SUBSCRIBING TO MOBILE MEDIA SHARING

• US 20110072114A1
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thwapr, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Thwapr, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Chiamu May, Hoffert, Eric, Newsome, Richard Leigh, Goldstein, Bruce M., Gutta, Vijay Bhaskar Reddy
• Granted Patent: US 8,380,786 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A user is able to subscribe to an object by sending a mobile message or through a website. The object can be a file or a channel. The subscription message can use hierarchical mobile keywords. The user can adjust their registration information to control how much information is received from the subscription, when, and to what device the subscription is delivered.

Claims

1. A method of distributing information, comprising:

receiving, at a computer from a user, a request to subscribe to an object,

receiving, at the computer from a content provider, content relating to the object,

automatically, by the computer, obtaining characteristics of the user,

selecting, by the computer, a file format in accordance with the characteristics of the user,

converting, by the computer, the content to the selected file format, and

sending the converted content to the user.