Pushing podcasts to mobile devices
First Claim
1. A method of delivering episodes of a subscription to a mobile device on a wireless network comprising:
- maintaining, by a subscription management system remote from a mobile device, user data associating a telephone number of a mobile device with at least one user-selected subscription maintained at a computing device remote from the subscription management system and the mobile device;
determining that a new episode has been added to one of the at least one user-selected subscription; and
transmitting, by the subscription management system, a notification of the new episode to the wireless network, the notification associated with the telephone number, thereby delivering the notification to the mobile device via the wireless network.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for pushing podcasts to mobile devices, such as cellular phones, from a remote subscription management system. A subscription management system is described that is adapted to retrieve episodes from one or more remote computing devices and transmit retrieved episodes to a mobile device over a wireless network. The transmissions are made via a telephone number associated with the mobile device. The system includes a datastore, in communication with the server, containing at least one telephone number of a mobile device associated with a user and at least one podcast subscription associated with the user. The podcast lists episodes that are located on one or more of the remote computing devices. When a search module identifies a new episode, the system retrieves the new episode and transmits it to the mobile device using the telephone number to address the transmission.
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45 Claims
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1. A method of delivering episodes of a subscription to a mobile device on a wireless network comprising:
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maintaining, by a subscription management system remote from a mobile device, user data associating a telephone number of a mobile device with at least one user-selected subscription maintained at a computing device remote from the subscription management system and the mobile device;
determining that a new episode has been added to one of the at least one user-selected subscription; and
transmitting, by the subscription management system, a notification of the new episode to the wireless network, the notification associated with the telephone number, thereby delivering the notification to the mobile device via the wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A subscription management system comprising:
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a server adapted to retrieve episodes from one or more remote computing devices and transmit retrieved episodes to a mobile device over a wireless network via a telephone number associated with the mobile device;
a datastore, in communication with the server, containing at least one telephone number of a mobile device associated with a user and at least one subscription associated with the user, the at least one subscription corresponding to a podcast accessible via one of the one or more remote computing devices, the podcast listing episodes; and
a search module adapted to identify that a new episode has been listed in the podcast;
wherein the server is adapted to retrieve the new episode based on information in the podcast and transmit the new episode to the mobile device associated with the user when the search module identifies the new episode. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method comprising:
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transmitting a first telephone number of a mobile device to a subscription management system on a first remote computing device;
associating a feed located on a second remote computing device with the first telephone number of the mobile device; and
thereby receiving on the mobile device, from the subscription management system via a wireless network, new episodes listed in the feed located at the second remote computing device as the episodes become available. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A method of delivering episodes of a subscription to a mobile device on a wireless network comprising:
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maintaining, by a subscription management system remote from a mobile device, user data associating a mobile device identifier of a mobile device with at least one user-selected subscription maintained at a computing device remote from the subscription management system and the mobile device;
determining that a new episode has been added to one of the at least one user-selected subscription; and
transmitting, by the subscription management system, a notification of the new episode to the wireless network, the notification associated with the mobile device identifier, thereby delivering the notification to the mobile device via the wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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