Encoded short message service text messaging systems and methods
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1. A system comprising:
- a processor at a content server, wherein the content server receives a plurality of data feeds containing data; and
a medium at the content server storing instructions adapted to be executed by the processor to;
determine a current geographic location of a user based in part on an analysis of a subscription pattern of the user for at least one of weather and market content;
access preference information associated with the user, wherein the preference information of the user is stored in a profile database at the content server that is remote from a mobile device associated with the user, and further wherein the preference information of the user includes commodity trading preferences of the user including an indication of a commodity, an indication of an exchange, a location of the user, and a market price for the commodity, wherein the market price is determined by the exchange;
select, by the processor, a portion of the data from the received plurality of data feeds for the user based on (1) the preference information associated with the user and (2) the location of the user, wherein the selected data comprises a first data item including a first plurality of textual characters and a second data item including a second plurality of textual characters;
encode the selected data in textual characters of a short message service (SMS) text message using one or more encoding tables containing unique short form information values associated with at least one data item of the selected data, wherein each of the unique short form information values consists of a single textual character; and
send the encoded SMS text message solely via a cellular wireless network to the mobile device of the user, wherein the encoded SMS text message comprises the unique short form information values associated with the selected data and wherein the encoded SMS text message comprises the first data item concatenated with the second data item without any delimiter between the first data item and the second data item, wherein the SMS text message can be received by the mobile device via the cellular network, and the textual characters of the received SMS text message can be parsed and decoded by the mobile device to display the selected data as user-readable information, the user-readable information being in at least one of a graphical and textual form.
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Abstract
According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means are provided to encode data in a text message and to send the text message to a mobile device associated with a user.
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1. A system comprising:
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a processor at a content server, wherein the content server receives a plurality of data feeds containing data; and a medium at the content server storing instructions adapted to be executed by the processor to; determine a current geographic location of a user based in part on an analysis of a subscription pattern of the user for at least one of weather and market content; access preference information associated with the user, wherein the preference information of the user is stored in a profile database at the content server that is remote from a mobile device associated with the user, and further wherein the preference information of the user includes commodity trading preferences of the user including an indication of a commodity, an indication of an exchange, a location of the user, and a market price for the commodity, wherein the market price is determined by the exchange; select, by the processor, a portion of the data from the received plurality of data feeds for the user based on (1) the preference information associated with the user and (2) the location of the user, wherein the selected data comprises a first data item including a first plurality of textual characters and a second data item including a second plurality of textual characters; encode the selected data in textual characters of a short message service (SMS) text message using one or more encoding tables containing unique short form information values associated with at least one data item of the selected data, wherein each of the unique short form information values consists of a single textual character; and send the encoded SMS text message solely via a cellular wireless network to the mobile device of the user, wherein the encoded SMS text message comprises the unique short form information values associated with the selected data and wherein the encoded SMS text message comprises the first data item concatenated with the second data item without any delimiter between the first data item and the second data item, wherein the SMS text message can be received by the mobile device via the cellular network, and the textual characters of the received SMS text message can be parsed and decoded by the mobile device to display the selected data as user-readable information, the user-readable information being in at least one of a graphical and textual form. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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determining a current geographic location of a user based in part on an analysis of a subscription pattern of the user with at least one of weather and market content; receiving, at a processor at a content server, a plurality of data streams containing data; accessing, at the processor, preference information associated with a user, the preference information of the user including commodity trading preferences of the user comprising;
(1) an indication of a commodity, (2) an indication of an exchange, (3) the location of the user; and
(4) a market price for the commodity, wherein the market price is determined by the exchange;storing the preference information into a profile database at the content server; automatically selecting, by the processor, data for a user based on (1) preference information associated with the user and (2) the location of the user, the preference information being retrieved from the profile database, the selected data comprising a first data item including a first plurality of textual characters and a second data item including a second plurality of textual characters; encoding, by the processor, the selected data in textual characters of a short message service (SMS) text message using one or more encoding tables containing unique short form information values associated with at least one data item of the selected data, wherein the encoded data comprises at least the first data item and the second data item, the first and the second data items containing at least an indication of a commodity in a short form, an indication of an exchange in a short form, and a market price of the commodity and wherein each of the unique short form information values consists of a single data character; and sending the SMS text message solely via a cellular network to a remote mobile device associated with the user, wherein the encoded SMS text message comprises the unique short form information values associated with the selected data, wherein the encoded SMS text message comprises the first data item concatenated with the second data item without any delimiter between the first data item and the second data item; receiving, at the mobile device, the encoded SMS text message via the cellular network in the mobile device; parsing, at the mobile device, the textual characters of the encoded SMS text message; decoding, at the mobile device, the parsed textual characters of the SMS text message; displaying, at the mobile device, a first display screen that includes user-readable information which is based on the decoded textual characters of the SMS text message, the user-readable information being in at least one of a graphical and textual form. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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