ES2259902A1 - Method for displaying short messages on the television or on a personal computer. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Method for displaying short messages on television or on a personal computer that provides for the installation in the mobile terminal of an application that reads the sms inbox and the installation at the user's home of a bluetooth access point that the mobile terminal can detect, so that the terminal determines that it is in the domestic environment when it detects the bluetooth pico-cell, at which time it initiates the forwarding of messages to a repository, deactivating automatically when the bluetooth coverage is lost, returning to send sms messages to the terminal itself. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Method to display short messages in the Television or on a personal computer.

Object of the invention

The present invention, as its own title indicates, refers to a method for displaying the Short messages for a user's mobile on the TV or The home PC.

The mobile terminal is associated with the possibility of the user to move freely. However its use massive and constant makes it also used at home.

Statistics say that a high percentage of people spend several hours a day in front of the television, so which can be very useful to read the SMS you receive in the Mobile directly on the TV.

Background of the invention

Short messages or SMSs constitute a medium of communication widely used in today's society, constituting an important source of revenue for telephone operators mobile.

This makes users confident in their use and that new ways of using them are generated. It has been widespread use of sending SMSs to applications, for example for voting, participation in television programs, etc.

The display of personal SMSs in the television, while resting in the living room, or on the PC while doing other tasks or surfing the Internet it can be Very useful for users.

Description of the invention

The following definitions are used for various entities that make up the solution of the invention:

to)

Domestic environment: housing area of the user delimited by the coverage of a wireless technology Short range, for example bluetooth.

b)

Outside environment: general area in the that the mobile operator has coverage for example with technology GSM / GPRS, UMTS or any other that may appear in the future.

C)

Mobile with forwarding capability: mobile terminal in which it has been incorporated an application that allows you to forward short messages and detect bluetooth coverage

d)

Message repository: PC, server or any machine equipped with the necessary software and database to store messages forwarded from terminals previously cited.

and)

Message Retriever: PC, server or any machine equipped with the software necessary to recover the messages stored in the message repository previously cited and to visualize them in a domestic device equipped with screen such as PC or TV.

An application is loaded into the terminal, so it must be a programmable terminal such as Symbian terminals. This application must be able to be activated and deactivated at the will of the
Username.

The mobile execution environment must allow the application installed in the terminal read the inbox of SMSs and can establish IP connections using GPRS. This application will only resend short messages when coverage Bluetooth is present, deactivating this functionality when This coverage is lost. Both activation and deactivation It is automatic and prevents messages from being displayed on Home devices when the user is not at home.

At the user's address there must be a point Bluetooth access that the forwarding terminal can detect. In this way the terminal determines that it is in the domestic environment and will proceed to initiate the forwarding of posts.

The terminal sends the messages to the repository of posts. If it is in the user's address Forward by bluetooth technology. If you are in the network of Mobile operator services are forwarded by GPRS or similar.

The message retriever makes a connection to the repository periodically to recover new messages Once obtained it displays them on the screen of Television, PC or other device.

If the repository is in the environment domestic may match on the same machine as the recuperator. This solution provides the added value of ensuring the confidentiality of messages, which are not forwarded in a manner Remote through a public network such as GPRS.

For the best understanding of how much is left described herein are accompanying drawings in the that by way of example a practical case of realization according to the method recommended here.

Description of the figures

A schematic view is shown in figure 1 from state A, in which the user is roaming the environment outside, then acting the terminal as a mobile phone conventional.

In Figures 2 and 3 the state B is shown, in the one that the user has arrived at his address and the coverage Bluetooth is detected, at which time the application is activated. When the user leaves that coverage the application is deactivated and returns to the state represented in figure 1.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

The method of the present invention requires to its development a mobile terminal with which a application capable of:

to)

Detect when the terminal enters and leaves a certain area with bluetooth coverage, or another similar short range wireless technology; the terminal must be obviously endowed with this technology. An example of implementation is a Symbian application installed in a terminal with bluetooth

b)

Be able to forward incoming short messages to a remote server via wireless GPRS, UMTS or other technology available to you The mobile operator in the future. The network is currently recommended GPRS not having UMTS coverage in all territories.

Figure 1 shows a telephone terminal on which has implemented this method, when it is out of address of the user, in which case the SMS messages are received in your terminal as in any other user who does not have this service.

Figure 2 shows a situation in which the mobile terminal is within the user's address and in the bluetooth pico-cell, in which situation the terminal automatically resends the SMS you receive to a repository, which can reside on a PC inside the peak-cell Home bluetooth or be a mobile network server. If he repository is in the home environment may match on the same machine as the recuperator; this solution provides the added value of ensuring the confidentiality of messages, which they are not forwarded remotely through a public network like GPRS or stored in a non-user environment. If he repository is in the home environment SMS messages are forwarded by bluetooth, while if said repository resides in The mobile communication network is forwarded by GPRS.

Figure 3 shows a situation in which make a connection to the PC in which the SMS messages have been stored Forwarded by the application and displayed on television or in Other home device.

In short, during your stay at home messages arrive in the repository and will be retrieved periodically being displayed on a device with a screen. The Message recovery periodicity is configurable, being a Possible value every 2 minutes.

Claims (3)

1. Method for displaying short messages on television or a personal computer, characterized in that it provides for its development the installation in the mobile terminal of an application, which is activated and deactivated at the will of the user, which reads the inbox of SMS and has the capacity to establish IP connections through GPRS. Likewise, a bluetooth access point is provided at the user's home, such that a personal computer, which the mobile terminal can detect, so that the terminal determines that it is in the home environment when it detects the bluetooth peak-cell , at which time the forwarding of messages to a message repository begins, automatically deactivating when bluetooth coverage is lost and returning to the sending of SMS messages to the terminal itself. 2. Method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the message repository consists of a PC, mobile network server, or any machine equipped with the software and database necessary to store the messages forwarded from the mobile terminal, when said repository It is in the user's home, they are forwarded by bluetooth technology, while if it is in the mobile operator's service network, it is forwarded by
GPRS 3. Method according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the message recuperator makes a periodic connection with the repository, displaying them on the television screen or on the PC monitor once obtained, said recovery period being preferably about 2 minutes .