Systems and Methods for Delivering Content Customized for a Plurality of Mobile Platforms

• US 20070100648A1
• Filed: 04/17/2006
• Published: 05/03/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Incorporated (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Incorporated (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Verduyn, Justin, Borquez, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US11/379,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20070100648A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A mobile application development platform comprises a toolset configured to streamline the development process for mobile applications. The streamline development process can enable efficiencies for the development of applications such as video streaming and uploading as well as image delivery and uploading. The development platform provides multi-language support. The development platform also provides project management integration. The development platform also provides deployment technology for distributing content across multiple mobile device platforms.

Claims

1. A content management platform, comprising:

an on-demand encoding server configured to receive content from client servers for conversion and distribution to mobile devices;

a distribution server configured to control distribution of content to mobile devices;

a broadcast server configured to send communications to mobile devices;

a device profile server configured to maintain mobile device platform profiles for use in the customization of content received by the on-demand encoding server; and

a content management server configured to maintain distribution profiles for the content.

2. The content management system of claim 1, wherein the on-demand encoding server is configured to access available mobile device platform profiles maintained by the device profile manager and customize the content received from a client server for each of the available profiles thereby generating a customized version of the content for each available platform.

3. The content management system of claim 2, wherein the on-demand encoding server is further configured to upload the customized versions of the content to the broadcast server for distribution to mobile devices.

4. The content management system of claim 3, wherein the on-demand encoding server is further configured to inform the distribution server of the availability of the customized version of the content.

5. The content management system of claim 4, wherein the distribution server is further configured to query the content management server to determine if an associated distribution profile indicates that the customized versions of the content should be pushed to certain mobile devices, and to push the customized version of the content via the broadcast server according to the associated distribution profile.

6. The content management system of claim 4, wherein the content management server is further configured to send a link to the content to a plurality of mobile devices via the broadcast server.

7. The content management system of claim 6, wherein the distribution server is configured to send the correct customized version of the content to a mobile device that access the content via a link sent to the mobile device.

8. A content management platform configured to convert content in real time, the content management system comprising:

a live encoding server configured to receive content from a live feed for conversion and distribution to mobile devices;

a distribution server configured to control distribution of content to mobile devices;

a broadcast server configured to send communications to mobile devices;

a device profile server configured to maintain mobile device platform profiles for use in the customization of content received by the on-demand encoding server; and

a content management server configured to maintain distribution profiles for the content.

9. The content management system of claim 8, wherein the live encoding server is configured to access available mobile device platform profiles maintained by the device profile manager and customize the content received from the live feed in real time for each of the available profiles thereby generating a customized version of the content for each available platform.

10. The content management system of claim 9, wherein the live encoding server is further configured to upload the customized versions of the content to the broadcast server for distribution to mobile devices.

11. The content management system of claim 10, wherein the live encoding server is further configured to inform the distribution server of the availability of the customized version of the content.

12. The content management system of claim 11, wherein the distribution server is further configured to query the content management server to determine if an associated distribution profile indicates that the customized versions of the content should be pushed to certain mobile devices, and to push the customized version of the content via the broadcast server according to the associated distribution profile.

13. The content management system of claim 11, wherein the content management server is further configured to send a link to the content to a plurality of mobile devices via the broadcast server.

14. The content management system of claim 13, wherein the distribution server is configured to interrogate a mobile device in order to determine its associated device platform send and send the correct customized version of the content to a mobile device that access the content via a link sent to the mobile device.