Abstract: The invention relates to mobile messaging and presence services. According to one aspect of the invention, a client device of the mobile messaging system adds a qualifier to a presence attribute, the qualifier comprising one or more parameters specifying the use of the attribute. A client device receiving a presence attribute processes the received presence attribute according to the qualifier parameters in the received attribute. Another aspect of the invention is the showing of how to assemble and store presence items with names, attributes and values in a single presence set within a role having an associated authorization group of members that have the right to subscribe to the whole or part of the presence set of the same role.

Abstract: The invention relates to an interface device (10) for transmitting information between input/output means (12, 13) and application units (11) in an information and/or communication system. In order, to be able to operate application units with different output/input means of a user interface without changing their input/output interface, the interface device comprises an interface circuit (14) and a storage device (15), connected to the interface circuit (14) for system data and input/output formats and structures, the interface circuit (14) processing input and/or output information to be transmitted in accordance with the stored system data as a function of the input/output means (12, 13) available with the aid of the stored input/output formats and structures, and outputting said information to the respective application unit (11) and/or to the input/output means (12, 13) available.

Abstract: The invention relates to mobile messaging and presence services. According to one aspect of the invention, a client device of the mobile messaging system adds a qualifier to a presence attribute, the qualifier comprising one or more parameters specifying the use of the attribute. A client device receiving a presence attribute processes the received presence attribute according to the qualifier parameters in the received attribute. Another aspect of the invention is the showing of how to assemble and store presence items with names, attributes and values in a single presence set within a role having an associated authorization group of members that have the right to subscribe to the whole or part of the presence set of the same role.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for creating and presenting an individual audio information program. At a program creating side desired information from information provided at an information providing site (13) is chosen by means of a peripheral device (10) for selecting and receiving information from the information providing site (13). Upon receiving chosen information is stored in a memory means (17). At a program presenting side information from the information stored in the memory means (17) is selected and presented as audio information. The provides a method and a system that is easy to use at low costs.

Abstract: The invention relates to the transmission of files in a digital broadcasting system, particularly in a DAB system according to the standard ETS 300 401. According to the invention, a file descriptor (16) is created for each file. This file descriptor is of the data group type denoted by 0011 in said standard and includes parameters (27) describing the file associated with the descriptor. The file descriptor is transmitted in the broadcasting system before the file and possibly also during the transmission of the file. The information to be transmitted is divided into segments, which are identified in a file-specifically unique manner, such as consecutive numbering, which starts from zero at the beginning of each file.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling an electronic device, in particular a mobile station in a mobile radio network. In order to allow simple and flexible control, the invention provides that a sound is varied in order to select from a plurality of predetermined options.

Abstract: To prevent unauthorized reception, storage, copying and reproduction of digital media objects it is defined in addition to a scrambled broadcast format a scrambled storage format which is different from the broadcast format. A user's terminal equipment cannot receive, store or reproduce protected objects without a key which is advantageously a bit sequence stored on a portable memory medium and which can be different according to the type of use it gives entitlement to. To prevent the storing and later reproduction as such of data in the broadcast format, a time stamp is included in the broadcast format representing the time of broadcasting. A playback device cannot reproduce a broadcast-format object if the reproduction time differs from the time stamp included in the broadcast format. The reproduction time is advantageously read from a real time clock of a portable memory medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to the transmission of multimedia objects in a digital broadcasting system and particularly to the transmission of a reference system and the start-up procedure of a multimedia presentation according to the MHEG standard via a broadcasting system according to the DAB standard. According to the invention, the DAB ensemble according to the DAB standard and the service channel and fast information channel comprised by the DAB ensemble are handled as virtual, multiplexed MHEG objects, whereby they and the real MHEG objects positioned below them are referred to in a manner specified in the standard ISO/IEC 13522. In addition, information about start-up procedures relating to a multimedia program or a corresponding series of operations is transmitted in a special file, and a parameter in the file descriptor associated with said file indicates that said file contains instructions for said procedures.

Abstract: A system for adapting packets received from a digital packet network to a radio system which operates on the digital audio broadcasting (DAB) principle. The system has a transmitting end as which a data group includes a data field and a header intended for a service component, the header containing an address field intended for an end-user's address. The service component is transmitted on the transmission path in DAB packets whose header includes an address field (PKT address) identifying the service component and whose data in the data field has been obtained by dividing the data group into segments and by transferring each segment into the data field of one corresponding DAB packet.