Messaging system and method

• US 10,097,486 B1
• Filed: 06/01/2018
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: T Play Holdings LLC (FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC))
• Original Assignee: TriPlay Incorporated
• Inventors: Rosen, Gil, Ziv, Yaacov
• Primary Examiner(s): Mirza, Adnan M
• Application Number:
  US15/996,119
• Publication Number:
  US 20180278559A1
• Time in Patent Office: 130 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4025 where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/756 adapting media to device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 : with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 : Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 : Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout.

Claims

1. An electronic messaging system, configured to solve a problem of preserving users'"'"' messaging experience over a spectrum of communication devices and capabilities of the communication devices by associating messages with templates having particular content structures and utilizing the template-based messages to reduce the amount of computer resources that the electronic messaging system would otherwise need to perform a content analysis of each message, the electronic messaging system comprising:

an access block;

a media block;

wherein the access block is operatively coupled to the media block;

wherein the electronic messaging system is configured to electronically transmit a plurality of messages between at least one originating communication device associated with at least one sender and at least one destination communication device associated with at least one receiver;

wherein the access block comprises one or more computers selectively configured, when executing at least one first stored program, to receive at least one initial message sent by the at least one originating communication device;

wherein the at least one initial message is based, at least in part, on a template and comprises a video;

wherein the template is a predefined user interface, comprising one or more content structures that are representative of a content of the initial message;

wherein the initial message comprises a unique template identifier that is associated with the template;

wherein the electronic messaging system is configured to recognize the unique template identifier included with the at least one initial message and determine, based at least in part on the unique template identifier, the one or more content structures associated with the initial message so as to improve a performance of one or more electronic messaging system computers by reducing the need for content analysis of the at least one initial message that the one or more messaging system computers would have to perform in the absence of the unique template identifier in the initial message and the association between the one or more content structures of the template and the content of the initial message;

wherein the media block comprises one or more computers selectively configured, when executing at least one second stored program, to;

obtain data indicative of displaying capabilities of the at least one destination communication device and

convert, in accordance with at least one criterion related to the displaying capabilities of the at least one destination communication device, the initial message into an adapted message;

wherein, for the conversion, the one or more computers of the media block further selectively configured to;

a) provide a clickable icon that is;

i) based on the video from the initial message and

ii) clickable into an adapted version of the video, wherein the adapted version of the video is adapted to the displaying capabilities of the destination communication device; and

b) determine, based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier, an adapted message layout, comprising the clickable icon; and

transmit the adapted message to the at least one destination communication device.

2. The electronic messaging system of claim 1,

wherein the unique template identifier is associated with one or more predefined adapted message layouts;

and

wherein the media block is further configured to select the adapted message layout from among the one or more predefined adapted message layouts based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier and the criterion related to the displaying capabilities of the at least one destination communication device so as to improve the performance of the one or more messaging system computers by providing at least one layout-related delivery instruction based, at least in part, on the one or more predefined adapted message layouts.

3. A method for solving a problem of preserving users'"'"' messaging experience over a spectrum of communication devices and capabilities of the communication devices by associating messages with templates having particular content structures and utilizing the template-based messages to reduce the amount of computer resources that at least one message processing computer would otherwise need to perform a content analysis of each message, comprising:

receiving, by the at least one message processing computer, at least one initial message sent by at least one originating communication device associated with at least one sender to at least one destination communication device associated with at least one receiver;

wherein the at least one initial message is based, at least in part, on a template and comprises a video;

wherein the template is a predefined user interface, comprising one or more content structures that are representative of a content of the initial message;

wherein the initial message comprises a unique template identifier that is associated with the template;

recognizing, by the at least one message processing computer, the unique template identifier included with the at least one initial message;

determining, by the at least one message processing computer, based at least in part on the unique template identifier, the one or more content structures associated with the initial message so as to improve a performance of the at least one message processing computer, by reducing the need for content analysis of the at least one initial message that the at least one message processing computer would have to perform in the absence of the unique template identifier in the initial message and the association between the one or more content structures of the template and the content of the initial message;

obtaining, by the at least one message processing computer, data indicative of displaying capabilities of the at least one destination communication device;

converting, by the at least one message processing computer, in accordance with at least one criterion related to the displaying capabilities of the at least one destination communication device, the initial message into an adapted message;

wherein the converting comprises;

a) providing, by the at least one message processing computer, a clickable icon that is;

i) based on the video from the initial message and

ii) clickable into an adapted version of the video, wherein the adapted version of the video is adapted to the displaying capabilities of the destination communication device; and

b) determining, by the at least one message processing computer, based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier, an adapted message layout, comprising the clickable icon; and

transmitting, by the at least one message processing computer, the adapted message to the at least one destination communication device.

4. The method of claim 3,

wherein the unique template identifier is associated with one or more predefined adapted message layouts;

and

wherein the method further comprises;

selecting, by the at least one message processing computer, the adapted message layout from among the one or more predefined adapted message layouts based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier and the criterion related to the displaying capabilities of the at least one destination communication device so as to improve the performance of the one or more messaging system computers by providing at least one layout-related delivery instruction based, at least in part, on the one or more predefined adapted message layouts.