Seamless Multiple Access Internet Portal

• US 20080229399A1
• Filed: 04/24/2008
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T DELAWARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Caapaction (Société Cocoon SA)
• Original Assignee: AT&T DELAWARE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS BELLSOUTH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Caapaction (Société Cocoon SA)
• Inventors: O'Neil, Douglas R., Rivera, Jose F.
• Application Number:
  US12/108,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20080229399A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/5
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Multiple access internet portals are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a communication facility and a wireless internet server. The communication facility is operable to connect to a plurality of wireless devices through a mobile network. The wireless internet server is coupled to the communication facility and retrieves a personalized profile associated with a registered user an one of the plurality of wireless devices, and provides substantially similar personalized content to said at least one registered user on a variety of platforms associated with the wireless devices. Methods and other systems for multiple access portals are also provided.

Claims

1. A method of providing a seamless multiple access portal comprising:

providing a profile of a user of a wireless device to a content provider system, wherein the content provider system collects content that is indicated to be of interest to the user by the profile of the user and constructs a page of personalized internet content that is formatted for use by a particular messaging platform being used to access the wireless communication facility;

receiving the page of personalized content from the content provider system; and

transmitting the page of personalized internet content to the wireless device, the personalized content being substantially similar across the plurality of wireless device platforms, wherein internet content delivered to any of the wireless device platforms being utilized by a registered user adheres to personal preferences for the registered user which are included in a personalized profile for the registered user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of wireless device platforms associated with a wireless device comprises at least two of a wireless access protocol telephone platform, a short message service enabled telephone platform, and a computer with wireless high speed internet.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the personalized internet content from a content server, the content server having access to the internet.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving the personalized internet content from the internet.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

storing at least a portion of the personalized internet content; and

sending the content to the wireless device periodically.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prompting a user associated with the wireless device to select a method of access using an interactive voice response system.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

translating text content to voice using a voice portal upon the user selecting to use the voice portal.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

using a wireless access protocol gateway to transmit the personalized internet content to the wireless device upon the user selecting wireless access protocol.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

using a short message service center to transmit the personalized internet content to the wireless device upon the user selecting short message service.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

allowing a user associated with a wireless device to access the system from any of the plurality of platforms using a single mobile identification number and password combination via a central authentication system.

11. A computer readable storage medium embedded with program code, when executed by a computer, that cause the computer to perform:

providing a profile of a user of a wireless device to a content provider system, wherein the content provider system collects content that is indicated to be of interest to the user by the profile of the user and constructs a page of personalized internet content that is formatted for use by a particular messaging platform being used to access the wireless communication facility;

receiving the page of personalized content from the content provider system; and

transmitting the page of personalized internet content to the wireless device, the personalized content being substantially similar across the plurality of wireless device platforms, wherein internet content delivered to any of the wireless device platforms being utilized by a registered user adheres to personal preferences for the registered user which are included in a personalized profile for the registered user.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the plurality of wireless device platforms associated with a wireless device comprises at least two of a wireless access protocol telephone platform, a short message service enabled telephone platform, and a computer with wireless high speed internet.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, the program code causing the computer to perform:

retrieving the personalized internet content from a content server, the content server having access to the internet.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, the program code causing the computer to perform:

retrieving the personalized internet content from the internet.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the program code causing the computer to perform:

storing at least a portion of the personalized internet content; and

sending the content to the wireless device periodically.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, the program code causing the computer to perform:

prompting a user associated with the wireless device to select a method of access using an interactive voice response system.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, the program code causing the computer to perform:

translating text content to voice using a voice portal upon the user selecting to use the voice portal.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, the program code causing the computer to perform:

using a wireless access protocol gateway to transmit the personalized internet content to the wireless device upon the user selecting wireless access protocol.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 16, the program code causing the computer to perform:

using a short message service center to transmit the personalized internet content to the wireless device upon the user selecting short message service.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, the program code causing the computer to perform:

allowing a user associated with a wireless device to access the system from any of the plurality of platforms using a single mobile identification number and password combination via a central authentication system.