second communication product;

(j) the second data server sending a third question signal to the second terminal via the second communication product as a third interactive communication between the second terminal and the second data server;

(k) the second terminal sending a third response signal to the second data server, the third response signal triggering a fourth question signal from the second data server;

(l) the second data server sending the fourth question signal to the second terminal via the second communication product as a fourth interactive communication between the second terminal and the second data terminal;

(m) the second terminal sending a fourth response signal to the second data server, the second data server producing a second result on the basis of the fourth response signal and forwarding a second result signal to the database unit for storage;

(n) the database unit processing the second result signal and sending a comparison result signal to the first data server, the comparison result signal comprising information about third and fourth response signals sent from the second terminal; and

(o) the first data server sending the first result signal and the comparison result signal to the first terminal.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein step (b) further comprises sending a request signal to a product server, the product server sending an approval request signal to the first data server.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the first data server determines if the first terminal is approved to gain access to the communication product.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein first data server sends an approval signal to the first terminal to provide access to the communication product stored in the first data server.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises the first terminal sending a start signal to initiate the first communication product and to establish an interactive real-time communication between the first data-server and the database unit.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises the first data server triggering a last signal flag of the first question signal to request the database unit to send the first result signal back to the first data server.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first result signal comprises information from users that match a first profile and excludes users that do not match the first profile.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the first data server sends a request signal to the database unit to requests information contained in the second result signal received from the second data server.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the first question signal includes information about a first location of the first terminal.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the third question signal includes information about a second location of the second terminal and the database unit includes information in the first result signal about the second user if the second location is within a specified distance from the first location and excludes information about the second user if the second location is outside the specified distance.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the database unit includes information in the first result signal related to the second user if a second profile of second user is identical to a first profile of a first user and excludes information relates to the second user if the second profile is different from the first profile.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the database unit includes information in the first result signal relating to the second user if the third question signal is identical to the first question signal and excludes information relating to the second user if the third question signal is different from the first question signal.