Systems and methods for delivering information to a communication device

• US 20050215272A1
• Filed: 02/04/2005
• Published: 09/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Helferich Patent Licensing LLC
• Original Assignee: Wireless Science LLC
• Inventors: Helferich, Richard J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,277,716 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/512
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/025 with acknowledge back capability

Abstract

A paging transceiver and method for selectively paging provides a page to a paging transceiver but does not automatically provide an associated message. The paging transceiver receives the page and alerts the user that a message is waiting and preferably provides a short description of the message. The user can then download or otherwise act on the message at a time and at a place convenient to the user. The user can therefore place the paging transceiver in a location where it can easily receive and reply to the message. The paging system conserves air time and the paging transceiver conserves memory by not automatically receiving the associated messages. The user can determine the time at which the paging transceiver receives transmissions, such as during off-peak hours. The messages stored by the systems and delivered to the paging transceiver may be of different types, such as voice, text, audio, or even video. In addition to messages, the paging system can store other information for the user, such as songs or video clips that the user can sample or updates on weather or stock rates.

Claims

1-53. -53. (canceled)

54. A system, comprising:

a storage and retrieval unit that stores information for transmission to a device;

transmitting means for transmitting to the device a message comprising an information identifier that identifies the information;

receiving means for receiving a request transmitted from the device;

means for determining a priority of the information;

means for re-transmitting the message to the device if the priority of the message is determined to be greater than a predetermined priority and the receiving means does not receive the request within a predetermined amount of time from when the transmitting means first transmitted the message.

55. The system of claim 54, further comprising means for transmitting the information to the device in response to the receiving means receiving the request.

56. The system of claim 54, wherein the transmitting means transmits the message to a base station, which then transmits the message to the device.

57. The system of claim 56, wherein the device comprises a transceiver.

58. The system of claim 54, wherein the request includes information identifying an action to perform with respect to information.

59. The system of claim 58, wherein the action is one of deleting the information from the storage and retrieval unit, forwarding the information to a specified recipient, saving the information, and replying to the information.

60. The system of claim 58, wherein the action is to send the information to the device.

61. The system of claim 54, wherein the message further includes a device identifier, wherein the device identifier is associated only with the device.

62. The system of claim 54, wherein the message further includes a device identifier, wherein the device identifier is associated with a plurality of devices, including said device.

63. The system of claim 54, wherein the information comprises audio information and/or video information.

64. The system of claim 63, wherein the audio information comprises music.

65. The system of claim 54, wherein the device is a mobile radiotelephone.

66. The system of claim 54, wherein the re-transmitting means retransmits the message to the device if the priority of the message is determined to be equal to the predetermined priority and the receiving means does not receive the request within the predetermined amount of time.

67. In a communications network comprising a device for transmitting data to and receiving data from a remote system, a method performed by the remote system, comprising:

storing information intended for the device;

transmitting to the device a message comprising an information identifier that identifies the information;

determining a priority of the information; and

re-transmitting the message comprising the information identifier to the device if the priority of the information is determined to be greater than a predetermined priority and a request from the device has not been received within a predetermined amount of time from when the message was first transmitted to the device.

68. The method of claim 67, further comprising means for transmitting the information to the device in response to the receiving means receiving the request.

69. The method of claim 67, wherein the transmitting means transmits the message to a base station, which then transmits the message to the device.

70. The method of claim 69, wherein the device comprises a transceiver.

71. The method of claim 67, wherein the request includes information identifying an action to perform with respect to information.

72. The method of claim 71, wherein the action is one of deleting the information from the storage and retrieval unit, forwarding the information to a specified recipient, saving the information, and replying to the information.

73. The method of claim 71, wherein the action is to send the information to the device.

74. The method of claim 67, wherein the message further includes a device identifier, wherein the device identifier is associated only with the device.

75. The method of claim 67, wherein the message further includes a device identifier, wherein the device identifier is associated with a plurality of devices, including said device.

76. The method of claim 67, wherein the information comprises audio information and/or video information.

77. The method of claim 76, wherein the audio information comprises music.

78. The method of claim 67, further comprising re-transmitting the message comprising the information identifier to the device if the priority of the information is determined to be equal to the predetermined priority and a request from the device has not been received within the predetermined amount of time.

79. The method of claim 67, wherein the device is a mobile radiotelephone.

80. A system, comprising:

a storage and retrieval unit that stores information for transmission to a device, wherein the information has a priority;

a transmitter that transmits to the device a message comprising an information identifier that identifies the information;

a receiver that receives a request transmitted from the device;

a processor that compares the priority associated with the information to a predetermined priority, wherein

if, based on the comparison, the processor determines that the priority of the information is greater than the predetermined priority and the receiver does not receive the request within a predetermined amount of time from when the transmitter first transmitted the message, then the processor causes the message to be re-transmitted to the device.

81. The system of claim 80, wherein the processor uses the transmitter to transmit the information to the device in response to the receiver receiving the request.

82. The system of claim 80, wherein the transmitter transmits the message to a base station, which then transmits the message to the device.

83. The system of claim 82, wherein the device comprises a transceiver.

84. The system of claim 80, wherein the request includes information identifying an action to perform with respect to information.

85. The system of claim 84, wherein the action is one of deleting the information from the storage and retrieval unit, forwarding the information to a specified recipient, saving the information, and replying to the information.

86. The system of claim 84, wherein the action is to send the information to the device.

87. The system of claim 80, wherein the message further includes a device identifier, wherein the device identifier is associated only with the device.

88. The system of claim 80, wherein the message further includes a device identifier, wherein the device identifier is associated with a plurality of devices, including said device.

89. The system of claim 80, wherein the information comprises audio information and/or video information.

90. The system of claim 89, wherein the audio information comprises music.

91. The system of claim 80, wherein the device is a mobile radiotelephone.

92. The system of claim 80, wherein the transmitter and the receiver are implemented using a transceiver.