DYNAMIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

• US 20090164605A1
• Filed: 08/19/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Palm, Inc. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Lincke, Scott, Luo, Wenjun, Lusher, Elaine
• Application Number:
  US12/194,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20090164605A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 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: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A method and system for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention begins by retrieving information from a network. In one embodiment the information is web-based content, and the network is the Internet. The present method and system then dynamically assesses the information which was retrieved from the network. In particular, in one embodiment, the present invention assesses the information by determining the application to which the information corresponds. Next, the present embodiment selectively filters the information such that desired information is compiled. After the selective filtering process, the present embodiment forwards the desired information to the mobile device. In so doing, the present embodiment provides an approach which dynamically manages the content of information so as to efficiently, responsively, and inexpensively provide a mobile device user with desired information.

Claims

1. A method of dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device, said method comprising:

a) retrieving information from a network wherein said network comprises the Internet and wherein said information is associated with a commerce transaction;

b) dynamically assessing said information by matching said information against a predefined set of transaction-specific tags to determine a type of transaction to which said information pertains;

c) selectively filtering said information based only on said information such that desired information is compiled and only transaction specific information is retained; and

d) forwarding said desired information through said network to said mobile device that is remotely located.

2. The method of claim 1 for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device wherein step a) comprises retrieving information from said network wherein said information has not previously been tailored for interaction with a mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1 for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device wherein step b) comprises determining an application to which said information corresponds.

4. The method of claim 1 for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device wherein step b) comprises determining if said information contains a transaction-specific tag.

5. The method of claim 4 for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device wherein step c) comprises selectively filtering said information such that said desired information is compiled by retaining only essential portions of said information which contains said transaction-specific tag.

6. The method of claim 1 for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device wherein step c) comprises selectively filtering said information such that said desired information is compiled by subjecting said information to a text filter, an image filter, and an image transcoder.

7. The method of claim 1 for dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device wherein step d) further comprises, prior to forwarding said desired information to said mobile device, reformatting said desired information based upon characteristics of said mobile device.

8. A computer system comprising:

a processor;

an address/data bus coupled to said processor;

a computer readable memory coupled to communicate with said processor, said processor for performing a method of dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device, said method comprising;

a) retrieving information from a network wherein said network comprises the Internet and wherein said information is associated with a commerce transaction;

b) dynamically assessing said information by matching said information against a predefined set of transaction-specific tags to determine a type of transaction to which said information pertains;

c) selectively filtering said information based only on said filtering such that desired information is compiled and only transaction specific information is retained; and

d) forwarding said desired information through said network to a mobile device that is remotely located.

9. The computer system as recited in claim 8 wherein step a) of said dynamic content management steps performed by said processor further comprises retrieving information from said network wherein said information has not previously been tailored for interaction with a mobile device.

10. The computer system as recited in claim 8 wherein step b) of said dynamic content management steps performed by said processor further comprises determining an application to which said information corresponds.

11. The computer system as recited in claim 8 wherein step b) of said dynamic content management steps performed by said processor further comprises determining if said information contains a transaction-specific tag.

12. The computer system as recited in claim 11 wherein step b) of said dynamic content management steps performed by said processor further comprises selectively filtering said information such that said desired information is compiled by retaining only essential portions of said information which contains said transaction-specific tag.

13. The computer system as recited in claim 8 wherein step c) of said dynamic content management steps performed by said processor further comprises selectively filtering said information such that said desired information is compiled by subjecting said information to a text filter, an image filter, and an image transcoder.

14. The computer system as recited in claim 8 wherein step d) of said dynamic content management steps performed by said processor further comprises, prior to forwarding said desired information to said mobile device, reformatting said desired information based upon characteristics of said mobile device.

15. A computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer to perform a method of dynamically managing content provided to a mobile device, said method comprising:

a) retrieving information from a network wherein said network comprises the Internet and wherein said information is associated with a commerce transaction;

b) dynamically assessing said information by matching said information against a predefined set of transaction-specific tags to determine a type of transaction to which said information pertains;

c) selectively filtering said information based only on said information such that desired information is compiled; and

d) forwarding said desired information through said network to a mobile device that is remotely located.

16. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 15, wherein said computer-usable medium further causes said computer performing step a) to retrieve said information from said network wherein said information has not previously been tailored for interaction with a mobile device.

17. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 15, wherein said computer-usable medium further causes said computer performing step b) to determine the an application to which said information corresponds.

18. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 15, wherein said computer-usable medium further causes said computer performing step b) to determine if said information contains a transaction-specific tag.

19. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 18, wherein said computer-usable medium further causes said computer performing step b) to selectively filter said information such that said desired information is compiled by retaining only essential portions of said information which contains said transaction-specific tag.

20. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 15, wherein said computer-usable medium further causes said computer performing step c) to selectively filter said information such that said desired information is compiled by subjecting said information to a text filter, an image filter, and an image transcoder.