Method for performing an interaction from a communicating device configured to establish a wireless communication channel and corresponding telecommunication system

Abstract

A method envisions that a first device equipped with a wireless communication channel performs discovery operations and becomes discoverable on the wireless communication channel. The attributes of the devices detected during such operations are sent from the first device operating as a client, together with its unique system identification code, to a computer server that implements a detection service in proximity in a certified manner and is associated with a database comprising a list of attributes for devices registered with the service using such database. In addition, the server computer records, for example, in such database, the detections of such attributes of detected devices.

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         21 . A method for performing a trusted interaction between a first communication device configured to establish a first wireless type communication channel and one or more second devices configured to operate on said first wireless type communication channel, said first wireless type communication channel being of the type suitable to allow the implementation of discovery operations to search for devices among said one or more second devices that become visible, or discoverable, on said first wireless type communication channel within a radius of operation of said first wireless type communication channel, said method providing that said first communication device publishes its device attributes on said first wireless type communication channel to become visible, and detects through said first wireless type communication channel attributes published by said one or more second devices to become visible or discoverable, said first communication device accessing a database that comprises stored attributes of devices to become visible,
 wherein   said first communication device is configured to establish a second communication channel to communicate in a client-server communication relationship with a remotely located computer server to which said database is associated,   said first communication device, after a discovery operation to detect one or more second devices, sends through said second communication channel to said remotely located computer server a corresponding decoding request comprising at least one system identifier, assigned in the database to said first communication device, and said attributes of the one or more second devices detected on said first wireless type communication channel,   said remotely located computer server performs with respect to said decoding request a decoding operation that comprises at least one step of obtaining from said database, if available, a respective system identifier of one or more second detected devices,   said remotely located computer server sends through said second communications channel to said first communication device a decoding message comprising a result of said decoding operation that comprises said system identifier, if available,   at the first communication device based on the results indicated in said decoding message received from the remotely located computer server the system identifier received from said remotely located computer server is recorded and is signalled the availability of a determined mode of access to information or services of the one or more second devices possibly detected.   
     
     
         22 . The method according to  claim 21 , wherein said decoding operation comprises recording said request for decoding on the remotely located computer server. 
     
     
         23 . The method according to  claim 22 , wherein said operation of recording said decoding request on the remotely located computer server comprises recording information relative to such decoding request in the database, in particular the corresponding system identifiers, and time information of reception at the remotely located computer server, in particular the date and time of the remotely located computer server. 
     
     
         24 . The method according to  claim 22 , wherein said decoding operation further comprises verifying if, within a determined interval of time, a second decoding request initiated by the detection of the first communication device by the second detected device has also arrived at the remotely located computer server. 
     
     
         25 . The method according to  claim 24 , wherein if said decoding message indicates that the second decoding request initiated from detection of the first communication device by the second detected device has arrived at the remotely located computer server the first communication device signals a first mode of access to information or services of said one or more second devices possibly detected. 
     
     
         26 . The method according to  claim 24 , wherein if said decoding message indicates that the second decoding request initiated from detection of the first communication device by the second detected device has not arrived at the remotely located computer server the first communication device signals a second mode of access to information or services of said one or more second devices possibly detected. 
     
     
         27 . The method according to  claim 22 , wherein said decoding operation initially comprises before said recording operation at the remotely located computer server of said decoding request to verify if the first communication device or the one or more second detected devices are registered in the database and, if not, to send a corresponding decoding message susceptible of signalling to the first communication device a third mode of access. 
     
     
         28 . The method according to  claim 24 , wherein if said first mode of access is signalled, the first communication device is enabled to operate by means of said system identifier access by means of the second communication channel. 
     
     
         29 . The method according to  claim 28  wherein said first communication device is also enabled to operate by means of said system identifier access to said detected device via the second communication channel, the remotely located computer server and a communication channel between said remotely located computer server and said detected device. 
     
     
         30 . The method according to  claim 26 , wherein if said second mode of access is signalled, said first communication device is enabled to operate by means of said system identifier, an access through a connection comprising the second communication channel for access to further information and/or services of said detected device. 
     
     
         31 . The method according to  claim 27 , wherein if said third mode of access is signalled the one or more detected devices are not considered detected in proximity. 
     
     
         32 . The method according to  claim 21 , wherein said first communication device interoperates with said database by means of software modules respectively resident on said remotely located computer server and on at least said first device, said software modules being adapted to put at least said first communication device and said remotely located computer server in a client-server communication relationship. 
     
     
         33 . The method according to  claim 32 , wherein said software modules respectively resident on said remotely located computer server and on at least said first communication device, act to put at least said first communication device and said remotely located computer server in a client-server communication, defining a service, in particular a Web service, to interoperate said first device and said remotely located computer server. 
     
     
         34 . The method according to  claim 33 , wherein said service, in particular Web service, includes a software application which software module installed on the first communication device and an API (Application Programming Interface) installed on the remotely located computer server. 
     
     
         35 . The method according to  claim 21  wherein said system identifier of the first communication device or of the one or more detected device is a specific code of the database, allocated by said software modules and assigned in a registration phase of the first communication device or of the one or more detected device. 
     
     
         36 . The method according to  claim 21  wherein said first wireless type communication channel operates according to a Bluetooth protocol. 
     
     
         37 . The method according to  claim 21  wherein said first wireless type communication channel operates according to a Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) protocol. 
     
     
         38 . A telecommunications system to operate a trusted interaction between a first communication device configured to establish a first wireless type communication channel and one or more second devices configured to operate on said first wireless type communication channel, said first wireless type communication channel being of the type suitable to allow execution of discovery operations to search for devices among said one or more second devices that are visible, or discoverable, on said first wireless type communication channel within a radius of operation of said first wireless type communication channel, said telecommunications system comprising a remotely located computer server and said first communication device being further configured to establish a second communication channel with a remotely located computer server, wherein it implements the operations of the method according to  claim 21 . 
     
     
         39 . A communication device configured to establish the first wireless type communications channel of a type suitable to allow execution of discovery operations to search for devices that are visible, or discoverable, on said first wireless type communication channel within a radius of operation of said first wireless type communication channel configured to operate in the telecommunications system according to  claim 38 . 
     
     
         40 . A computer server associated with a database configured to operate in the telecommunication system according to  claim 38 .