Nokia Corporation

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Petri Nyk&auml;nen

Kari T Lehtinen

Mikko Virtanen

Jari Mononen

Heidi Karves

Eeva-Liisa Heinonen

Kai Kronstr&ouml;m

Jaakko It&auml;vaara

Lasse Siitonen

Petri Juhani Kangas

Jari Paloniemi

Jaakko It{haeck Over (a)}vaara

A method and system for making profile information of a plurality of users of wireless terminals in a network accessible to the network. A current operational mode of the wireless terminal is determined. The current operational mode is identified by an operational mode name. The wireless terminal identification is used to identify the wireless terminal and/or a user of the wireless terminal. Profile information of the wireless terminal is sent to the network where the profile information includes the operational mode name and the wireless terminal and/or user identification. The profile information is sent by the wireless terminal and the sent profile information is accessible from the network.

Method and system for making wireless terminal profile information accessible to a network

Calendar display apparatus, and an associated method, displays the calendar display at a mobile terminal operable in a radio communication system. The calendar display includes calendar items retrieved from both a local storage element and from a network-based calendar database. The calendar items are displayed simultaneously. And, calendar items stored locally are exportable to the network database. Analogously, calendar items stored at the network database are downloadable to the mobile station to be stored thereat.

Calendar-display apparatus, and associated method, for a mobile 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 telephone system includes a plurality of telephone terminals wherein a call that is placed from a calling telephone terminal to a receiving telephone terminal is announced by activating a standard ringing indication at the receiving telephone terminal. A data file is provided having a plurality of different ringing indications therein. These ringing indications include a plurality of sound information that are both different from each other and different from a standard ringing tone, and a plurality of different visual information. When a call is placed from a calling telephone terminal to a receiving telephone terminal, the user at the calling telephone terminal may optionally elect to announce the call at the receiving-telephone-terminal using ringing indication that is selected from the data-file, for example sound information that indicates the identity of the calling-users, and/or visual information that indicates the priority of the call.

Method and apparatus enabling a calling telephone handset to choose a ringing indication(s) to be played and/or shown at a receiving telephone handset

The invention relates to a method for setting up a data transmission connection which is formed for transmitting information between at least a first communication device ( ) and a second communication device ( ), in which method, for at least the first communication device ( ), a network address ( ) is selected that is advantageously used for identifying the first communication device ( ). In the method according to the invention, for at least one service of at least the first communication device ( ), an address information ( ) is formed, which is advantageously used for identifying the service, and between the network address ( ) of the first communication device ( ) and the address information ( ) of the service, a correspondence is arranged for transferring information between the first communication device ( ) and the second communication device ( ).

Method in a communication network and a communication device

Methods and devices for modifying operational modes in a communication device based on application specific parameters. The operational modes of the communication device are modified by adding the application specific parameters of the application to the operational modes of the communication device. Further, commands may be automatically launched after an operational mode change in a communication device. One or more commands to be automatically launched when an operational mode becomes a current operational mode currently used by the communication device are entered into the operational mode of a communication device of a user. Whether the current operational mode has any commands to be automatically launched is determined. The one or more commands are automatically launched if the current operational mode has any commands to be automatically launched.

Methods and devices for operational modes in communication devices being modified with application specific parameters and operational modes automatically launching applications or commands

The invention relates to a method for installing at least one service ( ) of at least one external device (MS , MS , MS ) to a data processor (PC, LPC, PR). Said at least one service ( ) can be used for controlling the functions of said external device (MS , MS , MS ) from the data processor (PC, LPC, PR). In the method, a local area link is established for transferring information between said data processor (PC, LPC, PR) and said at least one external device (MS , MS , MS ). From said at least one external device (MS , MS , MS ), it is determined which are the services ( ) available in it. In the data processor (PC, LPC, PR), at least one service packet. ( ) is installed, which contains at least one of said services ( ) available in the wireless communication device (MS , MS , MS ).

Method for installing services

The invention relates to a method for forming a device-specific icon ( ) related to an external device (MS , MS , MS ) in a data processor (PC), in which the optical properties of the pixels are changed in order to present desired information. In this method, a local area link is established in order to transmit information between the said data processor and external device (MS , MS , MS ). In the external device (MS , MS , MS ) or in a determined communications address at least some device-specific information has been stored in advance. The icon information required to form the icon ( ) is transmitted to the data processor (PC) from the external device (MS , MS , MS ), or the address indicating the storage location of the icon information is transferred to the data processor (PC) from the external device (MS , MS , MS ), wherein at least some of the icon information is transmitted from the storage location indicated in the storage address with the help of the data processor (PC). On the basis of the transmitted icon information the optical properties of the pixels in the display of the data processor (PC) are controlled in order to form and present an icon according to the icon information on the display ( ).

Method for forming an icon

In an information output system according to the invention data (,) processed by an application (,) is processed in a terminal device (,) into a data transfer format (,) independent of the application (,) using a specific format generator (,). After this the data (,) is transferred to a second terminal device (,) via mobile communication network. In the receiving terminal device a specific data transfer application decodes the data (,) in the independent data format (,) into a form suitable for the output devices, and automatically transfers it to the output devices for outputting.

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Tampere, Finland

Petri Nykänen

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Tampere, Finland

Petri Nyk&auml;nen

Petri Nykänen