Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Nokia Corporation

Oikian Solutions Oy

Nokia Mobile Phones Llimited

Mobilemedia Ideas LLC

Mikko Lietsalmi

Seppo M Alanara

Petri Tapig Nykanen

Patrik Gustafsson

Jaakko S Vanttila

Pekka Isomursu

Juhani Miettunen

Arto Lehtonen

Mikko Terho

Jari Maenpaa

Hannu H Kari

Peter Decker

Teemu Tarnanen

Pete Pihko

Kalevi Kaartinen

Juha Vaihoja

Jorma Seppanen

Raimo K Kivari

Timo Kolehmainen

Arto Pussinen

Arto H Lehtonen

Jorma A Seppänen

Jaakko Vanttila

A method for associating a financial transaction with an electronic advertisement including obtaining unique electronic tokens for each potential financial transaction resulting from an electronic advertisement of an advertiser to consumers; storing the unique electronic tokens as stored tokens associated with the electronic advertisement; transmitting the unique electronic tokens as distributed tokens to the advertiser; receiving at least one of the distributed tokens that has been passed from the advertiser to a consumer in relation to a financial transaction based on the electronic advertisement; and associating each financial transaction identified by the received distributed token with the electronic advertisement identified by the stored tokens, if the received distributed token matches with the stored token.

Associating financial transaction with advertisement

A method includes transferring data between a mobile station for communicating over a mobile communications network and a server in the Internet having a connection to the mobile communications network. The transfer of data includes providing at least a portion of a page on the Internet in the form of code, the code including a telephone number of the mobile station as hidden information, receiving the code in the mobile station in a first user message where the first user message is a short message service message, and interpreting the code in the mobile station to cause the mobile station to display information corresponding to the page on the Internet on the mobile station, wherein the information to be displayed on the mobile station does not include the hidden information.

Communication network terminal supporting a plurality of applications

A terminal for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications and communicating user messages. The terminal is configured to receive user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications and address the data to a respective application according to the header. In an embodiment the user messages are short messages and the data includes characters in the short message.

The present invention relates to a terminal () for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications () and having means of communicating user messages. The terminal comprises means for receiving user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications () and means () for addressing the data to a respective application according to the header. In an embodiment the user messages are short messages and the data comprises characters in the short message.

A method is disclosed for operating a cellular communications system of a type that comprises a Base Station/Mobile Switching Center/Internetworking function (BMI) and a plurality of mobile stations. The method includes the steps of transmitting a point-to-multipoint message (e.g., a Broadcast SMS message) from the BMI to the plurality of mobile stations; and, in at least some of the plurality of mobile stations, receiving the point-to-multipoint message and transmitting an acknowledgement to the BMI using a point-to-point message. The point-to-multipoint message includes an information element having a value for specifying one of (a) that a mobile station receiving the message is prohibited from responding to the message, (b) that a mobile station receiving the message must respond to the message, and (c) that a mobile station receiving the message may optionally respond to the message. Mobile stations receiving the message selectively respond or not respond to the message, at least as a function of the value of the information element.

Methods and apparatus for providing an interactive cell broadcast service

The present invention relates to a terminal ( ) for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications ( ) and having means of communicating user messages. The terminal comprises means for receiving user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications ( ) and means ( ) for addressing the data to a respective application according to the header. In an embodiment the user messages are short messages and the data comprises characters in the short message.

This invention provides for the use of an index message in a Cell Broadcast Service. An index message is considered to be a special type of Cell Broadcast message which contains general information about actual broadcast messages. The index message is transmitted in a predetermined logical S-BCCH subchannel, and contains information elements such as (a) message overviews or summaries for each cell broadcast message, (b) information concerning emergency messages, (c) information concerning the language used in different broadcast messages, (d) an alphanumeric broadcast domain operator name and a specific operator greeting, (e) information concerning changes in broadcast messages, and (f) information concerning subchannels.

Mobile station and network having hierarchical index for cell broadcast service

The present invention relates to a terminal (,) for a communication network, the terminal being capable of supporting a plurality of applications (,) and having means of communicating user messages. The terminal comprises means for receiving user messages having data and a header relating to one of the applications (,) and means (,) for addressing the data to a respective application according to the header. In an embodiment the user messages are short messages and the data comprises characters in the short message.

The present invention relates to a communicator (,) having means for displaying and processing an information card containing information, and means for transmitting the information on the information card using radio communication, the transmission including an information card identifier and a destination identifier. The information on the information card is processed into characters, and a short message (,) is formed of said characters, to be transmitted using radio communication, and sent to a receiver through a short message service center (SM-SC).

This invention pertains to a method for varying the level of an alerting indicator of a radiotelephone while an incoming call is being received, and also to a radiotelephone that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes a first step of operating a user interface (22) for inputting information to a controller (20) of the radiotelephone, the information specifying that an alerting indicator volume be reduced or muted. In response to the inputted information, a second step reduces the alerting indicator volume. An alerting indicator volume that has been reduced is increased upon the termination of the incoming call signal, upon the elapse of a predetermined time period and/or in response to information inputted to the controller (20) via the user interface (22), which information specifies that the alerting indicator volume be increased. In one embodiment of the invention, the alerting indicator volume is maintained at a reduced value until information is input to the controller (20) via operation of the user interface (22), which information specifies that the alerting indicator volume be increased. In response to the inputted information, the alerting indicator volume is increased. The invention may be used in radiotelephones employing non-audio alerting indicator devices for indicating an incoming call, such as vibrating devices.

Radiotelephone enabling adjustment of alerting indicator volume/level

A mobile station (10) maintains a single, prioritized list of all available networks (i.e., all public, residential, and private networks). Access to the various networks is then based on the user's needs. A first type of access is an automatic access, that requires little or no user involvement. A second type of access is to a user-specified network. A third type of access is to a user-specified service (e.g., data, fax, e-mail, etc.) that is supported by at least one of the networks. The mobile station can search for additional networks, and can also search for additional networks that support only a specified type of service, or for a network that supports a service not supported by networks that are already in the list. All of the networks can be searched at once so that the user can readily make a selection from the single, prioritized network list. The network priorities are user programmable by moving network names up and down in the list using a mobile station user interface, such as the mobile station's keypad. The higher the network name is placed in the list, the higher is the priority of the network.

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Oulu, Finland

Mikko Lietsalmi