Testing media content for wireless communication devices

• US 20080064340A1
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Tapuska, David F., Whatmough, Ken, Hayman, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,290,442 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability

Abstract

A communications network comprises a wireless communication device, a mobile data service and an apparatus for testing media content developed for a wireless communication device. This apparatus comprises a media content composer module, a web server, and a dispatcher module. The dispatcher module is programmed to: receive a media content simulation request from the composer module; publish media content developed on the composer module onto the web server, the published content having a uniform resource locator (URL) associated thereto; and transmit to the mobile data service the URL and instructions to the wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator to open a web browser and access the URL thereby downloading the media content from the web server.

Claims

1. A method of testing media content developed for a wireless communication device, comprising the steps of:

receiving a media content simulation request;

publishing media content onto a web server, the media content published on a path; and

transmitting to a wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator the path and instructions to open a web browser and access the path thereby downloading the media content from the web server.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the path is associated with a uniform resource locator (URL).

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising between steps of receiving and publishing:

exporting the media content into a publishable format.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the content is rich media content.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transmitting comprises sending a wireless application protocol (WAP) service load request to a mobile data service (MDS), then pushing the uniform resource locator (URL) and instructions from the MDS to the device.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5 wherein the WAP service load request includes an identifier of the device, and the URL and instructions are pushed to the device having the identifier.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transmitting comprises sending a wireless application protocol (WAP) service load request to a MDS simulator, then pushing the URL and instructions from the MDS simulator to the device simulator.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transmitting is to a simulator and the method further comprises opening a simulator session before a simulation request is received.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8 wherein the simulator session is opened when a document in a media content composer program is opened.

10. A method as claimed in claim 9 further comprising hiding the simulator session after opening, then unhiding the simulator session when the simulation request is received.

11. A method as claimed in claim 9 further comprising opening multiple simulator sessions when a document in the composer program is opened.

12. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein each simulator session uses at least one port, and the opening of each simulator session further comprises:

examining a repository for available ports;

when a sufficient number of ports are available, checking that the available ports are not being used by another application; and

when a sufficient number of available and unused ports are found, assigning the ports to the simulator session.

13. A computer readable memory having recorded thereon statements and instructions for execution on a computer to carry out a method of testing media content developed for a wireless communication device comprising the steps of:

receiving a media content simulation request;

publishing media content onto a web server, the media content published on a path; and

transmitting to a wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator the path and instructions to open a web browser and access the path thereby downloading the media content from the web server.

14. An apparatus for testing media content developed for a wireless communication device, comprising:

a media content composer module;

a web server; and

a dispatcher module programmed to;

receive a media content simulation request from the composer module;

publish media content developed on the composer module onto the web server, the media content published on a path; and

transmit to a wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator the path and instructions to open a web browser and access the path thereby downloading the media content from the web server.

15. A communications network comprising a wireless communication device, a mobile data service and an apparatus for testing media content developed for a wireless communication device, the apparatus comprising:

a media content composer module;

a web server; and

a dispatcher module programmed to;

receive a media content simulation request from the composer module;

publish media content developed on the composer module onto the web server, the media content published on a path; and

transmit to the mobile data service the path and instructions to the wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator to open a web browser and access the path thereby downloading the media content from the web server.