1. CSE 403 Lifecycle Objectives LCO Vijay Mani &Travis Krick
Personal Portal
CSE 403 Lifecycle Objectives
LCO
Vijay Mani &Travis Krick

2. Operational Concepts – What is it?
Customized portal that is a cross between My Yahoo and PocketWeb.
Brings in the “personalizable” aspect into the modules that go into this application.
This is targeted towards people of all communities who enjoy features on a cell phone, but share a similar dislike for entering data on them.
Provide various services for people from map-quest, airline status, smart , stocks, theater listings, weather, and news and other endless possibilities……..……

3. System Requirements
Much like pocket web, on a java enabled phone we provide an interface for the following modules:
Smart
Super MapQuest
Airline status checker
Stock Tracker of your favorite stocks
Personalized headline news
Movie Listing in your area
And like MyYahoo, we provide a web interface to personalize these modules to suit the users needs and to avoid typing on the phone.

4. System and Software Architecture
Database
Cell phone -- Midlet
Request sent in plain/text format
SQL query
Plain text response
XML/plain text output
HTTP - Request
Desktop,Laptop etc --Web Interface
HTTP - Response
An ASP interface to fill out personalization data
Internet
SERVER – servelet , asp(for web interface)

5. Simple Scenario -- I
Travis logs onto the server and sets up an account from his home PC, and personalizes all his content on personal portal. He chooses to have map-quest, airline tracker, sports news and smart . He is leaving for San Diego today, and would like to keep track of whether or not the flight is on time. Before leaving home he enters the name of the airport he wants to depart from, in the Super MapQuest module and enters in the flight # in the Airline module from his PC.
Since he is in a hurry he doesn’t copy down the directions to the Airport. On his way, he forgets the directions and opens up the app on his phone, navigates through the clean and clear menu options, and gets to the MapQuest module, and then without having to type a single word on his phone, he gets clear directions.

6. Setting up the service Using the service T-DA
Server stores the user’s data in the database
Logs onto the site, sets up an account by filling out the required forms
Using the service
Leaves for the Airport, and before doing so uses personal portal to check directions to the airport and his flight status
Send a request to the server without actually typing any data(optionally data could be typed in from the phone)
Forgets directions to airport and so use cell phone to get previously entered request to Super MapQuest
Actual data is gotten from the database
Send data to server
Generate and send query to actual mapquest
Get the response from MapQuest
Parse it and send it to the phone
T-DA

7. Lifecycle Plan –Who wants it?
People who would like to have information delivered to their phone without(optionally) having to type too much data on the phone
---All of US??????
Okay Okay.,….. My partner and I
Fine…..Only me……

8. Who will support it? The code – by a team of ardent developers
The “Computer Stuff” – CSE support
Once this project shows promise…..
Yahoo, Microsoft, …………

9. Feasibility Rationale
Is it possible? — With a few strong developers(a.k.a you guys), some (possibly reusable) code from PocketWeb – YES.
Issue #1 – Some of the modules depend on data from existing, FREE , internet sites….that might be taken down, might be reformatted or might not be free anymore.
Issue #2 – The modules can be considerably challenging….. But that’s why this is fun ……right?