Profile and capability of WAP-terminal with external devices connected

• US 8,041,296 B2
• Filed: 05/29/2001
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: van Rijssen, Erwin, Skog, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): MIZRAHI, DIANE D
• Application Number:
  US10/296,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20040052233A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,794 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338, 370/352, 370/395.52, 455/557, 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/41.2, 709/227, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• 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: H04M 1/0254 comprising one or a plurality of mechanically detachable modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

Data communication system and a method in a data communication system comprising a terminal 2, e.g. a mobile phone, adapted to communicate with an application server 4 using a wireless transmission protocol, preferably WAP, including a terminal profile. The wireless transmission protocol also includes an attached device'"'"'s profile that is dynamically updated with data related to a device 12 attached to the terminal.

Claims

1. Data communication system including a mobile terminal adapted to communicate with an application server associated with a network service using a wireless transmission protocol, said mobile terminal comprising:

a processor and a memory;

the memory configured to store a terminal profile storing the characteristics of said mobile terminal;

the memory further configured to store a device profile comprising capabilities of a particular device attached to said mobile terminal, wherein said particular device is attached to said mobile terminal via a physical connection or a wireless connection;

capability handler configured, when executed by the processor, to transmit said terminal profile and said device profile related to said device attached to said mobile terminal to said application server using said wireless transmission protocol; and

said mobile terminal configured to receive from said application server information tailored to said terminal profile and said device profile.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said capability handler within said mobile station initiates the collection of said device profile.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device initiates the communication of said device profile to said mobile station.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device profile is dynamically updated.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device profile is implemented as a new schema in the User Agent Profile (UAProf) in Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal communicates with said device using the Bluetooth protocol.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device is a substituting device, wherein the device profile of said substituting device partly overrides the terminal profile.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device is a complementary device, wherein the device profile of said complementary device is an addition to the terminal profile.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device is a sporadic device.

10. Method in a data communication system including a mobile terminal provided with a wireless transmission protocol comprising the steps of:

storing a terminal profile within said mobile terminal for representing the characteristics of said mobile terminal;

identifying a device profile comprising capabilities of a particular device attached to said mobile terminal, wherein said particular device is attached to said mobile terminal via a physical connection or a wireless connection; and

establishing a communication channel with an application server connected to a mobile communications network serving said mobile terminal wherein said step of establishing said communication channel further comprises the step of transmitting said terminal profile and said device profile using a wireless transmission protocol; and

receiving from said application server information tailored to said terminal profile and said device profile.

11. Method according to claim 10, wherein said device profile in said wireless transmission protocol is dynamically updated.

12. Method according to claim 10, further comprises the following steps:

transmitting the device profile to said application server, and

tailoring application service data to be transferred from the application server to the attached device, via the terminal, in accordance with the device profile.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein said device is a substituting device and wherein said step of transmitting said wireless transmission protocol includes the step of partly overriding said terminal profile with said device profile.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein said device is a complementary device and wherein said step of transmitting said wireless transmission protocol includes the step of transmitting said device profile in addition to said device profile.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein said device is a sporadic device.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein said device further communicates with said mobile terminal using the Bluetooth protocol.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein said device profile is implemented as a new schema in the User Agent Profile (UAProf) in Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

18. The method of claim 10, wherein said step of identifying said device profile is initiated by said mobile terminal.

19. The method of claim 10, wherein said step of identifying said device profile is initiated by said device capable of communicating with said mobile terminal.