MXPA99000471A - Method and system for coupling a selective call receiver to information sources wide distribution - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a communication system (10) for coupling a selective call transceiver (18) with a widely distributed information source (24) consisting of a server (22) coupled with the widely distributed information source. The server contains agents to retrieve custom information for a particular selective call transceiver. The system also includes a location terminal (20) coupled to the server to allow the selective call transceiver to request information from the server. The system also includes a transmitter to transmit the predetermined information retrieved from the widely distributed information source for the selective call transceiver.

Description

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COUPLING ON SELECTIVE CALL RECEIVER A BROADLY DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SOURCES FIELD OF THE. INVENTION This invention relates, in general, to selective call transceivers in a two-way communication system and, more specifically, to the retrieval of information from a widely distributed information source using a selective call transceiver.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The recovery of information from the Internet through a wireless device is an emerging technology that will soon be available in cell phones that use Cellular Digital Packet Data or CDPD (Data in Digital Packs, Cell phones) . There is a need to transport some of this same technology to personal digital assistants devices and other wireless devices. A mobile user may wish to have access to personal and up-to-date information with the convenience of a device the size of a low-cost locator, which uses technology to store and send, instead of a telephone P1008 / 99 X cellular using transmissions in real time. Information may exist on the World Wide Web, but a browser is not convenient, or information may exist in private information networks and a modem is not convenient or the memory or processing required in the wireless device would increase the cost of it. Thus, there is a need for a device similar to a locator, low cost, which can request the services of a server to dispatch an agent to obtain information for the device similar to the locator and return the information in the system to store and send, taking advantage of transmissions in non real time, low cost.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In a first aspect of the present invention, the method for coupling a transceiver of selective calls to a widely distributed information source consists in the steps of: operably coupling a server to the widely distributed information source, where the server contains agents to retrieve custom information for a specific selective call transceiver and originate a request for information in the selective call transceiver to the server and retrieve the information from the source P100S / 99MX information widely distributed, using the agents of the server. In a second aspect of the present invention, a communication system for coupling a selective call transceiver to a widely distributed information source consists of a server coupled to the widely distributed information source, wherein the server contains agents to retrieve predetermined information. customized, for a selective call transceiver and a communication terminal coupled to the server to allow the selective call transceiver to request the predetermined information from the server. In a third aspect of the present invention, a selective call transceiver, capable of requesting information from a widely distributed information source coupled to a server, consists of a selective call receiver coupled to a decoder and a controller, a call transceiver selective coupled to a controller and an encoder, and a memory coupled to the controller, capable of dynamically changing the definitions of protocol entities in a synchronized manner with the server, where the server distributes agents on behalf of the selective call transceiver, for the retrieval of information from the widely distributed information source, for P1008 / 99MX return the transmission to the selective call transceiver. In a fourth aspect of the present invention, a server for the retrieval of selected user information from a widely distributed information source, using a selective call transceiver, consists of a memory location to map (correlate) the selectable inputs of the user from the selective call transceiver and the inputs from the communication system with tokens, a translator for the translation of the tokens in the server to the recovery commands, to retrieve information from the widely distributed information source, and a formatter to format the information retrieved in a format suitable for reception on a device selected by a user of the selective call transceiver.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGURE 1 is a block diagram of the system, of a communication system according to the present invention; and FIGURE 2 is a block diagram of a selective call transceiver according to the present invention.

P1008 / 99MX DETAILED DESCRIPTION Referring to FIGURE 1, a communication system 10 for the operable coupling of a selective call transceiver 18 to a widely distributed information source is shown. More specifically, the communication system 10 preferably consists of a server 22 coupled to the widely distributed information source 24, wherein the server contains agents to retrieve personalized information for a given selective call transceiver. The selective call transceiver 18 is preferably operably coupled to a widely distributed information source 24, through a terminal 20, such as the Motorola Wireless Messaging Gateway location terminal.

Optionally, the location terminal or terminal 20 allows the selective call transceiver 18 to request information from the server 22. A transmitter, (not shown) preferably coupled with the terminal 20, transmits the information retrieved from the widely distributed information source to the selective call transceiver 18. Otherwise, the selective call transceiver 18 may request information to be sent to any number of devices, such as facsimile machines 28 or paging terminals P1008 / 99 X 30. Access to the Internet through a transceiver of two-way selective calls or pager-it originates in itself to numerous applications. Perhaps the most important would be recovery based on geographical position. Certain information requested can be retrieved based on the location of the user as determined by the communication system 10. More specifically, a two-way location system, having a plurality of base receivers, can reduce the location of the call receiver of selective transmitters, as is known in the art. In this way, with the location information inherent to the communication system, local information, such as weather reports, traffic conditions, etc., can be sent without the user having to specify a location. Another feature according to the present invention is the ability of dynamic recognition and personalization of information that would be sent to a user. The information can be selected from different sources and / or formatted to take into account variable information in time that may need to be formatted in different ways, based on the system's restrictions, such as the capacity of the system.

P1008 / 99MX channel and restrictions selected by the user as the cost. For example, inventory information may be available from different sources, such as different Web pages, each with different levels of detail and possibly graphics. The system software residing on the server 22 will know the capabilities of the specific selective call transceiver that requests information and may still have a user profile, such as the level of information desired. Based on this information, the system 10 can retrieve information from any of the available sources. Preferably, the system uses anchors, combinations of documentation translation utilities, and configurable text strips to maintain as much information as possible while eliminating as many gaps as possible. In addition, the user can set preferences for the retrieval of network information based on the size of the device, fragmentation length, security algorithms or keys or other parameters. Users can still set preferences to send information based on personal choice and taste. Also, since much of the information available on the Internet or a distributed information system is redundant and the present invention can map these resources, if the agent has a problem with a repertoire P1008 / 99MX s of information, the agent can treat others in an order of preference configurable by the user, all with recognizers or dynamic analyzers. Other preferences that the user can establish could include an information bus that meets specific criteria. The agent's server could periodically scan "hot lists" published by information publishers to determine if the content is appropriate for the service by the agents. The protocols would be updated to make new services available and there would be mechanisms to allow the users of the agents to know the existence and names of new services, automatically. The preferences of a user can exist in such a way that if the length of the message or format is inappropriate for the sending medium (due to security, privacy, cost or capacity) then the agent would automatically send it to another mutually agreed destination or means. A user can also establish tolerance levels for delays in time for sending information, if it is acceptable for cost or capacity considerations. For example, a user may not be interested in sending specific information at midnight if the cost is lower and the information is not crucial with respect to time. P1008 / 99MX Another feature according to the present invention is the message routing controlled by the user, as already mentioned, a user of a selective call transceiver who uses this information retrieval system, usually wishes that the agent on the server send the information back to the user, using the same channels that the user used to reach the agent. On occasion, the user may wish to send specific information to someone or something else. In this way, a Web page of a company that explains product prices could be transmitted to a prospective customer at their determined fax number or electronically sent to a specific email account. Another beneficial feature of the present invention that particularly helps in reducing the amount of information sent to a location terminal and prevents the user from entering additional information is the handling of intelligent queries based on the context of the session. The agent in the server will maintain a state machine for the requests made by the user of a certain session. The agent will then respond to commands in a context-sensitive manner, thus allowing commands to have much more meaning in a P1008 / 99MX sequential context. For example, if you ask financial companies about a specific company and the next inquiry is news, instead of sending all the news, the agent can only gather the news about the current company that the agent was already investigating. Of course, this capacity of preference is configurable by the user as well as overwritten if desired. Again, this feature decreases the parameters that are sent over the air and, in this way, increases the capacity. In another related aspect of the present invention, each session can be dynamically coded depending on the information resource from which the selective call receiver is retrieving information. In other words, instead of having static lists for what the pre-established codes mean in emission or return channels, the codes change the meaning depending on where the user is in the session. This, preferably, would be a high-level protocol that synchronizes these codes. System 10 preferably can keep statistics on specific users, identify certain users as high profile or potential users and make decisions to follow up or learn about user behavior. The system can still establish P1008 / 99MX a self monitor that follows the usage patterns of agent requests. The server 22 can then automatically suggest the use of these monitors for the user. In addition, the system can reconfigure the user's device to use a more individual protocol to reduce the air time the user uses to communicate with the agent and vice-versa. This could save a large amount of channel capacity. Preferably, the server 22 can be modified to customize or optimize operations, maintenance and test the system 10. The administrators of the agent server 22 can ask the status of the agents and resources of the server and remotely enable or disable the users, agents and / or services. Administrators can do this through the administration agents or through any other point of entry to the server, such as a personal computer 16 coupled to the server 22 through the link 17. As the location or search technology progresses towards the multimedia world, there will come a time when a receiver of selective calls can receive not only text, but graphics as well as sound, in a portable unit. A server according to the present invention will ultimately need the ability to fragment the P1008 / 99MX recoverable information available based on text, graphics and sound. Some of this technology on the portable subscriber side is beginning to emerge with Motorola's TENOR ™ voice message unit, using Motorola's InFLEXion TM Voice air protocol. In this way, if the specific TENOR TM subscriber unit only had voice capability and the information source was only available in text, the agent in the server would include a text for a converter or voice translator allowing audible "visualization" of the text . In the same way, if a graphic image had text within the image, and the subscriber unit requesting information only had the ability to see text, then the agent in the server can include a system for recognizing optical characters and converting the image in text. As another example, if the information available on the Web was videodigitized and the subscriber's unit only had limited memory and ability to display graphics, then the video can be selectively displayed as a series of graphic illustrations based on the presentation capability of the device and other considerations. In another aspect of the present invention, it is possible to use multiple choice responses to simulate an interactive Web browser, so that the information links identified by the server can be P1008 / 99MX mapped in dynamic prompting responses for the user. This allows substantial reduction in the necessary bandwidth for the user to select specific information desired. Another aspect of the present invention would allow user sessions. In other words, the server would allow users to access international centers that allow communication between different means, such as telephone, fax, or even other international centers or location terminals from different carriers that could operate using different wireless protocols. For example, locator A (18) requests access to resources (in this case the selective call transceiver coupled to a computer 12) of locator C (14). The user of locator C grants access to its resources to user A through server 22. Locator A is notified and accesses locator C and then interrupts access. Subsequently, the A and C locators can establish a session to determine parameters among them, such as security algorithms or keys and, compression ratios without the server 22. The sessions could be established between locators in different location networks, by example between a localizer A (18) in communication with terminal A (20) and the P1008 / 99MX locator B (28) in communication with terminal B (30). From the operational point of view, the present invention is a method for coupling a selective call transceiver 18 with a widely distributed information source 24. A server 22 is operably coupled to the widely distributed information source, preferably, using an http protocol where the server contains agents to retrieve custom information for a given specific call transceiver. A request for information originates in the selective call transceiver to the server, through a location terminal 20 operably coupled to the server. The information can be routed backwards and forwards between the server and the location terminal, using an e-mail protocol such as x.400 or backing and sending between the server and the location terminal through the Internet or Web using the http protocol. In any case, the information is then retrieved from the widely distributed information source using the agents on the server. The widely distributed information source can be the World Wide Web, also known as the "Web". The information is then transmitted to the selective call transceiver. In theory, the location information for P1008 / 99MX The selective call transceiver is obtained by receiving transmissions from the selective call transceiver on at least one of the plurality of base receivers (not shown) and providing the location information to the agents to further customize the predetermined information is being recovered. Preferably, the information is analyzed dynamically in a format configured for a specific selective call transceiver user. In addition, the selective call transceiver can direct the retrieved information to the second communication device, such as a facsimile machine 26, a computer 12 having an email account, a pager 28, a cell phone (not shown). ). Finally, the method of the present invention may furthermore consist in maintaining a state machine for the requests of the transceiver user, allowing the agent to respond to the commands in a context sensitive manner. In other words, the present invention dynamically changes the protocol entities in a synchronized manner between the selective call transceiver and the server and, preferably, receives the entities in a dedicated server that distributes the agents acting on behalf of the call transceiver. selective, to find information in the source of information P1008 / 99MX widely distributed. Protocol entities can be viewed as a series of commands or predetermined messages with mapped meanings. Preferably, the protocol between the dedicated server and the agent is modified to optimize the cost of air communication. Agents can be directed to provide different levels of information detail based on cost and capacity constraints. In other words, a method for retrieving information selected by the user from a widely distributed information source using a selective call transceiver in a communication system, preferably consists of the steps of: mapping the user selectable inputs. from the selective call transceiver and the inputs from the communication system with witnesses, in a remote server in communication with the selective call transceiver and translate the tokens in the remote server in recovery commands, to retrieve information from the information source widely distributed. The method may also consist in the step of: recovering the information from the widely distributed information source and formatting the information in a format suitable for reception at the receiver of selective calls or, otherwise, format the information in an appropriate format P1008 / 99MX for reception on a device selected by the user of the selective call transceiver. A selective call transceiver according to the present invention would preferably contain a selective call receiver coupled with a decoder and a controller, a selective call transmitter coupled with the controller and an encoder, a memory coupled with the controller capable of dynamically changing the definitions of the protocol entities in a synchronized way with the dedicated server, where the dedicated server distributes agents that act on behalf of the selective call transceiver, to retrieve information from the widely distributed information source to return information to the call transceiver selective A server to retrieve information selected by the user from a widely distributed information source, using a selective call to request information in a wireless way from the server, preferably, consists of a memory location to map the entries selectable by the user from the transceiver of selective calls and introduce from the communication system with witnesses, a translator to translate the witnesses on the server in the recovery commands to retrieve information P1008 / 99MX from the widely distributed information source, and a formatter to format the information retrieved in a format suitable for reception on a device selected by a user of the selective call transceiver. The user selectable entries can be an entry that helps in the exploration information based on the content, cost to the user or system restrictions. In theory, the entries from the communication system automatically include all the restrictions associated with capacity, location and possibly user profiles that are maintained or observed by the system. For example, such user profiles may contain specific limitations of the selective call transceiver used by the user (if the user has sufficient memory, voice, text only, graphics only or any combination of the above), or the user's usage patterns with the user. base in the location (watching Times in New York when he's in New York and the Miami Herald when it is in South Florida). In any case, the server could handle a large part of the processing since the selective call transceiver is preferably a two-way pager, which uses a communication system that is a non-real time location, storage and sending system.

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Claims (10)

1. NOVELTY OF THE INVENTION Having described the present invention, it is considered as a novelty and, therefore, the content of the following CLAIMS is claimed as property: 1. A method for coupling a selective call transceiver to a widely distributed information source , consists of the steps of: operably coupling a server with the widely distributed information source, where the server contains agents to retrieve the personalized information for a given selective call transceiver, to originate a request for information on the transceiver of selective calls to the server, through a communication terminal operatively coupled to the server; and retrieve the information from the widely distributed information source using the agents on the server. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of: transmitting the recovered information to the selective call transceiver. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the P1008 / 99MX method further consists in the step of: obtaining location information for the selective call transceiver receiving the transmissions from the selective call transceiver in at least one of the plurality of base receivers and providing the location information to the agents for also customize the default information that is being retrieved. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of: dynamically analyzing the retrieved information in a format configured for a user of a specific selective call transceiver. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further allows the selective call transceiver to direct the retrieved information to a second communication device, wherein the second communication device is selected from the group consisting of: a facsimile machine , a computer that has an email number, a pager and a cell phone. 6. The method for coupling a selective call transceiver with a widely distributed information source consists of the steps of: dynamically changing the protocol entities P1008 / 99MX in a synchronized manner within the selective call transceiver; receive the entities in a dedicated server that distributes agents that act on behalf of the selective call transceiver to search for information in the widely distributed information source; and modify a protocol between the dedicated server and the agent to optimize the cost of air communication. 7. A communication system for coupling a selective call transceiver with a widely distributed information source consists of: a server coupled to the widely distributed information source, where the server contains agents to retrieve custom predetermined information for a transceiver selective calls determined; a location terminal coupled to the server to allow the selective call transceiver to request predetermined information from the server; and a transmitter for transmitting the predetermined information retrieved from the widely distributed information source to the selective call transceiver. P1008 / 99MX 8. A selective call transceiver capable of requesting information from a widely distributed information source coupled with a server, consists of: a selective call receiver coupled with a decoder and a controller; a selective call transmitter coupled to the controller and an encoder; a memory coupled to the controller capable of dynamically changing the definitions of the protocol entities in a synchronized manner with the server, where the server distributes agents acting on behalf of the selective call transceiver to retrieve information from the widely distributed information source, to return the transmission to the selective call transceiver. 9. A server to retrieve information selected by the user from a widely distributed information source using a selective call transceiver in a communication system, to request information wirelessly from the server, the server includes: a memory location for mapping the user selectable inputs from the selective call transceiver and the inputs from the system P1008 / 99MX communication with witnesses; a translator to translate the witnesses on the server into recovery commands to retrieve information from the widely distributed information source; and a formatter for formatting the retrieved information in a format suitable for reception on a device selected by a user of the selective call transceiver. 10. A method for retrieving information selected by the user from a widely distributed information source, using a selective call transceiver in a communication system, consists of the steps of: mapping the user selectable inputs from the selective call transceiver and the inputs from the communication system with witnesses on a remote server, in communication with the selective call transceiver; and translate the witnesses on the remote server into recovery commands to retrieve information from the widely distributed information source. P1008 / 99MX