Abstract: A system for providing a user with advertising content is provided. The system includes a presence server, an advertising distribution server, and a profiling and targeting component that interact to provide one or more advertisement objects to a user of a computing device based on presence data generated by the user. The presence server receives presence notification messages from the user's computing device and transmits the presence data to the profiling and targeting component. The profiling and targeting component in turn defines an advertising package that directs the transmittal of advertisement objects from the advertising distribution server to the user's computing device. The profiling and targeting component may also create a user profile based on the presence data for defining the advertising package and may further determine a trend of the user based on historical presence data. A method, apparatus, and computer program product are also provided.

Abstract: A system for establishing an Internet Protocol (IP) connection with a terminating node includes an originating node capable of initiating communication with the terminating node. The system also includes an intermediate node located between the originating node and the terminating node. The originating node is capable of initiating communication by either (a) requesting communication with the terminating node via the intermediate node, or (b) notifying the terminating node of incoming data independent of the intermediate node. In this regard, when the originating node initiates communication in accordance with (a), either the originating node or the intermediate node is capable of notifying the terminating node of incoming data. Upon being notified of incoming data, then, the terminating node is capable of registering with the intermediate node to thereby establish an IP connection between the originating node and the terminating node via the intermediate node.

Abstract: A system and method for interfacing Web Services push applications and mobile terminals operable with one of a plurality of different mobile push technologies. A Web Services push gateway includes a Web Services endpoint to terminate Web Services protocols utilized by the Web Services push applications in providing push messages. A plurality of mobile push bearers are each configured to communicate with a different one of the plurality of mobile push technologies. The Web Services push gateway includes a push router coupled to the Web Services endpoint to receive the push messages, and to forward the push messages to an elected one of the mobile push bearers, from where is it ultimately delivered to a recipient mobile terminal employing a mobile push technology corresponding to the elected mobile push bearer.

Abstract: A method is disclosed to enable a mobile phone or wireless PDA to discover Internet businesses and services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry. The method facilitates the formation of a query to the UDDI registry for the wireless device user. The method constructs a personal user profile of the user's UDDI searching strategies and Internet accessing preferences. The user profile can be used as a shortcut for online or offline queries to the UDDI registry or for accessing pages from web sites, in response to the user's entry of abbreviated inputs to the wireless device. The method is embodied as programmed instructions which may be executed within the user's wireless device to query the UDDI registry. Alternately, method is embodied as programmed instructions which may be executed within a separate knowledge engine server to query the UDDI registry in response to commands from the user's wireless device.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and system to provide a wireless terminal online access capability to a system phonebook, such as a WLAN, which calls for instructing the system to start a phonebook application such that for incoming calls the phonebook application commences in response to a phone number identification at the user terminal side and for outgoing calls the phonebook application commences through a User Interface (UI) of the user terminal; and performing a search query of the phonebook database to identify a caller corresponding to a phone number identification of an incoming call and/or at least one of a phone number and person or party of the call to be initiated.

Abstract: A method and system for making profile information of a plurality of users of wireless terminals in a network accessible to the network. A current operational mode of the wireless terminal is determined. The current operational mode is identified by an operational mode name. The wireless terminal identification is used to identify the wireless terminal and/or a user of the wireless terminal. Profile information of the wireless terminal is sent to the network where the profile information includes the operational mode name and the wireless terminal and/or user identification. The profile information is sent by the wireless terminal and the sent profile information is accessible from the network.

Abstract: Calendar display apparatus, and an associated method, displays the calendar display at a mobile terminal operable in a radio communication system. The calendar display includes calendar items retrieved from both a local storage element and from a network-based calendar database. The calendar items are displayed simultaneously. And, calendar items stored locally are exportable to the network database. Analogously, calendar items stored at the network database are downloadable to the mobile station to be stored thereat.

Abstract: The context sensitive web services method enables a mobile phone or wireless device to use context inference techniques to sense the user's environment and in response, to provide useful information to the user that is appropriate to the user's perceived environment. The method includes the steps of receiving sensor signals characterizing a current environment of the wireless device; processing the sensor signals with a context inference engine; outputting a current context result from the processing by context inference engine; and providing useful information to the user in response to the current context result. A further aspect of the method provides user control of access by application programs to the user's private data, including private data in a server. Still further, this can also include providing user control of access by application programs in a web server, to the user's private data.

Abstract: A telephone system includes a plurality of telephone terminals wherein a call that is placed from a calling telephone terminal to a receiving telephone terminal is announced by activating a standard ringing indication at the receiving telephone terminal. A data file is provided having a plurality of different ringing indications therein. These ringing indications include a plurality of sound information that are both different from each other and different from a standard ringing tone, and a plurality of different visual information. When a call is placed from a calling telephone terminal to a receiving telephone terminal, the user at the calling telephone terminal may optionally elect to announce the call at the receiving-telephone-terminal using ringing indication that is selected from the data-file, for example sound information that indicates the identity of the calling-users, and/or visual information that indicates the priority of the call.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for setting up a data transmission connection which is formed for transmitting information between at least a first communication device (1, 6-15, 300a, 300b, 400, 401) and a second communication device (1, 6-15, 300a, 300b, 400, 401), in which method, for at least the first communication device (1, 6-15, 300a, 300b, 400, 401), a network address (321a, 321b) is selected that is advantageously used for identifying the first communication device (1, 6-15, 300a, 300b, 400, 401).

Abstract: Methods and devices for modifying operational modes in a communication device based on application specific parameters. The operational modes of the communication device are modified by adding the application specific parameters of the application to the operational modes of the communication device. Further, commands may be automatically launched after an operational mode change in a communication device. One or more commands to be automatically launched when an operational mode becomes a current operational mode currently used by the communication device are entered into the operational mode of a communication device of a user. Whether the current operational mode has any commands to be automatically launched is determined. The one or more commands are automatically launched if the current operational mode has any commands to be automatically launched.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for installing at least one service (704, 705, 706) of at least one external device (MS1, MS2, MS3) to a data processor (PC, LPC, PR). Said at least one service (704, 705, 706) can be used for controlling the functions of said external device (MS1, MS2, MS3) from the data processor (PC, LPC, PR). In the method, a local area link is established for transferring information between said data processor (PC, LPC, PR) and said at least one external device (MS1, MS2, MS3). From said at least one external device (MS1, MS2, MS3), it is determined which are the services (704, 705, 706) available in it. In the data processor (PC, LPC, PR), at least one service packet. (701) is installed, which contains at least one of said services (704, 705, 706) available in the wireless communication device (MS1, MS2, MS3).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a device-specific icon (22,23) related to an external device (MS1, MS2, MS3) in a data processor (PC), in which the optical properties of the pixels are changed in order to present desired information. In this method, a local area link is established in order to transmit information between the said data processor and external device (MS1, MS2, MS3). In the external device (MS1, MS2, MS3) or in a determined communications address at least some device-specific information has been stored in advance. The icon information required to form the icon (22,23) is transmitted to the data processor (PC) from the external device (MS1, MS2, MS3), or the address indicating the storage location of the icon information is transferred to the data processor (PC) from the external device (MS1, MS2, MS3), wherein at least some of the icon information is transmitted from the storage location indicated in the storage address with the help of the data processor (PC).

Abstract: In an information output system according to the invention data (48) processed by an application (40) is processed in a terminal device (10) into a data transfer format (44) independent of the application (40) using a specific format generator (42). After this the data (48) is transferred to a second terminal device (20) via mobile communication network. In the receiving terminal device a specific data transfer application decodes the data (48) in the independent data format (44) into a form suitable for the output devices, and automatically transfers it to the output devices for outputting.