CA2502963C - Selecting a data transfer method - Google Patents

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CA2502963C
CA2502963C CA2502963A CA2502963A CA2502963C CA 2502963 C CA2502963 C CA 2502963C CA 2502963 A CA2502963 A CA 2502963A CA 2502963 A CA2502963 A CA 2502963A CA 2502963 C CA2502963 C CA 2502963C
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Abstract

The invention relates to a method for selecting a data transfer method in a telecommunication system wherein several data transfer methods exist for selection. The method comprises determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user. At least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered is checked. In order to transmit the message, the data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information is selected.

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SELECTING A DATA TRANSFER METHOD
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to selecting a data transfer method in a tele-communication system.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Existing wireless terminal devices, such as mobile stations, are pro-vided with several different ways of transmitting messages to a telecommuni-cation network or to another terminal device. Many terminal devices support e.g. transfer of text-form short messages (Short Message Service SMS), mul-timedia messages (Multimedia Messaging Service MMS) and e-mail mes-sages. Since e.g. SMS and MMS messages enable information of different type to be transferred, each message type is provided with a unique editor of its own. When a user wishes to send a message, he or she typically first has to choose a data transfer application to be used for transferring the message.
After the user has chosen the data transfer application, a message editor opens at the user interface to enable the user to enter the message using, for instance, the keypad of the terminal device. An example of such a terminal device is a Nokia Communicator wherein in a messaging view, the first thing to do is to select whether the message to be sent is an e-mail message, a short message or a fax, and, accordingly, an application-specific message editor will open.
For an unaccustomed user, however, it is not always clear as to which editor to choose to send a desired message. For example, if the user wishes to transmit modified text, he or she has to choose the MMS application (and editor) rather than the SMS application since modified text cannot be transmitted as an SMS message. Such special features and limitations of data transfer methods and the editors used therein are often unknown to users, which causes problems in transmitting messages and makes the users unsat-isfied. A specific problem concerning SMS messages has been solved by the Nokia Communicator device wherein the editor detects when the length of a message entered by a user exceeds the maximum length, in which case the message is prevented from being transmitted as an SMS message. This known solution does not, however, help the user in taking into account any other limitations of the data transfer methods when choosing the data transfer method.
2 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
An object of the invention is thus to provide a method and an apparatus implementing the method so as to enable the above-mentioned problems to be avoided or at least alleviated. The object of the invention is achieved by a method, a terminal device and a computer program product.
According to the invention, at least one piece of property information concerning a message being entered or already entered is checked.
In order to transmit the message, a data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information is selected.
An advantage of the arrangement of the invention is that the data transfer method can be selected automatically according to one or more properties of a message. In such a case, a user does not necessarily have to know the limitations of the data transfer methods but the data transfer method suitable for transferring the message can be selected according to the predetermined selection conditions. The invention makes messages easier to transmit e.g. from a modern mobile station which supports several alternative data transfer methods.
According to an embodiment of the invention, one or more information types of information entered into and/or selected for a message are checked. The data transfer method associated in the selection conditions with the determined one or more information types is selected for transmitting the message. This embodiment enables a data transfer method to be selected which supports the transfer of the contents of a message to be transmitted.
According to another embodiment of the invention, the type of the identifier of the receiver entered or selected by the user as the receiver of the message is checked. Next, the data transfer method associated with the type of the identifier of the receiver determined in the selection conditions is selected.
This embodiment enables a data transfer method to be selected which supports data transfer according to the type of the identifier of the receiver or to a network according to the type of the identifier of the receiver.

2a According to another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method for selecting a data transfer method in a telecommunication system wherein several data transfer methods exist for selection, the method comprising: determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user; checking at least one piece of property information concerning a message being entered or already entered; and selecting the data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information concerning the message in order to transmit the message, wherein the property information is one of the following: an information type specifying a format of information entered into and/or selected for the message, an identifier of a receiver, and a type of a receiver identifier.
According to another embodiment of the invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising: a processor; and memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: determine a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user; check at least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered; and select, in order to transmit the message, a data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information concerning the message, wherein the property information is one of the following: an information type specifying a format of information entered into and/or selected for the message, an identifier of a receiver, and a type of a receiver identifier.
According to another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program code executable in a processor of the terminal device, comprising: program code for determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user; program code for controlling the terminal device to check at least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered; and program code for controlling the terminal device to select, in order to transmit the message, a data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information concerning the message, wherein the property information is one of the following: an information type specifying a format of information entered into and/or selected for the message, an identifier of a receiver, and a type of a receiver identifier.
3 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention is now described in closer detail in connection with some embodiments and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 generally shows a telecommunication system comprising a mobile communication network, and services thereof;
Figure 2 shows a mobile station according to an embodiment;
Figure 3 is a flow diagram showing a method according to an em-bodiment; and Figures 4a and 4b show how selection conditions are used accord-ing to some embodiments.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
In the following, a procedure according to an embodiment of the in-vention will be described by way of example and with reference to a GSM sys-tern and a third generation 3GPP system. The invention may, however, be ap-plied to any telecommunication system wherein a need exists to select a data transfer method to be used for a message to be transferred. Another example whereto the invention may be applied is a terminal device comprising access means to a wireless local area network. The data transfer method selection according to the invention may be applied e.g. to a portable computer enabling messages to be transmitted therefrom using several different data transfer methods, for instance via a wired connection, a WLAN connection, a GPRS
connection or a Bluetooth connection.
Figure 1 generally illustrates a telecommunication system connpris-ing a mobile communication network MNW enabling data transfer to be ar-ranged therefrom to the Internet and a PSTN network. The mobile communica-tion network MNW provides mobile stations MS with several teleservices TS.
Examples of such teleservices TS include a call setup service to a PLMN net-work, a data transfer service to the Internet, an SMS service, an MMS service, and a fax service. An element external to the mobile communication network MNW may also provide the mobile station MS of the mobile communication network MNW with teleservices TS, for instance such that a server S of an Internet access provider comprises an e-mail service. A teleservice TS may also be an end-to-end service wherein the mobile communication network only serves as one intermediary network. The mobile communication network MNW
4 uses bearer services BS for data transfer between the mobile communication network MNW and a mobile station MS. Examples of bearer services BS in-clude a circuit-switched call for data and voice transfer, or a PDP (Packet Data Protocol) context providing GPRS network packet-switched data transfer, and the data transfer protocols used by the same.
An example of the mobile communication network MNW is a third generation mobile communication system defined by the 3GPP (Third Genera-tion Partnership Project) organization and called a 3GPP system or a UMTS
system, wherein the main parts of the mobile communication system are a core network ON and a UMTS terrestrial radio access network UTRAN. The UTRAN typically comprises several radio network subsystems RNS, the inter-face therebetween being called an lur (not shown). The RNS comprises a ra-dio network controller RNC and one or more base stations, also known as node(s) B. A base station is responsible for implementing the radio path and the radio network controller RNC manages the radio resources. A connection to the UMTS core network CN may also be provided via a GSM base station subsystem BSS or a GSM/EDGE radio access network (enhanced data rates for GSM evolution) GERAN. The core network ON comprises an infrastructure external to the UTRAN and belonging to the mobile communication system. In the core network, a mobile switching centre/visitor location register 3G-MSC/VLR is responsible for circuit switched calls and communicates with a home subscriber server HSS.
The 3GPP system also comprises a packet radio system imple-mented mainly according to a GPRS system connected to a GSM network. A
UMTS packet radio system may comprise several gateway and serving GPRS
support nodes and, typically, several serving GPRS support nodes SGSN are connected to one gateway GPRS support node GGSN. The task of the serving GPRS support node SGSN is to detect mobile stations capable of packet radio connections within its service area, to transmit and receive data packets from such mobile stations and to monitor the location of the mobile stations within its service area. The gateway GPRS support node GGSN serves as a gateway between the UMTS network packet radio system and an external packet data network. External data networks may be e.g. a 3GPP or a GPRS network of another network operator, the Internet, or a private local area network. A mo-bile communication network typically also comprises other functions (that can be implemented in separate network elements and/or in the already above-mentioned network elements), such as an SMS centre, an MMS server, and SIP functions. 3GPP specifications define various network services between a mobile station and a core network, between a core network and a radio access network, and between a mobile station and a radio access network. The 3GPP
5 specifications further define various service features (e.g. customized applica-tions for mobile network enhanced logic CAMEL services), which may be util-ized by various network services TS created by network operators. 3GPP sys-tems support the following teleservices TS of the GSM system: voice service, fax service, circuit switched data, supplementary services, and unstructured supplementary service data USSD service. Also other kind of teleservices IS
will be provided in 3GPP networks, e.g. Voice over IP VolP.
As illustrated in Figure 2, a mobile station MS comprises a memory MEM, a user interface Ul, I/O means for arranging I/O data transfer, and a cen-tral processing unit CPU comprising one or more processors. Various applica-tions APP may be implemented in the mobile station MS by executing, in the CPU, computer program code stored in the memory MEM. In order to enable at least some of the services BS, TS enabling message transfer in a mobile communication network MNW to be utilized by the mobile station MS, data transfer applications APP are implemented, typically by software, in the mobile station MS, the applications APP together with the network implementing the necessary negotiation, message packing and transmission to the mobile com-munication network MNW according to the data transfer protocol used. Exam-ples of such applications APP include a circuit switched data transfer applica-tion, packet switched data transfer application, an SMS application, a WAP
application, an MMS application, an enhanced messaging service EMS appli-cation, a fax application, and an e-mail application. Some of the above men-tioned applications utilize the services of data transfer methods located lower in the protocol stack; for example, an e-mail application utilizes a packet switched GPRS service. Computer program codes executed in the central processing unit CPU may correspondingly enable the mobile station MS to im-plement also the inventive means relating to the selection of a data transfer method; some embodiments of such means are illustrated in connection with Figures 3, 4a and 4b.
According to an embodiment, the mobile station MS uses, in a cen-tralized manner, a message editor ED configured to select the data transfer application to be used, e.g. one of the applications APP, to be used for trans-
6 mitting a message generated in the editor ED. The computer program may be stored in any memory means, e.g. on a hard disk of a PC or on a CD-ROM
disc wherefrom it may be downloaded into the memory MEM of a device MS
executing the program. The computer program may also be downloaded via a network by using e.g. a TCP/IP protocol stack. It is also feasible to use hard-ware solutions or a combination of hardware and software solutions to imple-ment the inventive means.
Figure 3 illustrates a method according to an embodiment for select-ing a data transfer method, the method in the figure being particularly applica-ble to a mobile station MS; according to an embodiment, to the message editor ED. In the method, step 300 comprises activating message determination. For instance, a message editor ED may then be switched on, the input view of a message thus being shown to a user. Inputs are received 301 from the user, on the basis of which a message to be transmitted is determined. The user may enter information into the message e.g. by entering characters and/or se-lecting a piece of information stored in advance, e.g. by selecting a photograph stored in the memory MEM to be attached to the message.
In step 302, at least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered is checked. According to an embodiment, step 302 may be carried out when the user has entered the mes-sage and selected to transmit the message. Alternatively, step 302 may be implemented already while entering the message, e.g. when the user selects to add information of a predetermined information type to the message. Step 302 may be carried out when the user has selected and/or entered the receiver of the message.
In step 303, a data transfer method is selected according to prede-termined selection conditions and according to determined at least one piece of property information. In the selection conditions, one or more data transfer methods are associated with the property information. The selection conditions may be implemented in many different ways, e.g. as a search table stored in the memory MEM. Different embodiments for implementing the selection con-ditions and for using different properties of a message for selecting a data transfer method will be shown in greater detail below. In step 303, the data transfer method associated in the predetermined selection conditions with the property information is thus selected in order to transmit the message. It is to be noted that the property information may be associated with a data transfer
7 PCT/F12004/000484 method also indirectly; for example such that a direct association is determined in the selection conditions between one data transfer method and one piece of property information while another data transfer method determined in the se-lection conditions is used for messages comprising other property information (which is not necessarily even mentioned in the selection conditions). If the selection conditions do not determine the data transfer method to be used for a piece of property information concerning a message, a mobile station MS may be configured to select a default data transfer method indirectly associated with the property information or ask the user to select the data transfer method to be used. The selection criteria may be determined in to the mobile station MS already while manufacturing the device but, according to an embodiment, the user may determine and/or change at least some of the selection condi-tions. If several data transfer methods are available to be used for transferring messages of a similar type, the user may preselect a default data transfer method, e.g. MMS messages instead of EMS messages. According to an em-bodiment, for example a network operator or another external party may change the selection conditions using e.g. a device management protocol. Ac-cording to yet another embodiment, the selection conditions may determine that the data transfer method to be used is selected according to the data transfer method of a previously received message when a reply is provided to the message, i.e. the message to be transmitted is a reply message.
After the data transfer method has been selected, in step 304 the message is transmitted using the selected data transfer method, e.g. one of the data transfer methods mentioned above in connection with Figure 1 or 2.
When the method of Figure 3 is applied to the message editor ED, it may transmit the message to an application programming interface API of an appli-cation APP supporting and implementing the selected data transfer method.
Next, the application APP transmits the contents of the message according to the data transfer protocol it uses. The message editor ED may thus be shared by several messages according to different data transfer methods, e.g. mes-sages to be transferred via an SMS service and an MMS service. According to an embodiment, the message editor ED may activate the selected data trans-fer application and/or service. For example, a PDP context or a WAP connec-tion of a GPRS service may be set up in response to a need to transmit a message and its at least one property.
8 Figure 4a illustrates how selection conditions are used according to an embodiment, the selection conditions determining the data transfer method to be used for different information types. One or more information types of information entered into and/or selected for a message are then checked 400.
An information type thus refers to the format of information contained in a message; a message may thus comprise e.g. one or more of the following in-formation types: text, modified text, still picture, video image, recording, calen-dar entry. In step 400, the data transfer method associated in the selection conditions with the determined one or more information types is selected 401 for transmitting the message. This embodiment enables a data transfer method to be always selected which supports the transfer of one or more information types of the information contained in the message. The selection conditions may e.g. determine that messages containing image files are always transmit-ted using an MMS service. Then, in step 400, it can be checked whether or not the message contains image files. The selection conditions may also deter-mine conditions relating to several different information types, e.g. such that a message is always to be transmitted as an MMS message if it contains several information types.
The selection conditions may also determine conditions for the use of a particular data transfer method. For instance, the selection conditions may determine that if a message only contains text, it is transmitted as an SMS
message, otherwise always as an MMS message. Furthermore, according to an embodiment, the selection conditions may determine in closer detail single information types and the data transfer methods used therefor. The selection conditions may determine e.g. the data transfer method to be used according to the files to be attached to a message, e.g. pictures in a JPEG format are transmitted as an MMS message whereas an e-mail application is used for pictures in a GIF format.
Figure 4b illustrates how selection conditions are used according to another embodiment, the selection conditions determining the data transfer method to be used for the types of the identifier of the receiver. Then, in step 410, the identifier type of the receiver entered or selected by the user as the receiver of the message is checked. In step 411, the data transfer method which is associated with the identifier type of the receiver in the selection con-ditions and which supports the transfer of messages according to the deter-mined type is selected. This embodiment enables a data transfer method to be
9 always selected which supports data transfer according to the type of the iden-tifier of the receiver or to a network according to the type of the identifier of the receiver.
According to an embodiment, the type of the identifier of the re-ceiver is an IP address. The type may then be determined in step 410, when it is detected that the user has entered or is entering an IP address or a domain name describing an IF address. This type may be detected e.g. in step 410 on the basis of the @ character used in e-mail addresses or on the basis of a network address. Then, when it is detected that the type of the identifier is an IF address, the data transfer method associated therewith in the selection conditions may be used, e.g. a GPRS service based on IP data transfer. Fur-thermore, more detailed selection conditions may be used; for example, when the user enters an e-mail address, an e-mail service is selected as the data transfer method.
According to another embodiment, the type of the identifier of a re-ceiver is a telephone number entered or selected by the user. Then, in step 410, it can be detected on the basis of the digits entered by the receiver that the number is a telephone number, and select 411 the data transfer method associated in the selection conditions with this type. This embodiment also en-ables more detailed selection conditions to be used; for example such that dif-ferent data transfer methods are determined for different telephone numbers, or sets of numbers. According to an embodiment, the mobile station MS is con-figured to check whether or not the number is a mobile subscriber number. For instance, in a mobile station MS according to the GSM standard, it is thus pos-sible to check the first 3 to 6 entered digits and thus, on the basis of a GSM
numbering system country code CC and national destination code NDC, to determine whether or not the number of the receiver is a mobile subscriber number. The selection conditions of a mobile station MS may, particularly in connection with the use of an SMS service and an MMS service, determine that messages designated to a mobile subscriber number only are transmitted using these services.
According to yet another embodiment, the selection conditions de-termine the data transfer method to be used for the identifiers of different re-ceivers. For example, contact information determines a default data transfer method contact-specifically. Then, when the contact information is searched for transmission information (an address or a telephone number), it is simulta-neously checked whether or not a default data transfer method has been as-sociated with the receiver information. Thus, the property information which has been determined in the selection conditions and on the basis of which the data transfer method is selected is, for example, a particular telephone number 5 or an IP address. The selection conditions included in the contact information or stored separately may determine whether or not it is possible for the re-ceiver to receive e.g. MMS messages. This embodiment thus enables a data transfer method to be predetermined which is always to be used for transmit-ting messages to the particular receiver or group of receivers.
10 The embodiments illustrated above may thus be applied in steps 302 and 303 of Figure 3. It is to be noted that several different selection condi-tions may be applied or the selection conditions may determine several differ-ent criteria for selecting the data transfer method. For instance, the embodi-ments illustrated in both Figure 4a and Figure 4b may be applied to a message editor ED. It is also feasible that the selection conditions include a combination of at least two data transfer methods associated with property information, which is to be used for transmitting a message having the above property in-formation. For example, an MMS application is selected (303; 401) for mes-sages containing image files while MMS messages are transferred using a GPRS protocol.
According to an embodiment, the user is provided with information indicating available data transfer methods if, on the basis of the selection con-ditions, several data transfer methods are available for transmitting a message.
The data transfer method to be used for transmitting the message is then se-lected on the basis of a response received from the user. This embodiment enables the user to be provided with a possibility to select a data transfer method, enabling the user to select e.g. the most inexpensive data transfer method as desired for transmitting the message. It is also possible to ask the user for an acknowledgement of an automatically selected data transfer method and to transmit the message only if the user acknowledges the use of the data transfer method.
It is obvious to one skilled in the art that as technology advances, the basic idea of the invention may be implemented in many different ways.
The invention and its embodiments are thus not restricted to the above exam-ples but may vary within the scope of the claims. Different features may thus be omitted, modified or replaced by equivalents.

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1. A method for selecting a data transfer method in a telecommunication system wherein several data transfer methods exist for selection, the method comprising:
determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user;
checking at least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered; and selecting the data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information concerning the message in order to transmit the message, wherein the property information is one of the following: an information type specifying a format of information entered into and/or selected for the message, an identifier of a receiver, and a type of a receiver identifier.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising applying the method in a terminal device in a message editor used for entering messages, transmitting the message, on the basis of the selection of the data transfer method carried out in the message editor, to a data transfer application supporting the selected data transfer method, and transmitting the message according to a data transfer protocol used by the data transfer application to a telecommunication network.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, further comprising determining at least one piece of property information and selecting the data transfer method in response to receiving an input from the user in order to transmit the message.
4. A method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising providing the user with information indicating available data transfer methods in response to several data transfer methods being, on the basis of the selection conditions, available for transmitting the message, and selecting the data transfer method to be used for transmitting the message on the basis of a response received from the user.
5. Apparatus comprising:
a processor; and memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, working with the processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
determine a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user;
check at least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered; and select, in order to transmit the message, a data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information concerning the message, wherein the property information is one of the following: an information type specifying a format of information entered into and/or selected for the message, an identifier of a receiver, and a type of a receiver identifier.
6. Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the terminal device is further configured to apply the data transfer method selection in a message editor used for entering messages, the terminal device is configured to transmit the message, on the basis of the selection of the data transfer method carried out in the message editor, to a data transfer application supporting the selected data transfer method, and the terminal device is configured to transmit the message according to a data transfer protocol used by the data transfer application to a telecommunication network.
7. Apparatus as claimed in claim 5 or 6, wherein the terminal device is further configured to determine at least one piece of property information and select the data transfer method in response to receiving an input from the user in order to transmit the message.
8. Apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 5 to 7, wherein the terminal device is further configured to provide the user with information indicating available data transfer methods in response to several data transfer methods being, on the basis of the selection conditions, available for transmitting the message, and the terminal device is configured to select the data transfer method to be used for transmitting the message on the basis of a response received from the user.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program code executable in a processor of the terminal device, comprising:
program code for determining a message to be transmitted on the basis of inputs received from a user;
program code for controlling the terminal device to check at least one piece of property information concerning the message being entered or already entered; and program code for controlling the terminal device to select, in order to transmit the message, a data transfer method associated in predetermined selection conditions with the property information concerning the message, wherein the property information is one of the following: an information type specifying a format of information entered into and/or selected for the message, an identifier of a receiver, and a type of a receiver identifier.
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