System and method for processing syndication information for a mobile device

• US 20060217126A1
• Filed: 03/23/2005
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Emery, Jennifer, Clewley, Michael, Sohm, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 8,620,988 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/454
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/9994 Distributed or remote access

Abstract

A system and method for processing syndication information for a mobile device that includes: identifying a plurality of syndication servers to which a user of the mobile device subscribes; polling, at a first predetermined interval, the plurality of syndication servers to determine if syndication information on each the syndication server has been updated; if the syndication information has been updated, requesting and receiving updated syndication information; adapting the updated syndication information into a predetermined format, and sending the adapted syndication information to the mobile device. The sending of the adapted syndication information may also be performed at a predetermined interval. The predetermined format preferably uses less data and requires less processing than the original format.

Claims

1. A method of processing syndication information for a mobile device, said method comprising:

identifying a plurality of syndication servers to which a user of said mobile device subscribes;

polling, at a first predetermined interval, said plurality of syndication servers to determine if syndication information on each said syndication server has been updated;

if the syndication information has been updated, requesting and receiving updated syndication information;

adapting said updated syndication information into a predetermined format; and

sending said adapted syndication information to said mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predetermined interval is set according to requirements of the user of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predetermined interval is set by a system administrator and said sending said adapted syndication information is performed at a second predetermined interval, which is set according to requirements of the user of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said syndication server is an XML syndication server and said adapting comprises parsing XML syndication information into a format that uses a smaller amount of data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said adapting comprises selecting a portion of said syndication information and formatting said portion in a format that uses a smaller amount of data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said portion comprises a syndication information title and a syndication information description.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said predetermined format is HTML format.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said syndication server is an XML syndication server and wherein said adapting comprises translating XML syndication information into a format that requires less processor capability to display on a mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said adapting comprises selecting a portion of said syndication information and formatting said portion in a format that requires less processor capability to display on a mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said adapting comprises combining syndication information from said plurality of syndication servers.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said predetermined format comprises a format having one or more aspects specified by the user.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if said adapted syndication information has been updated since previously sent to the user and only sending to the user if the syndication information has been updated.

13. A software application comprising a plurality of instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, the instructions for a method of processing syndication information for a mobile device. as claimed in claim 1.

14. A system for processing syndication information for a mobile device comprising at least one computing device, wherein a software application executes and resides on a memory of the at least one computing device, wherein the software application is programmed to perform the steps of the method as claimed in claim 1.