WO2008113580A2

WO2008113580A2 - Data transmission method and mobile electronic device for carrying out said method

Info

Publication number: WO2008113580A2
Application number: PCT/EP2008/002207
Authority: WO
Inventors: Kamal Alavi
Original assignee: Kamal Alavi
Priority date: 2007-03-19
Filing date: 2008-03-19
Publication date: 2008-09-25
Also published as: WO2008113580A3; EP2135431A2

Abstract

According to a data transmission method, data is exchanged, by means of a network, between a mobile electronic device (30) in which a transceiver is integrated, and at least one computer (10) or server that is associated with or allocated to the user of the device (30). The control commands are input into the device (30) by means of the keyboard, mouse or similar and are transmitted to the respective computer via the network. Said commands input into the device (30) are carried out by the computer (10), as if the commands had been input directly into the computer. The representations generated by said computer (10) that can be visualised on the screen are retransmitted to the device by the network (30) and visualised on the screen (33) of the device (30).

Description

ALAVI Kamal, 6318 Walchwil, Switzerland

Data transmission method and mobile electronic device for carrying out the method

The invention relates to a data transmission method according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a mobile electronic device according to the preamble of claim 8.

All of the existing computers have cellular wireless connections to networks. As soon as you want to do more work with a mobile device, for example, work with

BESTÄT5GUMGSKOPSE various programs or a data-intensive Internetdateπ- exchange or memory-intensive graphics programs, with high data transfer performance, etc., so this mobile device is provided with an operating system and correspondingly large programs and, accordingly, with high storage performance. In addition, when necessary by several programs correspondingly much software to install, which in turn the device must be equipped accordingly powerful.

In all the known mobile devices, such as mobile phone, PDA, pager, Blackberry, the data transmission via radio network is limited and there is thus a relatively reduced data transfer rate.

The present invention has the object of providing a data transmission method and a mobile electronic device, in which the device without operating system (for example Windows) works and this device with the data transmission method offers the possibility that with the simple and inexpensive to produce device almost all Functions of a normal computer or server can be exercised.

The object is achieved by the features of claim 1 and claim 8.

With this data transmission according to the invention, the mobility and availability of this mobile device can be improved, thus enabling the user a universal wireless use with regard to data exchange with any operating systems, be it Windows, Linx, Unix, Solaris and possibly new systems. However, it may as well be used for the use of multimedia such as movies, pictures or the like, but also of music, radio broadcasts and the like in terms of multimedia players without the mobile device must be powerfully equipped, ie without operating system and the associated programs. Internet access, such as web browsing, is also guaranteed with this device.

With the mobile electronic device according to the invention, its manufacturing costs can be kept very low. However, all devices in the external device, in particular PC, server, data can be loaded wirelessly with this device. In addition, it requires little electrical energy and can therefore be easily built, which increases its mobility.

An embodiment of the invention and further advantages thereof are explained in more detail with reference to the drawing. It shows:

1 shows a schematic representation of a data transmission arrangement according to the invention with a platform of an air station positioned in the stratosphere,

2 shows a front or side view of a schematically shown mobile electronic device,

A block diagram of the functions of the device according to Fig.2, and

5 shows a further block diagram of the inventive data transmission method.

1 shows an arrangement of a data transmission in which electromagnetic radio signals 15 are radiated from an antenna 17 of a fixed installation in a building 11 with at least one computer 10 or the like. The computer 10 or server is conventionally connected to the Internet 12 and optionally separately to a telephone network 13. - A -

These radio signals 15 are radiated to an antenna 22 of an air station 20 and forwarded by this to a mobile electronic device 30, which also has a built-in antenna 31.

Such an air station 20 or unmanned aerial vehicle is in itself already explained in the publication WO-A-2007/003206 in terms of its structure. In essence, this flight station 20 is to fly at a predetermined altitude in the stratosphere with an always consistent position to Earth. It comprises a gas-filled inner and outer balloon and a platform 21 attached to the underside thereof. Drivable propellers 23 for maintaining the position of the flight station 20 relative to the earth are also provided on this platform 21.

In this mobile electronic device 30, a receiving and transmitting station for the reception and transmission of data are integrated together with an antenna, as will be explained in more detail below.

By the method of this data transmission according to the invention, the mobile electronic device 30 to exchange the data via a wireless network with at least one antenna system and from this to the user of the device 30 belonging computer 10 or server, the control commands from the device 30 through his keyboard, Mouse or similar and transferred to the computer. These commands are processed in the sequence at the computer 10 and the generated therefrom, visualizable on the screen representations and / or the sounds generated by this are then transmitted via the wireless network connection to the device 30 and visualized on the screen 33 of the device 30 and the transmitted tones are audible.

With this method, the big advantage is that this device 30 by the outsourcing of the computer functions and due to the high Data transfer amount per unit time does not need to be equipped with many programs and correspondingly high performance of the main memory or the fixed storage capacity. Therefore, this device 30 can be realized very easily and with low manufacturing cost.

In this case, an identification should be provided which allows the device to communicate with the computer or server belonging to its user.

In order to ensure a sufficient exchange of data, the data transfer takes place on a broadband basis. Suitable networks for the corresponding data transmission are WiFi, Wimax or similar. However, since the commands entered and transmitted to the device are not data-intensive, as in Morse's, there are no problems with data transfer rates.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show this mobile electronic device 30 in a schematic view. This can of course also look different than shown. It consists of a housing 35, which can be very flat and light in design, so it can be, for example, with a thickness of less than one centimeter, a length of 15 to 20 cm and a width of 8 to 12 cm and executed. It can therefore be provided with a sufficiently large screen 33, for which a flat screen with LCD, a touch screen or the like can be provided. In addition, the device 30 has one or more keyboards 36, 37, 37 ', a mouse system 32, a speaker 40, an on and off switch 39 and indicator lights 38, in the latter example, the connection shown on the flight station 20th , via the GSM or the like, or whether the device is switched on. In addition, a fingerprint 34 is indicated, with which an identification takes place as admission to a network or to the corresponding computer. According to FIG. 3, various interfaces are present on the side of the housing 30, such as, for example, USB ports 41, 42, a serial port 44 for a monitor, a printer plug connection 45 and a connection 46 for a headphone. Such a mobile electronic device 30 is very advantageously equipped only with a simple hardware and software.

This device 30 is equipped according to Figure 4 with an antenna and a station for receiving and transmitting (transmitter / receiver) of the signals. For example, this antenna may be a Linksys High Gain Antenna. Advantageously, this antenna is funnel-shaped and aligned so that the radiation does not or only very limited falls within the range of the user.

Furthermore, a computer and a memory are integrated in it, which must also store very minimal data. In addition, a control is also provided for the identification with respect to the data exchange. The power supply can be done by means of solar cell or batteries or the like. The controls contained in the device 30 are already explained in detail above. In any case, this device 30 does not require an operating system, such as Windows, since it does not need to contain programs such as Word, Excel, Explorer or others.

Internet access, such as web browsing, but is still guaranteed with this device by first via the flight station 20 and the antenna 17 to the home computer 10 is made a connection and in the sequence by appropriate control commands from the mobile Device 30 made at the computer 10 an Internet connection and the transmitted commands are executed on the PC. The data generated by these commands at the computer 10 for the screen representations are then but not in this computer associated screen 10 ', but on the wireless Network connection, for example, transmitted via the flight station 20 to the device and visualized at the local screen 33. With the device 30, commands can then be input via the mouse 34 and the cursor operatively connected thereto, or by the keyboard 36, 37, which commands are then transmitted back to the computer and the incoming commands are correspondingly processed as in an immediate command input.

Access to the Internet could also be done by a parallel transmission, as it would be done by commands from the device directly to a provider and parallel to the PC and then the answers would in turn be transferred from the PC and the provider back to the device.

5 shows a block diagram of the signal transmission from the device 30 via the flight station 20 to the computer 10 and vice versa. Thus, for example, a command input at the keyboard or microphone at the device 30, which then leads as electrical signals through the computer unit, a converter, the transmitter and the antenna to the antenna at the flight station 20. At the flight station 20, the signal transmission is received and forwarded, being checked in this, whether the authorization or an identification of the sender is given. If so, the signal transmission to the house antenna 17 and from this via a connecting line via a receiver and converter to the computer 10 is passed. The computer 10 processes this signal transmission and optionally sends corresponding signals in reverse order to the device 30, in the latter case these signals appear, for example, as a display.

The invention is sufficiently demonstrated with the embodiments explained above. However, it could be represented in other variants. Thus, instead of this flight station 20, a satellite or terrestrial stations with corresponding antennas could also be provided. In principle, 10 control commands can also be input directly to the computer and transmitted to the device 30. The antenna 17 connected to the computer 10 could also be contained directly in the computer 10.

Claims

A data transmission method in which a mobile electronic device (30), in which a receiving and transmitting station is integrated for receiving and transmitting data, communicates with at least one computer, server or the like via a wireless network, characterized in that the mobile electronic device (30) exchanges the data over the network and from there with the at least one computer (10) or server belonging to the user of the device (30), the control commands being sent to the device (30). entered by means of his keyboard, mouse or the like and transmitted via the network to the respective computer, and these commands entered at the device (30) are executed at the computer (10), as the commands would have been entered directly at the computer, and at this Computer generated (10), visualizable on the screen representations and / or the sounds generated by this over the network for Device (30) transferred back and visualized on the screen (33) of the device (30) or the transmitted tones are audible.

A data transmission method according to claim 1, characterized in that the server or computer is one which is installed at home, in the store or at any location, and belongs to the operator of the mobile device associated with it, so that the operator at the device (30) can work with his own data and retrieve it.

3. Data transmission method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it is ensured with an identification in the connection establishment that a user can communicate with his mobile device (30) only with its associated computer or server.

4. Data transmission method according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the authorization for the use of the network in a connection is always checked.

The data transmission method according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the device (30) exchanges data over a broadband wireless network.

6. Data transmission method according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the mobile electronic device (30) exchanges radio signals via a wireless network with at least one antenna system at an over the ground positioned flight station (20).

7. Data transmission method according to one of the preceding claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the data is transmitted via wireless Standard IEEE 802.16.

8. A mobile electronic device having a receiving and transmitting station for receiving or transmitting data over a wireless network, and at least one screen (33), at least one operating device, such as a keyboard (36, 37) a mouse device (32 ), a microphone, a camera and / or the like, characterized in that the device (30) is adapted to be able to communicate wirelessly with at least one computer (10) or server such that it receives commands from the respective operating device sends and receive data from the computer or server, in particular for the visualization or sound, and that it has no operating system, but with him only the functions for data transmission are executable.

9. Mobile electronic device according to claim 8, characterized in that a computer unit, a memory and a controller for the control of the data flow from the operating device to the station for receiving and transmitting and vice versa is present.

10. Mobile electronic device according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the device comprises a housing (35), which preferably has a thickness of less than one centimeter, a length of 15 to 20 cm and a width of 8 to 12 cm is provided.

11. A mobile electronic device according to claim 10, characterized in that in the housing (35) diverse interfaces are present, such as in each case at least one USB port (41, 42) a serial port (44) for a monitor, a Printer- Plug connection (45) and a connection (46) for a headphone.

12. Mobile electronic device according to one of claims 8 to 11, characterized in that a funnel-shaped antenna on the housing (35) is arranged, which transmits or receives electromagnetic waves over a limited angle.