Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jerome D Boss

Cezary Antoni Marcjan

Fei Su

Gilad Odinak

Lili Cheng

David Milstein

A dynamic service application is stored and executed on a mobile or wireless communication device (e.g., a cellular telephone) to enable it to be programmed without specialized hardware, software, and other proprietary information. For example, dynamic service application programs or scripts may be entered directly by a user or may be received as a wireless or radiated digital message transmission. The dynamic service application executes the dynamic service application script, which is of a format to accommodate wireless or radiated transmission and storage on the device. The dynamic service application script may be written directly by a user on a computer or a mobile communication device or may be written with the aid of scripting 'wizard' software that runs on a computer and guides the writing of script without the user having to work directly with the dynamic service application script. In addition to being received as radiated transmissions, dynamic service application scripts may also be sent as radiated transmissions from mobile communication devices to other devices or computers.

Mobile communication device dynamic service application and dynamic service application scripting

Geographically distributed data-gathering client computers are connected to the Internet in the same manner as typical users (for example, via local dial-up connections). The data-gathering client computers poll a central server (the 'UserMon' server) for a target site to access. After receiving the address of a target site from the UserMon server, the data-gathering client computers access the target site and obtain performance-parameter values indicative of the quality of their respective Internet connections to the target site and/or the performance of the target site itself. Each data-gathering client computer then pushes the performance-parameter values back to the 'UserMon' server for analysis.

Distributed internet user experience monitoring system

A user-controlled cellular telephone positioning feature allows a cellular telephone user to correlate a user-specified location name with a cellular telephone location among one or more cells of a cellular telephone network. In one implementation, a cellular telephone location tagging application is stored and operated on a cellular telephone. The application obtains a cell identification string corresponding to a cell of a cellular telephone system with which cell the cellular telephone is in communication and allows the user to associate a location name and the cell identification string as location information for a selected location. Location data are maintained on a user's cellular telephone, and the user can selectively make the location information available others.

User-tagging of cellular telephone locations

Geographically distributed data-gathering client computers are connected to the Internet in the same manner as typical users (for example, via local dial-up connections). The data-gathering client computers poll a central server (the &ldquo;UserMon&rdquo; server) for a target site to access. After receiving the address of a target site from the UserMon server, the data-gathering client computers access the target site and obtain performance-parameter values indicative of the quality of their respective Internet connections to the target site and/or the performance of the target site itself. Each data-gathering client computer then pushes the performance-parameter values back to the &ldquo;UserMon&rdquo; server for analysis.

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