Telephonic communications – Plural exchange network or interconnection – With interexchange network routing
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-06
2001-10-16
Smith, Creighton (Department: 2742)
Telephonic communications
Plural exchange network or interconnection
With interexchange network routing
C709S228000, C709S229000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06304651
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to the use of modified ring access to convey a network resource locator to a telephone and use of the telephone to download resources which may include applets, instruction files or content files from the network resource identified by the locator.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Operating companies need a way to enable telephones to get information on a periodic basis. Existing SRA access for transmissions of such information involves the transmission of data using FSK which is very slow and is not reliable for large amounts of data. This method uses a short FSK blast which instructs the phone to navigate to the web using a high speed modem. The modem connection is a reliable high speed connection which can be used to download the large amount of data which is intended to be downloaded.
The use of raw FSK data for the transfer of advertising control files, for example, is too slow and unreliable. Consequently, previous implementations of display based marketing only allowed text information to be displayed on the telephone.
Proprietary graphic standards could be developed to permit graphic data to be transmitted but this would require special tools to be distributed to the information providers.
What would be desirable would be the use of internet standard technology to make the development of ads very easy for the providers and to allow features such as animation to be included in advertising content as animated GIFs or as applets. The present invention addresses this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method and system for communicating a network resource locator to a subscriber telephone. The system includes a modified ring access server for producing a modified ring access message including a first network resource locator identifying a first network resource.
The system further includes a central office service unit for producing a modified ring access connection message including the first network resource locator, in response to the modified ring access message. Preferably, the modified ring access connection message is represented by an FSK message.
The system further includes a central office switch operable to establish a connection to the subscriber telephone in response to the modified ring access connection message and for transmitting the FSK message to the subscriber telephone.
The system further includes a first network resource operable to provide to the subscriber telephone a first applet including a second network resource locator identifying a second network resource.
Preferably, the system further includes a second network resource operable to provide a content file to the subscriber telephone.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method and system for downloading a file to a subscriber telephone. The system includes a modified ring access server for producing a modified ring access message including a first network resource locator, a central office service unit for producing a modified ring access connection message including the first network resource locator, in response to the modified ring access message and for representing the modified ring access connection message by an FSK message, a central office switch operable to establish a connection to the subscriber telephone in response to the modified ring access connection message and for transmitting the FSK message to the subscriber telephone, a first network resource operable to provide the file to the subscriber telephone and a remotely configurable subscriber telephone operable to receive the FSK message and to download the file from the first network resource in response to the first uniform resource locator.
Preferably, the first network resource provides to the telephone a first applet including a second network resource locator identifying a second network resource.
Preferably, the system includes a second network resource operable to provide a file to the subscriber telephone.
Preferably, the telephone is operable to establish communications with the first network resource to receive the applet from the first network resource in response to the first uniform resource locator in the FSK message and preferably, the telephone is operable to establish communication with the second network resource and to download the file from the second network resource in response to the second uniform resource locator extracted from the applet.
Preferably, the remotely configurable telephone has a processor operable to communicate on the network and memory accessible by the processor for storing codes operable to direct the processor to perform the functions of a browser for downloading from the first network resource, the applet including the second network resource locator, an applet viewer for running the applet, a public interface for communicating with the applet to receive the second network resource locator from the applet, a security manager for preventing running applets from accessing the memory and a handler having access to the memory, the handler being in communication with the public interface, for communicating with the second network resource identified by the second network resource locator to receive and store in the memory, the file from the second network resource.
Preferably, the handler is operable to decompress the file from the second resource to produce a plurality of decompressed files.
Preferably, the handler is operable to verify the file has been received in accordance with predefined criteria.
Preferably, the handler is operable to extract a password from the file and compare the password against a predefined password and to store the file in the memory when the password matches the predefined password.
Preferably, the handler is operable to extract a filename from the file from the second network resource and load the file into an area of memory associated with the filename.
Preferably, the system includes an FSK receiver in the telephone for receiving an FSK message having a first network resource locator identifying the first resource and preferably, the web browser is operable to receive the first network resource locator from the FSK receiver.
Preferably, the system includes a first telephone line interface at the telephone for receiving an FSK message from a first telephone line and for providing the FSK message to the FSK receiver.
Preferably, the system includes an event parser at the telephone for extracting the first network resource locator from the FSK message for presentation to the web browser.
Preferably, the system includes a second telephone line interface at the telephone, the processor using the second telephone line interface for communicating on the network.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, there is provided a system and method for displaying advertising on a telephone. The system includes a processor for executing an instruction file at the telephone, a communications interface controlled by the processor for establishing communications between the processor and a network resource identified by the instruction file, a display controlled by the processor and a browser running on the processor the browser being operable to download and execute an advertising content file from the network resource to produce an image on the display.
Preferably, the system includes memory in communication with the processor for storing the instruction file at the telephone.
Preferably, the processor is operable to execute the instruction file in response to a predefined event at the telephone.
Preferably, the system includes an FSK receiver in communication with the processor, for receiving a network resource locator in an FSK message, the network resource locator identifying a network resource from which the instruction file may be downloaded.
Preferably, the browser is operable to execute an applet in the instruction file.
Preferably, the browser defines a browser window on the display, the browser window occupying su
Cramer Seth Whitney
Li Qi
Lo Kevin Chi Hin
Michaud Bertrand Marc-Andre
Paslawski Daniel John
Cobrin & Gittes
Nortel Networks Limited
Smith Creighton
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