Automated transfer of data from PC clients

• US 20060188864A1
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 4INFO, Inc. (Cadent LLC)
• Original Assignee: 4INFO, Inc. (Cadent LLC)
• Inventors: Shah, Pankaj
• Application Number:
  US11/345,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20060188864A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/350
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90332 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/211 Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for transferring a data object such as a data file from a PC client to a wireless device regardless of the format of the file and with minimum user intervention. A system is disclosed wherein the file is transferred from a PC client through the Internet to a server and ultimately to a device, which can be a wireless device, a peer-to-peer device, or any suitable device capable of receiving an over the air transmission.

Claims

1. A method for transferring data comprising the steps of:

receiving at a server, a data object for transfer to a wireless device;

identifying delivery information associated with the wireless device; and

automatically formatting the data object for delivery to the wireless device.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the delivery information includes an mobile identifier for locating the wireless address.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the mobile identifier is a telephone number.

4. A method according to claim 2 wherein the mobile identifier is a network address.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein the delivery information includes information identifying wireless device capabilities.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein the step of formatting is based on the wireless device capabilities.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the delivery information is provided during a registration process.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the data object includes identifying the data object by dragging and dropping a first icon associated with the data object onto a second icon at a desktop computer.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the step of formatting includes translating the data object into a desired file format.

10. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising the step of scheduling the data object for delivery to the wireless device at a selected time.

11. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising the step of transmitting the data object to the wireless device.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of transmitting includes transferring the data object using WAP.

13. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of transmitting includes transferring the data object using SMS.

14. A method according to claim 11, wherein the step of transmitting includes transferring the data object using MMS.

15. A system for transferring data objects comprising:

a server for receiving a data object for transfer to a wireless device;

storage at the server for maintaining registration information associated with the device; and

a formatter for reformatting the data object based on wireless device capabilities identified in the registration information; and

a scheduler for optionally scheduling delivery of the reformatted data object.