Mobile applications and content provisioning using web services technology

• US 7,353,512 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2003
• Issued: 04/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ram, Roni, Paleiov, Ilan, Vortman, Pnina, McConnell, James, Katz, Neil
• Primary Examiner(s): An; Meng-Al T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vo; Lilian
• Application Number:
  US10/674,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20050071448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,646 Days
• Field of Search: 717168-178, 709/200, 709/202
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A method for provisioning one or more mobile applications. The method including deploying the mobile application as a web service in a UDDI directory, downloading the mobile applications from the UDDI directory by invoking the web service. The method may also include locating the mobile application in the UDDI directory. The method further includes extending a WSDL template to define the mobile application, wherein the extending provides for wrapping the mobile application as the web service, and publishing the WSDL defined mobile application in the UDDI directory.

Claims

1. A method for provisioning a mobile device with a mobile application, the method comprising the steps of:

deploying said mobile application as a web service accessible via a Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) directory; and

invoking a mobile provisioning web service responsive to a request for said mobile application web service made using said UDDI directory, thereby causing said mobile application to be downloaded to said mobile device, wherein said step of deploying comprises the steps of;

extending a web services Description Language (WSDL) template to define said mobile application, wherein said extending provides for wrapping said mobile application as said web service; and

publishing said WSDL defined mobile application in said UDDI directory.

2. A computer product readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform method steps, said product comprising:

a first code segment operative to deploy a mobile application as a web service accessible via a UDDI directory; and

a second code segment operative to invoke a mobile provisioning web service responsive to a request for said mobile application web service made using said UDDI directory, thereby causing said mobile application to be downloaded to said mobile device, further comprising;

a third code segment operative to extend a WSDL template to define said mobile application, wherein said extending provides for wrapping said mobile application as said web service; and

a fourth code segment operative to publish said WSDL defined mobile application in said UDDI directory.