System and method for provisioning a mobile wireless communications device, including indicators representative of image and sound data

• US 8,081,970 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2006
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Virk, Sarinder
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro, Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chambers, Tangela T.
• Application Number:
  US11/389,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20070226658A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,094 Days
• Field of Search: 455/432.3
• US Class Current: 455/432.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A system provisions a mobile wireless communications device for indicating account or device specific characteristics. A database stores a plurality of indicators that are indicative of different wireless carriers, email service providers and device types. A configuration module accesses the database and uploads an indicator that is indicative of at least one of the wireless carriers, email service providers or device types to the mobile wireless communications device upon provisioning. The indicator can comprise at least sound data for a ringing sound on the mobile wireless communications device.

Claims

1. A system of provisioning a mobile wireless communications device for indicating account specific characteristics, comprising:

a mobile office platform configured to receive electronic mail from a particular email service provider or wireless carrier and push the electronic mail to the mobile wireless communications device of the user and comprising a database configured to store a plurality of pre-loaded indicators indicative of different wireless, carriers and email service providers, and a provisioning module configured to provision the mobile wireless communications device to operate via the mobile office platform and access the electronic mail of the user using the particular wireless carrier or email service provider; and

a configuration module associated with the database at the mobile office platform and configured to access the database and upload an indicator indicative of at least one of the wireless carriers and email service providers to the mobile wireless communications device at the time of initial and successful provisioning of the mobile wireless communications device to access email from a remote location via the mobile office platform, wherein said indicator comprises at least data for a ringing sound on the mobile wireless communications device.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the indicator additionally comprises image data.

3. A system according to claim 2, wherein said image data comprises data for focused and unfocused ribbon icons and read and unread message icons.

4. A system according to claim 2, and further comprising a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image map that contains image data.

5. A system according to claim 2, wherein said image data comprises a color to be displayed on the mobile wireless communications device.

6. A system according to claim 2, wherein said image data comprises a font size, font typeface, graphics, text, icons or resolution to be displayed on the mobile wireless communications device.

7. A system according to claim 1, wherein said sound data for a ringing sound comprises one of at least sound data for a ringing tune and loudness.

8. A system according to claim 1, wherein said indicator comprises data for a ribbon icon.

9. A system according to claim 1, and further comprising service book application data containing a uniform resource locator (URL) that indicates where service-specific content for an indicator can be downloaded.

10. A system for provisioning a mobile wireless communications device for indicating account specific characteristics, comprising:

a mobile office platform configured to receive electronic mail from a particular email service provider or wireless carrier and push the electronic mail to the mobile wireless communications device of the user and comprising a database configured to store a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image map and pre-loaded indicators indicative of different wireless carriers and email service providers, wherein said sound data for a ringing sound used on a mobile wireless communications device, said image map having image data, wherein said image data and sound data are indicative of different wireless carriers and email service providers and a provisioning module configured to provision the mobile wireless communications device to operate via the mobile office platform and access the electronic mail of the user using the particular wireless carrier or email service provider; and

an entry point content service associated with the database at the mobile office platform and operative with the database to upload indicators indicative of at least one of the different wireless carriers and email service providers to the mobile wireless communications device at the time of initial and successful provisioning of the mobile wireless communications device to access email from a remote location via the mobile office platform, and further comprising service book application data containing a uniform resource locator (URL) that indicates where a service-specific content for an indicator can be downloaded.

11. A system according to claim 10, wherein said image data comprises a color to be displayed on the mobile wireless communications device.

12. A system according to claim 10, wherein said image data comprises a font size, font typeface, graphics, text, icons or resolution to be displayed on the mobile wireless communications device.

13. A system according to claim 10, wherein said image data comprises data regarding an image icon.

14. A system according to claim 10, wherein said sound data for a ringing sound comprises one of at least sound data for a ringing tune and loudness.

15. A method of provisioning a mobile wireless communications device for indicating account specific characteristics, comprising:

storing within a database a plurality of pre-loaded indicators that are received from and indicative of different wireless carriers and email service providers wherein the database is associated with a mobile office platform that is configured to receive electronic mail from a particular email service provider or wireless carrier and push the electronic mail to the mobile wireless communications device of the user;

provisioning the mobile wireless communications device to operate via the mobile office platform and access the electronic mail of the user using the particular wireless carrier and email service provider; and

accessing the database and uploading an indicator indicative of at least one of the wireless carriers and email service providers to the mobile wireless communications device at the time of initial and successful provisioning of the mobile wireless communications device to access email from a remote location via the mobile office platform, wherein said indicator comprises at least sound data for a ringing sound on the mobile wireless communications.

16. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises uploading image data.

17. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises uploading image data comprising data for focused and unfocused ribbon icons and read and unread message icons.

18. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises obtaining image data from a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image map.

19. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises uploading image data comprising a color to be displayed on the mobile wireless communications device.

20. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises uploading image data comprising a font size, font typeface, graphics, text, icons or resolution to be displayed on the mobile wireless communications device.

21. A method according to claim 15, which further comprising changing one of at least a ringing tune and loudness for the ringing sound.

22. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises changing a ribbon icon as an indicator.

23. A method according to claim 15, which further comprises obtaining a uniform resource locator (URL) that indicates where a service-specific content can be downloaded for service book application data.