METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRELATION OF MOBILE CHANNEL SUBSCRIPTION WITH DELIVERY CONTEXT

• US 20080209061A1
• Filed: 02/26/2007
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: SHENFIELD, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/678,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20080209061A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54

Abstract

A method and system for establishing a delivery context for channel subscription in a mobile network comprising the steps of: establishing, from a mobile device in the mobile network, a subscription with a content provider; and passing a delivery context to a delivery server.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a delivery context for channel subscription in a mobile network comprising the steps of

establishing, from a mobile device in the mobile network, a subscription with a content provider;

and

passing a delivery context to a delivery server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a subscription agent on the mobile device performs the establishing step with a subscription portal on the mobile network.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the passing of the delivery context is done at the same time that the subscription is established, wherein the delivery context is passed between the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the delivery context is propagated from the subscription portal to a delivery server.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the subscription portal propagates information sufficient to create a delivery context to a delivery server after the establishing step.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information includes a mobile account number, an international mobile equipment identifier or an email address.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the subscription agent is aware of a content client and provides the content client with notification of subscription, wherein the content client passes the notification of subscription to a delivery client, and the delivery client passes the delivery context to a delivery server upon receipt of the notification of subscription.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the delivery client propagates a subscription identifier with the delivery context to the delivery server.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a subscription agent on the mobile device performs the establishing step with a subscription portal on the mobile network, and wherein a delivery client on the mobile device is a proxy between the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the delivery client appends the delivery context to communications between the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the delivery client proxy is transparent to the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to the establishing step the method comprises:

registering applications on the mobile device with a delivery client;

registering the channels from content providers with a delivery server, the delivery server creating a channel guide from the registered channels; and

exchanging registered applications and the channel guide between the delivery client and the delivery server.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the establishing step comprises selecting a channel from the channel guide and propagating a subscription request to a content provider.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein a delivery client adds a delivery context to the subscription request.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the establishing of the subscription includes passing a subscription filter, the subscription filter being utilized to request a subset of content available from a content provider.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the subscription filter and a channel identifier create a subscription identifier to identify the subset of content available.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the subscription identifier is comprised of the channel identifier concatenated with the subscription filter.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the subscription identifier is comprised of the channel identifier and the subscription filter combined in a predefined schema.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein a delivery server combines multiple subsets of available content to create a bundled sub-channel.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein a delivery server and delivery client manage subscriptions for all content available from the content provider, and wherein a content client and content provider manage the subset of content available, thereby creating a two-tier subscription model.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the content provider provides a delivery server with a subset of available content along with a distribution list for mobile devices to deliver the subset of available content to.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the content provider notifies the delivery server of the subset of content available along with a subscription identifier for the subset of content available.

23. A system for establishing a delivery context for channel subscription in a mobile network comprising:

a device side, the device side having;

a subscription agent;

a delivery client; and

a content client; and

a service side, the service side having;

a subscription portal, the subscription portal adapted to communicate with the subscription agent to establish a subscription;

a delivery server, the delivery server adapted to communicate with the delivery client in accordance with a delivery context ; and

a content provider, the content provider adapted to provide content requested by the content client.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the subscription agent on the device side is adapted to establish a subscription with the subscription portal.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the subscription agent is further adapted to pass the delivery context to the subscription portal at the same time that the subscription is established.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the subscription portal is adapted to propagate the delivery context to the delivery server.

27. The system of claim 24, wherein the subscription portal is adapted to propagate information sufficient to create a delivery context to the delivery server.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein the information includes a mobile account number, an international mobile equipment identifier or an email address.

29. The system of claim 24, wherein the subscription agent is aware of the content client and is adapted to provide the content client with notification of subscription, wherein the content client is adapted to pass the notification of subscription to the delivery client and the delivery client is adapted to pass the delivery context to the delivery server upon receipt of the notification of subscription.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the delivery client is further adapted to propagate a subscription identifier to the delivery server.

31. The system of claim 23, wherein the subscription agent on the device side is adapted to establish a subscription with the subscription portal, and wherein the delivery client is a proxy between the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the delivery client is adapted to append the delivery context to communications between the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

33. The system of claim 31, wherein the delivery client proxy is transparent to the subscription agent and the subscription portal.

34. The system of claim 23, wherein the content client is adapted to register applications with the delivery client, the content provider is adapted to register channels with the delivery server, the delivery server is adapted to create a channel guide based on the registered channels, and the delivery server and delivery client are adapted to exchange registered applications and the channel guide.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the content client is further adapted to select a channel from the channel guide and propagate a subscription request to the content provider.

36. The system of claim 35, wherein the delivery client is adapted to add the delivery context to the subscription request.

37. The system of claim 23, wherein the subscription agent or the delivery client are adapted to pass a subscription filter, the subscription filter being utilized to request a subset of content available from the content provider.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein the subscription filter and a channel identifier create a subscription identifier to identify the subset of content available.

39. The system of claim 38, wherein the subscription identifier is comprised of the channel identifier concatenated with the subscription filter.

40. The system of claim 38, wherein the subscription identifier is comprised of the channel identifier and the subscription filter combined in a predefined schema.

41. The system of claim 37, wherein the delivery server is adapted to combine multiple subsets of available content to create a bundled sub-channel.

42. The system of claim 37, wherein the delivery server and delivery client are adapted to manage subscriptions for all content available from the content provider, and wherein the content client and content provider are adapted to manage the subset of content available, thereby creating a two-tier subscription model.

43. The system of claim 42, wherein the content provider is adapted to provide the delivery server with a subset of available content along with a distribution list for mobile devices to deliver the subset of available content to.

44. The system of claim 42, wherein the content provider is adapted to notify the delivery server of the subset of content available along with a subscription identifier for the subset of content available.