Mobile Multimedia Connectivity:
Allowing connectivity and application sharing between mobile phones, the PC, consumer electronics accessories, and automotive infotainment systems

Cellport’s most recent and potentially most revolutionary core architectural patent portfolio, Mobile Multimedia Connectivity, is based on three patents the company was granted beginning in 2005 and includes others that are pending. Extending Cellport’s leadership in universal connectivity solutions for mobile devices to the automobile, mobile-to-mobile, home and office, the MMC portfolio enables application resources to be shared across devices independent of their operating systems and local link technologies. It includes technologies to facilitate service advertising and discovery between devices, makes it possible to export applications to remote browsers and application features from one device to another and for a device to use displays, keyboards, controls, and speakers that are nearby. It provides tools for application development that use standard Web 2.0 programming languages such as HTML/AJAX. 

MMC core architectural patents issued to date include two CP Connect patents that facilitate service advertisement, discovery and utilization over normalized communication links, wired or wireless, and make it possible to use a standard browser to display an application or service; and the Secure Telematics Framework I, which allows a vehicle to have a trusted identity and to present or access services in a secure manner. Pending patents include the Secure Telematics Framework II, which extends the framework to allow a mobile device to become a trusted service provider in a vehicle; Link Select Enterprise, which enables mobile devices to connect to the Internet via multiple network access points and can preserve sessions while the mobile device changes networks; and PhoneTools I and II application development techniques that enable HTML/AJAX applications built with PhoneTools to operate on any supported device and for services to be accessed and controlled through a browser application.

Because of its broad and far-reaching implications, Cellport expects the MMC to have substantial social benefits and market impact. The MMC is expected to open up a world of new mobile application product and service categories, including cloud-based services, cross-device synchronization functionality, and peer-to-peer synchronization and mobile application sharing. It will also alleviate the device and operating system fragmentation that has slowed the mobile application market, by allowing applications developed with MMC tools to run on multiple platforms, a benefit that will also reduce application development costs.