Server processing in providing messages for a wireless device connecting to a server

• US 20040203616A1
• Filed: 08/30/2002
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Sprigg, Stephen A., Minear, Brian, Chmaytelli, Mazen, Oliver, Mitchell B.
• Granted Patent: US 6,996,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/412.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/458 Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast or during the distribution H04H20/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/10 Flow control between communication endpoints
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation

Abstract

A system and method for providing a message on the graphic display of a wireless device while the wireless device is connecting to an application download server across a wireless network. When the wireless device attempts to communicate with an application download server or changes files while navigating an application download server, a message is transmitted across the wireless network to the computer platform of the wireless device and displayed to the user of the wireless device. The message can be transmitted to the wireless device from the same application download server that the wireless device is attempting to connect to or navigate, or alternately, the message can be transmitted from another server on the wireless network.

Claims

1. A method for processing a target message for display on a wireless device communicating with an application download server, comprising:

receiving a request from the wireless device at the application download server;

initiating the processing of the request from the wireless device; and

sending a target message to the wireless device during idle transmission time while processing the request from the wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the target message is comprised of a plurality of components.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein sending a target message to the wireless device comprises:

sending first one of the plurality of components of the target message by the application server; and

sending a second one of the plurality of components of the target message by a second server.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the target message comprises a hyperlink.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the target message comprises a multimedia component.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

sending a second request by the wireless device;

initiating the processing of the second request; and

sending a second message to the wireless device in during transmission idle time.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the sending of the second request by the wireless device is received by a second server.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

defining a target group of a plurality of wireless devices; and

determining the wireless device that sent the request is in the target group,

wherein, sending the targeted message to the wireless device during idle transmission includes sending a targeted messaged defined to the target group.

2. The method of claim 2, wherein the target message sent to the wireless device is sent by a second server.

10. A method for processing a target message for display on a wireless device communicating with an application download server, comprising:

receiving a request from the wireless device at the application download server;

initiating the processing of the request from the wireless device;

sending a signal to a second server indicating that a message may be sent to a wireless device; and

sending a message to the wireless device by the second server during idle transmission time between the application download server and the wireless device.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

defining a target group of a plurality of wireless devices;

determining the wireless device that sent the request is in the target group,

wherein, sending the targeted message to the wireless device during idle transmission includes sending a targeted messaged defined to the target group.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the target message is comprised of a plurality of components.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein sending a target message to the wireless device comprises:

sending first one of the plurality of components of the target message by the second server; and

sending a second one of the plurality of components of the target message by a third server.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the target message comprises a hyperlink.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the target message comprises a multimedia component.

16. A device for processing a target message for display on a wireless device communicating with an application download server, comprising:

means for receiving a request from the wireless device at the application download server;

means for initiating the processing of the request from the wireless device; and

means for sending a target message to the wireless device during idle transmission time while processing the request from the wireless device.

17. A computer readable medium containing computer readable instructions for for processing a target message for display on a wireless device communicating with an application download server that when executed perform the method, comprising:

receiving a request from the wireless device at the application download server;

initiating the processing of the request from the wireless device; and

sending a target message to the wireless device during idle transmission time while processing the request from the wireless device.