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Portable telecommunication apparatus for controlling an electronic utility device
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Inventors: Hollstrom, Magnus; Hed, Robert; Olsson, Patrik; Edlund, Anders; Ekelund, Bjorn; Rydbeck, Nils;
Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm, SE)
Primary Examiner: Maung; Nay
Assistant Examiner: Gantt; Alan T.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
A portable telecommunication apparatus (200) has a user interface (250), a programmable controller (210), a memory (220, 230) coupled to the controller, and an information access program (240), such as a WAP browser, which is stored in the memory and is executable by the controller. The information access program provides access for a user to a global information network, such as Internet, through the user interface and a first wireless communication link. The apparatus also has an external device interface (260, 262, 264) for connecting an external device to the portable telecommunication apparatus over a second communication link. The information access program (240) allows the user to control the external device through the user interface (250), the external device interface (260, 262, 264) and the second communication link. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an easier way of accessing, controlling and operating electronic utility devices in a standardized and user-friendly fashion.
A second object of the invention is to drastically reduce the number of required remote control units, specifically so that only one control apparatus is required for a large number of electronic utility devices, which may exist in the environment around a user.
A third object is to provide an opportunity of remote control of electronic utility devices that traditionally are not provided with such an option.
A fourth object is to provide an option for various types of electronic utility devices to connect to a global information network, such as the Internet, by using a single type of communication device, namely a portable telecommunication apparatus.
The above objects have been achieved by the inventive understanding that a portable telecommunication apparatus, preferably a cellular or mobile radio telephone, may be used for controlling various electronic utility devices.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a mobile WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) telephone having a built-in WAP browser is designed to connect via a point-to-point communication link to an electronic utility device through an accessories interface, such as a short-range radio link, an infrared link or a serial cable link, wherein the external utility device is provided with an embedded WAP server and wherein this WAP server is capable of submitting digital information related to the functionality of the external utility device over the point-to-point communication link to the WAP browser of the mobile telephone.
The embedded WAP server of the preferred embodiment contains WML (Wireless Markup Language) pages, which are transmitted to the WAP client of the mobile telephone and are presented to the user.
The user may control the functionality of the external utility device through the user interface of the mobile telephone and the WAP client
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