System and method for fragmentation of mobile content

• US 20070260637A1
• Filed: 05/02/2006
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Shenfield, Michael, Bibr, Viera, Fritsch, Brindusa
• Application Number:
  US11/415,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20070260637A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2876 Pairs of inter-processing entities at each side of the network, e.g. split proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata

Abstract

A method and apparatus for fragmenting non-linear data for delivery in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the method comprising the steps of: analyzing metadata for the non-linear to determine how to fragment the non-linear data; partitioning the non-linear data in accordance with the metadata analysis creating partitioned segments; and defining navigation rules for the partition segments; the apparatus being a fragmentation module for use in a dynamic content delivery system, the fragmentation module comprising: a processor adapted to perform a metadata based analysis on content to be fragmented, the processor further adapted to partition the content into segments based on the metadata; and a segment navigation module, the segment navigation module adapted to define segment navigation rules for the segments.

Claims

1. A method of fragmenting non-linear data for delivery in a dynamic content delivery architecture, the method comprising the steps of:

analyzing metadata for said non-linear to determine how to fragment said non-linear data;

partitioning said non-linear data in accordance with said metadata analysis creating partitioned segments; and

defining navigation rules for said partition segments.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step considers relationships between data elements of said non-linear data for determining how to fragment the non-linear data.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the partitioning step breaks the non-linear data into a data segment and a metadata segment.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the data segment includes content metadata for said non-linear data.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the data segment includes channel metadata for said data.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the metadata segment includes information about how to reconstitute segments.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said navigation rules dictate which segments should be pushed depending on user navigation of segments.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said non-linear data has a tree structure.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said navigation rules dictate passing segments associated with a branch a user navigates to.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said method is performed on a push proxy.

11. A fragmentation module for use in a dynamic content delivery system, the fragmentation module comprising:

a processor adapted to perform a metadata based analysis on content to be fragmented, the processor further adapted to partition the content into segments based on said metadata; and

a segment navigation module, said segment navigation module adapted to define segment navigation rules for said segments.

12. The fragmentation module of claim 11, wherein the processor is further adapted to consider relationships between data elements of said non-linear data for determining how to fragment the non-linear data.

13. The fragmentation module of claim 11, wherein the processor being adapted to partition breaks the non-linear data into a data segment and a metadata segment.

14. The fragmentation module of claim 13, wherein the data segment includes content metadata for said non-linear data.

15. The fragmentation module of claim 13, wherein the data segment includes channel metadata for said non-linear data.

16. The fragmentation module of claim 13, wherein the metadata segment includes information about how to reconstitute segments.

17. The fragmentation module of claim 11, wherein said segment navigation module is adapted to create navigation rules that dictate which segments should be pushed depending on user navigation of segments.

18. The fragmentation module of claim 17, wherein said non-linear data has a tree structure.

19. The fragmentation module of claim 18, wherein said navigation rules dictate passing segments associated with a branch a user navigates to.

20. The fragmentation module of claim 11, wherein said module resides on a push proxy.