System and a method for sending digital content to a mobile device

• US 20080176587A1
• Filed: 01/22/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shlomi Levi, Yossi Glazer
• Original Assignee: Shlomi Levi, Yossi Glazer
• Inventors: Glazer, Yossi, Levi, Shlomi
• Application Number:
  US11/655,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20080176587A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

A method for sending digital content to a mobile device comprises: 1) providing a client application capable of designating an address of the mobile device and digital content appearing in a display of a hosting computing unit, 2) acquiring the address and the digital content via a computer network connected to the hosting computing unit, 3) embedding the digital content in a cellular message directed to the address, and 4) forwarding the cellular message to the mobile device via a hosting cellular network.

Claims

1. A method for sending digital content to a target mobile device, said method comprising:

a) providing a client application capable of designating an address of the target mobile device, the client application further being capable of designating digital content appearing in a display of a hosting computing unit;

b) acquiring said address and said digital content via a computer network connected to said hosting computing unit;

c) embedding said digital content in a cellular message directed to said address; and

d) forwarding said cellular message to said mobile device via a hosting cellular network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said digital content comprises a member of the following group:

a textual data, a paragraph, a section of a paragraph, a sentence, a word, a combination of characters, a graphical data, an image, a video track, an audio track, and a file.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said cellular message comprises a member of the following group:

a short message service (SMS) and a multimedia messaging service (MMS).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said forwarding is performed using a member of the following group:

a short message service (SMS) gateway and a multimedia messaging service (MMS) gateway.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said designating comprises receiving a designation made by a user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said designating comprises designating with a pointing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said digital content comprises textual data, said designating comprises causing execution of a text recognition algorithm to identify said textual data.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said digital content comprises textual data, said designating comprises causing execution of optical character recognition to identify said textual data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said forwarding comprises forwarding said cellular message to said cellular network via at least one of the following members:

an short message service (SMS) dealer, a multimedia messaging service (MMS) dealer, an SMS center (SMSC), and an MMS center (MMSC).

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said designating is performed by a user, further comprising a step of billing said user for said forwarding.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring further comprises acquiring an identifier to said digital content from said client application, wherein said digital content is acquired according to said identifier.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said identifier is a member of the following group:

a link, a pointer, a physical address, and a logical address.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said forwarding is performed according to a default address if no other address is acquired during step b).

14. The method of claim 1, further comprises a step between step b) and c) of identifying the type of said digital content and extracting predefined information from said digital content according to said identification.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said type comprises a member of the following group:

an email, a schedule, and a note.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein said predefined information comprises a member of the following group:

a date, a time, a location, and attendees of a meeting.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step before step b) of acquiring a sending address, wherein said cellular message is defined according to said sending address during said step c).

18. The method of claim 1, wherein said client application capable of designating a number of addresses of a number of respective target mobile devices, said acquiring comprises acquiring said number of addresses, said embedding comprises said digital content in a number cellular messages, each directed to a respective address of said number of addresses, said forwarding comprises forwarding said number cellular messages to said respective mobile devices.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step of storing said cellular message.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said stored message is used as marketing information.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein said marketing information is used for a member of the following group:

personalized advertising, focused marketing, and behavioral based marketing.

22. A system for sending digital content to a mobile device having a target address, comprising:

a client application capable of designating a target address of the mobile device and digital content appearing in a display of a hosting computing unit; and

a network accessible server, operatively connected to said client application via a computer network, being usable for embedding said designated digital content into a cellular message directed to said target address, said network accessible server is adapted for forwarding said cellular message to a cellular network hosting said mobile device, thereby providing said cellular message to said mobile device.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein said digital content comprises a member of the following group:

a textual data, a paragraph, a section of a paragraph, a sentence, a word, a combination of characters, a graphical data, an image, a video track, an audio track, and a file.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein said cellular message comprises a member of the following group:

a short message service (SMS) and a multimedia messaging service (MMS).

25. The system of claim 22, wherein said designating comprises receiving a designation made by a user of said hosting computing unit.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein designating comprises designating with a pointing device.

27. The system of claim 22, wherein said digital content comprises textual data, wherein said client application comprises a text-grabbing module for identifying said textual data in said digital content, said textual data being embedded into said designated digital content.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein said identification is performed using a member of the following group:

a text recognition algorithm and an optical character recognition algorithm.

29. The system of claim 25, further comprising a billing server, operatively connected to said network accessible server, said network accessible server being configured for storing billing information about said user.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein said billing server is used for storing said cellular message.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein said cellular message is used for a member of the following group:

personalized advertising, focused marketing, and behavioral based marketing.

32. The system of claim 25, wherein said forwarding comprises forwarding said cellular message to said cellular network via at least one of the following members:

an short message service (SMS) dealer, a multimedia messaging service (MMS) dealer, an SMS center (SMSC), and an MMS center (MMSC).

33. The system of claim 29, wherein said network accessible server authenticates said user before said forwarding.

34. A network accessible server adapted to forward digital content to a mobile device, comprising:

an input interface for receiving the digital content and the address of the mobile device from a client application, via the computer network, said digital content comprises information appearing in a display of a computing unit hosting said client application;

a transformation unit for transforming said digital content to a cellular message directed to said address; and

a cellular network interface adapted to be connected to a cellular network hosting the mobile device, thereby allowing the transmission of said cellular message to the mobile device.

35. A system for billing to a mobile device owner for a purchase, comprising:

a client application capable of designating an identifier of the purchase appearing in a display of a hosting computing unit; and

a network accessible server, operatively connected to said client application via a computer network, being usable for identifying the price of said purchase, said network accessible server is adapted forwarding at least one cellular message to a cellular network hosting said mobile device, thereby billing the account of the mobile device owner for said purchase.