Wireless database environment for a small device

• US 7,444,143 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2004
• Issued: 10/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Deo, Vinay, O'Leary, Michael J., Seidensticker, Robert B.
• Primary Examiner(s): MEHRPOUR, NAGHMEH
• Application Number:
  US10/996,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20050076069A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,435 Days
• Field of Search: 455/419, 455/412, 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/38.1, 455/31.2, 455/422, 340/825.44, 340/825.26, 340/825.27, 340/7.52, 707/10, 707/104, 707/3, 707/4
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/149 Adaptation of the text data for streaming purposes, e.g. Efficient XML Interchange [EXI] format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/90 Buffering arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/9073 Early interruption upon arrival of a fraction of a packet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 : Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 : Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 : with message or information receiving capability

Abstract

The wireless environment includes an object processing module to process objects obtained from a wireless receiver on the mobile device. The object processing module processes the object to alter data stored in memory on the mobile device.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium including instructions for processing information to alter a field of a record of a dataset, the dataset being stored in memory on a mobile device and having a plurality of similarly structured records, the instructions comprising:

receiving an object from a wireless receiver, the object having an object header comprising

a first portion designating an identifier of a dataset from a plurality of datasets and a second portion designating an action to perform, the object further including object information, wherein the object information comprises a format having a first portion designating a field identifier of a field from a plurality of fields; and

processing the object to ascertain the action to perform to alter data in a field of one of the records as a function of the identifier and the field identifier.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the instructions further comprise:

reporting if an error occurs during the step of processing.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the action includes at least one of adding, changing and deleting data in the field of one of the records.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 1 wherein the format further comprises a second portion designating field data.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 4 wherein the format further comprises a third portion designating a field type.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 5 wherein the format further comprises a fourth portion designating a length of the field data.

7. A method of processing information to alter a plurality of fields of a dataset, the dataset being stored in memory on a mobile device and having a plurality of similarly structured records, the method comprising:

receiving an object from a wireless receiver, the object having an object header comprising

a first portion designating an identifier of a dataset from a plurality of datasets storable in memory on the mobile device and a second portion designating an action to perform, the object further including object information, wherein the object information comprises a format having a first portion designating a plurality of field identifiers associated with the plurality of fields; and

processing the abject to ascertain the action to perform to alter data in the plurality of fields as a function of the identifier and the plurality of field identifiers.

8. The method of claim 7 and further comprising:

reporting if an error occurs during the step of processing.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the action includes at least one of adding, changing and deleting data in at least one field of the plurality of fields.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein the format further comprises a second portion designating field data.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the format further comprises a third portion designating a field type.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein, the format further comprises a fourth portion designating a length of the field data.

13. A mobile device, comprising:

a wireless receiver;

a memory device storing a plurality of datasets, each dataset having a plurality of similarly structured records; and

the object processing module coupled to the wireless receiver to receive an object therefrom,

the object having an object header comprising a first portion designating an identifier of a dataset from the plurality of datasets and a second portion designating an action to perform, the abject further including object information, wherein the object information comprises a format having a first portion designating a field identifier of a field from a plurality of fields, wherein the abject processing module processes the object to ascertain the action to perform to alter data in a field of one of the records as a function of the identifier and the field identifier.

14. The mobile device of claim 13 wherein the action includes at least one of adding, changing and deleting data in the field of one of the records.

15. The mobile device of claim 13 wherein the format further comprises a second portion designating field data.

16. The mobile device of claim 15 wherein the format further comprises a third portion designating a field type.

17. The mobile device of claim 16 wherein the format further comprises a fourth portion designating a length of the field data.

18. A mobile device comprising:

a wireless receiver;

a memory device storing a plurality of datasets, each dataset having a plurality of similarly structured records, each record having a plurality of fields; and

an object processing module coupled to the wireless receiver, the object having an object header comprising a first portion designating an identifier of a dataset from the plurality of datasets and a second portion designating an action to perform, the object further including object information, wherein the object information comprises a format having a first portion designating a plurality of field identifiers associated with a plurality of fields of the dataset, wherein the object processing module processes the object to ascertain the action to perform to alter data in the plurality of fields as a function of the identifier and the plurality of field identifiers.

19. The mobile device of claim 18 wherein the action includes at least one of adding, changing and deleting data in at least one field of the plurality of fields.

20. The mobile device of claim 18 wherein the format further comprises a second portion designating field data.

21. The mobile device of claim 20 wherein the format further comprises a third portion designating a field type.

22. The mobile device of claim 20 wherein the format further comprises a fourth portion designating a length of the field data.

23. A method for altering data in a field of a record of a dataset stored in a memory device storing a plurality of datasets, each dataset having an associated address within the memory device and having a plurality of similarly structured records, the method comprising:

receiving an object from a wireless receiver, the object having an object header comprising

a first portion designating an identifier of a dataset independent of the address of the dataset storable in the memory device, and a second portion designating an action to perform, the object further including object information comprising a first portion designating a field identifier associated with the field; and

processing the object to alter data in the field of the record as a function of the identifier and the field identifier.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the action includes at least one of adding, changing and deleting data in the field of one of the records.

25. The method of claim 23 wherein the format M e r comprises a second portion designating field data.

26. The method of claim 25 wherein the format further comprises a third portion designating a field type.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein the format further comprises a fourth portion designating a length of the field data.

28. A computer readable medium having instructions that, when implemented, perform a method for altering data in a field of a record of it dataset stored in a memory device storing a plurality of datasets, each dataset having an associated address within the memory device and having a plurality of similarly structured records, the instructions comprising:

receiving an object from a wireless receiver, the object having an object header comprising

a first portion designating an identifier of a dataset independent of the address of the dataset storable in, the memory device, and a second portion designating an action to perform, the object further including object information comprising a first portion designating a field identifier associated with the field; and

processing the object to alter data in the field of the record as a function of the identifier and the field identifier.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 28 wherein the action includes at least one of adding, changing and deleting data in the field of one of the records.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 28 wherein the format further comprises a second portion designating field data.

31. The method of claim 30 wherein the format further comprises a third portion designating a field type.

32. The method of claim 31 wherein the format further comprises a fourth portion designating a length of the field data.