Method Generating a Message for One or More Social Networking Websites

• US 20110179378A1
• Filed: 09/09/2010
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hu, Xin, Hangas, Paul W., LeRoy, Heather M., Robinson, Tony, Sawhney, Sapna, Rypinski, Christopher, Putterman, Scott I., Mamitsuka, Lien T., Mitra, Christopher A., Camp, William N. II, Wheeler, Maxon R.
• Application Number:
  US12/878,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20110179378A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A mobile device includes a message entry area on a display for the user to view input text, the size based on the smallest message size permitted by the one or more destination content providers. The content from the user interface input populates the message input area. A warning is generated when the limit is reached. The message with entered content is communicated to the intermediary server with the identity of the one or more content providers for uploading by the intermediary server to the one or more content providers in the format desired by the content provider website.

Claims

1. In a mobile device, a method generating a message for one or more content providers, the method comprising:

(a) presenting a message entry area on a display for the user to input text, the size limit based on the smallest message size permitted by the one or more content providers;

(b) receiving content from the user interface input and populating the message entry area;

(c) generating a warning when the limit is reached; and

(d) communicating the message with entered content to an intermediary server with the identity of the one or more content providers for uploading by the intermediary server to the one or more content providers in the format desired by the content provider.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the step of generating a warning generates a warning when the message size gets within a predetermined amount of the limit.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the limit can change if the one or more content provider changes.