SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CENTRALIZED RETRIEVAL AND DELIVERY OF CONTENT TO MOBILE DEVICES USING A SERVER BASED RSS FEED

• US 20100070565A1
• Filed: 05/04/2009
• Published: 03/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Chalk Media Service Corp (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: LEBLANC, Michael, GLIDDEN, Jody, HUDSON, David James, VERZILLI, Silvio, DELONG, Ian Brian
• Granted Patent: US 8,868,640 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• 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 system, server, and method are provided for delivering at least one web feed to at least one wireless device. The server subscribes to the at least one web feed. The server has a processor connected to a memory with at least one module stored in the memory for execution by the processor. The server is configured to: monitor the web feed status for an expiration of a refresh time; retrieve new content from the web feed upon expiry of the refresh time; process the new content and package the processed new content as a content package for delivery to the wireless device; and send the content package to the wireless device as a push delivery.

Claims

1. A server for delivering at least one web feed to at least one wireless device, the server subscribing to the at least one web feed, the server having a processor connected to a memory with at least one module stored in the memory for execution by the processor, the server being configured to:

monitor the web feed status for an expiration of a refresh time;

retrieve new content from the web feed upon expiry of the refresh time;

process the new content and package the processed new content as a content package for delivery to the wireless device; and

send the content package to the wireless device as a push delivery.

2. The server according to claim 1, wherein the at least one web feed includes at least one Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed.

3. The server according to claim 2, wherein the at least one RSS feed includes a plurality of RSS feeds.

4. The server according to claim 1, wherein the processing of the new content includes at least one of removing duplicate content from the new content, removing old content from the new content, transcoding the new content into a form suitable for the wireless device, compressing the new content, resizing graphics files into smaller graphics suitable for display on the wireless device, and reformatting content into a format suitable for the wireless device.

5. The server according to claim 1, wherein the at least one module includes a content aggregator.

6. The server according to claim 1, wherein the retrieving new content from the web feed upon expiry of the refresh time includes retrieving all related content available from the web feed including material contained in links embedded in the new content and media contained within the new content.

7. The server according to claim 1, wherein the sending the content package to the wireless device includes a push delivery to the wireless device.

8. The server according to claim 1, wherein the server includes a content server.

9. A method for use on a server for delivering at least one web feed to at least one wireless device, the server subscribing to the at least one web feed, the method comprising:

monitoring the web feed status for an expiration of a refresh time;

retrieving new content from the web feed upon expiry of the refresh time;

processing the new content and packaging the processed new content as a content package for delivery to the wireless device; and

sending the content package to the wireless device.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the at least one web feed includes at least one Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one RSS feed includes a plurality of RSS feeds.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the processing of the new content includes at least one of removing duplicate content from the new content, removing old content from the new content, transcoding the new content into a form suitable for the wireless device, compressing the new content, resizing graphics files into smaller graphics suitable for display on the wireless device, and reformatting content into a format suitable for the wireless device.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method is executed by a content aggregator module running on the server.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the retrieving new content from the web feed upon expiry of the refresh timer includes retrieving all related content available from the web feed including material contained in links embedded in the new content and media contained within the new content.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein the sending the content package to the wireless device includes a push delivery to the wireless device.

16. The method according to claim 9, wherein the server includes a content server.