Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070192495
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / 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. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/i... |
| Author/Creator | IBM |
| Title | IBM Lotus Mobile Connect - Product Documentation |
| Publication Date | January 1, 2006 |
| Publisher | IBM |
| Directions to Document Location | Product site - Technical Resources |
| Additional Information | Product site: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/mobileconnect/ |
Notes / To Do
| Notes | I am not a technical skilled person. So I don´t know if there are any technical infringements. Only thing I could tell that the idea is not new. So If anyone knows more on a deeper technical level, add it in. |
Excerpt
Excerpt The ideas described in this patent request are not new.IBM WECM exists already for several years and with version 6 it is calles Lotus Mobile Connect (LMC).
It uses a gateway proxy to monitor and grant access to the enduser with his device\PC.
In case of connection loss it keeps the connection\session alive. The program on device, switches between optimal protocol maintaining the VPN. And LMC can push information to device. |
Relevance
Claims
1
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.
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Gateway
Gateway
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The method of Claim 1, comprising the step of:
the gateway, on reconnection by a client library running on a client device that experienced an abrupt disconnection from the wireless network, reading the state of the client's connection/session identified by the received session identifier and recreating, on the client's behalf, the wireline connection with the core messaging system in the same precise state that resulted from the operations of the client application, prior to the abrupt disconnection.
Relevance
Session is kept alive with LMC
Session is kept alive with LMC
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