Intelligent queue for information teleservice messages with superceding updates

• US 20040224706A1
• Filed: 06/14/2004
• Published: 11/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Artax LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems Inc (Comtech Telecommunications Corporation)
• Inventors: Puscas, Constantin Horatiu, Lorello, Timothy J., Hart, Reuben D.
• Granted Patent: US 7,844,285 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A message exchange network is disclosed in which at least two different methods of storing messages in memories of message storage entities, e.g., a mobile handset, an SMSC, an e-mail client, or an e-mail server, are utilized based on the type and the content of the information contained within the message. An information service message containing information that is supercedingly updateable, e.g., stock quote, weather or traffic information, is stored using a replacement method by which an older message previously stored is replaced by a newly received message. All other types of messages are stored using an append method by which the newly received message is stored in an unoccupied available memory location. In a disclosed embodiment, message identifier included in the message itself provides information necessary to distinguish between the aforementioned two types of messages. In a disclosed embodiment, a block of message identifiers is reserved for storage of information service messages. The architectures and methods for receipt, delivery and storage of messages disclosed herein replaceable and/or on demand update of information service messages while providing efficient use of memory in which the messages are stored, avoiding the annoyance and inconvenience to the subscriber in having to scroll through numerous stale and/or obsolete messages in order to view the most current up to date message and having to manually selecting and deleting obsolete and stale messages, and avoiding unnecessary deliveries of the obsolete and stale messages by message centers.

Claims

1. to 36. (canceled).

37. A method of providing an updated file for storage in a wireless device, comprising:

transmitting wirelessly to a wireless handset an electronic message relating to availability of a superceding update of information stored in memory of said wireless handset; and

transmitting wirelessly to said wireless handset said superceding update for overwriting storage over related electronic information in said memory of said wireless handset;

wherein said overwriting results in effective deletion of original related information stored in said memory of said wireless handset.

38. The method of providing an updated file for storage in a wireless device according to claim 37, wherein:

said need for a superceding update is determined by a subscriber'"'"'s mobile handset.

39. The method of providing an updated file for storage in a wireless device according to claim 37, wherein:

said need for a superceding update is determined by a Short Message Service Center (SMSC).

40. The method of providing an updated file for storage in a wireless device according to claim 37, wherein:

a source of said superceding update is determined based on an email source address of said superceding update.

41. The method of providing an updated file for storage in a wireless device according to claim 37, wherein:

a revision of said superceding update is determined based on a number or text string contained in a subject field of said received electronic message.

42. A method of revising a stored file in a wireless device, comprising:

receiving at a wireless device a digital message containing at least a portion of a superceding update;

examining local memory to determine if said superceding update is already stored; and

if said received updated information supercedes related information already stored in said wireless device, overwriting said already stored related information with said superceding update.

43. The method of revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 42, wherein:

said receiving at said wireless device of said digital message containing at least a portion of a superceding update is received on-demand with an on-demand request message.

44. The method of revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 43, wherein:

said on-demand request message utilizes a mobile originated short message.

45. The method of revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 42, wherein:

said wireless device is a mobile handset.

46. The method of revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 42, further comprising:

alerting a user of said wireless device of receipt of a superceding update.

47. The method of revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 46, wherein:

said alerting said user includes an audible alerting sound.

48. The method of revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 46, wherein:

said alerting said user includes a message placed on a display of said wireless device.

54. The apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 46, wherein:

said means for alerting said user includes an audible alerting sound.

55. The apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 54, wherein:

said means for alerting said user includes a message placed on a display of said wireless device.

49. Apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device, comprising:

means for receiving at a wireless device a digital message containing at least a portion of a superceding update;

means for examining local memory to determine if said superceding update is already stored; and

means for overwriting said already stored related information with said superceding update, if said received updated information supercedes related information already stored in said wireless device.

50. The apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 49, wherein:

said means for receiving at said wireless device receives said digital message containing at least a portion of a superceding update is received on-demand with an on-demand request message.

51. The apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 49, wherein:

said on-demand request message utilizes a mobile originated short message.

52. The apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 49, wherein:

said wireless device is a mobile handset.

53. The apparatus for revising a stored file in a wireless device according to claim 49, further comprising:

means for alerting a user of said wireless device of receipt of a superceding update.