Remotely provisioned wirelessly proxy

• US 8,594,627 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2009
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Artax LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsurutome, Kevin, Barcklay, Bob, Wang, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAHEED, KHALID W
• Application Number:
  US12/588,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20100087167A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,512 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/444, 455/575.9, 455/297, 455/414.1, 455/414.3, 709/202, 719/317
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy

Abstract

A remotely provisioned proxy within a wireless/mobile phone that proxies a wireless communication path between a disconnected piconet (e.g., BLUETOOTH™) device and a network resource such as a universal resource locator (URL) via a mating mobile phone. Thus, an application proxy module embodied within the mobile phone provides managed access of a piconet device connected to the mating mobile phone to remote services. A disconnected piconet device uses the full data bandwidth available to a wireless phone, without the need for the disconnected piconet device to include its own separate wireless front end, or to require use of a modem within the mobile phone. Thus, using a mobile phone with application proxy, the user need not pay for the luxury of a tethered data plan.

Claims

1. A method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone, comprising:

providing a compiled black list of universal resource locator (URL) addresses, via a network server, to an intermediate wireless phone providing pass-on service from a piconet device to URL addresses, said compiled black list relating to at least one URL that is blocked in response to a URL request by said piconet device connected to said intermediate wireless phone; and

autonomously rejecting, by said intermediate wireless phone, said URL request by said piconet device to a given URL in said compiled black list;

wherein said piconet device is disconnected from said intermediate wireless phone based on said black list provided to said intermediate wireless phone.

2. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is a portable navigation device.

3. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is a music player.

4. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is telematics hardware.

5. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is an ultra mobile personal computer.

6. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 1, wherein:

said piconet device is a handheld computer game.

7. A method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously permit a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone, comprising:

providing a compiled white list of universal resource locator (URL) addresses, via a network server, to an intermediate wireless phone providing pass-on service from a piconet device to URL addresses, said compiled white list relating to at least one URL that is permitted in response to a URL request by said piconet device connected to said intermediate wireless phone; and

autonomously permitting, by said intermediate wireless phone, said URL request by said piconet device to a given URL in said compiled white list;

whereby said piconet device is permitted connection to said URL via said intermediate wireless phone based on said compiled white list provided to said intermediate wireless phone.

8. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 7, wherein:

said piconet device is a portable navigation device.

9. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 7, wherein:

said piconet device is a music player.

10. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 7, wherein:

said piconet device is telematics hardware.

11. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 7, wherein:

said piconet device is an ultra mobile personal computer.

12. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously reject a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 7, wherein:

said piconet device is a handheld computer game.

13. A method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously redirect a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone, comprising:

providing a compiled redirect list of universal resource locator (URL) addresses, via a network server, to an intermediate wireless phone providing pass-on service from a piconet device to URL addresses, said compiled redirect list relating to at least one URL that is redirected in response to a URL request by said piconet device connected to said intermediate wireless phone; and

autonomously replacing, by said intermediate wireless phone, said URL request by said piconet device to a replacement URL from said compiled redirect list based on a match to said requested URL;

wherein said piconet device is enabled communication with said replacement URL via said intermediate wireless phone based on said compiled redirect list provided to said intermediate wireless phone.

14. The method of provisioning a wireless phone from a network server to autonomously redirect a given URL requested by a piconet device wirelessly connected to said wireless phone according to claim 13, wherein:

said replacement URL is assigned by a service provider as an alternative to said requested URL.