Methods, systems, and computer products for download status notification

• US 20080109823A1
• Filed: 11/06/2006
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Whitfield, Lloyd Thomas, Bedingfield, James Carlton
• Granted Patent: US 8,484,335 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer products for download notification including identifying content for download, requesting a download of the content to a device and requesting a notification related to the status of the download.

Claims

1. A method for requesting download notification, comprising:

identifying content for download;

requesting a download of the content to a device; and

requesting a notification related to the status of the download.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving the notification related to the status of the download.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the notification is related to a successful download.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the notification is related to an unsuccessful download.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving the downloaded content.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 further comprising receiving a notification that the download of the downloaded content is successful.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising requesting that the notification related to the status of the download is received in a presentation device.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 wherein the device receiving the download is the presentation device.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7 wherein the presentation device is a device coupled to the device receiving the download.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving a download notification from a notification server via a network.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10 wherein the download notification is sent to a presentation device specified by the requested notification.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising activating a notification application in response to the download notification request.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the notification resides on a network coupled to the device.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the notification application resides on a presentation device specified to be a device to receive the download notification.

15. The method as claimed in claim 12 wherein the notification application resides on a content provider device from which the downloaded content is received.

16. A download notification system coupled to a network, comprising:

a device for receiving a notification related to a content download; and

a download notification application, the download notification application having instructions to;

identify the presentation device;

monitor the download; and

send a notification upon a download event.

17. The system as claimed in claim 16 further comprising a notification server coupled to the network, the notification server having notification preferences for notifying a presentation device of a download status.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17 wherein the notification application is in communication with the notification server to receive the notification preferences from the notification server.

19. The system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the download event is at least one of:

a successful download, an unsuccessful download, and a partial download.

20. A computer program product for providing download notification services, the computer program product including instructions for implementing a method, comprising:

identifying a device for receiving downloaded content;

identifying a presentation device for receiving a notification related to the downloaded content;

determining a location from which notification is sent;

communicating with a notification server to receive notification preferences related to the downloaded content;

monitoring the downloading process of the downloaded content; and

sending a download notification to the presentation device in response to a download event on the device for receiving the downloaded content.