FI110983B - Publication of service content - Google Patents

Description

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PUBLICATION OF SERVICE CONTENT FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to telecommunication systems. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and system for displaying service content in a mobile communication system on a mobile station display.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Copyright publications are available to the consumer 10 in various media such as newspapers and magazines and on the Internet. Examples of such publications include cartoons, cartoons, cartoon drawings, caricatures, calendars, book covers, product catalogs, works of art, building drawings, trademarks, 15 brochures and self-made drawings. It is up to the consumer to actively seek or search for the desired service content, material or information in publications of interest to him. However, the consumer has not been able to get the publications he is interested in, regardless of time and place, for example, it has not been possible to read a cartoon on a mobile phone before.

Likewise, the publisher of information has previously had no media that directly and personally conveys the news to those who want it immediately after the information is published.

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol, WAP) defines a new type of image format, WBMP (Wireless Bit Map, WBMP), which is used to transfer image information over a network and to receive and display image information in a mobile station.

1 * However, WAP does not specify the display characteristics of the mobile station. Display size and resolution are thus optional for device manufacturers. Thus, it depends on the terminal 35 whether it recognizes other image formats and the size of the images it can display.

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It is essential for the operator that customers can use the services independently of the terminal. Therefore, new WAP services must be implemented to support all WAP terminals.

Patent publication WO 9856197 discloses a mobile communication system in which an external display unit is connected to the mobile station. The display unit may be a laptop computer or the like, arranged to communicate with the network via a mobile station.

10 The arrangement according to the publication uses SMS messages to update the stored images on the screen. The graphic images are pre-stored on an external display device and the information contained therein is updated with SMS messages. The system-15 arrangement of this publication is not capable of publishing graphical service content using a mobile device alone.

In addition, nowadays it is possible for mobile stations to receive icons stored and formed in pixel format, for which only a narrow portion of the display is reserved from the mobile station 20. In addition, it is possible to create images with a character-based SMS and to forward them to another mobile station. In this case, the sender's and receiver's screens must match each other in order for the image to appear on the recipient's 25 screens similar to the sender's screen. Therefore, no existing mobile station can send or receive and display graphical information in full screen size.

PURPOSE OF THE INVENTION

The object of the invention is to eliminate or at least significantly alleviate the above disadvantages. In particular, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new type of method and system for effectively and independently displaying information on a mobile station display.

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It is a further object of the present invention to provide a solution for providing a subscriber with a versatile and easy-to-use electronic publication subscription arrangement for a mobile station.

It is a further object of the invention to provide graphical service content consisting of, for example, a cartoon image and / or text to and from a mobile station and / or display and / or production on a mobile station.

10 With respect to the features of the present invention, reference is made to the claims.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention is intended to provide a method and system for publishing copyrighted products such as cartoons and the like in new media on a mobile device. The invention makes it possible to transmit service content consisting of a drawn image and / or text to a mobile station and to present it via a mobile station.

The invention relates to a method for displaying service content in electronic form on a mobile station display in a communication system. The communication system comprises a mobile communication network, a mat-25 mobile station with a display, a server communicating with the mobile communication network and a gateway arranged to connect the mobile communication network and the server. In the method, a transmission request for transmitting service content is transmitted to the server via a gateway 30 via a mobile station or other media. The request .. is received on the server, and then the desired service content is modified to fit the mobile display. The edited service content is sent to the mobile station from the server through a gateway. When editing 35 service content, it is divided into sections, each of which is saved as a separate file.

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Upon receipt of the request to receive service content, the type of the mobile station is checked for its properties, in particular the display properties, and the service content sent to the mobile station is modified based on the type. The type can be verified by receiving the type information in connection with the sending request or by actively examining messages sent by the mobile station. In this way, the user can be assured in a non-transparent manner that the user sees the received service content on the screen of his or her mobile station as error-free and exactly as intended for that screen.

In addition, the user may add a time when he wishes to receive the service content in the request for transmission of service content. Desired time of transmission. is stored on the server and periodically checks if the requested reception time has been reached. When the time is reached, the service content is sent to the user. Alternatively, 20 notifications may be sent to the user, allowing the user to confirm receipt of the service content. Alternatively, this feature can implement either a push-type service in which the service content is transmitted to the user, for example, immediately after the service content has appeared, or sequentially according to a user-defined period, or an on-demand type service in which the service or service content is provided to the user upon request.

In one embodiment, the service content is formed from a comic strip, whereby each comic frame image is divided into its own sub image frame, each sub image frame being stored in separate image files. Each sub-set of images is further formed into a transmission pack comprising a metadata and sub-images.

35 A upload packet or WML card (WML card) is a file or record that contains information about content transmitted by the server. The meta tag may be implemented in, for example, the WML metadata language or other suitable means. The metadata can include image presentation information, including at least the presentation order, for example, as links or link-5 rolls.

In another embodiment, the service content may be generated by the mobile station and forwarded to the server. The service content received on the server may be forwarded on the basis of the transmission information provided by the mobile station 10 to, for example, another server or another mobile station.

The invention further relates to a system for displaying service content in electronic form on a mobile display in a communication system comprising a mobile network, a mobile display with a display, a server communicating with a mobile network and a gateway arranged to connect the mobile network and the server. According to the invention, the system further comprises an editor for modifying the service content on the screen, and a transmitter for transmitting said service content from said server via said gateway to said mobile station. The system further comprises a checker for checking the type of the mobile station to determine the display characteristics of the mobile station before transmitting the service content.

Further, the system may comprise an adder for adding the desired reception time to said transmission request and a timer for periodically checking whether the requested reception time has been reached. The system may further comprise a recorder for storing, for example, a service content processed by a server or an external database, and a transmission packet formed therefrom with link references.

An advantage of the present invention over the prior art is that the invention enables efficient and terminal-independent publication of information on a mobile station display.

A further advantage of the invention is that it enables the subscriber to be provided with a versatile and easy-to-use electronic publication subscription arrangement for a mobile station.

Still further, the invention makes it possible to transmit and display and / or produce graphical service content, for example consisting of a drawn image and / or text, to and from a mobile station 10 and / or a mobile station.

In addition, the invention has the advantage over current media such as newspapers and magazines of being independent of time and place and personal.

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LIST OF FIGURES

In the following, the invention will be described in detail with the aid of exemplary embodiments, wherein Figure 1 schematically illustrates a system according to the invention, Figures 2a to 2c illustrate user interface functionality in an embodiment of the present invention, and Figures 3a and 3b illustrate alternative to-25 embodiments of WLM cards or generation in one embodiment of the present invention

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The system shown in Figure 1 comprises a mat-30 mobile communication network PLMN and a mobile station MS with a display 1. The mobile station MS is provided with WAP features in this example. The system further comprises a WAP server 3 which communicates with the mobile communication network PLMN and a WAP gateway 4 arranged to connect the PLMN and the server 3 of the mat-35 mobile communication network. The server 3 further includes a transmitter 2 ordered. · 7 110983 service content sent to subscriber. The system further comprises an editor 5 for editing the service content to fit the display 1. In this example, the editor 5 is implemented with software for server 3, and the prime examples of such software are a Photoshop graphics program or a special BMP-WBMP converter.

Further, the system shown in Figure 1 comprises a checker 8 provided on the server 3 to determine the type of the mobile station MS and its display 1 before transmitting the information. This can be accomplished by a small program block that filters the characteristics of the mobile station from the WAP message sent by the mobile station. For example, WAP version 1.2 defines a profile that allows the system to identify phone features. Instead, authentication functionality must be built for WAP version 1.0 in order to determine the type of terminal.

Further, the system shown in Figure 1 comprises an adder 9 for adding a desired reception time to said transmission request. This feature can also be implemented programmatically in the mobile station user interface. The server 3 may include a timer 10 for periodically checking whether the requested reception time 25 has been reached. When this is achieved, the timer 10 issues an instruction to send either the service content as it is or a confirmation request before sending the service content. The system also includes a recorder 6 for storing the processed service content and the transmission packet 30 formed therefrom with the link references in the transmission packet.

Figure 1 thus illustrates the overall architecture of the system. All the software required for the system functions is located on the WWW server 3, from which the information they provide is retrieved to the terminal 35 via the WAP Gateway 4.

When the user selects the Comic service from the service menu or otherwise arrives at the comic service r 8 110983 home page, he or she will see a WML page that looks approximately like Figure 1. Thus, you can use the homepage to select the latest comic that changes daily or to browse old cartoons.

5 The day's V&W link takes the user to a WML card showing the first image of the day's cartoon. Since not all mobile stations support scrolling, even in the up-down direction, the pictures need to be vertically split into several parts in order to perform the virtual retrieval function. Thus, the card containing the first image has, in fact, three images obtained by dividing the first frame of the cartoon into three parts. When the user then scrolls down the card, he or she displays the first 15 frames of the cartoon in its entirety. The lowest of the three images on the card serves as a link to the next card with the next frame of the cartoon divided in the same way. If desired, a text link can be added to the bottom of the card to access the next 20 pictures. Figure 2b shows an example of one screen appearing on the phone as the user scrolls, see black arrows, card facing down. At the end of the last screen of the comic strip is a link that returns to the main menu in Figure 2a, and a link that provides the previous 25 days of the cartoon.

The Old Series link takes the user to a card from which, in this example, the user can select one of the comics that have appeared in the last two weeks. In addition, you can enter the desired 30 comic book release dates for the page. For example, if a user remembers that a particular day came with a '' particularly good cartoon, then he or she can retrieve it after two weeks.

Figure 2c shows the Old Series 35 card, the black arrow again illustrating that the card has been scrolled down by the user. In the right figure in Figure 2c, all four rows fit on the same screen. The "Select Date" field opens a selection list 'from which you can select a date within the last two weeks. If a user enters a date, it will be used to retrieve it, rather than selecting a date from the selection list.

When the user searches for the desired date cartoon, it is displayed to them in the same way as the day cartoon. Unlike presenting a comic of the day, at the end of the last image of an old comic, there are also links to "previous" and "next" to follow the previous or next day's comic. The Next link only appears if newer cartoons exist and the previous link only if older ones exist.

Following are examples of generating WML packets with reference to Figures 3a and 3b. There are basically two options for generating cards. Either the deck of cards is generated each time the user retrieves them, that is, links to the main menu point to the cgi scripts, or every morning a separate script is executed to form up-to-date pages for that. day.

Option 1, every morning running script

Every morning, for example, at 6 o'clock, au-25 will run a program that creates a new main page, be it vwmain.wml. If the date is September 14, 1999, the "Main V&W" link of the generated main page, Figure 2a, points to the file ... / 14091999.wml, which is also generated and thus contains 30 comics for that day as well as links to the main menu and the previous day's comic ... / 13091999.wml). The main page link «c J" Old series "points to the file ... / vwoldies.wml, which contains the links to the cartoons for two weeks back as shown in Figure 3. Because the vwol-35 dies.wml file changes daily, it is also generated automatically by the executable program. The fourth file to be processed by the program is the previous 10 110983 comic file of that day, in this case ... / 13091999. wml. You need to add a link to the comic of the following day, as it is now 14 days.

So the program creates every morning: 5 New main menu, vwmain.wml

Date.wml card deck containing the cartoon for the day

New old series menu, vwoldies.wml

Prev_date.wml 10 decks of a new cartoon from the previous day

In Figure 3a, the shaded boxes depict the files that are generated by the program running in the morning. The image files in the white box are pre-made and placed in 15 predefined locations, where the image links in the 14091999.wml file point.

Option 2, the vnnl files are dynamically created every time you download

Alternatively, the front page would always remain the same 20. A "V&W of the day" link would indicate e.g.

to the script ... / haeSar j is. cgi? what = new and "Old Series" link to the script ... getVanhat. cgi. haeSarjis.cgi checks its parameters and notices that the most recent comic is requested, so it generates a wml-25 stack so that the images become image files named for that day. That is, if it were still September 14, 1999, the image files for the new cartoon would be 14091999_la. wbmp ... 14091999_3c. wbmp.

Below the last image is a link to the main menu and to the previous 30 days comic (... / haeSar j is. Cgi? What = 13091999). haeSar j too. cgi can • «get a date as a parameter, eg ... / haeSar j is. cgi? what = 13091999. In such a query, a wml pack is created from the images of the requested day, and links to the main menu and to the previous and next comic, if any, are placed under the last 35 images.

11 110983 searchVanhat.cgi generates a wml card with links to comics from the past two weeks. In this option, the links are cgi calls: ... / haeSar j is. cgi? what = 01091999, 5 ... / haeSar he. cgi? what = 02091999, ... / haeSarj is. cgi? what = 13091999.

Option 1 vs Option 2

The first option is better in that you don't have to run scripts every time si-10 pages are loaded, but you can load a pre-generated static WML package. It is enough to run one small program every morning so all the files are up to date. On the other hand, the page static is also a bad thing. For example, if you want to change the look or feel of pages after the service has been running for a while, then you need to make changes to old files separately. Again, the two changes do not cause any problems.

In option one, all the old required 20 files need to be retained in case they are retrieved later, in option two, it is not necessary to save anything other than image files. Option two is clearer and more desirable due to its greater dynamism.

In one example, a comic is rendered as service content to be transmitted as follows.

First, the image is converted to two colors, which improves the quality of the image after the wbmp conversion, at least when used with software called Prism.

30 The frames of the cartoon are then separated into their own frames, each frame can be up to 96 pixels wide.

, J the texts are easily understood. If the texts cannot be easily understood, the texts are edited. Each screen is divided into 40 pixels high slices depending on the type of phone you use. The slices are then converted to wbmp. Below is the WBMP conversion section. Images are saved with the following names: • t 12 110983 date_la.wbmp date_lb.wbmp date_lc.wbmp date_2a.wbmp 5 date_2b.wbmp date. wbmp date_3a.wbmp date_3b.wbmp date_3c.wbmp 10 The date in the format ddmmyyyy, for example, the picture pages on the first screen of the comic book that will appear on September 15, 1999, would be named 15091999_la.wbmp, 15091999_lb.wbmp, and 15091999_l.

15 WBMP Conversion WBMP is an image format defined by WAP. So far, the only known commercial program for converting images from common formats (GIF, 20 JPG) to WBMP is Spyglass Prism 2.2. This software acts as a web proxy and can do much more than just WBMP conversion. The WBMP conversion is only a small part of the functionality of that software.

25 Below is an example of script-generated WML escapes from different parts of a comic book service. In this example, the server-side implementation mode is selected in a two pages is always created dynamically when downloading.

30 Main Menu * <? Xml version = "l.0"?> <! DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC M - // WAPFORUM // DTD WML 1.1 // EN "" http://www.wapforuin.org/DTD/wniI llxml "> 35 <wml> <card id =" mainmenu "title =" Viivi & Wagner "> <p> <a href="/cgi-bin/haeSarjis.cgi?what=new"> 40 W < / a> <br/> <a href="/cgi-bin/haeVanhat.cgi"> Old Series </a> </p> 5 13 110983 </card> </wml>

Latest cartoon, day 14091999 <? Xml version = "l.0"?> <! DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "- // WAPFORUM // DTD WML 1.1 // EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_l .1.xml "> 10 <wml> <template> <do type =" prev "name =" Back "> <prev /> </do> 15 </template> <card id =" cl "title =" & W Sep 14, 1999 "> <P> cimg src =" / images / 14091999_la.wbinp "alt =" vwla "/> 20 <img src =" / images / 14091999_lb.wbmp "alt =" vwlb "/> < a href = "# c2" ximg src = "/ images / 14091999 lc.wbmp" alt = "vwlc" /> </a> </p> </card> 25 <card id = "c2"> <P> <img src = "/ images / 14091999_2a.wbmp" alt = "jee" /> cimg src = "/ images / 14091999 ~ 2b.wbmp" alt = "jee" /> <a href = "# c3" ximg src = "/ images / 14091999 2c.wbmp" alt = "jee" / x / a> 30 </p> </card> <card id = "c3"> <P> 35 <img src = "/ images / 14091999_3a. wbmp "alt =" jee "/> <img src =" / images / 14091999_3b.wbmp "alt =" jee "/> <img src =" / images / 14091999_3c.wbmp "alt =" jee "/> <a href = "/ cgi-bin / haeSarj is.cgi? what = 13091999"> Previous Day </a> <a href="/wnnain.wml”> Main Menu </a> 40 </p> </card> </ wml> 45 Old serials, get script old package produced by at.cgi Sep 14, 1999 <? xml version = "l.0"?> <! DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "- // WAPFORUM // DTD WML 1.1 // EN" 50 "http://www.wapforum.org /DTD/wml_l.1.xml "> <wml> <card id =" cardl "title =" Old "> <P> 55 Select the date: <br/>. <select name = "pvm" value = "09/01/1999">,! <option value = "01091999"> 09/09/1999 </option> coption value = "02091999"> 02/09/1999 </option> <option value = "03091999"> 03/09/1999 </option> 60 <! --- cut ---> <! --- cut ---> coption value = "12091999"> Sep 12, 1999 </option> coption value = "13091999"> Sep 13, 1999c / option> c / select> t 14 110983

Enter the date: <input name = "pvm2" /> <a href="/cgi- bin/haeSarjis.cgi?what=$(pvm)&#38;what2=$(pvm2)"> Get the series </a> </p> 5 </card> </wml>

The invention is not limited solely to the above exemplary embodiments, but many modifications are possible within the scope of the inventive idea defined by the claims.

Claims (10)

A method of presenting a service box in the display of a mobile telephone in a communication system comprising a mobile network (PLMN), a mobile telephone (MS) with associated display (1), a server (3), which starts in connection with the mobile network, and a network lock (4) arranged to connect the mobile network (PLMN) and the server, which method comprises the following stages: a request for transmitting the service content for sending service is sent to said server The request, said request is received in the server, the service content is reshaped to suit the display of the mobile telephony, and from said server is sent to said mobile telephony via said power supply the service content it requested, which comprises the following stage: the type of the telephony is checked for investigation of the characteristics of the display, and the service content to be sent to the lecture apparatus is transformed on the base of said type, characterized in that said transformation stage further comprises the following stages: the service contents are divided into parts, and each part is saved as a separate file. 2. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises the following stages: to said request for transmission of the service station, data about a desired reception time is added, said desired reception time is recorded in said server, 110983 with regular intervals are checked if all the requested reception time has occurred, and the service content is transmitted if said time 5 has occurred. 3. A method according to claim 2, characterized in that the method further comprises the following stages: as the receiving time, the data appearing time is recorded and the service content is sent to the recipient immediately after it has appeared. 4. A method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said transformation stage further comprises the following stages: the service contents are formed from a serial image, each image in the serial image is divided into its own sub-set, each sub-set is saved in separate image files, and from each set of images, a transmission packet is formed which contains the description of contents and the sub-frames. 5. A method according to claim 4, characterized in that said embedding stage further comprises the following stage: the contents description includes data on the presentation of the images comprising at least the presentation order of the images. 30 6. A method according to claim 5, characterized in that said presentation order for the images is formed with associated link references. The method of claim 1, characterized in that the method further comprises the following stages: The service content is conveyed from the mobile device to the server, and the service content is further transmitted on the basis of the transmission data provided by the mobile telephone. 8. System for presenting a service box in electronic form in the display of a mobile telephone device in a communication system comprising a mobile network (PLMN), a mobile telephone (MS) with associated display box (1), a server (3) , staring in conjunction with the mobile network, and a network lock (4), which is arranged to connect the mobile network (PLMN) and the server, a converter (5) for converting the service so that it is suitable for the display box (1) and a transmitter for transmitting said service contents from said server (3) via said network lock (4) to said mobile telephony, characterized in that the system further comprises: a recording unit (6) for recording the processed service contents and the image transmission packet and for saving the link references which determine the transmission order in the transmission packet. 9. A system according to claim 8, characterized in that the system further comprises a control device (8) for investigating the type of mobile phone device (MS) and its character box (1) characteristics before transmitting the service content. System according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the system further comprises: an adder (9) for supplying the desired reception time to said transmission request, and a timer (10), which is controlled at regular intervals. if the requested time of receipt has fallen. in