TARGETED NOTIFICATION OF CONTENT AVAILABILITY TO A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20110207436A1
• Filed: 02/17/2011
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: van Gent, Robert Paul, Ariel, Ido
• Application Number:
  US13/030,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20110207436A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/413
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 : for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 : Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 : Terminal devices

Abstract

A system and method for publishing information to a community of users is disclosed. Published information is inclusive of, for example, calendar data, blog data and photographs. Communities may be defined by PIM data or automatically generated by a data aggregation server in response to a user-defined rubric. Published information may be provided to a recipient or in conjunction with a notification delivered to the recipient. Published data may be subject to certain read/write limitations.

Claims

1. A method of targeted notification of content availability to a mobile device, comprising:

using community relationship information associated with a user who provided the content, identifying a target recipient;

sending the target recipient the notification of the availability of the content, via the mobile device associated with the target recipient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the notification includes an SMS message.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, the SMS message includes a link to access the content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, the notification includes an email message;

wherein, the email includes a link to access the content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the notification includes a voice mail message.

6. A method for targeting content delivery to a mobile device, comprising:

using community relationship information identified for the content, identifying a target recipient;

providing access to the content to the target recipient, via the mobile device associated with the target recipient.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising, identifying the community relationship for the content based on a user associated with the content.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, the target recipient requests delivery of the content associated with the user.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising, querying the user to as to whether to provide the target recipient with access to the content.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising, querying the target recipient as to whether the target recipient wishes to receive access to the content.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein, the content is provided by the user.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein, the community relationship is defined by the user.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein, the community relationship is identified using PIM data including calendar or contact data.

14. The method of claim 6, wherein, the community relationship includes common employment.

15. The method of claim 6, wherein;

the community relationship includes family relationship.

16. The method of claim 6, wherein, the content is detected via a polling operation.

17. The method of claim 6, wherein, the content includes, a blog entry or a photograph.

18. The method of claim 6, wherein, the object includes promotional content that is contextualized according to the content.

19. The method of claim 6, wherein, the object includes advertiser-generated content or publisher-generated content.

20. A system for pushing content to a mobile device, comprising:

means for, receiving content or updated content from a first user;

means for, automatically pushing the content to the mobile device associated with a second user for access;

wherein, the second user is identified using the first user'"'"'s contact data.