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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2002
Amit Haller, Belmont, CA (US);
Peter Fornell, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Avraham Itzchak, Ra′ anana, IL;
Amir Glick, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ziv Haparnas, Tel Aviv, IL;
Amit Haller, Belmont, CA (US);
Peter Fornell, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Avraham Itzchak, Ra′ anana, IL;
Amir Glick, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ziv Haparnas, Tel Aviv, IL;
IXI Mobile (R&D), Ltd., , IL;
Abstract
A system, a wireless hand-held device, and software component for accessing information responsive to short-range radio signals is provided. The system includes a wireless gateway device coupled to a network, such as a cellular network. The wireless gateway device includes a network manager software component for accessing information from the network responsive to a first short-range radio signal. The network may be a corporate, private or public network, such as the Internet. A first wireless device is coupled to the wireless gateway device. The first wireless device provides the first short-range radio signal. In an embodiment of the present invention, the first wireless device is a cellular telephone, personal digital assistant or thin terminal having a Bluetooth™ processor and transmitter. In an embodiment of the present invention, the network manager software component includes a plug and play software component for loading and executing software for the first wireless device. In an embodiment of the present invention, a second wireless device accesses information on the first wireless device using the wireless gateway device.