WO2004046939A1

WO2004046939A1 - An information transfer and presentation system, where a mobile terminal is used as a remote control for controlling a computer

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Publication number: WO2004046939A1
Application number: PCT/SE2003/001761
Authority: WO
Inventors: Carl Anders Olsson
Original assignee: Carl Anders Olsson
Priority date: 2002-11-15
Filing date: 2003-11-13
Publication date: 2004-06-03
Also published as: SE524186C2; SE0203386L; AU2003276810A1; SE0203386D0

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information transfer and information presentation system (1) that uses a mobile telephone network (3) and a data network (4), such as the 'Internet'. The system (1) requires the presence of a user (2), a computer unit (5) connected or connectable to said data network (4), and the use of a user-related database (6 (2) co-ordinated with the data network (4), and an associated server (7). The computer unit (5) is allocated a unique code (5). The mobile telephone apparatus (8) is also allocated a unique code (8). Corresponding unique codes (5’), (8’) may be stored in said database (6, 2) related to the data network (4), for a significant and secure exchange of information between said computer unit (5) and said apparatus (8). Said computer unit (5) includes a co-ordinating device (5k), in which catalogued information (5ka - 5kd) relating to a number of files (5ha - 5hd) is stored. The mobile telephone apparatus (8) functions as a remote control means for control of a music player (5f) belonging to the computer unit (5).

Description

AN INFORMATION TRANSFER AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM ; WHERE

A MOBILE TERMINAL IS USED AS A REMOTE CONTROL FOR CONTROLLING

A COMPUTER

Field of invention

The present invention relates generally to an information transfer and/or an information presentation system, and more particularly to such a system that requires the use of a mobile telephone apparatus, a mobile telephone network and also a computer unit, a data network, referred to in the following as the "Internet" by way of an example.

More specifically, the system to which the invention relates also requires the use of a computer unit that is connected to and/or that can be connected to the data network and that includes an associated display unit and/or a display surface, an associated keyboard and preferably also a sound-emitting device, wherein the latter may conveniently be adapted for good sound reproduction.

It will be obvious to the person skilled in this art that the computer unit used may be one chosen from many different designs, ranging from large units to hand-carried units, although the invention has a special application in respect of computer units of a more stationary nature than the latter.

Thus, the invention is based on a practical system that requires coordination between said computer unit of a more stationary nature and said mobile telephone apparatus, where the mobile telephone apparatus is able to function as a remote control device for the implementation of different computer unit functions via an exchange of signals between said mobile telephone apparatus and said unit.

Thus, the computer unit shall be co-ordinated in a known manner with or include a receiver adapted for an information carrying signal structure externally of the computer unit, and a transmitter adapted for a corresponding signal structure, so that communication and information exchange can be achieved between the computer unit and the data network with the aid of said receiver and transmitter.

The invention is also based on the use of a user-related database that can co-act with a server, which is related to said data network, so as to enable the computer unit and the server or the database to be in a communication and information exchange mode with each other.

Thus, computer units shall be able to communicate with the data network and with the network-related server, and with the user-associated database, related to said server in a known manner, whereas the mobile telephone apparatus shall be capable of co-acting with said data network via an available mobile telecommunications system, for communication and information exchange therebetween in a known manner.

The inventive system finds its particular application and provides significant and adapted user mobility when the mobile telephone apparatus lacks a communication channel that is physically connected directly to the computer unit.

The present invention is based on conditions associated with allowing a search to be made for one or more desired files that are stored, in a known manner, on a hard disk in the computer unit. The following description is intended to exemplify this feature, by allowing a search to be made among a number of files, that each exist in the form of software and that will be referred to hereinafter as "music files", although it will be understood by those knowledgeable in this art that such music files can be exchanged for video films or other files without departing from the special properties and criteria of the present invention. The present invention at least finds particular application when the stored files include software represented by stored audio information, among other things.

Description of the background of the invention

It is known that different information transfer and information presentation systems not only utilise telephone apparatus and equipment for the transfer of information via a fixed telephone network, but also telephone apparatus and equipment for the transfer of information via a mobile telephone network and that such systems are also able to transfer information via a data network, such as the "Internet". When considering the conditions appertaining to or linked to the present invention, it is also known that such systems may be allowed to include a computer unit, which is connected to or which can be connected to the data network and which is provided, among other things, with a display unit, a display surface, a keyboard and a sound-emitting device, in addition to the requisite processors, data programs and memories.

Such a computer unit is co-ordinated with a transmitter and with a receiver for information carrying signals external of the computer unit, via established and fixed or physical communications links.

It is also known to use user-related databases within the data network in different designs and in different so-called switch-ins.

It is also known to allow received and transmitted information/carrying signals to be transmitted via, inter alia, the data network and to be co-ordinated with a data network associated unit, designated "server".

Also forming part of the known prior art is a computer unit, a home computer unit, equipped with or connected to a special sound-emitting device that can be supplemented with software to form a so-called "music player", where a number of music files can be stored on a hard disk. It is also known to supplement such a computer unit with means for collecting and categorising in said device relevant data occurring as search arguments with regard to said music files.

Also known to the art are various systems and methods that facilitate a search among the said categorised data, so that a found desired music file will be activated and an audio experience presented via the music player in correspondence with the software content of the music file.

It is also known to allow a mobile telephone apparatus to be connected directly to said computer unit via a fixed of physical communications path or channel, so that different functions can be controlled within the computer unit via the mobile telephone apparatus.

It has also been proposed that this communications path or channel between the mobile telephone apparatus and the computer unit can consist in a connection line, which co-acts with the telephone apparatus on the one hand and with the computer unit on the other hand, via contact devices on respective ends of said line. Alternatively, the connection may be a wireless connection, e.g. a "Blue Tooth" connection. SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

TECHNICAL PROBLEMS

When taking into consideration the technical deliberations that a person skilled in this particular art must make in order to provide a solution to one or more technical problems that he/she encounters, it will be seen that, on the one hand, it is necessary initially to realise the measures and/or the sequence of measures that must be undertaken to this end and, on the other hand, to realise which means is/are required to solve one or more of said problems. On this basis, it will be evident that the technical problems listed below are highly relevant to the development of the present invention.

In the case of a system which utilises a mobile telephone network and a data network, such as the "Internet", and which requires a user, a computer unit that is connected or connectable to the data network and that includes a keyboard, a display unit and a sound-emitting device, and where the computer unit is co-ordinated with a receiver adapted for the external information carrying signals of the computer unit and a transmitter, and a user-related database co-ordinated with the data network, and where received transmitted signals are sent by said data network, which is co-ordinated with a server, and a mobile telephone apparatus related to the mobile telephone network and adapted for sending information carrying signals to and receiving information carrying signals from said data network, and where the mobile apparatus may lack a direct communications channel to said computer unit, it will be seen, when considering the earlier standpoints of techniques as described above, that a problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages afforded by allowing said computer unit to be allocated a unique code and also allowing said mobile telephone apparatus to be allocated a unique code and that corresponding unique codes shall be stored in a user-related database, associated with the data network, therewith indicating unique and positive co-ordination between said code-allocated mobile telephone apparatus and said code-allocated computer unit.

It will also be seen that a technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with the ability to establish a significant and secure exchange of information between said computer unit and said mobile telephone apparatus via the data network and with the aid of said codes.

It will also be seen that a technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with providing the computer unit with a device, that is able to contain solely catalogued data/information concerning the files or music files stored on the hard disk, where data/information is co-ordinated such as to provide the use of simple search routines.

In addition, it will be seen that a technical problem resides in the ability to realise the measures that are required and the co-ordination that shall be utilised in order to enable the level of volume and other criteria to be selected in addition to the selection of a music file from among a plurality of accessible files.

It will also be seen that a technical problem resides in the ability to search among catalogued data/information in a structured fashion with the aid of the keypad of a mobile telephone apparatus, all of said information being allocated to a computer unit, with the aid of a mobile telephone apparatus which is not connected directly to the computer unit, and therewith allow the mobile telephone network and the data network to be used for the positive transmission of data/information between the computer unit and the mobile telephone apparatus while using a data network associated database and vice versa. Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with enabling the code allocated to the mobile telephone apparatus to be inserted into said computer unit through the medium of said keyboard.

In this regard, a technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing the code allocated to the computer unit to be entered into the mobile telephone apparatus through the medium of its keypad.

Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages afforded by allowing said co-ordinating device to include stored catalogued data/information relating to each available music file in a volume of information, which is so limited as to be less than the volume of information that is accommodated on the accessible display surface of a mobile telephone apparatus. In addition, a technical problem also resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing said co-ordinating device to include stored information relating to each available music file in a volume of information, which is so limited as to be less than the volume of "rolling" information that is accommodated on an accessible display surface of a mobile telephone apparatus.

Still another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing information in the coordinating device concerning the catalogued information relating to a number of stored music files to be copied and stored in a user-related database connected to the data network.

A technical problem also resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with enabling a structured search to be activated within said device and/or within copied and stored catalogued information with the aid of said mobile telephone apparatus that can communicate with a server and a user-related database via the mobile telephone network and the data network, by manipulating the buttons or keys on the mobile telephone apparatus in a structured fashion.

Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with co-ordinating this structured manipulation of said buttons or keys so as to connect with such functions and menus as those already developed for mobile telephone apparatus, i.e. to allow digit-allocated keys to also represent alphabetical letters.

Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing said structured actuation of the telephone keys to be effected sequentially with the aid of alphanumerical signs on the keys of the keypad, so as to enable one and the same button to be used for different functions, in accordance with a pattern applied on mobile telephone apparatus. A further technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing said co-ordinating device to include software, which is able to realise, in response to information received from the server via the data network, which music file shall be activated, and also the volume and timbre (coloration) of the music concerned, etc. Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages afforded by allowing said data/information to initiate activation of software designed and structured to influence a music player included in the computer unit. A technical problem also resides in the ability to realise the significance of adapting said co-ordinating device to periodically, preferably automatically, update the database, via the server, with respect to music files available at that time via the data network.

In addition, a technical problem resides in the ability to realise the signifi- cance of and the advantage associated with enabling the co-ordinating device to be upgraded, periodically and/or automatically, with catalogued data/information originating from the music files stored on the hard disk.

A technical problem also resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with enabling the computer unit to be adapted, when necessary, to present a unique identifying code on said display unit and to enable the user to transfer this code manually to the mobile telephone apparatus and thereafter be able to activate functions in said mobile telephone apparatus that enables it to function as a remote control device, by means of which the computer unit can be co-ordinated with the mobile telephone apparatus via the mobile telephone network and the data network with the database.

In this regard, a technical problem also resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing the mobile telephone unit to be adapted, when necessary, to present a unique identifying code on its display unit or display surface, and to allow the user to transfer this code manually to the computer unit via the keypad and thereafter activate functions, within the mobile telephone apparatus that enable it to function as a remote control device that enables the computer unit to be co-ordinated with the mobile telephone apparatus information-wise, via the mobile telephone network and the data network with the database. Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with allowing said mobile telephone apparatus to consist of a handheld computer, a WAP telephone or the like that can serve as a user-available remote control for searching through catalogued information relating to a number of music files stored in the co-ordinating device in a structured fashion and to enable the music player to be activated when the item searched for is found, via key manipulation on the keypad of the mobile telephone apparatus.

Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages associated with enabling the sound volume, etc., of the searched and activated music file to be controlled via said mobile telephone apparatus.

Another technical problem resides in the ability to realise the significance of and the advantages afforded by allowing a data network associated server to be structured as a piece of software and placed at a geographical location distanced from both the mobile telephone apparatus and the computer unit and communicating therewith over the "Internet", and to be adapted to create secure communication with the co-ordinated mobile telephone apparatus and computer unit associated device.

Solution

The present invention takes as its starting point the known technology described above and defined in the preamble of the accompanying Claim 1.

With the intention of solving one or more of the aforesaid technical problems, it is proposed, in accordance with the present invention, that the known technology shall be supplemented with allowing a computer unit to be allocated a first unique code and to allow a mobile telephone apparatus to be allocated a second unique code, and that said unique codes are co-ordinated for identifying a co-ordinated computer unit with a used mobile telephone apparatus, and that said unique codes are adapted for a co-ordinated and secure exchange of information between said computer unit having catalogued information relating to a number of stored files, a co-ordinating device, and said mobile telephone apparatus.

By way of proposed embodiments, that lie within the basic concept of the present invention, it is proposed that the code allocated to the mobile telephone apparatus is capable of being entered into said computer unit via its associated keyboard or vice versa.

The co-ordinating device shall have stored therein catalogued data/information relating to each available music file. It is also proposed that the text content or the volume of information, relating to each available music file and stored in the co-ordinating device, shall be less than or equal to the volume of information that is accommodated on a display surface of a mobile telephone apparatus. Alternatively, the text content or the volume of information, relating to each available music file and stored in said co-ordinating device, shall be less than or equal to the adapted volume of "rolling" information that is accommodated on a display surface of a mobile telephone apparatus.

It is also proposed that the catalogued information, relating to a number of the stored music files, e.g. all of said files, contained in the co-ordinating device, can be copied to and stored in said user-related database.

It is also proposed that a structured search can be made in said coordinating device and/or in copied and co-ordinated stored catalogued and structured information through the medium of said telephone apparatus communicating with a server and the user-related database via the mobile telephone network and the data network, by structured key manipulation on the keypad of the mobile telephone apparatus.

This structured key manipulation and searching process can be effected in a known manner with the aid of digits and letters in accordance with current func- tions in mobile telephony technology.

The co-ordinating device in the computer unit shall primarily include software, which realises which music file shall be activated in response to information from the server and the database, via the data network, and also the sound volume, timbre, etc., at which the music shall be played, where said information is adapted to activate software that influences a music player.

It is also proposed that the co-ordinating device is able to update and upgrade the database periodically, and preferably automatically, with regard to music files available at that time via said data network.

It is also proposed that the computer unit is able to send a unique computer unit identification code to the display unit in plain-text, and present said plain-text code on said unit so that the user will be able to transfer this code to the mobile telephone apparatus manually with the aid of associated buttons or keys and thereafter be able to activate functions within the mobile telephone apparatus and use the mobile telephone apparatus as a remote control device via said functions.

It is also proposed that the mobile telephone apparatus is adapted to send and to present in plain-text a unique identification code on its display surface therewith enabling the user to transfer this code manually to the computer unit and thereafter use the mobile telephone apparatus as a remote control device in unambiguous co-ordination with the computer unit.

The mobile telephone apparatus may, alternatively, comprise a handheld computer, laptop, or a WAP-telephone that can be used by the user as a remote control means in respect of the computer unit and its music player, in accordance with the directives of the invention.

When activated, the mobile telephone apparatus is able to control the sound volume of a music file in addition to the actual file itself.

The server is structured as software in a known manner and is normally placed in a geographical location that is distanced from the mobile telephone apparatus and the computer unit and communicates with said apparatus and said unit over the "Internet". The server is also adapted to create secure communication solely to or between the mobile telephone unit and the computer unit coordinated by said codes, or the co-ordinating device belonging to the computer unit respectively.

The catalogued information co-ordinated in said co-ordinating device can be sent, via the server, periodically for storage in the user-related database.

A WAP-address to a user-associated WAP-page can be activated via the keypad of the mobile telephone apparatus. A communications link between the mobile telephone apparatus and the mobile telephone network and between the telephone network and the data network may be a GPRS-connection.

Advantages The primary advantages afforded by or linked to the present invention and its significant features reside in the provision of conditions which allow a user, who has access to a mobile telephone apparatus or telephone equipment and also to a more or less stationary computer unit, to use said mobile telephone apparatus as a computer unit remote control device, wherewith the exchange of signals with regard to said remote control in the form of a co-ordinating device for searching through catalogued information belonging to the computer unit and relating to a number of stored music files allows a music file or the like found in said search to be activated such as to present the content of said file via a sound transmitting device.

The primary characteristic features of an information transfer and information presentation system according to the present invention are set forth in the characterising clause of the accompanying Claim 1.

Brief description of the drawings A number of embodiments of an information transfer and information presentation system, having and exposing characteristic features of the present invention, will now be described in more detail and by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of a computer unit, a computer unit user, a mobile telephone apparatus associated with the user, a telecommunications adapted network and a data network, in the form of "Internet", included in a principle system circuit diagram, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 illustrates the system of Figure 1 adapted and supplemented for a mobile telephone apparatus having access to WAP-addresses; and

Figure 3 illustrates the system of Figure 1 adapted and supplemented for a mobile telephone apparatus that includes a so-called remote control program. Description of embodiments at present preferred

It is pointed out initially that in the following description of embodiments, at present preferred and having the characteristic features of the present invention and illustrated in the figures of the accompanying drawings, we have elected to use terms and special terminology with the primary intention of illustrating the inventive concept more clearly.

However, it will be noted that the expressions chosen here shall not be seen as being limited solely to the actual terms used in the description, but that each term chosen shall be interpreted as also including all technical equivalents that function in the same way or in at least essentially the same way so as to achieve the same or essentially the same function and/or technical effect.

Thus, Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the basic conditions associated with the present invention, where the significant features of the invention have been generally concretised by means of an exemplifying embodiment thereof described in more detail hereinafter.

Thus, Figure 1 illustrates an information transfer and/or information presentation system 1 that can be used by a user 2.

The system 1 includes, to this end, a mobile telephone network 3 and a network-related data network 4, which is connected to or can be connected to a computer unit 5, either directly or indirectly.

The system 1 requires the user 2 to manipulate manually a computer keyboard 5a or the keypad 8a or the like of a mobile telephone apparatus 8 or a cell-phone, among other things, in a known manner, in a way that will be apparent from the following text. The system 1 includes said computer unit 5 that is connected to or connectable to said data network 4 and that has, inter alia, said keyboard 5a, a display unit 5b and a sound or music emitting device 5c. The computer unit 5 is co-ordinated with a receiver 5d and a transmitter 5e adapted for receiving and/or sending data/information carrying signals external of the computer unit 5. Co-ordinated with the data network 4 is a user-related database 6, wherein received and transmitted signals are sent by said data network 4 which, in turn, is co-ordinated with a server 7 in a known manner. The mobile telephone apparatus 8, related to the mobile telephone network 3, is adapted to send information carrying signals to and to receive such signals from the data network 4 via said mobile telephone network 3.

The special features of the invention and its flexibility and mobility find particular expression and application when the mobile telephone apparatus 8 lacks a direct, such as a fixed and/or physical, communication channel to said computer unit 5, this absence of a fixed communication channel being indicated by the reference K1 in Figure 1.

Chosen information and adapted software can be entered into the com- puter unit 5 in a known manner through the medium of a communications channel K2, as described in more detail hereinafter.

The mobile telephone network 3 includes a number of switching elements

3a, which function to enable an incoming call in the form of a data transfer to be directed to a called apparatus or equipment, by using an incoming communications link K3 and an outgoing communications link K4 in a manner known per se.

When applying the present invention, an exchange of data/information is effected and caused by the mobile telephone network 3 via two communications links K3a and K3b with the aid of said mobile telephone apparatus 8. The data network 4 can also be considered schematically to include a number of fictive switching elements 4a for controlling and activating functions therein with the aid of an incoming communications link K5 and an outgoing communications link K6.

Application in accordance with the present invention requires an informa- tion exchange with the mobile telephone network 3 via communication links K5a and K5b, and an information exchange with said server 7, via communication links K6a and K6b, said database 6 being co-ordinated with said server 7.

In this embodiment, the database 6 is considered to be related to the user 2 and his/her computer unit 5 and can therefore be allocated the reference sign 6(2) for a reason of clarity.

It will be understood that the invention can be applied by a user other than the user referenced 2 where this other user has access to his/her own computer unit and his/her own mobile telephone apparatus and where the mobile telephone network and the data network can be used in common by said users. The computer unit 5 is associated with or includes said keyboard 5a, said display unit 5b, and said sound emitting device 5c, all of which are fixedly connected directly to the computer unit 5 in a manner known per se.

The inventive system 1 is based on allocating to said computer unit 5 a unique and unitarily significant code, here given the reference character (5), and also on the allocation of a unique and apparatus 8 significant code, here given the reference character (8), to the mobile telephone apparatus 8.

The same or corresponding unique codes, here referenced (5^'), (8'), are fed to an associated user-related database 6 via said server 7 related to the data network 4, to achieve a secure exchange of significant information between the computer unit 5 and the mobile telephone apparatus 8.

The computer unit 5 typically includes a hard disk 5h, on which software containing a large number of music files 5ha - 5hd is stored.

The computer unit 5 also includes a device 5k, which includes structured catalogued information 5ka - 5kd relating to the content of each of these music files 5ha - 5hd, the nature and function of said device being explained more specifically hereinafter.

Figure 1 illustrates schematically the principles of an information transfer and information presentation system according to a first embodiment of the pre- sent invention, this embodiment enabling a search to be made among a number of music files available on the hard disk 5h to find a pre-selected music file and to allow activation of a computer-associated music player 5f, 5g to be initiated so that the content of the music file concerned can be presented audibly through said device or loudspeaker 5c connected to or co-ordinated with the computer unit 5. The computer unit 5 is, as mentioned above, co-ordinated with a receiver

5d and a transmitter 5e for data/information carrying signals external of the computer unit, said receiver and transmitter being illustrated as function blocks and intended to co-act with the data network 4 via communications channels K7a, K7b. The mobile telephone apparatus 8, related to the mobile telephone network 3, is adapted to send to and receive from said network data/information carrying signals via said communication channels K3a, K3b, and to send and receive data/information carrying signals between the mobile telephone network 3 and the data network 4 via further communication channels, designated K5a and K5b respectively.

The establishment of communication channels in this way is a known technique and will not therefore be described in detail.

It is possible to send and receive information carrying signals, via said communication channels K6a and K6b, between the data network 4 and a server 7 that may include a user-associated database 6(2) assigned to the user 2 and the computer unit 5. The computer unit 5 also includes a music player indicated as a block 5f, which, in practice, has the form of software 5g and shall be capable of being stored in the computer unit 5 as a computer program via the channel K2.

Also included in the unit 5 is said hard disk 5h which is adapted for the storage of all available files, such as music files, wherein each file includes complete information concerning the piece of music concerned and, in addition, unequivocal identification in the form of a file name.

Included in the computer unit 5 is also said device 5k, which co-ordinates solely catalogued and highly concentrated information 5ka - 5kd concerning each of the music files 5ha - 5hd and in which there is stored structurally solely co- ordinated information concerning respective music files and thus not the music files as such.

The user or person 2 is able to carry out a desired search for a desired music file and an associated piece of music directly in the device 5k and/or in the hard disk 5h via the keyboard 5a of the computer unit 5 and in the display unit 5b, and to activate the music player 5f, when the desired piece of music is found, and present the selected piece of music audibly over the device or loudspeaker 5c.

Considering that the display unit 5b of the kind meant here have a relatively large display surface 5b', it is possible to allow a relatively large amount of information co-ordinated in the device 5k to be presented on to said display surface.

According to the directives given with respect to the present invention, the device 5k shall be adapted to co-ordinate and further concentrate the catalogued information and/or data over all stored music files. This catalogued information is now so concentrated as to enable it to be presented on a display surface 8b' representative of the display surface allocated to the mobile telephone apparatus 8 or its correspondence.

It is thus necessary to concentrate information and to co-ordinate towards a number of small sub-categories with a limited number of text rows and a limited length for each text row.

The inventive system 1 thus requires initially the transfer of the software 5g that will represent and structure the music player 5f, via the channel K2.

Also necessary is the transfer, via channel K2, of each music file 5ha - 5hd to be stored on the hard disk 5h. Channel K2 may for example be a CD- reader, Internet-connection or the like.

This will normally involve a very large number of music files, here referenced 5ha...5hd for four illustrated and different music files.

In addition, it is required that solely catalogued information relating to each of the music files, such as music files 5ha...5hd shall be stored in said device 5k, said catalogued information being given for these four music files the reference signs 5ka, 5kb, 5kc and 5kd in Figure 1.

The devices and measures needed in order to create from the music files and other information data that can be catalogued in accordance with the present invention are not shown in detail. However, they lie well within the framework of standard technical procedures. Such concentrated information shall be structured as search arguments, wherewith, for instance, the information in 5ka may be coordinated to: a. Title of the music piece. b. The solo artist. c. Band or symphony orchestra. d. Text composer. e. Music composer. f. Text presentation. g. Type of music.

The code (8) allocated to the mobile telephone apparatus 8, can be entered by the user 2 into the computer unit 5 via the keyboard 5a. The code (5), allocated to the computer unit 5, can be entered by the user 2 into the mobile telephone apparatus 8 via the key or keypad 8a.

The information in the device 5k - which co-ordinates the catalogued information relating to a number of stored music files - can be copied and stored (5k) periodically and/or automatically in said user-related database 6(2) via the data network 4.

With the aid of said mobile telephone apparatus 8, communicating with said server 7 and user-related database 6 via the mobile telephone network 3 and the data network 4, it is now possible to activate a structured search through the information (5k) copied and stored in the database 6(2), by manipulating the buttons on the keypad 8a of the mobile telephone apparatus 8 in a structured fashion.

This structured manipulation of said buttons can be effected with the aid of alphanumerical signs in accordance with known functions applicable to mobile telephone apparatus 8.

The co-ordinating device 5k also includes software which, in response to information received from the server 7 via the data network 4, discerns which music file shall be activated and also the sound volume at which it shall be played, and so on. This information is also designed to influence and activate the music player 5f.

Communication links K7a and K7b enable a direct signal exchange to be effected between the data network 4 and the computer unit 5 and its receiver 5d and transmitter 5e. The device 5k may be adapted to send its unique identification code to the display unit 5b and to present this code on said display surface 5b', whereafter the user 2 enters and activates remote-controlling functions stored within the mobile telephone apparatus 8.

Thus, in its role as a remote control device, the mobile telephone appa- ratus 8 is able to activate each chosen music file 5ha - 5hd at a desired sound volume, and so on, with the proviso that the mobile telephone apparatus 8 is covered by the mobile telephone network 3.

The server 7 is structured as software and is placed at a geographical location distanced from both the mobile telephone apparatus 8 and the computer unit 5 and communicating with said apparatus and said unit over the "Internet" 4 and is adapted to create secure communication to and between each co-ordinated mobile telephone apparatus 8 and computer unit 5 and/or the device 5k belonging to said computer unit 5. Thus, information co-ordinated in said co-ordinating device 5k can be sent periodically and/or automatically via the data network 4 and the server 7 for storage in the user-related database 6(2), this periodicity being selected arbitrarily although preferably being on a two times a day basis.

Information relating to currently stored music files 5ha - 5hd can be sent periodically and automatically to the device 5k, preferably immediately prior to the aforedescribed copy transfer to the database 6(2).

The communication links K3a, K3b used between the mobile telephone apparatus 8 and the mobile telephone network 3 and the communication links K5a, and K5b used between the telephone network 3 and the data network 4 may consist of GPRS-connections.

As will be apparent from Figure 1 , the mobile telephone apparatus 8 may be allowed to communicate directly with the computer unit 5 and the device 5k, via the telephone network 3 and the data network 4.

It is also necessary for the mobile telephone apparatus 8 to include a special menu in order for said apparatus to function as a computer remote control means and to carry out a search in the device 5k.

This menu shall be allocated a code similar to or identical to said code (8) and shall be able to store an inserted code similar to or identical to said code (5) so as to clearly identify the solidarity between the apparatus 8 and the computer unit 5.

The same applies to the computer unit 5, which shall be able to store an inserted code (8) to confirm said solidarity.

The invention may conveniently be modified, depending on the mobile telephone apparatus used. Accordingly, Figure 2 shows the system illustrated in Figure 1 adapted for a mobile telephone apparatus that has access to WAP-add- resses, whereas Figure 3 illustrates the system shown in Figure 1 adapted for a mobile telephone apparatus that includes a so-called remote control program.

With regard to the embodiment shown in Figure 2, the solidarity with Figure 1 will be clearly apparent, despite the mobile telephone apparatus 8 having here been replaced with a mobile telephone apparatus 80, that has access to WAP- addresses.

In Figure 2, the mobile telephone apparatus is thus referenced 80, its related code is referenced (80), and its keypad has been referenced 80a and its display surface referenced 80b\

A copied code (80^') has been stored in the database 6(2). In principle, the use of such a mobile telephone apparatus 80 is in accordance with what has earlier been described, although the difference can be illustrated according to the following text. The use of a WAP-telephone 80 and a system according to the invention that includes WAP-addresses to WAP-pages enables the server 7, of the Figure 2 embodiment, to be allocated a music-file selecting program 70, which is adapted to take the content of said device 5k into account.

This program is structured to be able to create a number of WAP-pages that include information relating to available music files.

These WAP-pages may be given the form of links, where by each link can represent one or more different files. These files have been exemplified as a music file 70a, a group of music files 70b, a selected artist 70c. Further files may contain a selected style of music, control of the sound volume, and so on by way of simplification.

The mobile telephone apparatus 80 later reaches said WAP-pages, say pages 70a, 70b and 70c, with the aid of a WAP-browser in the telephone apparatus 80 in a known manner, via the operator's mobile telephone network 3 and the data network 4. The database 6(2) of this embodiment also includes the codes (5^') and

(80^') for co-ordination between a chosen computer unit 5 and the mobile telephone apparatus 80 co-ordinated therewith.

Copying of the device 5k and its contents (5k), describe with reference to Figure 1 is not necessary in the Figure 2 application. Information relating to the unique co-ordination between the telephone apparatus 80 and the computer unit 5 can now be saved in the mobile telephone apparatus 80 in the form of one or more "Cookies".

With regard to the embodiment according to Figure 3, the solidarity of this embodiment with the Figure 1 embodiment will be clearly apparent, despite the mobile telephone apparatus 8 having been replaced with a mobile telephone apparatus designated 800 that has access to a remote control program stored in said apparatus 800.

The mobile telephone apparatus in Figure 3 has been referenced 800, its allocated code has been referenced (800), its keypad has been referenced 800a and its display surface has been referenced 800b\

A code copy (800^') has been stored in the database 6(2). In principle, the use of such a mobile telephone apparatus 800 is in accordance with what has been described earlier, although with the following difference. The use of a mobile telephone apparatus 800 that includes a remote control program 800c and a system 1 according to the present invention enables the Figure 3 embodiment to be supplemented by allocating to the mobile telephone apparatus 800 a music file searching and selecting program 800d, where said program is able to consider the current content of said device 5k. The program 800d is structured to create text and/or graphics on the display surface 800b^' of the mobile telephone apparatus with information concerning available music files.

This text may contain information that represents one or more different files which have been exemplified as a music file, a group of musicians, a chosen artist, a chosen style of music, sound volume control, and so on with the aim of simplification.

The database 6(2) includes the codes (5^') and (800^') also in this case, for co-ordination between a chosen computer unit 5 and the mobile telephone apparatus 800 co-acting therewith. Copying of the co-ordinating device 5k and its contents (5k) to the database 6(2) described above with reference to the Figure 1 embodiment is not necessary in the case of the Figure 3 embodiment although said device and its contents may be copied into the memory of said mobile telephone apparatus 800. Information relating to the unique co-ordination between the telephone apparatus 800 and the computer unit 5 can now be saved and stored in the mobile telephone apparatus 800.

Said first code and said second code may or may not be one and the same code. It will be understood that the invention is not limited to the embodiments described above by way of example, and that modifications can be made within the scope of the inventive concept apparent from the accompanying Claims.

It will be noted in particular that each unit shown can be combined with another shown unit within the framework of being able to achieve a desired technical function.

Claims

1. An information transfer and information presentation system (1) using a mobile telephone network (3) and a data network (4), such as the "Internet", wherein said system (1) also requires the presence of a user (2), a computer unit (5), which is connected or connectable to said data network (4) and which includes an associated keyboard (5a), an associated display unit (5b) and an associated sound emitting device (5c), wherein the computer unit (5) is co-ordinated with a receiver (5d) and a transmitter (5e) adapted for information carrying signals external of the computer unit (5), and wherein the system includes the use of a user-related database (6 (2)) co-ordinated with the data network (4), and wherein received and transmitted signals are sent by said data network (4) which is coordinated with a server (7) and with a mobile telephone apparatus (8), which is related to the mobile telephone network (3) and which is able to send information carrying signals to and receive information carrying signals from said data network (4), wherein said mobile apparatus (8) may lack a direct communications channel (K1) to said computer unit (5), characterised in that said computer unit (5) is allocated a unique code ((5)); in that said mobile telephone apparatus (8) is allocated a unique code ((8)); and in that said unique codes ((5), (8)) are adapted for co-ordinated exchange of information between said computer unit (5) and a coordinating device (5h, 5k) and said mobile telephone apparatus (8), said device (5k) containing catalogued information (5ka - 5kd) relating to a number of stored files (5ha - 5 hd).

2. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that the code ((8)) allocated to the mobile telephone apparatus (8) can be entered into said computer unit (5) via said keyboard (5a), or that the code ((5)) allocated to the computer unit (5) can be entered into said mobile apparatus (8) via a keypad.

3. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that said device (5k) has stored therein catalogued information relating to available files, each in the form of a music file.

4. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said device (5k) has stored therein a short information relating to each available music file in a text volume of information that is less than the volume of information that can be accommodated on a display surface (8b') of a mobile telephone apparatus (8).

5. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said device (5k) has stored therein a short information relating to each available file in a text volume that is less than the volume of "rolling" information that can be accommodated on a display surface (8b') of a mobile telephone apparatus.

6. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that the information in the device (5k), that co-ordinates relevant catalogued information relating to a number of stored files, can be copied into and stored in said user-related database (6 (2)).

7. A system according to Claim 1 , 3 or 6, characterised in that a structured search is activated using the data/information stored within said device (5k) and/or within a copied and/or stored data/information by carrying out a structured key manipulation of the keys on the keypad (8a) of the mobile telephone apparatus with the aid of said mobile telephone apparatus (8) in communication with said server (7), and a user-related database (6 (2)) via said mobile telephone network (3) and said data network (4).

8. A system according to Claim 7, characterised in that said structured key manipulation is effected with the aid of alphanumerical signs.

9. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said device (5k) includes software which discerns the music file that shall be activated and the sound volume at which it shall be played, and so on, in response to data/information received from the server (7) via the data network (4).

10. A system according to Claim 9, characterised in that said information is adapted to allow initiation and/or activation of software for the activation of a music player (5f).

11. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said device (5k) is adapted to update and upgrade the database with respect to music files or the like available at that time, through the medium of the data network (4).

12. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said device (5k) is adapted to send a unique identification code to said display unit (5b) and therewith allow the user (2) to transfer said code manually to the mobile telephone apparatus (8) and thereafter activate remote control circuits within the mobile telephone apparatus (8).

13. A system according to Claim 1 , 3 or 12, characterised in that said mobile telephone apparatus (8) is a handheld computer and functions as a remote control available to the user (2).

14. A system according to Claim 1 , 3 or 7, characterised in that said mobile telephone apparatus (8) functions to activate a selected music file at a desired sound volume, and so on.

15. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that the server (7) is structured as a piece of software and placed at a location which is distanced geographically from the mobile telephone unit (8) and from the computer unit (5) and communicates therewith over the "Internet" and is adapted to create communication with a mobile telephone unit and a computer-associated device co- ordinated via said codes.

16. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said device (5k) presents a unique code in plain text on the display surface (5b') for the user (2), who enters this code manually into the mobile telephone apparatus (8) through its keypad (8a).

17. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that a WAP-address to a user-associated WAP-page is activated via a keypad of said mobile telephone apparatus.

18. A system according to Claim 17, characterised in that codes, allocated to a user and the mobile telephone apparatus, are allocated to said WAP-page.

19. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that communications links between the mobile telephone apparatus (8) and the mobile telephone network (3) and between the telephone network (3) and the data network (4) are comprised of GPRS-connections.

20. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that said mobile telephone apparatus (8) is adapted to present its unique identification code on the display unit (8b^') and therewith to allow the user (2) to transfer said code manually to the computer unit and thereafter activate remote control circuits within the mobile telephone apparatus (8).

^•21. A system according to Claim 1 or 3, characterised in that the contents of catalogued information concerning said music files contained by said device is updated and/or upgraded periodically.

22. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that said unique codes are stored in a user-related database associated with the data network.

23. A system according to Claim 1 , characterised in that said first code and said second code are chosen to be the same.