Methods for accessing published contents from a mobile device

• US 20060003754A1
• Filed: 08/29/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unwired Planet LLC (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Unwired Planet LLC (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: La Fleur, James P., Robison, Jeremiah, Schillings, Benoit, Heitzeberg, Joseph E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,250,168 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/301 Name conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4557 Directories for hybrid networks, e.g. including telephone numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications

Abstract

Methods for accessing published content from a mobile device are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an example of a process includes receiving a first message received from a mobile device over a network for accessing a destination, where the first message includes an identification associated with a destination and a predetermined indicator. In response to the first message, returning a second message to the mobile device, the second message including a link linking with a network-based resource associated with the destination. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first message from a mobile device over a network for accessing a destination, the first message including an identification associated with the destination and a predetermined indicator; and

in response to the first message, returning a second message to the mobile device, the second message including a link to enable linking with a network-based resource associated with the destination.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a first mobile device and the destination is a second mobile device, and wherein the identification associated with the second mobile device includes a telephone number associated with the second mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein at least one of the first and second mobile devices is a mobile phone, and wherein the predetermined indicator includes an input received from a user of the first mobile device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the input received from the user includes a character in response to a key press of a predetermined key of the first mobile device.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined indicator is appended to the telephone number of the second mobile device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first message is received via a call functionality of the first mobile device over the wireless network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the network-based resource includes a Web page hosted by a Web server, and wherein the link includes a URL corresponding to the Web page.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising in response to the first message, determining the link of the network-based resource based on the identification and the predetermined indicator of the first message.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising maintaining in a database a relationship between the identification of the destination and the link, wherein the link is determined based on a query within the database using the identification of the destination.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the database comprises a lookup table to look up a relationship between a link of a network-based resource and an identification for each client having published content as a part of the respective network-based resource.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving an update on the link from the destination over the network; and

provisioning the relationship between the identification of the destination and the updated link.

12. A method performed by a network access device interfacing a wireless network and a wired network, the method comprising:

intercepting a first message from a first mobile device over the wireless network, the first message including a telephone number assigned to an end user of a second mobile device and a predetermined indicator, and the predetermined indicator indicating that the first message is not an ordinary voice call to the end user associated with the telephone number specified within the first message;

in response to the first message, identifying a universal resource locator (URL) of a Web page hosted by a Web server coupled to the wired network having content published by the end user of the second mobile device based on the telephone number and the predetermined indicator specified within the first message; and

returning a second message having the identified URL associated with the second mobile device to the first mobile device over the wireless network to enable the first mobile device to access the content published by the end user via the Web page associated with the URL.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the predetermined indicator comprises a character in response to a key press associated with a predetermined key of the first mobile device, wherein the predetermined indicator is appended following the telephone number of the second mobile device, and wherein the first message is received via a call functionality of the first mobile device over the wireless network.

14. A processing system, comprising:

a message router to intercept a message received from a mobile client over a network, the message including an identification of a destination and a predetermined indicator, wherein in response to the predetermined indicator, the message router is to

access a database storing a relationship between an identification and a link to a network-based resource of each of a plurality of clients to determine a network-based resource associated with the destination based on the identification of the destination, and

redirect the first message of the mobile client to the determined network-based resource of the destination.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the mobile client is a first mobile phone and the destination is a second mobile phone, and wherein the identification of the destination includes a telephone number of the second mobile phone.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the predetermined indicator comprises an input received from a user of the first mobile phone.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the input received from the user comprises a character in response to a key press of a predetermined key of the first mobile phone, and wherein the message is received via a call functionality of the first mobile phone.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the network-based resource of the destination comprises a Web page hosted by a Web server.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the message router further transmits a link corresponding to the Web page to the mobile client to allow the mobile client to access the Web page, and wherein the Web page contains content published by the destination.

20. A method performed by a mobile device, the method comprising:

transmitting a first message via a call function of the mobile device to a server over a wireless network, the first message including an identification of a destination and a predetermined indicator indicating that the first message is not destined to the destination;

in response to the first message, receiving a second message from the server specifying a network-based resource associated the destination; and

downloading content from the network-based resource specified within the second message in response to the second message.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

rendering the downloaded content; and

displaying the rendered content in a display of the mobile device.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the mobile device is a first mobile phone and the destination is a second mobile phone, and wherein the identification of the second mobile phone includes a telephone number of the second mobile phone.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the predetermined indicator comprises an input received from a user of the first mobile phone.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the input comprises a character in response to a key press of a predetermined key of the first mobile phone following the telephone number of the second mobile phone.

25. The method of claim 20, wherein the network-based resource comprises a Web page hosted by a Web server containing content published by the destination.