Data handling system and method therefor
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsBernard Joseph Burg, William Neil Robinson, Philippe Sartori, Nicolas Dubois, Abdelkrim Benamar
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Abstract
A data handling system comprising a terminal (122) and a communications network (100), the terminal (122) being capable of communicating with the communications network (100), the network (100) comprising a host platform (124) for receiving an agent (30) associated with the terminal (122), the agent (130) being adapted to communicate, at the platform (124), with the at least one other agent.
Claims9
A data handling system comprising a mobile wireless communication terminal and a communications network including a plurality of base stations and corresponding base station controllers, the mobile terminal being capable of communicating with the communications network over wireless links through a local one of said base stations, the network comprising a plurality of host platforms associated with respective ones of said base station controllers for receiving an agent associated with the mobile terminal,
- said mobile terminal comprising agent generating means for generating an associated agent,
- said agent comprising an independent piece of itinerant software code capable of migrating from one platform to another platform, capable of controlling itself through an execution thread and capable of performing tasks of its own accord,
- said agent being adapted to exchange data at said local host platform with at least one other agent and to communicate the data exchanged with said mobile terminal over said wireless links.
A method of handling data in a system comprising a mobile wireless communication terminal and a communications network including a plurality of base stations and corresponding base station controllers, the mobile terminal communicating with the communications network over wireless links through a local one of said base stations,
- the system including a plurality of host platforms associated with respective ones of said base station controllers for receiving an agent associated with the mobile terminal,
- said agent comprising an independent piece of itinerant software code capable of migrating from one platform to another platform, capable of controlling itself through an execution thread and capable of performing tasks of its own accord, and
- said agent exchanging data at said local host platform with at least one other agent and communicating the data exchanged with said mobile terminal over said wireless links.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.