iMobile: An Agent-Based Platform for Mobile Services

iMobile is a platform that addresses the research issues in building mobile services. iMobile acts as a message gateway that allows mobile devices using various protocols on different access networks to relay messages to each other. It also allows these thin clients to access resources and information on the internet and various . iMobile implements three key abstractions: devlet, infolet, and applet. A devlet is a driver attached to iMobile that receives and sends messages through a particular protocol for mobile devices. An infolet hosted on uses a particular access method to provide an abstract view of an information space. An applet implements service or application logic by processing information from various infolets. The foundation of iMobile, the let engine, implements the basic framework for maintaining applets, devlets and infolets, supports user and device profiles for personalization and transcoding, and invokes proper applets and infolets to answer requests from a devlet....

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Herman Chung-Hwa Rao, Yih-Farn Chen, Di-Fa Chang, Ming-Feng Chen
• Keywords: IMobile Architecture, Internet Technology, Mobile Devices, Various Infolets, WWW 2001