Mobile Machine

• US 20080004079A1
• Filed: 05/23/2007
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SITO Mobile R&D IP, LLC
• Original Assignee: Single Touch Interactive R&D IP Incorporated (SITO Mobile, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Macaluso, Anthony G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,494,493 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/564
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0058 Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system G10H1/0083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2230/021 Mobile ringtone, i.e. generation, transmission, conversion or downloading of ringing tones or other sounds for mobile telephony; Special musical data formats or protocols therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/026 File encryption of specific electrophonic music instrument file or stream formats, e.g. MIDI, note oriented formats, sound banks, wavetables
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/251 Mobile telephone transmission, i.e. transmitting, accessing or controlling music data wirelessly via a wireless or mobile telephone receiver, analogue or digital, e.g. DECT, GSM, UMTS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2463/101 applying security measures for digital rights management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• 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

Abstract

Among other things, generating a dynamic digital data file for transferring to a mobile communication device includes receiving from a user a phone number associated with a mobile communication device. Also, a user selected digital data file is received. Authorization to access the received digital data file is verified. When detected that the received digital data file is verified as an authorized file, the user is able to edit the received digital data file to generate mobile content. A data connection with the mobile communication device associated with the received phone number is also established. Further, one or more operational parameters of the mobile communication device based on the established data connection are determined. The generated mobile content is transcoded into a format compatible to the determined operational parameters, and the transcoded mobile content is delivered to the mobile communication device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving from a user a phone number associated with a mobile communication device;

receiving a user selected digital data file;

verifying authorization to access the received digital data file;

when detected that the received digital data file is verified as an authorized file, enabling the user to edit the received digital data file to generate mobile content;

establishing a data connection with the mobile communication device associated with the received phone number;

determining one or more operational parameters of the mobile communication device based on the established data connection;

transcoding the generated mobile content into a format compatible to the determined operational parameters; and

delivering the transcoded mobile content to the mobile communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing a data connection comprises sending a message to the mobile communication device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein sending a message comprises sending a message including a pointer to information complementary to the created mobile content, wherein the pointer when activated at the mobile communication device determines the one or more operational parameters associated with the mobile communication device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising

identifying a wireless network carrier corresponding to the received phone number;

identifying a user account associated with the phone number based on the identified wireless network carrier; and

verifying a billing authorization for the identified user account.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein verifying authorization to access the receive digital data file comprises using a digital rights management (DRM) technology to verify accessibility of the received digital data file.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein verifying authorization to access the received digital data file comprises using message-digested algorithm 5 (MD5) hash function to determine whether the received digital file is an authorized file.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein verifying authorization to access the received digital data file comprises comparing the received digital data file against a catalog of authorized digital data files stored in a database.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein verifying authorization to access the received digital data file comprises using a filter to deny access to a predetermined type of file.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a digital data file comprises using a drag-and-drop operation.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein determining one or more operational parameters comprises choosing from a group including a wireless data transport protocol, a hardware configuration of the mobile communication device, a software execution platform for the mobile communications device, and a software application resident on the mobile communications device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a digital data file comprises receiving an audio file.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein editing the received digital data file comprises sampling a portion of the received audio file to create a ringtone.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a digital data file comprises receiving an image file.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving editing the received file comprises cropping the received image to create a wallpaper image file.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a digital data file comprises receiving a video file.

16. The method of 15, wherein editing the received file comprises selecting frames of the video file to create a clip of the video file.

17. An system comprising:

a data receiving unit configured to

receive a phone number associated with a mobile communication device, and

receive a digital data file;

an authorization unit configured to verifying authorization to access the received digital data file; and

an editor configured to edit the received digital data file to create mobile content when detected that the received digital data file is verified as an authorized data file; and

a data connection unit configured to

establishing a data connection with the mobile communication device associated with the received phone number,

determining one or more operational parameters of the mobile communication device based on the established data connection,

transcoding the generated mobile content into a format compatible to the determined operational parameters, and

delivering the transcoded mobile content to the mobile communication device.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising a carrier identifier configured to

identify a wireless network carrier corresponding to the received phone number;

identifying a user account associated with the phone number based on the identified wireless network carrier; and

verifying a billing authorization for the identified user account.

19. The system of claim 17 wherein the data connection unit is further configured to send a message to the mobile communication device including a pointer to information complementary to the created mobile content, wherein the pointer when activated at the mobile communication device determines one more operational parameters associated with the mobile communication device.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the authorization unit is further configured to verify the authorization to access the received digital data file using a digital rights management (DRM) technology.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the digital rights management (DRM) technology comprises a message-digested algorithm 5 (MD5) hash function.

22. The system of claim 17, wherein the authorization unit is further configured to communicate with a database to compare the received digital data file against a list of authorized digital data files stored in the database.

23. The system of claim 17, wherein the data receiving unit is further configured to receive the digital data file using a drag-and-drop operation.

24. The system of claim 17, wherein the authorization unit is further configured to verify authorization to access the received digital data file by using a filter to deny access to a predetermined type of file.

25. The system of claim 17, wherein the one or more operational parameters are chosen from a group including a wireless data transport protocol, a hardware configuration of the mobile communication device, a software execution platform for the mobile communications device, and a software application resident on the mobile communications device.

26. The system of claim 17, wherein the received digital data file comprises an audio file.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein the created mobile content comprises a ringtone.

28. The system of claim 17, wherein the received digital data file comprises an image file.

29. The system of claim 28, wherein the created mobile content comprises a wallpaper image file.

30. The system of claim 17, wherein the received digital data file comprises a video file.

31. The system of 30, wherein the created content comprises a clip of the video file.

32. A computer program product, embodied on a computer-readable medium, operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving from a user a phone number associated with a mobile communication device;

receiving a user selected digital data file;

verifying authorization to access the received digital data file;

when detected that the received digital data file is verified as an authorized file, enabling the user to edit the received digital data file to generate mobile content;

establishing a data connection with the mobile communication device associated with the received phone number;

determining one or more operational parameters of the mobile communication device based on the established data connection;

transcoding the generated mobile content into a format compatible to the determined operational parameters; and

delivering the transcoded mobile content to the mobile communication device.

33. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to establish the data connection comprising sending a message to the mobile communication device.

34. The computer program product of claim 33, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to sending the message comprising sending a message including a pointer to information complementary to the created mobile content, wherein the pointer when activated at the mobile communication device determines the one or more operational parameters associated with the mobile communication device.

35. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising

identifying a wireless network carrier corresponding to the received phone number;

identifying a user account associated with the phone number based on the identified wireless network carrier; and

verifying a billing authorization for the identified user account.

36. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to verify the authorization to access the received digital data file using a digital rights management (DRM) technology.

37. The computer program product of claim 36, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to verify the authorization to access the received digital data file using a digital rights management (DRM) technology comprises a message-digested algorithm 5 (MD5) hash function.

38. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to communicate with a database to compare the received digital data file against a list of authorized digital data files stored in the database.

39. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to verify authorization to access the received digital data file comprising using a filter to deny access to a predetermined type of file.

40. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to receive the digital data file using a drag-and-drop operation.

41. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to choose one or more operational parameters from a group including a wireless data transport protocol, a hardware configuration of the mobile communication device, a software execution platform for the mobile communications device, and a software application resident on the mobile communications device.

42. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to load a digital data file comprising an audio file.

43. The computer program product of claim 42, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to create mobile content comprising a ringtone.

44. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to load a digital data file comprising an image file.

45. The computer program product of claim 44, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to create mobile content comprising a wallpaper image file.

46. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to receive a digital data file comprising a video file.

48. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to poll the mobile communication device to determine the one or more operational parameters.

49. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

identifying a user account associated with the phone number; and

verifying a billing authorization for the identified user account.

50. The computer program product of claim 32, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus perform operations using an embedded Active X component.

51. The computer program product of claim 50, wherein the embedded Active X component comprises a dynamic link library module.

47. The computer program product of 46, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to create mobile content comprising a clip of the video file.