Methods and apparatus for selectively providing user-specific information to origin servers in wireless application protocol applications
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorMikael Nilsson
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Abstract
A meta markup language (e.g., an adaptation of XML) includes a specific tag which is optionally sent from a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) terminal when issuing requests aimed at a network origin server. The specific tag can be replaced by an intermediary WAP proxy or WAP gateway so that user-specific information can be inserted into the request at the discretion of a terminal user. Exemplary embodiments thus give WAP terminal users complete control over whether certain, potentially sensitive, information is transmitted to a network origin server during a request.
Claims21
A communication system, comprising:
- a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) terminal communicating, via a WAP gateway, with a network protocol origin server,
- wherein said WAP terminal selectively includes a tag in a request sent, via the WAP gateway, to the origin server, and
- wherein the WAP gateway, prior to forwarding the request from the WAP terminal to the origin server, modifies the request to include user-specific information when the tag is present.
A method of sending a request from a Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) terminal, via a WAP gateway, to a network protocol origin server, comprising the steps of:
- selectively including a tag in the request at the terminal;
- forwarding the request from the terminal to the gateway;
- modifying the request, at the gateway, to include user-specific information when the tag is present in the request;
- and
- forwarding the request from the gateway to the server.
A WAP terminal comprising:
- a transceiver for communicating a request for information available on the Internet over an air interface;
- an input device for permitting a user to enter control input into the WAP terminal;
- and
- a processor for selectively appending a tag associated with user-specific information to said request for information available on the Internet based on said control input, wherein a WAP gateway, prior to forwarding the request from the WAP terminal to an origin server, can modify the request to include user-specific information when the tag is present.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.