Remotely provisioned wireless proxy

• US 9,686,629 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2015
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Artax LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsurutome, Kevin, Wang, Robert, Barcklay, Bob
• Primary Examiner(s): SHAHEED, KHALID W
• Application Number:
  US14/971,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20160100272A1
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• 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 forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device, comprising:

establishing a mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone;

establishing a short range wireless communication between said physical mobile phone and a physical in-vehicle telematics device; and

transmitting a white list of authorized network resource addresses from said physical mobile phone to said in-vehicle telematics device over said short range wireless communication;

wherein said white list of authorized network resource addresses comprises a plurality of universal resource locators (URLs), wherein said plurality of URLs include at least one network resource address including a wildcard portion.

2. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device according to claim 1, wherein said in-vehicle telematics device comprises:

a portable navigation device.

3. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device according to claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining said white list of authorized network resource addresses from a provisioning server.

4. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device according to claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting Global Positioning System (GPS) based information from said physical mobile phone to said in-vehicle device over said short range wireless communication.

5. A method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device, comprising:

establishing a mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone;

establishing a short range wireless communication between said physical mobile phone and a physical in-vehicle telematics device; and

transmitting a white list of authorized network resource addresses from said physical mobile phone to said in-vehicle telematics device over said short range wireless communication;

wherein said white list of authorized network resource addresses comprises a plurality of universal resource locators (URLs), wherein said in-vehicle device interacts with remote Internet services via access to an addressed network resource address included in said white list.

6. A method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device, comprising:

establishing a mobile phone proxy on said physical mobile phone;

establishing a short range wireless communication between said physical mobile phone and a physical in-vehicle telematics device; and

transmitting a black list of unauthorized network resource addresses from said physical mobile phone to said in-vehicle telematics device over said short range wireless communication;

wherein said in-vehicle telematics device interacts with remote Internet services via access to an addressed network resource address not appearing in said black list, wherein said black list of unauthorized network resource addresses comprises a plurality of universal resource locators (URLs), wherein said plurality of URLs includes at least one wildcard portion.

7. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device according to claim 6, wherein said in-vehicle telematics device comprises:

a portable navigation device.

8. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device according to claim 6, further comprising:

obtaining said black list of unauthorized network resource addresses from a provisioning server.

9. The method of forwarding information from a physical mobile phone to a physical in-vehicle device according to claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting Global Positioning System (GPS) based information from said physical mobile phone to said in-vehicle telematics device over said short range wireless communication.