Display of service provider identity during download

• US 7,269,638 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2001
• Issued: 09/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Montebovi, Franco, Vestergaard, Bjarne
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu; Viet D.
• Application Number:
  US10/257,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20040077337A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,323 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/227, 709/228, 719/328, 719/329
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10015 Access to distributed or replicated servers, e.g. using brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1029 using data related to the state of servers by a load balancer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1038 Load balancing arrangements to avoid a single path through a load balancer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service

Abstract

A mobile cellular telephone handset (1) is WAP enabled. Browser connection settings are configured so that whilst connection is being made to a WAP server, the user is provided with a graphical display that indicates the identity of the service provider for the server.

Claims

1. A mobile telecommunications device for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network, the device being operable as a client for a server that acts as a data service provider and the device further being connectable to the server via a gateway that is operated by a mobile telecommunications network operator, the mobile telecommunications device comprising:

a receiver to receive a push transfer of data, including settings to connect to said gateway, on connection to a mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator;

the receiver further being operable to receive a push transfer of data from the server comprising information representative of the identity of a mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway;

a transmitter to transmit a request for establisbment of a communication session with said gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator; and

a display configured to display the information received, representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator, while the communication session is being established.

2. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1 wherein the display is configured to display said information as graphical information.

3. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, including a memory to receive said data comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway.

4. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 3 wherein the data comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway is stored in the memory prior to commencement of the establishment of the session and retrieved for display while the session is being established.

5. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 4 wherein that data comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway forms part of an ensemble of setting data provided for the mobile telecommunications device at initialization thereof.

6. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 4 wherein the data comprising information representative of the identity of a mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway is provided thereto in response to a request to establish the communication session.

7. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, wherein the display is operable to provide an indication that the communication session is in the course of being established.

8. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 7 wherein the indication comprises a graphical image that is animated while communication session is being established.

9. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, which is WAP enabled.

10. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, that comprises a mobile cellular telephone handset.

11. The mobile telecommunications device according to claim 1, that comprises a PDA.

12. A method of connecting a mobile telecommunications device, for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network, as a client to a remote server that acts as a data service provider, the device being connectable to the server via a gateway that is operated by a mobile telecommunications network operator, the method comprising:

receiving a push transfer of data, including settings to connect to said gateway, on connection to a mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator;

receiving a push transfer of data from the server comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway;

transmitting a request to establish a communication session with said gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator, and

whiles the session is being established, displaying the received information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator.

13. A method according to claim 12 including receiving the data comprising information representative of the identity of a mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway in response to the request to establish a communication session with the gateway.

14. A method according to claim 12 wherein the displayed information comprises graphical information.

15. A method according to claim 14 wherein the graphical information is stored in the mobile telecommunications device and retrieved for display while the communication session is being established.

16. A method according claim 12 including displaying an indication to the user of the mobile telecommunications device that the communication session is in the course of being established.

17. A method according to claim 16 wherein the indication comprises a graphical image that is animated while the communication session is being established.

18. A server that acts as a data service provider for a mobile telecommunications device operable as client and for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network, the server being connectable to the device via a gateway that is operated by a mobile communications network operator, the server including means responsive to a request to establish a communication session between the client and the gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator, to supply data comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway push transfer of data to the mobile telecommunications device so as to permit the mobile telecommunications device to display information, while the session is being established, representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway.

19. A method of operating a server that acts as a data service provider for a mobile telecommunications device for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network and operable as a client through a network, the server being connectable to the device via a gateway that is operated by a mobile telecommunications network operator, the method comprising supplying data corresponding to the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway in a push transfer of data to the mobile telecommunications device such as to permit the mobile telecommunications device to display information, while a communication session with said gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator, is being established, representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway.

20. A method according to claim 19 including supplying the information as part of an ensemble of settings data for initializing the mobile telecommunications device when the mobile telecommunications device is connected to the network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator.

21. A method according to claim 19 including receiving a request for the communication session to be established and supplying the information in response thereto.

22. A mobile telecommunications network configured to provide a connection between a server that acts as a data service provider and a mobile telecommunications device for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network and operable as a client for the server via a gateway that is operated by a mobile telecommunications network operator, the network being configured to convey data, including settings to connect to said gateway, on connection by the mobile telecommunications device to a mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator in a push transfer of data to the mobile telecommunications device and to convey data corresponding to the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway in a push transfer of data to the mobile telecommunications device such as to permit the mobile telecommunications device to display information, while a communication session is being established between the telecommunications device and the gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator, representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway.

23. A computer readable medium storing a computer program for a mobile telecommunications device for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network and operable to connect to a remote server that acts as a data service provider via a gateway that is operated by a mobile telecommunications network operator, the computer program comprising executable code that when executed in the mobile telecommunications device enables the mobile telecommunications device to

receive a push transfer of data, including settings to connect to said gateway, on connection to a mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator;

receive a push transfer of data from the server comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway;

transmit a request to establish a communication session with said gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator; and

while the session is being established, display the received information, representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator.

24. A computer readable medium storing a computer program for a server that acts as a data service provider for a mobile telecommunications device for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network and operable as a client through a network, the server being connectable to the device via a gateway that is operated by a mobile telecommunications network operator, the computer program comprising executable code that when executed by the server enables the server to

supply data corresponding to the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway in a push transfer of data to the mobile telecommunications device such as to permit the mobile telecommunications device to display information, while a communication session with said gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator, is being established, representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway.

25. A system comprising:

a gateway connected to a server to provide data services, the gateway being operable by a mobile telecommunications network operator;

a mobile telecommunications device for use in a cellular radio mobile telecommunications network and connectable to said gateway via one or more mobile telecommunications networks, including a mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator, to receive said data services,

the mobile telecommunications device comprising;

a receiver to receive a push transfer of data, including settings to connect to said gateway, on connection to the mobile telecommunications network operated by said mobile telecommunications network operator;

the receiver further being configured to receive a push transfer of data from the server comprising information representative of the identity of the mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway;

a transmitter to transmit a request for the establishment of a communication session with said gateway via said one or more mobile telecommunications networks, and

a display configured to display the received information representative of the identity of a mobile telecommunications network operator operating the gateway, while the session is being established.