Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Jari Paloniemi

Vesa Ulvinen

Sami Ronkainen

Jani Mäntyjärvi

Petri Nyk&auml;nen

Timo V Kinnunen

Miika Antero Silfverberg

Petri Juhani Kangas

Tatu Kauppinen

A user input device includes a sensor capable of sensing surface relief of human skin, a movement detector responsive to variation of the output of the sensor for detecting movement of skin across the sensor, and a user interface apparatus responsive to the movement detector to alert its state in correspondence to the detected movement.

Sensing data input

A terminal includes a display and a user interface. The terminal also includes means for providing the terminal display with at least one virtual display, a display portion or an object, and means for moving at least the virtual display, the display portion or the object on the display using the motion of the terminal or the motion and/or location of an object proportioned to the terminal.

Method for controlling a terminal display and a terminal

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. Another aspect of the method is providing the current context result to an application program in response to the user control and receiving the useful information from the application program. The invention enables the user to grant access permission to the application program to access the current context result. This can be performed in the user's wireless device or in the network server. The network server can carry out the control of access by application programs in web servers, in response to a user privacy profile received from the user's wireless device.

Context sensitive web services

A method to authorize or authenticate a user of a wireless telecommunication system ( ), and includes steps of (a) selecting a word at random from a set of reference words, or synthesizing a reference word; (b) prompting the user to speak the reference word; and (c) authenticating the user to operate in, or through, or with a resource reachable through the wireless telecommunication system, only if the user's speech characteristics match pre-stored characteristics associated with the reference word. In one embodiment the steps of selecting or synthesizing, prompting, and authenticating are performed in a mobile station ( ) having a speech transducer ( ) for inputting the user's speech, while in another embodiment at least one of the steps of selecting or synthesizing, prompting, and authenticating are performed in a wireless telecommunications network ( ) that is coupled between the mobile station and a telephone network ( ). In yet another embodiment at least one of these steps are performed in a data communications network resource ( ) that is coupled through a data communications network ( ), such as the Internet, and the wireless telecommunications network to the mobile station. The step of prompting may include a step of displaying alphanumeric text and/or a graphical image to the user using a display ( ) of the mobile station.

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Kiiminki, Finland

Jari Paloniemi