Patent ID: 7584471
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A mobile terminal for use in a wireless telecommunications system, comprising: a mobile terminal having a mobile terminal platform comprised of a processor and a computer readable medium supporting a mobile terminal platform domain; the mobile terminal platform domain supported by a software services component for providing platform functionality in the form of open platform API (OPA) services, said software services component in the form of software instructions adapted to be loaded and stored in the computer readable medium and executed by the processor of the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal platform domain further having an interface component having at least one interface for providing access to the platform functionality of the software services component for enabling an application domain software to be installed, loaded and run in said mobile terminal platform domain via said at least one interface, said interface component in the form of software instructions adapted to be loaded and stored in the computer readable medium and executed by the processor; and plug-in software in the form of software instructions adapted to be loaded and stored in the computer readable medium and executed by the processor of the mobile terminal for use by the application domain software for extending the platform functionality of the software services component via the at least one interface, wherein said plug-in software adheres to the same paradigm as the platform functionality by supporting application software mechanisms supported by the mobile terminal platform; complying with an application model defined in the mobile terminal platform; and is implemented as a component wherein it provides its services to the application domain software through a defined function or method based interface, such services including one or more of component model compliance, naming convention compliance, undesired-event handling compliance and message model compliance.