Customized messaging between wireless access point and services

Abstract

A method is disclosed for facilitating the preparation of customized messaging between a wireless access point and a variety of service platforms. The wireless access point includes a registry of trigger words, each word specifying the particular events that must be detected by the access point upon receiving a packet from a mobile wireless device, in order to invoke the process of sending a corresponding server message to a selected server. When the wireless packet is received by the access point, the access point uses the various types of information in the received packet as stimuli to be matched with the trigger words stored in the trigger word registry. If there is a match, then a customized message corresponding to the matched trigger word is accessed from a customized message registry and sent to the server specified in the message. The server uses this information for an appropriate query of its database to access the content. The content is then used for a particular application or returned to the access point for communication to the mobile device. The wireless access point includes management software to present to the system administrator on a connected personal computer, a management menu of example trigger words and example server messages. The management software provides an editor to enable the administrator to optionally customize the example trigger words and/or server messages to suit particular applications.