TAG TICKER DISPLAY ON A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20080160967A1
• Filed: 12/28/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FunMobility, Inc.
• Original Assignee: FunMobility, Inc.
• Inventors: George, Hudson A., Lavine, Adam, Chen, Yu-Jen Dennis, Leach, Skot, Allen, Eric F., Lydick, Lincoln, Narasimhan, Srivathsan
• Granted Patent: US 8,798,583 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/42 Graphical user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/253 where a visual mode is used instead of a voice mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4938 comprising a voice browser which renders and interprets, e.g. VoiceXML

Abstract

A method of providing a link to mobile content on a mobile device includes receiving a plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag having at least one piece of mobile content associated therewith. The mobile content is in a format suitable for transmission over a wireless communication network. The method also includes scrolling the plurality of tags across a portion of a display screen of a mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of providing a link to mobile content on a mobile device:

receiving a plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag having at least one piece of mobile content associated therewith, the mobile content being in a format suitable for transmission over a mobile communication network;

scrolling the plurality of tags across a portion of a display screen of a mobile device;

receiving input to select a selected tag from the plurality of tags;

displaying the links to at least one piece of mobile content associated with the selected tag;

receiving input to select a selected piece of the mobile content; and

downloading the mobile content to the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing the tag with mobile content associated therewith comprises receiving electronic data selected from a group consisting of at least one of wallpapers, music, videos, greetings, messages, news, games, ring tones, screen savers, graphics and electronic data downloaded from a global network.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving a tag from a user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of receiving the tag from a user includes receiving a tag for a wallpaper.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of scrolling the plurality of tags across a portion of a display screen includes scrolling tags with characteristics in the group including textual and visual elements.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of scrolling the tags with characteristics in the group including textual and visual elements includes scrolling at least one thumbnail image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of scrolling the plurality of tags across a portion of a display screen includes scrolling tags from a left side of a ticker portion to a right side of a ticker portion.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of receiving input from a user to choose a selected tag and displaying at least one piece of mobile content associated with the selected tag.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of displaying at least one piece of mobile content includes displaying multiple pieces of mobile content and further comprising the step of listing the pieces of mobile content according to the frequency with which the selected tag is used with the mobile content.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of receiving input from a user to select a selected piece of mobile content and downloading the selected piece of mobile content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving a plurality of tags includes receiving at least one community-defined tag.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of periodically receiving updates to at least one of the links to the mobile content and the tags.

13. A client application residing on a computer readable medium on a mobile device, the client application being configured to perform a method, comprising:

receiving data, the data including a plurality of tags and at least one link associated with each tag, the link being linked a piece of mobile content in a format suitable for transmission over a mobile communication network;

displaying the tags on a ticker portion of the display screen such that the tags scroll across the ticker portion; and

receiving input to select a selected tag from the plurality of tags;

displaying the links to at least one piece of mobile content associated with the selected tag;

receiving input to select a selected piece of the mobile content; and

downloading the mobile content to the mobile device.

14. The client application of claim 13, the client application being further configured to perform the steps of displaying an input field with the mobile content, receiving input for a proposed tag to be applied to the mobile content and transmitting the proposed tag to a mobile content server.

15. The client application of claim 13, the client application being further at configured to perform a step of periodically refreshing the tags and links in response to input received from a mobile content server.

16. The client application of claim 13, the client application being configured to perform a step of displaying a ticker portion separately from a main portion of the display screen.

17. A mobile communication device, comprising:

a display screen; and

a client application residing on the mobile communication device, the client application being configured to receive a plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag having at least one piece of mobile content associated therewith, the mobile content being in a format suitable for transmission over a mobile communication network wherein the application is further configured to scroll the plurality of tags across a ticker portion of the display screen, receive input to select a selected tag from the plurality of tags, display the links to at least one piece of mobile content associated with the selected tag, receive input to select a selected piece of the mobile content, and download the mobile content to the mobile device.

18. The device of claim 17, further comprising a user input interface, configured to allow selection and navigation of the plurality of tags.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the ticker portion is displayed separately from a main portion of the display.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the ticker portion is selectively deactivated.