METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPUBLISHING MOBILE CONTENT

• US 20090318192A1
• Filed: 05/04/2009
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Chalk Media Corporation (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: O'REILLY, Jacob Samuel, LEBLANC, Michael, GLIDDEN, Jody, HUDSON, David James
• Granted Patent: US 8,526,928 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26291 for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4586 Content update operation triggered locally, e.g. by comparing the version of software modules in a DVB carousel to the version stored locally deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction of the data by redundancy during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content

Abstract

A system and method is provided for republishing content for a wireless device. In the wireless device, this may comprise: receiving a content manifest associated with a new content, the content manifest providing information about the new content; identifying any changes to existing content stored in the device, based on the information in the content manifest; retrieving updates in the new content corresponding to the changes; and storing the updates.

Claims

1. A wireless device comprising:

a processor for controlling operation of the wireless device;

a first input device coupled to the processor for accepting an input;

at least one display device coupled to the processor for communicating an output to the user;

a communications subsystem coupled to the processor for communicating with a communications network, the communications network including a content server configurable for delivering content to the wireless device;

a memory coupled to the processor; and

a storage device coupled to the processor;

the wireless device including one or more modules for republishing content for the wireless device, the one or more modules being configured to cause the wireless device to;

receive a content manifest associated with a new content, the content manifest providing information about the new content;

identify any changes to existing content stored in the storage device, based on the information in the content manifest;

retrieve updates in the new content corresponding to the changes; and

store the updates in the storage device.

2. The wireless device of claim 1, wherein the content manifest has a verification piece for verifying the associated new content and identifying any changes to the existing content comprises:

comparing the verification piece with information associated with the existing content in the storage device.

3. The wireless device of claim 2 wherein the verification piece is a checksum.

4. The wireless device of claim 1 wherein the new content comprises the updates corresponding to the changes to the existing content and also comprises old content that is unchanged from the existing content, and only the updates are retrieved.

5. The wireless device of claim 1 wherein the content manifest is received in the absence of any request for the content manifest from the wireless device.

6. The wireless device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more modules include at least one of a listener, an email handler, and a delivery manager.

7. A content delivery system for republishing content for a wireless device, the system comprising:

a content server configurable to deliver content to the wireless device, the content server having a processor connected to a memory; and

a mobile connector coupled to the content server for delivering the content to the wireless device,

the content server having one or more modules stored in the memory and being configured to cause the content server to;

send a content manifest to the wireless device, the content manifest being associated with new content and providing information about the new content;

in response to a request from the wireless device, provide updates from the new content in accordance with a selection included in the request.

8. The content delivery system of claim 7, wherein the one or more modules of the content server comprise:

a content assignment and access management component for assigning content to be delivered to a particular wireless device;

a mobile content delivery component coupled to the content assignment and access management component for handling delivery of the content to the wireless device;

a delivery queue coupled to the mobile content delivery component for holding requests for delivery; and

a delivery queue web service coupled to the delivery queue for retrieving queued items.

9. The content delivery system according to claim 8, wherein the one or more modules of the content server further comprise:

a content authoring and publishing system for creating content to be delivered to the wireless device; and

a central storage device for storing content to be delivered to the wireless device.

10. The content delivery system of claim 7 wherein the new content is assigned to the wireless device, and the one or more modules are further configured to cause the content server to:

identify the wireless device to which the new content is assigned; and

send the content manifest to the wireless device to which the new content is assigned, in the absence of a request from the wireless device.

11. The content delivery system of claim 7 wherein the one or more modules are further configured to cause the content server to:

include a verification piece in the content manifest for verifying the associated new content.

12. A method, in a wireless device, for republishing content for the wireless device, the method comprising:

receiving, at the wireless device, a content manifest associated with a new content, the content manifest providing information about the new content;

identifying, at the wireless device, any changes to existing content stored in the wireless device, based on the information in the content manifest,

retrieving, from a content server, updates in the new content corresponding to the changes; and

storing the updates in the wireless device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the content manifest has a verification piece for verifying the new content and identifying any changes to the existing content comprises:

comparing the verification piece with information associated with the existing content in the wireless device.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the verification piece is a checksum.

15. The method of claim 12 wherein the new content comprises the updates corresponding to the changes to the existing content and also comprises old content that is unchanged from the existing content, and only the updates are retrieved.

16. The method of claim 12 wherein the content manifest is received in the absence of any request for the content manifest from the wireless device.

17. A method, in a content server of a content delivery system, for republishing content for a wireless device, the method comprising:

sending a content manifest to the wireless device, the content manifest being associated with new content and providing information about the new content;

in response to a request from the wireless device, providing updates from the new content in accordance with a selection included in the request.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the new content is assigned to the wireless device, the method further comprising:

identifying the wireless device to which the new content is assigned; and

sending the content manifest to the wireless device to which the new content is assigned, in the absence of a request from the wireless device.

19. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

including a verification piece in the content manifest for verifying the associated new content.