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Definitions

• the invention relates to a method of access by a user to a server, by means of different telecommunication terminals able to be connected to said server through at least one telecommunication network.
• the field of the invention is that of accessing a server through at least one telecommunications network.
• It may in particular be a telecommunications network of the Internet type which is designated in the following by the Internet network, accessible by various access networks (cellular radiocommunication network, switched telephone network, etc.).
• various access networks cellular radiocommunication network, switched telephone network, etc.
• SMS-type messages English acronym for "Short Message Service”
• SMS-type messages English acronym for "Short Message Service”
• friends or around a game etc. It is of course possible to navigate from one service to another.
• Radiocommunication terminal such as a mobile phone or a personal assistant ("Personal Digital Assistant" or "PDA" in English) connected to the GSM radiocommunication network for example, itself connected to the Internet network; the radio communication is then established according to a WAP type protocol (acronym for "Wireless Application Protocol").
• PDA Personal Digital Assistant
• the user of a radiocommunication terminal accesses the server through a GSM type network
• he has a version of the service adapted to the ergonomic constraints of a radiocommunication terminal (small screen, limited speed, storage capacities of information received limited, ...); it is a degraded version compared to that which it has when it accesses the server from a PC through the fixed telephone network for example.
• the content of the version intended for a radiocommunication terminal is often condensed in the form of a text of a few lines and does not include the layout, the images, the sound animations, ..., of the version intended for a PC.
• the object of the present invention is therefore to allow the user to continue on his PC the navigation which he has started from his radiocommunication terminal, without discontinuity.
• the subject of the invention is a method of access by a user to a server, by means of different telecommunication terminals able to be connected to said server through at least one telecommunication network, mainly characterized in that it comprises the steps consisting in: a) establishing for said user a first session of access to said server from a first telecommunications terminal, b) establishing for the same user a second session of access to said server from a second terminal of telecommunication, by means of a terminal connected to each of said telecommunication terminals, in order to access said server from said second telecommunication terminal without said discontinuity for said user.
• it further comprises the step consisting in closing said first session following the opening of the second session.
• step b) comprises the steps consisting for said terminal in: bl) identifying among said telecommunication terminals, the available terminals, and determining said second telecommunication terminal, b2) transferring to the second terminal the information present on the first telecommunication terminal and necessary to establish said second session.
• Said information preferably includes a URL address and / or the type of service and / or information stored in the first terminal during said first session.
• step b1) further comprises a step consisting in proposing to said user a list of said available terminals in order to determine said second telecommunications terminal or in proposing by default to said user a predetermined telecommunications terminal as second telecommunications terminal.
• Stage b) advantageously further comprises the stage consisting in transmitting to said server the information relating to the user and / or to the first access session contained in the first telecommunications terminal and / or in the second telecommunications terminal, necessary to establish said second session.
• said information is transmitted to the server by said second telecommunications terminal or, the terminal being further connected to said server through a telecommunications network, said information is transmitted to the server by said terminal.
• step b) further comprises a step consisting in the server adapting to said second session the content information provided during said first session.
• the first telecommunication terminal can be a radiocommunication terminal and / or the second telecommunication terminal can be a personal computer or a television.
• Telecommunication terminals can be connected to the server through a network of the Internet type via an access network or to a network of the Intranet type via optionally an access network.
• the invention also relates to a method of providing a telecommunication service by means of a server accessible from different telecommunication terminals through at least one telecommunication network, said server comprising a user database, characterized in that it comprises the steps consisting in: a) establishing a first access session to said server from a first telecommunications terminal associated with a user, with a view to providing a predetermined service, b) receiving a request for change of telecommunication terminal for said user, from the first terminal to a second terminal, the request comprising information relating to said user and / or to the second terminal and / or to the first access session, c) to establish according to said information, a second access session to said server for the same user from said second telecommunication terminal unication, in order to allow said user to access the server from the second telecommunications terminal without discontinuity.
• step b) further comprises the step of adapting to said second telecommunications terminal, the content supplied to said first telecommunications terminal during said first session.
• the invention also relates to a connection terminal between at least two telecommunication terminals, characterized in that it comprises means of dialogue with said terminals making it possible to determine among said terminals, those which are capable of being connected to a server. .
• FIG. 1 schematically represents the different stages of an exemplary mode of realization of the invention
• Figures 2 and 3 schematically represent the steps of dialogues corresponding respectively to two embodiments of the invention.
• the invention is not limited to a PC or an equivalent terminal such as a television, nor to a radiocommunication terminal such as a mobile telephone or a PDA; it applies to any telecommunications terminal available to a user and capable of being connected to a server through at least one telecommunications network.
• the telecommunications terminal can be connected to a server for example through the Internet network via an access network or through a network internal to a company or an organization, of the Intranet type, possibly via an access network.
• access networks include Ethernet, cellular radio, switched telephone, ATM, cable, ADSL ("Asymmetry Digital Subscriber Line”) networks.
• the method according to the invention allows the user to first use (arrow A) a service offered by the server 1 hosted by the Internet network 2, by establishing a first access session to the server 1 from the mobile 3 connected to the Internet by a cellular radio communication network 4 GSM ("Global System for Mobile communication", in English), GPRS, UMTS or other.
• GSM Global System for Mobile communication
• an instant messaging service consisting of communicating by means of short text messages of the SMS type, with friends listed in a list, the user enters on his mobile a following URL address: wap. .domain service.
• navigation will designate the use by the user of a service offered by the server.
• the PC 5 (or the PC of a public space) is conventionally connected to the server 1 hosted by the Internet network 2, by a fixed access network 7 such as the fixed telephone network or the broadband ADSL network. or any other equivalent telecommunications network.
• a fixed access network 7 such as the fixed telephone network or the broadband ADSL network. or any other equivalent telecommunications network.
• Terminal 6 can offer the user a default terminal such as for example the PC 5.
• the terminal can also more generally provide him with a list of telecommunications terminals available to the user, capable of being connected to terminal 6 and to server 1, that is to say available; from this list, the user determines the terminal of his choice.
• Terminal 6 includes, for this purpose, means of dialogue with these terminals to determine the terminals of this list.
• dialog means are for example in the form of a program implemented by the terminal and allowing it to interrogate the terminals, and corresponding programs implemented by the terminals to enable them to respond to the terminal.
• it is the mobile which, in the presence of the terminal 6, offers the user via a menu to continue browsing on the PC 5.
• Terminal 6 is connected to PC 5, mobile 3 and other possible user telecommunications terminals by radio type Bluetooth, WiFi, HomeRF, DECT, ..., by infrared or even by wire.
• Telecommunication terminals are of course equipped with a transceiver corresponding to the same communication mode.
• the terminal 6 can be integrated into one of the telecommunications terminals, to the PC 5 for example in the form of a card or a modem, the PC then comprising the software for carrying out the interface with the terminal.
• This terminal 6 is possibly connected to the server 1 by the Internet network via an access network.
• Terminal 6 accesses the Internet using a protocol such as "http" or another Internet protocol.
• the access network is preferably the fixed access network 7 such as the fixed telephone network or the ADSL broadband network or even a cable telecommunications network.
• Terminal 6 can also be connected to a home gateway ("gateway" in English) which is itself connected to the Internet via the access network.
• Terminal 6 can also include functions other than those provided in the context of the subject invention and connect, for example, other equipment than these telecommunications terminals.
• the data transferred to PC 5 depends in particular on the service in use by the user. There are three categories of services.
• the first category concerns services which do not require the user to be known to the server.
• the second category concerns the services which require that the parameters of the first session of access to the server contained in the first terminal, those of the user himself as well as those of the new terminal that he will use for its navigation, are known to the server.
• These include services requiring the server to adapt the content to the type of terminal, for example to move from condensed content for a mobile to full content for a PC.
• the user ID and the parameters of the new terminal (of the second terminal) must be communicated to the server so that the server recognizes that it is the same user who is connecting from another telecommunications terminal, to continue navigation.
• the third category concerns services which require the user, the first terminal and the new terminal (second terminal) to be known to the server. These include services requiring authentication to secure access to the server. Examples of services in this category include Internet shopping services. The user identifier, the authentication parameters and the parameters of the first and of the second terminal must then be communicated to the server so that the server recognizes that it is the same user who is connected from of a first terminal, connects from a second telecommunications terminal, to continue its navigation.
• the data transferred to the PC 5 also depends on the device which transmits the necessary information to the server 1. It may indeed be the PC 5 which transmits them to the server 1, in which case, the PC receives from the mobile 3 all the data useful for itself as well as the data to be transmitted to the server. It may be according to a variant of the invention, the terminal 6 which transmits the necessary information to the server 1, in which case, the PC 5 receives only the data relating to it alone.
• the PC receives at least the address (URL or IP) of the service in use and the type of service.
• the type of service is necessary for the PC so that it can launch locally any application allowing it to use the service in question. It possibly receives the history of navigation made from the mobile. The user can thus continue his navigation without discontinuity.
• the data transferred to the PC will include the URL address of said service which the PC will adapt according to the "http" or "TCP” protocol ("Transmission Control Protocol” in English), the type of service for the PC to launch the specific application necessary to use this service, and the history including the list of friends and the SMS messages sent and / or received.
• terminal 6 or PC 5 informs the server 1 of this change of terminal concerning the same user (arrow E) by transmitting to it in particular the identifier of the user, the parameters of the first access session contained in the first terminal as well as the parameters characterizing the new terminal, in this case the PC 5.
• the authentication parameters and those of the first terminal are also transmitted to the server 1.
• the user does not have to explicitly authenticate himself once again by connecting to the server 1 from his PC.
• the data relating to the first session are adapted for the second session to take account for example of a change in type of terminal (change of content intended for a mobile for content for a PC).
• the server will transmit to the user connected from his PC 5, a file sent by a friend from the list, when he could not do so while the user was connected from his mobile 3.
• the first session between the server 1 and the mobile 3 is preferably closed.
• the user can then continue browsing from his PC 5 (arrow F).
• a first Internet session, SI is established with the server Sr by the user U from his mobile M.
• the mobile M sends (arrow a) a Bluetooth type signal for example to terminal B which detects it (arrow b) and the user turns on his PC. From his PC, the user gives the order to continue navigation from his PC (arrow c).
• the PC then asks terminal B to communicate the necessary information to it (arrow d).
• Terminal B requests them from mobile M (arrow e).
• the mobile M transmits to the terminal B the URL address, the type of the service in use and the history (arrow f).
• Terminal B transmits this information to the PC as well as possibly, depending on the category of service, the user identifier U and the parameters of the mobile M (arrow g).
• the PC transmits to the server Sr the necessary information which depends on the category of the service used (arrow h).
• the Sr establishes with the PC a second session S2 (arrow i).
• the PC transmits this information to terminal B, which then knows that the PC is busy (arrow j).
• the Sr closes the first session with the mobile M (arrow k).
• a first Internet session, SI is established with the server Sr by the user U from his mobile M.
• the mobile M sends (arrow a) a Bluetooth type signal for example to terminal B which detects it (arrow b).
• Terminal B inquires of the PC about its availability (arrow c). If the PC's response to terminal B is that it is available (arrow d), terminal B offers the user via his mobile (using a menu for example) to continue browsing on the PC (arrows e and f).
• the mobile M transmits to the terminal B the URL address, the type of the service in use and the history (arrow h).
• Terminal B transmits this information to the PC as well as possibly, depending on the category of service, the user identifier U and the parameters of the mobile M (arrow i).
• the PC transmits to the server Sr the necessary information which depends on the category of the service used (arrow j).
• the Sr establishes with the PC a second session S2 (arrow k).
• the PC transmits this information to terminal B, which then knows that the PC is busy (arrow 1).
• Terminal B closes the first session with mobile M (arrow m).
• the change of terminal can be done from a PC to a mobile.
• An additional step then occurs, which consists of condensing certain information intended to be read (or memorized or ...) from the mobile.
• the PC Before transferring information from the PC to the mobile, the PC condenses the information it has such as the history.

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