System, device and computer readable medium for providing networking services on a mobile device

• US 7,295,532 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2001
• Issued: 11/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: FCO V CLO Transferor LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: IXI Mobile (R&D) Ltd. (IXI Mobile, Inc.)
• Inventors: Haller, Amit, Fornell, Peter, Itzchak, Avraham, Haparnas, Ziv
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Chi
• Assistant Examiner(s): LY, ANH VU H
• Application Number:
  US09/932,180
• Publication Number:
  US 20030035397A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,279 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310.1, 370/310.2, 370/313, 370/319, 370/326, 370/328, 370/338, 370/345, 370/389, 370/392, 370/395.3, 370/395.54, 370/400, 370/401, 370/475
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/56 Packet switching systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5003 Managing SLA; Interaction between SLA and QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2514 between local and global IP addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5084 Providing for device mobility network addressing or numbering for mobility support in wireless networks H04W8/26; mobile IP H04W80/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/02 for separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for supporting authentication of entities communicating through a packet data network cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/14 using intermediate storage
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/16 Gateway arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/02 Inter-networking arrangements

Abstract

A system, device and computer readable medium that monitors and reconfigures a LAN by a WAN operator is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, a telecommunications operator monitors and manages devices and/or applications communicating with a wireless device, such as cellular telephone. In an embodiment of the present invention, a telecommunication operator adds LAN network services to microrouter 404 in a cellular telephone without user intervention. In an embodiment of the present invention, the cellular telephone has a Bluetooth™ processor and transceiver. In an embodiment of the present invention, microrouter 404 includes a Bluetooth™ LAN Access Profile software component, routing software component, PPP server software component and a NAT software component. In an embodiment of the present invention, microrouter 404 includes hooks and interfaces for adding other network services, such as a Bluetooth™ Terminal Pairing Management software component, a VPN software component, Firewall component, Statistics software component, Link Optimization software component, LAN reverse firewall software component, Terminal Flashing software component, SMS software component, SLV and SLE software component and a Device Resources software component.

Claims

1. A hand-held device for enabling communication between one or more devices connected to one or more cellular networks and one or more devices connected to a wireless local area network, comprising:

a) a first transceiver to communicate with the one or more devices connected to said one or more cellular networks by sending and receiving cellular signals, the first transceiver having a cellular network address;

b) a second transceiver to communicate with the one or more devices connected to the wireless local area network by sending and receiving short-range radio signals;

c) a storage device to store;

c.1. a router software component to transfer a plurality of data packets between the one or more devices connected to the one or more cellular networks and the one or more devices connected to the wireless local area network by the cellular signals and the short-range radio signals; and

c.2. an interface software component to add a first network service software component that provides one or more network services to the wireless local area network, the first network service software component loaded into the storage device from the one or more devices connected to the one or more cellular networks; and

one or more processors connected to the storage device to process the cellular signals and the short-range radio signals,

wherein the cellular network includes a plurality of public IP addresses and the wireless local area network includes a plurality of private IP addresses, and wherein the router software component translates a first IP address in the plurality of public IP addresses to a second IP address in the plurality of private IP addresses.

2. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of data packets includes an Internet Protocol (“

IP”

) packet.

3. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the one or more cellular networks are connected to the Internet.

4. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the one or more cellular networks are connected to a corporate network.

5. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the one or more cellualr networks are connected to a private IP network.

6. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the wireless local area networks include a Bluetooth™

wireless local area network.

7. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the wireless local area networks include a 802.11 wireless local area network.

8. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the router software component includes a network address translator (“

NAT”

) software component to translate between the cellular network address and a first wireless local area network address.

9. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the router software component includes a network address port translation (“

NAPT”

) software component to translate between the cellular network address and a first wireless local area network address.

10. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the router software component includes a local routing software component to route an IP packet between a first wireless device in the wireless local area network and a second wireless device in the wireless local area network.

11. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a pairing management software component to determine whether a first wireless device, which is connected to the wireless local area network, is responsive to a signal from the one or more devices connected to the one or more cellular networks.

12. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a virtual private network software component to establish a secure link.

13. The han-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a firewall software component.

14. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a statistics software component to collect usage information of the wireless local area network.

15. The hand-held device of claim 14, wherein the statistics software component collects usage information of a first wireless device in the wireless local area network.

16. The hand-held device of claim 14, wherein the statistics software component collects usage information of an application software component in a first wireless device in the wireless local area network.

17. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component includes a link optimization software component to convert an IP packet included in the plurality of data packets from a first wireless device in the wireless local area network to an optimized cellular protocol packet.

18. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component includes a reverse firewall software component to drop a packet included in the plurality of data packets from a first wireless device in the wireless local area network.

19. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component includes a reverse firewall software component to drop a packet included in the plurality of data packets from a first application software component on a first wireless device in the wireless local area network.

20. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component includes a flashing software component to provide a flash image to a first wireless device, in the wireless local area network, to update capability of the first wireless device.

21. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component includes a flashing software component to provide a flash image to a first wireless device, in the wireless local area network, that repairs the first wireless device.

22. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component includes a flashing software component to provide a flash image to a first wireless device, in the wireless local area network, to add capability of the first wireless device.

23. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a message software component to provide a message between a first wireless device and a second wireless device in the wireless local area network.

24. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a service level enforcement software component to limit an amount of packets transferred from a first wireless device in the wireless local area network to the one or more cellular networks during a period of time.

25. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a Bluetooth™

LAN Access Profile software component.

26. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a Bluetooth™

Dial-Up Profile software component.

27. The hand-held device of claim 1, wherein the first network service software component is a Virtual Bluetooth™

Dial-Up Profile software component to provide packet switching in response to a circuit switching signal.

28. A system for enabling communication between one or more devices connected to one or more cellular networks and one or more devices connected to a wireless local area network, the system comprising:

a) a managing processing device connected to the one or more cellular networks for managing, collecting and configuring data in the wireless local area network;

b) a hand-held device connected to the managing processing device and connected to the wireless local area network, the handheld device comprising;

b.1. a router software component to transfer a plurality of packets between one or more devices connected to the one or more cellular networks and the one or more devices connected to the wireless local area network by the cellular signals and the short-range radio signals; and

b.2. an interface software component to add a first network service software component that provides one or more network services to said wireless local area network, the first network service software component loaded into the hand-held device by the managing processing device, including a managing software component, sending the cellular signals over the one or more cellular networks; and

c) a device connected to the hand-held device and connected to the wireless local area network to transfer a first packet in the plurality of packets to the hand-held device, wherein the router software component maintains a first IP session link with a first cellular network in the one or more cellular networks and a second IP session link with a second cellular network in the one or more cellular networks.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the router software component tunnels the plurality of packets to the managing processing device and wherein the managing processing device processes the plurality of packets.

30. The system of claim 28, wherein the router software component maintains a first IP session link with a first cellular network in the one or more cellular networks responsive to an amount of IP packets received in the plurality of packets.

31. The system of claim 28, wherein the router software component initiates a first IP session link with a first cellular network in the one or more cellular networks responsive to a signal from the managing processing device.