EP1092310A1 - Module destine a des terminaux mobiles - Google Patents

Module destine a des terminaux mobiles

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EP1092310A1
EP1092310A1 EP99933397A EP99933397A EP1092310A1 EP 1092310 A1 EP1092310 A1 EP 1092310A1 EP 99933397 A EP99933397 A EP 99933397A EP 99933397 A EP99933397 A EP 99933397A EP 1092310 A1 EP1092310 A1 EP 1092310A1
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Prior art keywords
mobile terminal
expansion module
data
component
storing
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English (en)
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Souhad Ayoub
Mats Olof Winroth
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Telia Co AB
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Telia AB
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W88/00—Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
    • H04W88/02—Terminal devices
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/44—Arrangements for executing specific programs
    • G06F9/445—Program loading or initiating
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/0202—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets
    • H04M1/0254—Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets comprising one or a plurality of mechanically detachable modules
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72406—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by software upgrading or downloading
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72409—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality by interfacing with external accessories
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72445—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality for supporting Internet browser applications

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a system and a device to increase the capacity of a mobile terminal to execute user applications or manage executing environments for user applications.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to provide a system and a device which makes it simple to adapt the capacity of a mobile terminal to solve the above stated problem.
  • One aim of the present invention consequently is to make it possible to, in a simple way, extend the capacity of a mobile terminal and manage resource demanding user applications .
  • Another aim is to make it possible to in a simple way extend the capacity of a mobile terminal and manage the resource demanding execution environments which are required for certain user applications.
  • Yet another aim is to increase the capacity of an originally resource-scanty mobile terminal to make possible execution of resource demanding Java applications or applications based on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) .
  • WAP Wireless Application Protocol
  • a system to increase the capacity of a mobile terminal and to execute user applications and manage execution environments for user applications.
  • the main components in said system consist of a mobile terminal, including one or more interface devices, at which each such device is designed for reception of an expansion module, and an expansion module including at least one circuit for storing of data, at which said module also includes a physical and logic interface designed for connection to the interface device of said mobile terminal, and at which a connected module together with the mobile terminal constitute an integrated hardware platform.
  • an expansion module intended to increase the capacity of a mobile terminal to execute user applications or handle execution environments for user applications, at which said expansion module includes at least one circuit for storing of data, or a circuit for processing of data, and an interface designed for connection to a mobile terminal, and at which the module at connection to the mobile terminal expands the hardware platform of the mobile terminal .
  • the invention consequently is based on the knowledge of providing a capsule including hardware resources, in form of memory circuits and/or a processor, with an interface by means of which one in a simple way can connect the capsule to a mobile terminal.
  • the capsule is connected in such a way that its hardware resources expand the existing hardware resources of the mobile terminal and creates an integrated hardware platform on which applications and application environments in form of, for instance, operating systems or Java machines can execute.
  • hardware platform is meant all the hardware resources which are available for an application which executes on a mobile terminal, i.e.
  • the term mobile terminal refers to, within the frame of this invention, a portable terminal in form of a telephone, a handportable computer or the like, by means of which a user or an application can communicate wirelessly.
  • One advantage of the present invention consequently is that a mobile terminal, or mobile telephone, can be manufactured with smallest possible memory and processor capacity fort the most basic functions, such as common wireless telephony.
  • the mobile terminal On basis of demands of different users to have possibility to use different types of application programs, where different programs make different great demands of the capacity of the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal then can by means of an expansion module be optimised to be possible to use for a certain type of applications which require a certain capacity of the mobile terminal .
  • a user consequently only need to pay for the hardware he/she at the moment is needing, and can change between different expansion modules, which contribute with different degrees of capacity additions to the mobile terminal, at a rate which fits his/her wishes to utilise different application environments.
  • a new service or application may quickly have a large number of users as these can keep their old mobile terminals and only need to upgrade them with new expansion modules.
  • a system with expansion modules according to the invention therefore will be optimal from both the users and the service provider's perspective.
  • the present invention will open the possibilities for a lot of new applications which can utilise the client-server concept which WAP is based on. The client part of the application then can be hold in the expansion module and utilise said defined API.
  • the hardware resources in said expansion module, or capsule, via the interface are connected to the internal addressing and data signals of the mobile terminal.
  • a processor irrespective of whether is in the mobile terminal or the expansion module, will be able to control the resources in the common hardware platform without any preceding form of communication between different units which, for instance, is the case when a mobile terminal and a portable computer are interconnected.
  • a memory circuit is located in the mobile terminal or in the expansion module, as such consideration need not to be taken because the circuit is connected to the common addressing and data signals of the hardware platform.
  • connection consequently resembles the connection of an expansion card to a computer, where the computer in this case corresponds to the mobile terminal, and the expansion card to the expansion module.
  • all other functionality which is built up in the mobile terminal such as set up of calls, call control and handling of SMS messages (Short Message Services), will of course be available to an application irrespective of where in the hardware platform the processor which executes the application is located.
  • a memory circuit included in said expansion module includes in advance stored data.
  • This data constitute either the whole of, or parts of, a user application or application environment in advance stored in the module.
  • Another preferred utilisation of in advance stored data is that these for configuration of the hardware platform include a program routine for this purpose, and belonging configuration parameters.
  • This configuration maps i.a. all the included components in the hardware platform which are intended to be memory mapped on one to the hardware platform common address space.
  • Figure 1 schematically shows a mobile telephone arranged to be included in a system according to the invention
  • Figure 2 schematically shows an exemplified expansion module according to the invention.
  • Figure 3 schematically shows an exemplified system in full according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows schematically a mobile telephone 10 designed to be included in a system according to the invention.
  • the mobile telephone includes an interface device 20 designed for reception of an expansion module.
  • the mobile telephone includes a lot of components, i.a. a processor 30, a memory 31, and a number of I/O- related ( Input/Output ) circuits which commonly only have been indicated by a reference designation 32.
  • the indicated circuits 32 include a lot of circuit hardware related to the I/O-functionality which typically exists in a conventional mobile telephone; such circuits can be related to a keypad, a display, a loudspeaker, a microphone etc.
  • the processor 30 addresses and controls other hardware 31, 32, and reads/writes data from/to said other hardware.
  • This flow of signals to, respective from, the in the mobile telephone included components are indicated by two-way arrows which symbolise both address and data buses. It is to the expert well known how these control and data signals are connected to the different components, and how the different components utilise these to achieve the functionality which exists in a conventional mobile telephone.
  • the main difference between a mobile telephone according to the present invention and a conventional mobile telephone is that the former includes an interface device 20. Further the mobile telephone according to the invention is characterised in that this interface device makes it possible to directly connect an external unit to the address and data buses 40 of the mobile terminal.
  • Figure 1 shows how the address and data buses 40 are directly connected to the interface device 20.
  • the upper address/data bus connection 40' is intended for connection of further processor power
  • the lower address/data bus connection 40" is intended for connection for further memory capacity.
  • a controllable switch 50 makes possible control of address respective data signals either to/from the mobile terminal's own processor, or to/from a connected processor. How the switch is controlled is determined on basis of which application or application environment which the mobile handles.
  • the location of the interface device 20 is only an exemplification; the interface device can of course be located at another suitable place.
  • the interface device can be located, for instance, on the mobile terminal on such a place where it is hidden behind the battery.
  • FIG. 2 shows schematically an expansion module 60 according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the expansion module includes a DSP 70 (Digital Signal
  • the expansion module also includes a memory circuit 80 including both PROM-memory 81 (Programmable Read Only Memory 81 (Programmable Read Only Memory 81).
  • RAM-memory 82 Random Access Memory
  • the processor 70 and the memory 80 are connected to an interface 95.
  • the interface 95 is designed for connection to a corresponding interface at a mobile terminal in such a way that the processor 70 at connection, via a communications path 85', and a connection point 90' is connected to the address and data bus of the mobile terminal; consequently communication path 85' will constitute a form of extension of the address and data bus of the mobile terminal.
  • the memory 80 will, via the communication path 85" and another connection point 90" in the interface 95, be connected to the address and data bus of the mobile terminal at connection to a corresponding connection point an interface arranged on the mobile terminal.
  • PROM-memory there are configuration data stored in advance intended to configure the hardware platform of a mobile terminal at connection of the expansion module to a mobile terminal.
  • the PROM-memory also contains data in form of one in advance stored application specific initiating routine, which routine at connection of the expansion module to the mobile terminal is intended to initiate loading and storing of application software in the RAM-memory 82.
  • the application software consist of, for instance, the client part of an application which follows the WAP-standard, and the initiating routine is so designed that, at connection to the mobile terminal, this software is loaded from a server over a mobile telephone network.
  • FIG 3 shows schematically a system according to one more embodiment of the present invention.
  • the system includes a mobile terminal 10 and an expansion module 60, which has been connected to an interface device 20 designed on the mobile terminal.
  • the in Figure 2 shown connection points 90' respective 90" associated with the expansion module have been connected to the corresponding connection points 40' respective 40" of the mobile terminal shown in Figure 1, by connection of the interface 95 of the expansion module to the interface device 20 of the mobile terminal .
  • the combination of the expansion module and the mobile terminal has resulted in that the address and data buses 40 of the mobile terminal now are directly connected to the processor 70 and memory 80 of the expansion module.
  • the hardware platform of the mobile terminal consequently has been extended with these two said resources to at that make possible execution of capacity demanding applications or application environments on the expanded mobile terminal.
  • the connection of the expansion module 60 has resulted in that one in advance stored interruption routine in the mobile telephone has initiated reading of in the PROM- memory 81 in advance stored configuration data, which data are used to configure the address space for the resources of the mobile terminal, which by connection of the expansion module has been expanded, and for controlling of the switch 50.
  • the interruption routine also has attended to that the in the PROM-memory in advance stored initiating routine has been called, at which this routine has resulted in calling a server over the mobile telephone network, followed by loading and storing of application software in the RAM-memory 82.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un système et un dispositif permettant d'augmenter la capacité d'un terminal mobile à exécuter des applications utilisateurs ou à gérer des environnements d'exécution destinés à des applications utilisateurs. A cet effet, un terminal mobile comprend un dispositif interface destiné à recevoir un module d'extension, et un module d'extension comprend au moins un circuit de mémorisation de données ainsi qu'une interface destinée à être connectée au dispositif interface de ce terminal mobile. Un module connecté et le terminal mobile constituent ensemble une plate-forme matériel intégrée.
EP99933397A 1998-07-01 1999-06-28 Module destine a des terminaux mobiles Withdrawn EP1092310A1 (fr)

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SE9802359 1998-07-01
SE9802359A SE9802359L (sv) 1998-07-01 1998-07-01 Modul för mobilterminaler
PCT/SE1999/001158 WO2000002361A1 (fr) 1998-07-01 1999-06-28 Module destine a des terminaux mobiles

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