3rd International ICST Conference on COMmunication System SoftWAre and MiddlewaRE

Research Article

mConnect: A Context Aware Mobile Transaction Middleware

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554444,
        author={Kartik Muralidharan and Karthik GV, and Puneet Gupta, and Atanu Roy Chowdhury},
        title={mConnect: A Context Aware Mobile Transaction Middleware},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on COMmunication System SoftWAre and MiddlewaRE},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={COMSWARE},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554444}
    }
    
  • Kartik Muralidharan
    Karthik GV,
    Puneet Gupta,
    Atanu Roy Chowdhury
    Year: 2008
    mConnect: A Context Aware Mobile Transaction Middleware
    COMSWARE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/COMSWA.2008.4554444
Kartik Muralidharan1,*, Karthik GV,1,*, Puneet Gupta,1,*, Atanu Roy Chowdhury1,*
  • 1: Software Engineering and Technology Labs Infosys Technologies Ltd Bangalore- 560100, India
*Contact email: kartik_muralidharan@infosys.com, karthik_gv@infosys.com, puneet_gupta@infosys.com, atanu_chowdhury@infosys.com

Abstract

Enterprises are aggressively eyeing ubiquitous mobile solutions to increase the efficiency of their taskforce, but this exercise is hindered by several functional and technical challenges. For instance mobile devices are widely different in terms of their underlying platform capabilities, available screen real estate, input mechanisms and so on. In this work we introduce mConnect, a Context aware real time Mobile Transaction Middleware which manages this device diversity in an efficient manner. mConnect abstracts the complexities of the mobile world from the existing infrastructure and seamlessly helps in extending/ creating internet based transaction solutions for mobile users with minimal or no modification to the backend. This in turn accelerates the adoption of the mobile device as a default channel to access the Web.