Abstract: The present invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution by providing systems and methods that test an application to ensure that it satisfies predetermined criteria associated with the environment in which it will execute. Furthermore, by using rules and permission lists, application removal, and a modification detection technique, such as digital signatures, the present invention provides mechanisms to safely distribute and execute tested, or untested, applications by determining whether the application has been modified, determining if it has permission to execute in a given wireless device environment, and removing the application should it be desirable to do so.

Abstract: Techniques to adapt capabilities of a base station in a wireless communication system to load requirements. In one method, capabilities of each of a number of configurations for a number of wireless technologies are initially characterized. Each configuration comprises a unique set of channels (i.e., RF carriers) used for data transmission, with each channel implementing a particular wireless technology. The wireless technologies include at least one supportive of voice (e.g., IS-95, cdma2000, W-CDMA, GSM, and so on) and at least one supportive of high data rate (e.g., HDR). The load requirements for the base station are determined, and one of the configurations is selected based on the characterized capabilities and the determined load requirements. The selected configuration is thereafter activated. Hysteresis may be used in selecting the configuration and/or activating the selected configuration. The base station may be adapted continually, periodically, or at scheduled times.

Abstract: A method of configuring a portable device includes sensing user-identifying information (P110), which may include biometric data. A user identification token based on the user-identifying information is produced (P120) and transmitted to a network (P130), and a set of configuration information is received (P140).

Abstract: Network-initiated uninstallation of programs on remote modules, such as wireless telephones, is performed over a wireless network to recall programs stored on the wireless telephone that are faulty or harmful to the wireless telephone, the wireless network, or a user of the wireless telephone. If one or more recall criteria are met for uninstallation of a targeted application program, a recall command source constructs a recall command. A program manager, using a database containing information about each program downloaded onto each wireless telephone in the network, identifies, for the recall command source, which wireless telephones carry the targeted application program. The recall command includes a unique application identification for the targeted application program and an instruction to the wireless telephone to uninstall the targeted application program. The recall command is broadcast over the wireless network to the wireless telephones.

Abstract: A banner for a communication device that changes according to the current date is provided. The banner is displayed (13) during standby mode of operation of the communication device. The system for dynamically displaying the banner includes a calendar (21) which has a number of dates. Each of the number of dates has a unique message associated with it. The system also includes software (22a) that compares the current date with the number of dates from the calendar (21). The software (22a) then determines whether the current date matches one of the number of dates from the calendar (21). The display screen (23) of the communication device displays the unique message if the current date matches one of the number of dates from the calendar (21). If the current date does not match one of the number of dates from the calendar (21), the display screen (23) of the communication device displays a default message (14).

Abstract: A system for automatically reconfiguring a mobile telephone based on geographic location. In the illustrative embodiment, the invention includes a storing unit (40) and an execution unit (70). The storing unit (40) allows the user to save a particular location and the desired configurations corresponding to that location. The execution unit (70) monitors the position of the telephone and, upon entering a saved location, executes the configurations corresponding to that location. The execution unit (70) also returns the configurations to their previous settings after the telephone has exited from the saved location.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for the distribution and billing associated with downloading data to a wireless device. In one embodiment, a distribution center having a Unified Application Management (UAM) system performs much of the processing intensive tasks associated with downloading applications to a wireless device. A server located at the carrier facility, e.g., an Application Download Server (ADS), performs that minimal processing necessary to download relevant application information and record transaction data. In this embodiment, the ADS does not contain a relational database and communicates transaction data and information associated with applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The structure of the XML files used for this communication may further be optimized to only require one-pass processing thus minimizing the processing requirements of the ADS. A transaction server processes transaction data for billing.

Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for the distribution and billing associated with downloading data to a wireless device. In one embodiment, a distribution center having a Unified Application Management (UAM) system performs much of the processing intensive tasks associated with downloading applications to a wireless device. A server located at the carrier facility, e.g., an Application Download Server (ADS), performs that minimal processing necessary to download relevant application information and record transaction data. In this embodiment, the ADS does not contain a relational database and communicates transaction data and information associated with applications using Extensible Markup Language (XML). The structure of the XML files used for this communication may further be optimized to only require one-pass processing thus minimizing the processing requirements of the ADS. A transaction server processes transaction data for billing.

Abstract: The system accepts a Short Message System data packet transmitted from a cell site to a mobile station and updates the contents of an address book located in a non-volatile RAM within the mobile station. Upon the occurrence of an event, such as a change in the area code, the system automatically updates the phone book so that a person does not have to perform the tedious task of determining which exchange prefixes within an area code have been affected and then manually updating large numbers of address book entries.

Abstract: A combined Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) (208) and wireless telephone (206) has a switch (204) which, if selected by the user through a user interface (104), will power-on the PDA in response to the stylus being removed from the PDA's stylus holder (106). The switch, also selectably, will power-off the PDA in response to the stylus being replaced into the PDA. The switch further allows selection as to whether either or both of these actions will also turn the telephone on or off. The switch further allows selection as to whether either or both of these actions will also open or close the keypad (108).