Intermediary content gateway system and method

• US 20050201392A1
• Filed: 05/25/2004
• Published: 09/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sybase 365 Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sybase 365 Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Lovell, Robert C. Jr., Rusche, Thilo, Kyle, Connor C., Tam, Derek Hung Kit
• Granted Patent: US 7,656,885 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

A system for enabling exchange of content over a communications network is disclosed having a first category of users comprising wireless carriers and a second category of users comprising content providers. A content gateway platform is provided having a database for storage of content. The content providers supply content to the database for use by the wireless carriers and the content is ultimately offered to end-user customers of the wireless carriers.

Claims

1. A system for enabling exchange of content over a communications network, comprising:

a first category of users;

a second category of users; and

a content gateway platform comprising a database for storage of content,

the first category of users supplying content to the database for use by the second category of users, and

the content gateway platform providing tracking services to track one or more aspects associated with accessing the content in the database by one or more users of either the first category or second category.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform provides marketing information to users of at least one of the first category and the second category.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the marketing information comprises information related to popularity of a particular piece of content.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the marketing information is displayed graphically.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform provides billing service.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform provides settlement service.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform provides audit service.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform allocates access rights to users of the content gateway platform.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the access rights comprise at least one of viewing rights, creation rights, updating rights, and deletion rights.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the users are divided into groups and assigned allocation rights according to the groups.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein content is developed within the content gateway platform for storage in the database.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein content is developed outside of the content gateway platform and communicate the content to the content gateway for storage in the database via one or more communications channels.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more communications channels comprises at least one of XML, SMTP, or SMPP.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform transmits messages to at least one of the first and second categories of users to update status of content within the content gateway platform.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform provides fraud detection service.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the content comprises at least one of ring-tones, games, images, voting initiatives, and video.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform is administered by an entity separate from the first and second categories of users.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the content gateway platform provides validation service to validate that a particular piece of content is operable on a device to which the particular piece of content is to be loaded.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the first category of users comprises carriers and the second category of users comprises content providers.

20. A system for enabling exchange of content over a communications network, comprising:

a first category of users comprising a plurality of independent wireless carriers;

a second category of users comprising one or more content providers;

a content gateway platform comprising a database for storage of content accessible by the first and second categories of users;

the one or more content providers supplying content to the database for use by at least one of the plurality of independent wireless carriers; and

the content ultimately being offered to end-user customers of the plurality of independent wireless carriers.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the content gateway platform provides tracking services to track one or more aspects associated with accessing the content by the content providers or the wireless carriers.