Method and system for distributing content over a wireless communications system

• US 20030032409A1
• Filed: 03/18/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Leap Wireless International Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Leap Wireless International Incorporated (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Owensby, Craig A., Hutcheson, Stewart Douglas, Westling, Mark, Gallouzi, Souheil
• Application Number:
  US10/100,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20030032409A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0272 Virtual private networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/20 for managing network security; network security policies in general filtering policies H04L63/0227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/088 using filters or firewalls

Abstract

A method for providing informational content to a user of a communications device being wirelessly communicatively coupled to a communications network, the method including: identifying information associated with the user and indicative of user attributes; selecting a plurality of candidate messages using the identified information; pseudo-randomly selecting at least one of the plurality of candidate messages as selected content; and, delivering the selected content to the communications device using the wireless communications network.

Claims

1. A method for providing informational content to a user of a communications device being wirelessly communicatively coupled to a communications network, said method comprising:

identifying information associated with said user and indicative of user attributes;

selecting a plurality of candidate messages using said identified information;

pseudo-randomly selecting at least one of said plurality of candidate messages as selected content; and

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delivering said selected content to said communications device using said wireless communications network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying is responsive to a request for services.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said services are wireless communications services.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said identifying, selecting, pseudo-random selecting, delivering are performed in real-time.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein said delivered content includes some advertising information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a majority of said delivered information is advertising information.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein a majority of said delivered information is non-advertising information.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a request for further information in response to said delivered content.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising delivering information indicative of said delivered content in response to receiving said request for further information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting at least one audio message.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said delivering comprises transmitting at least one text message.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said at least one text message is an SMS message.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said content comprises at least one uniform resource locator.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said delivered content comprises information indicative of a telephone number.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said information indicative of a telephone number comprises information for automatically dialing said telephone number using said communications device.

16. A method for providing aggregated content to a user of a wireless communications network, the wireless communications network capable of supporting data transmission, and comprising at least one base station, at least one base station controller, and at least one wireless access device, said method comprising:

receiving content from at least one content source;

classifying the content into a plurality categories;

rating the content based on relevance factors and constraints defined for each of the plurality of categories;

matching the classified and rated content with user criteria;

selecting content to be provided to the user based on the results of said matching; and

providing the matched content to the user.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the at least one content source is selected from the group consisting of:

Newspapers, TV, Radio, Internet, Merchants, Service Providers, and other users.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the constraints are selected from the group consisting of length of text message, length of audio message, length of video clip, and screen size.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein the user criteria is selected from the group consisting of location, profile, questionnaire, responses, keypad interactions, voice activated responses, stylus responses, personal profile enhancement questions, polls, games, e-commerce/m-commerce transactions, interactive applications with broadcast or other media, and SMS messages.

20. A computer program product embodied on a computer-readable storage medium for providing informational content to a user of a communications device being wirelessly communicatively coupled to a communications network, the computer program product comprising:

code for identifying information associated with said user and indicative of user attributes;

code for selecting a plurality of candidate messages using said identified information;

code for pseudo-randomly selecting at least one of said plurality of candidate messages as selected content; and

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code for delivering said selected content to said communications device using said wireless communications network.