Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070192495
Filing Date: February 16, 2006
Inventors: Charl Marais
Assignee: SOFTWIRED AG
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/227000
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A method for operating a gateway for wireless mobile clients in a messaging system, the messaging system being configured to comprise a plurality of mobile wireless clients, a core messaging system and at least one gateway process or gateway, the gateway acting as a proxy on behalf of the clients and, in the course of normal operation of the messaging system, maintaining sessions by performing the steps of,
the gateway receiving inbound messages from the clients over wireless bearers using a wireless protocol and forwarding said inbound messages to the core messaging system over a connection using a wirebound protocol;
the gateway receiving outbound messages from the core messaging system over a connection using a wirebound protocol and forwarding said outbound messages to the clients over wireless bearers using a wireless protocol;
the method further comprising the step of
the gateway storing a session context, which session context comprises the status of a session established between the core messaging system and one of the clients, a state of the client connection associated with the session, and a session identifier which is unique to the session.
Title IBM Lotus Mobile Connect - Product Documentation
Description
IBM has a product called Lotus Mobile Connect, previously version was called WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager. This product contains gateway with gatekeeper, session persistence (keeps connection alive - thus allowing to switch between connection types umts, gprs, UTP cable network, etc), device management, sets ip VPN, etc.. It looks like the patent is describing this product.
Patent/Application # 6912581
Description
A method and apparatus maintains, during non-session conditions and on a per user basis, concurrent multimodal session status information of user agent programs configured for different concurrent modality communication during the same session, and re-establish a concurrent multimodal session in response to accessing the concurrent multimodal session status information.
Title Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
ISBN 978-0975918203
Description
A textbook on Mobile Computing that describes wireless gateways and session persistence
Patent/Application # US6308281
Description
Prior art describes bridging connections (e.g. wireless and wireline) including a session key (context) and ability to recover from disconnections.
