WO2001060014A2 - Insertion d'informations dans une unite abonne, a partir d'un noeud d'un reseau - Google Patents

Insertion d'informations dans une unite abonne, a partir d'un noeud d'un reseau Download PDF

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WO2001060014A2
WO2001060014A2 PCT/EP2001/001018 EP0101018W WO0160014A2 WO 2001060014 A2 WO2001060014 A2 WO 2001060014A2 EP 0101018 W EP0101018 W EP 0101018W WO 0160014 A2 WO0160014 A2 WO 0160014A2
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Mårten Rignell
Magnus Ingelsten
Mikael Jönsson
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  • the invention relates to a user's request for information via a network.
  • the invention relates specifically to: A method of utilizing the time between a request for first pieces of information from a user unit to an information server via a node in a network and the reception of said first, pieces of information at the user unit.
  • the invention furthermore relates to: A computer readable medium having a program recorded thereon, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method.
  • the invention furthermore relates to: A computer system having means for executing a program, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method.
  • the invention moreover relates to: A software program, which can be used to execute the method.
  • WAP Wireless Application Protocol
  • HTML HyperText Markup Language
  • Wireless Markup Language a specially developed format for presenting information using a WAP browser
  • the WAP browser is a relatively simple ⁇ micro-browser' requiring only limited resources of the mobile communications device.
  • the object of the present invention is to disclose an alternative method of presenting additional information to a user during the time span between a user's request for information from an information server and the reception of said information.
  • second pieces of information are transmitted from the node to the user unit in the time span between the reception at the node of the request from the user unit for first pieces of information, and the transmission to the user unit of the first pieces of information received at the node from the information server.
  • the advantage of the invention is that it discloses a method of presenting second pieces of information to a user at times where the user is waiting for a response to a request for other information and thus potentially open for the reception of news or messages.
  • the invention is especially relevant in cases where a limited display size is available (i.e. where there is a need for using the full screen for each piece of requested information) and/or in cases where a limited bandwidth is available (resulting in relatively longer transmission times) . Both limitations exist for state of the art mobile communications devices .
  • the time span between ⁇ the reception at the node of the request from the user unit for first pieces of information, and ⁇ the transmission to the user unit of the first pieces of information received at the node from the information server represents the ⁇ idle' time between the user's request of information and the possible presentation of said information to the user pl us the (optional) time where the requested information is held (i.e. stored before actually forwarded) at the node from where the additional information is forwarded (all time statements are referred to the node) .
  • node' is taken to mean a point in the network where it is possible to gain access to the requests for information from the user unit.
  • the node should preferably be located in the network in such a way that the delays between the user and the node (and back) are relatively smaller than the delays between the node and the server containing the information requested by the user (and back) .
  • second pieces of information' and additional information' are taken to mean pieces of information that are not requested by the user at the point in time where they are forwarded to the user.
  • the contents of the second pieces of information may be specified by the user at an earlier point in time or they may be determined by another party, possibly adjusted to the presently or previously requested information from the user unit or to the location of the user unit, etc.
  • a resource locator for example a URL
  • a standardized and associative' i.e. potentially meaningful as to contents
  • resource locator is taken to mean a scheme for unambiguously defining the name of a file or other electronic resource located in a computer some place in a network.
  • a resource locator could be a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) .
  • the user unit When the second pieces of information that are pushed to the user unit are provided with the same resource locator as that of the requested first pieces of information, it is ensured that the user unit will accept to present the second pieces of information before the actually requested information has been received.
  • the term 'another party than the user' is taken to mean e.g. a provider of services relating to communications or any other party that may wish to present information to the user unit in question.
  • the method represents a way of financing activities.
  • activities such as an Internet subscription, a telephone subscription or other services.
  • the waiting time may be part of a business deal between the user and a service provider.
  • the waiting time may for example be utilized to update the user with relevant information.
  • Other subjects specified by the user could be entertainment (jokes, information on coming programs on preferred TV channels or on preferred subjects, etc.), sports, etc.
  • the second pieces of information are customized according to the location of the user unit, the date or some other special criterion, it is ensured that information of relevance to the user's current local environment, to special dates (Christmas, day of the week, time of the day, etc.) or to other events may be conveniently presented to the user.
  • a browser for example a WAP browser
  • a convenient way of communicating with computers in a network is provided.
  • a micro-browser such as a WAP browser
  • the method may be conveniently initiated from a terminal with minimal resources as regards computing power, memory and electrical power (compared to a state of the art personal computer), e.g. from battery driven devices.
  • the term 'browser' is taken to mean a piece of software for locating, obtaining and viewing information in a data communications network.
  • the functions of a browser comprise (among other things) : Addressing files and other electronic resources in a network, retrieving (i.e. copying and downloading and saving locally in a memory) information from a server via a network, viewing information remotely or locally, etc.
  • the term 'the Internet' is taken to mean a publicly accessible, possibly global data communications network connecting users over a geographically scattered area.
  • the term 'an intranet' is taken to mean a data communications network connecting users in a particular company or organization, the users being situated at the same location (e.g. a company site) or over a geographically scattered area (e.g. connecting the various subsidiaries of a company or groups of an organization) .
  • the 'node of a network' may be a server of the intranet.
  • the node When the node is located at the central office of a provider of access to the Internet for the user unit, for example a provider of mobile communications services for the user unit, it is ensured that all requests from the user unit for information on the Internet are available for analysis and push of information to the user unit, and that all steps of the method for a given request from a given location may be performed by the same server.
  • a provider of access to the Internet for the user unit for example a provider of mobile communications services for the user unit
  • the term 'central office' is taken to mean a location where some sort of routing of traffic is performed, typically a site where switching equipment and/or servers are located and where some sort of handling of 'the requests from the user unit' takes place. It may, however, also be interpreted as the collection of distributed switches and servers that constitute the nodes of the network of a given operator and its partners (e.g. partners with whom a roaming agreement is made in the case of mobile communications) . In other words, when the node is said to be located at a central office of a service provider, it may be interpreted as being distributed over the nodes of the network of said service provider (and its partners) .
  • the term 'push of information' is taken to mean the forwarding of information that is not a response to a corresponding request of information.
  • the user unit is a mobile communications unit, for example a cellular telephone or a personal organizer, it is ensured that information on the location of the user is available from the system handling the communication to and from the user unit, and that a large and rapidly growing stock of devices may be reached.
  • a mobile communications unit for example a cellular telephone or a personal organizer
  • a method of utilizing the time span between a request for first pieces of information from a user unit to an information server via a node in a network and the reception of said first pieces of information at the user unit is moreover provided by the present invention.
  • second pieces of information are transmitted from the node to the user unit after the reception at the node of the request from the user unit for first pieces of information and a database of information is used to define the contents of said second pieces of information, it is ensured that the method may be utilized by the user as a way of getting information concerning a special subject presented (based on the request for first pieces of information) or other information possibly agreed on between the user and the service provider.
  • the database of information is searchable with respect to elements of said requests, and the database contains additional information related to said elements of said requests, and criteria for relating elements of said requests to said additional information are established, it is ensured that the provision of second pieces of information may be managed according to a predefined (and possibly currently updated) collection of reference information.
  • the term 'elements of (said) requests' is taken to mean those parts of 'the request from a user unit for information from an information server' that may be meaningfully interpreted either directly in the form of ASCII text or via a translation (e.g. in the form of a lookup table) and compared with 'known elements' to arrive at a decision whether the request in question should be assigned to a given group or not.
  • the method comprises the use of a database, said database comprising a list of requests for first pieces of information subdivided into groups according to a predefined scheme, for providing information to a user unit, and the steps of comparing a received request for first pieces of information from a user unit with said list of requests for first pieces of information, thus identifying a group of information, and providing a second piece of information to the user unit corresponding to the identified group.
  • a database comprising a list of requests for first pieces of information subdivided into groups according to a predefined scheme, for providing information to a user unit, and the steps of comparing a received request for first pieces of information from a user unit with said list of requests for first pieces of information, thus identifying a group of information, and providing a second piece of information to the user unit corresponding to the identified group.
  • a database of information on individual user behaviour may be automatically built, allowing the information pushed to the user to be made relevant to the user on an individual basis, opening further commercial aspects for the invention (such as pushing individually customized commercial information to the user, e.g. utilizing information on the present location of the user, the day of the week, the time of the day, etc. ) .
  • the second pieces of information in the database are regularly updated.
  • the method comprises the steps of receiving a request for first pieces of information from a user unit in the form of a resource locator, saving said requested resource locator, comparing said requested resource locator with known resource locators of a database, said known resource locators being organized in groups according to a predefined scheme, identifying a particular group of information among the groups of known resource locators based on said comparison, selecting a second piece of information to push to the user unit according to the identified group, and transmitting said second piece of information to said user unit.
  • the method further comprises the step of attaching the requested resource locator to the selected second piece of information before transmitting it to the user unit, it is ensured that a second piece of information is accepted by the user unit, even if the software responsible for the transmission and reception of information only accepts to receive information for which the resource locator equals that of the requested information (as is the case, for example, for a WAP browser) .
  • the method further comprises the steps of transmitting said request for first pieces of information to the corresponding information server, and receiving said requested first pieces of information from the corresponding information server, and transmitting said requested first pieces of information to said user unit.
  • the method further comprises the step of storing said requested first pieces of information from the corresponding information server before they ⁇ are transmitted to the user unit, it is ensured that the time available for pushing second pieces of information to the user unit may be controlled.
  • the method comprises the step of identifying a particular group of information among the groups of known resource locators according to said comparison, if a match with said requested resource locator is found among the known resource locators of the database, and identifying a particular group of information among the groups of known resource locators according to a predefined scheme, if no match with said requested resource locator is found among the known resource locators of the database, it is ensured that a scheme for presenting second pieces of information from a relevant group to the user unit in all cases is provided.
  • the method further comprises the step of saving said requested resource locator for possible later addition to the database of known resource locators if no match with said requested resource locator is found among the known resource locators of the database, it is ensured that a procedure for updating the database is provided.
  • the method further comprises the step of identifying the most frequently requested group or groups of information from a given user unit, and selecting second pieces of information to push to the user unit according to said most frequently requested group of information, if no match with said requested resource locator is found among the known resource locators of the database, it is ensured that a database of individual user behaviour may be built and that information of related thereto may be pushed to the user unit.
  • the method further comprises the steps of starting a timer when transmitting the request for first pieces of information to the corresponding information server, and checking the timer when receiving said requested first pieces of information from the corresponding information server, and transmitting the requested first pieces of information to the user unit, if the checked time is greater than a predefined time, and delaying the transmission of the requested first pieces of information to the user unit, if the checked time is less than a predefined time, until the predefined time has elapsed before transmitting the requested first pieces of information to the user unit.
  • a computer readable medium having a program recorded thereon, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method is furthermore provided by the present invention.
  • a computer system having means for executing a program, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method is furthermore provided by the present invention.
  • a software program, which can be used to execute the method is moreover provided by the present invention.
  • fig. 1 shows a sequence of steps involved in the presentation of requested and pushed information to a mobile communications unit according to the invention
  • fig. 2 shows an example of the timing of events during a request for information from a user unit according to the invention
  • fig. 3 shows a sequence of steps involved in the use of a database for selecting the information to be pushed to the user unit
  • fig. 4 shows details of the steps involved in the use of a database for selecting the information to be pushed to the user unit
  • fig. 5 shows a flowchart for a software program for a server according to the invention.
  • fig. 6 shows a flowchart of details of a software program for a server according to the invention.
  • Fig. 1 shows a sequence of steps involved in the presentation of requested and pushed information to a mobile communications unit according to the invention.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates an embodiment of the invention, which makes it possible to push information to the WAP browser of a mobile communications user unit 11, e.g. a cellular telephone, via a WAP Gateway server 3 located at the central office 2 of a provider of mobile communications services of the user unit in question.
  • the information is pushed to the user unit during a request from the user unit for information from a particular home page 5 on the Internet 4.
  • WAP is a de facto standard for providing access to the Internet from digital mobile communications devices and other devices with limited resources.
  • WAP-specifications are drawn up by the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd. (WAP Forum) , a group of companies predominantly active in the mobile communications area. Details of the specifications may be found on the home page of WAP Forum on the Internet http: //www.wapforum.org.
  • step 0 When the end user has made the connection (step 0) , it is theoretically possible at any point to break the traffic flow, examine the contents of the request (URL) , forward
  • step 3 the URL request, but send (step 2) another message (given the requested URL) down to the end user.
  • This message could be information or advertising.
  • the contents of the message may be based on the contents of the current request or may be founded on a database of information of previous user behaviour.
  • the requested message may, if convenient, be stored in the gateway server for y seconds (cf. step 5), e.g. to allow the pushed message a certain amount of time on the screen of the user unit before it is replaced by the requested information (step 6) .
  • the substitution could be handled by an automatic refresh request or by an automatic request for the original URL. See figs. 1 and 2.
  • Step 0 The process is initiated from the user unit 11 in that a request for a connection to the Internet service provider is forwarded (if the user is not already connected) .
  • the Internet service provider may be the same as the provider of mobile communications services (or the latter may provide access to WAP services directly) or another entity, possibly located elsewhere.
  • a WAP Gateway server 3 located at the premises 2 of the provider of mobile communications services takes care of the main process steps of the method according to the invention.
  • the various steps of the method may be handled by different servers possibly located in different parts of the network, however, if appropriate.
  • Step 1 A request 101 from the user unit for information located at a specific server connected to the Internet 4 is received at the WAP Gateway server 3 in the form of an http-URL (see the following) .
  • the Uniform Resource Locator represents a scheme for unambiguously defining the name of a file or other electronic resource located in a computer some place in a network.
  • HTTP is the Internet protocol specifically designed for use with the World Wide Web. Its syntax is:
  • the host is the Internet address of the WWW server, and the port is the port number to connect to. In most cases, the port can be omitted (along with the preceding colon) , and it defaults to the standard "80".
  • the path tells the WWW server which file you want, and if omitted, indicates that you want the "home page" for the system.
  • the searchpart may be used to pass information to the server, but is not used for most WWW documents. Generally, this part of the URL is omitted, along with the preceding question ark.
  • Step 2 The requested URL 101, e.g. in the format h ttp : / /machine . domain/ full -path -of -file (cf. step 2.1 in fig. 3) is optionally stored in a database 6 and optionally analysed to determine the theme of a message that is pushed to the user unit 11 (a special embodiment describing aspects of building a database of user behaviour is disclosed in relation to figs. 3 and 4 below) .
  • the message 102 that is pushed to the user unit is not requested by the user at the same time as the requested URL 101.
  • the contents of the message could be information or advertising.
  • the contents of the message may be decided in many different ways, for example: ⁇ It may be limited to one and the same predefined message by every request, ⁇ It may be selected among a range of predefined messages, forwarding at a given request 'the next one' in a cyclical 'run through' of the predefined messages . ⁇ It may be based on the contents of the current request by analysing the URL and selecting the predefined message among a group of messages that correspond to the requested URL according to some predefined criteria, ⁇ It may be founded on a database of information of previous user behaviour relating the contents of the requested URLs to a group of themes of relevance from which the messages to be pushed to the user are chosen cf . the embodiment shown in figs . 3 and 4 and described below, ⁇ It may be based on the user's stated wishes such as: o New e-mails o News o Travel reports o Any other user-defined subject (s) .
  • the pushed message 102 is given the URL of the requested message 101, to make the WAP browser accept it. This is important because the WAP browser of the user unit 11 will try to match the URL of any incoming information with the requested URL 101.
  • the pushed message 102 could e.g. include a life timer, which after x seconds makes the message disappear and is substituted by the requested message (steps 4, 5 and 6) .
  • Step 3 The requested URL 101 (in the form of the message 103) is forwarded from the WAP Gateway server 3 to the relevant server 5 on the Internet 4.
  • Step 4 The requested information 107 is received at the WAP Gateway server 3.
  • the information 107 is formatted using WML (as indicated by the file name reguested information . wml ) .
  • WML as indicated by the file name reguested information . wml
  • a further step comprising translation to WML format may be included, e.g. in the WAP Gateway server.
  • Step 5 The requested information 107, ' requested information . wml ' , is stored in the WAP Gateway server 3.
  • the requested information may be forwarded immediately to the user unit 11 (1 in fig. 2) , or it may alternatively be 'withheld' at th- WAP Gateway server 3 for a certain amount of time (tl4-tl2 in fig. 2) depending on the intended 'duration' of the pushed message.
  • the intended extra delay of the requested information at the WAP Gateway server 3 may be decided in several ways, including the following one: It may be part of a business deal between the user and the service provider that the user is exposed to pushed information at the service provider's choice (or grouped according to the user's stated interests) for a certain amount of time during a request for information from the Internet (e.g. a fixed number of seconds during each request, a variable number of seconds depending on the contents of the pushed information, etc.).
  • Step 6 The requested information 108, 'reguested information , wml ' , is forwarded to the user unit. This terminates a cycle of the method.
  • the method may be initiated at every user request or preprogrammed in the WAP server 3 to be activated only every second, fifth or 10 th request, or every so and so often, or every 2 minutes, etc., during a session.
  • a request for first pieces of information may be initiated from a piece of second, pushed information, e.g. in that a link on a pushed piece of information is activated by the user.
  • the URL of the link is thus taken as a new request for first pieces of information.
  • the activation of a link on a pushed piece of information is not taken as a new request for first pieces of information, but the initiation of the method is performed by any other means, e.g. one of those mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
  • the request for first pieces of information is utilized by the user to have sent to himself second pieces of information belonging to a special subject (e.g.
  • This 'mode' may e.g. be controlled by forwarding a specific URL to the WAP server before the requested URL or may be arranged in any other convenient fashion, optionally allowing the user to control the time available for push of information (optionally greater than a preset minimum time) .
  • Fig. 2 shows an example of the timing of events during a request for information from a user unit according to the invention.
  • the request 101 for information from the user unit 1 is initiated at time to and received at the WAP Gateway server 3, located at the domain of the service provider 2 of the user unit 1, at time tl.
  • a package 102 of information is pushed to the user unit 1 from the WAP Gateway server 3 and the pushed information 102 ' is received at the user unit 1 at time t7.
  • the request 103 for information is forwarded to the information server 5 on the Internet 4 from the WAP Gateway server 3 at time t3 and received at the relevant information server 5 on the Internet at time t4.
  • the requested information 107 is forwarded from the relevant information server 5 on the Internet at time t8 and arrives at the WAP Gateway server 3 at time tl2.
  • the requested information 108 is forwarded from the WAP Gateway server at time tl4 and arrives at the user unit at time tl6. This closes one cycle of request for information from a user unit.
  • the dotted arrows 104, 105, and 106 in fig. 2 represent optional further packages of information that may be pushed from the WAP Gateway server 3 to the user unit 3 in the time between the first push of information 102 initiated at the WAP Gateway server at time t2 and the terminating forwarding of the requested information 108 to the user unit occurring at time tl4.
  • the second package 104 of information optionally pushed to the user unit is forwarded from the WAP Gateway server 3 at time t6 and received at the user unit 1 at tlO.
  • the corresponding times in fig. 2 are t9, tl3 and til, tl5, respectively.
  • the number of packages that may be practically pushed to the user unit in the timespan between t2 and tl4 is of course only limited by the actual circumstances, such as the actual time span between t2 and tl4, the available bandwidth for the transmission to the user unit, the processing resources of the user unit, the desired time of presentation on the display of the user unit of each piece of information, etc.
  • the request 103 for information is forwarded to the information server 5 on the Internet 4 from the WAP Gateway server 3 at time t3 occurring after the time t2 where a package 102 of information is pushed to the user unit 1 from the WAP Gateway server 3 (i.e. t3 > t2) .
  • the occurrence in time might as well be the opposite (i.e. t3 ⁇ t2) .
  • Fig. 3 shows a sequence of steps involved in the use of a database for selecting the information to be pushed to the user unit.
  • a database of information 6 for use in connection with the present invention basically contains a list of known URLs grouped according to some predefined scheme such as finance/sports/news/entertainment, etc., the scheme of the 'yellow pages' , the patent or trade mark classifications or some other scheme of a relevant complexity. Additionally, means for analysing an incoming URL request should be provided, and based thereon it is decided to which group the requested URL belongs .
  • a database 6 for this purpose may be used and updated as long as it is possible to extract the URL from the message 101 (in fig. 2) with the request for information from the user unit.
  • the mobile communications service provider e.g. a GSM operator
  • the contents of the database may be analyzed to improve the understanding of consumer behaviour.
  • the URL of the requested information is stored in a database 6, cf. step 2.1.
  • the database 6 contains a list 7 of 'known' URLs (e.g. the currently most frequently requested URLs of a given search engine or of a frequently visited portal) , grouped according to some scheme, e.g. sports, finance, nature, film, etc.
  • step 2.2 the requested URL is compared to the list 7 of 'known' URLs of the database 6. If a match is found on a part of it, optionally including the domain name
  • Such criteria may be: ⁇ The message is chosen from a default 'GENERAL' group of messages, ⁇ The message is chosen from the most frequently allocated group for the user in question. ⁇ The message is chosen from the most frequently allocated group among all users. ⁇ The message is chosen from the last allocated group for the user in question. ⁇ The message is chosen from a group predefined by the user.
  • a procedure for including it into the list 7 of 'known' URLs may be activated by analyzing the words in the string constituting the URL and deciding whether one or more words (or strings) in the URL may be correlated to the group names used. If no match is found, the URL may be 'called up', and the 'document itself be analyzed in the same way for -the occurrence of the standard group names and corresponding acronyms . Alternatively, a manual procedure may be implemented.
  • step 2.3 the selected message, provided with the URL of the requested information (101 in fig. 2), is pushed to the user unit [x] .
  • the same database is used for all (or many) users, in that the contents of the information to be pushed to the user unit are determined solely on the basis of the current request from the user unit.
  • the current request from a user may be grouped under the heading TRAVEL INFORMATION, one or more pieces of information relating thereto, e.g. a travel report, an offer for flights, an advertisment for other products related to traveling, such as clothing, equipment, etc., might be pushed to the user unit in question.
  • Fig. 4 shows details of the steps involved in the use of a database for selecting the information to be pushed to the user unit.
  • the flowchart in fig. 4 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention, detailing step 2.2 of fig. 3.
  • step 2.2.1 an attempt to match the requested URL with those already stored in the database 6, cf. the "Lists of
  • step 2.2.1 If a match is found in step 2.2.1, then in step
  • the NEXT WML file from the corresponding GROUP is selected for forwarding to the user unit (denoted 'pushed information , wml ' in step 2.3 of figs. 3 and 4).
  • the parameter NEXT of the corresponding group of WML files is incremented for the particular user unit [x] so that each file on the list of WML files is presented in a cyclical fashion to the user unit [x] .
  • step 2.2.1 If no match of the requested URL is found among the 'known' URLs of the database in step 2.2.1, then in step
  • a group of LOCATION dependent WML files is not specifically indicated in fig. 3, but it could be any one of the GROUPS 1, 2, ..., P.
  • step 2.2.3 If a match with a LOCATION-dependent WML file of the database is found in step 2.2.3, then in step 2.2.4 the NEXT WML file from the corresponding group is selected for forwarding to the user unit. Again, the parameter NEXT of the corresponding group of WML files is incremented for the particular user unit [x] .
  • step 2.2.5 a WML file from a GENERAL group of WML files of the database is selected for forwarding to the user unit. Similarly, the parameter NEXT of the corresponding group of WML files is incremented for the particular user unit [x] . Alternatively, the WML file to be pushed to the user unit could be taken from a special group of WML files corresponding to stated user interests.
  • step 2.3 the selected message, provided with the URL of the requested information (101 in fig. 2), is pushed to the user unit [x] .
  • Fig. 5 shows a flowchart for a software program for a server according to the invention.
  • the software program comprises the steps of ⁇ Step SI, receiving a request for first pieces of information from a user unit (e.g. 11 in fig. 1) in the form of a URL (e.g. http://www.ericsson.com/WAP/), ⁇ Step S2, storing said requested URL in a memory,
  • a user unit e.g. 11 in fig. 1
  • a URL e.g. http://www.ericsson.com/WAP/
  • Step S3 (and step S3.1 in fig. 6) comparing said requested URL with known URLs of a database (e.g. 6 in fig. 3) , said known URLs being organized in groups according to a predefined scheme (cf. e.g. 7 in fig.
  • Step S4.1 identifying a particular group of information among the groups of known URLs based on said comparison (e.g. COMMUNICATIONS), ⁇ Step S4 (and step S4.4 in fig. 6) selecting a second piece of information to push to the user unit according to the identified group (cf. e.g. 9 in fig.
  • Step S6 transmitting said second piece of information to said user unit.
  • the software program further carries out the following steps: ⁇ Step S7, transmitting the URL for the requested first pieces of information to the corresponding information server, and ⁇ Step S8, starting a timer, ⁇ Step S9, receiving and storing in a memory said requested first pieces of information from the corresponding information server, and ⁇ Step S10, checking whether the time (T in fig. 5) elapsed since the transmission of the requested URL is greater than a predefined time (Tpreset in fig. 5) , and if so ⁇ Step Sll, transmitting said requested first pieces of information to said user unit, and if not,
  • Step S10 waiting until T>Tpreset before transmitting requested first pieces of information to said user unit.
  • the request for information 101 from the user unit may be transmitted to the information server 5 on the Internet 4 from the WAP Gateway server 3 before or after the point in time where a package 102 of information is pushed to the user unit 1 from the WAP Gateway server 3 (cf . Step 7 above) .
  • a timer is included in Step S6 to be able to monitor and control the duration of a given second piece of information pushed to the user unit.
  • Fig. 6 shows a flowchart of details of a software program for a server according to the invention.
  • Steps S3 and S3.1 comparing said requested URL with known URLs of a database (e.g. 6 in fig. 3), said known URLs being organized in groups according to a predefined scheme (cf. e.g. 7 in fig. 3) ;
  • Step S4.1 if a match with a known URL of the database is found in step S3.1 (or at least to a part of it), the group from which to pick the information to be pushed to the user unit is identified, and
  • Step S4.2 if no match is found in step S3.1, the requested URL is stored in a memory for possible later addition to the database of known URLs, and ⁇ Step S4.3, identifying the most frequently requested group of information among the groups of the database for the user in question, and ⁇ Step S4.4, selecting an item from the identified group of information to be pushed to the user, before ⁇ returning to the main program.
  • the information pushed to the user unit may be chosen from a DEFAULT group, which may be a general or customer specific or other predefined group.
  • a computer readable medium having a program recorded thereon, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method described above and in the claims, is likewise an embodiment of the invention.
  • a computer system having means for executing a program, where the program when executed is to make the computer execute the method described above and in the claims, is likewise an embodiment of the invention.
  • the offer could e.g. be a maximum of 10 seconds of push information- and free Internet access.
  • Some preferred embodiments based on cellular phones equipped with a WAP browser for communication with the Internet via a WAP Gateway server have been shown in the foregoing, but it should be stressed that the invention is not limited to these, but may be embodied in other ways within the subject-matter defined in the following claims.
  • other terminals having limited resources as regards display, bandwidth, computing power, memory, etc. may be equipped with a WAP browser (or any other micro-browser) and used within the scope of the invention.
  • the invention may be used with any digital communications system, be it mobile or not, for which the presentation of dedicated information (be it personalized or not) in a limited resources environment is of interest.

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L'invention concerne un procédé d'utilisation de l'espace de temps compris entre une demande (101) de premiers éléments d'information, effectuée par une unité d'abonné (1; 11) auprès d'un serveur d'informations (5), par l'intermédiaire d'un noeud (2) d'un réseau, et la réception de ces premiers éléments d'information (108) au niveau de l'unité d'abonné (1; 11). L'invention porte sur l'utilisation de l'espace de temps compris entre une demande d'informations effectuée par un abonné, auprès d'un serveur d'informations, et la réception de celles-ci, et elle résout ce problème ainsi: des seconds éléments d'information (102, 104, 105, 106) sont transmis à l'unité d'abonné (1; 11), à partir du noeud (2), pendant l'espace de temps compris entre la réception au niveau du noeud (2) de la demande (101) des premiers éléments d'information, effectuée par l'unité d'abonné (1; 11), et la transmission à cette unité (1; 11) de ces premiers éléments d'information (108) reçus au niveau du noeud (2) à partir du serveur d'informations (5).
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