Method and System for Transmission and Display of Rich-Media Alerts

• US 20120021785A1
• Filed: 09/27/2011
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Weinrib, Jeremy A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,565,796 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/18 Service support devices; Network management devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/181 Transcoding devices; Rate adaptation devices

Abstract

There is provided a method and system of generating a rich-media message using a short message service (SMS) message. In one aspect, the method comprises encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message, and formatting the encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message. In one aspect, the method includes transmitting the rich-media SMS over a network, In another aspect, the method includes receiving the rich-media SMS by a mobile device, decoding the SMS, and displaying the message. The method may include obtaining rich-media content from a server. In one embodiment, a system for communicating a rich-media message to a mobile device comprises an alerts generator configured to encode a rich-media message and format the message into a rich-media SMS, a content server configured to provide rich-media content to a mobile device configured to decode and display the rich-media SMS.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method of providing a rich-media message to a mobile device using a short message service (SMS) message, said method comprising:

receiving data and rich-media content information;

encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message;

formatting said encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message;

transmitting said rich-media SMS message;

receiving said rich-media SMS message by said mobile device;

decoding said rich-media SMS message to retrieve said encoded rich-media message;

obtaining, by said mobile device, a rich-media content based on said rich-media content information within said encoded rich-media message, wherein said mobile device is capable of obtaining said rich-media content without accessing a content server; and

displaying said rich-media SMS message by said mobile device.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein said rich-media content is obtained without accessing said content server by accessing elements previously loaded on said mobile device as part of a software application.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein said rich-media content is obtained without accessing said content server by accessing elements previously cached on said mobile device.

24. The method of claim 21 wherein said rich-media message comprises a rich-media alert.

25. The method of claim 24 wherein said rich-media alert includes a sports alert, a weather alert, a news alert, or a medical alert.

26. The method of claim 21, further comprising transmitting said rich-media SMS message over a network.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein said obtaining said rich-media content is from said content server.

28. The method of claim 21 wherein said rich-media content includes at least one element including a video clip, an audio clip, or an inline graphic.

29. A system for communicating a rich-media short message service (SMS) message to a mobile device, said system comprising:

a rich-media message generator configured to encode a rich-media message and format said rich-media message into said rich-media SMS message;

said mobile device configured to decode said rich-media SMS message and obtain a rich-media content for displaying said rich-media SMS message, said mobile device further capable of obtaining said rich-media content without accessing a content server.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein said mobile device is further configured to obtain said rich-media content without accessing said content server by accessing elements previously loaded on said mobile device as part of a software application.

31. The system of claim 29, wherein said mobile device is further configured to obtain said rich-media content without accessing said content server by accessing elements previously cached on said mobile device.

32. The system of claim 29 wherein said rich-media message comprises a rich-media alert.

33. The system of claim 32 wherein said rich-media alert includes a sports alert, a weather alert, a news alert, or a medical alert.

34. The system of claim 29, wherein said rich-media message generator is further configured to transmit said rich-media SMS message to said mobile device over a network.

35. The system of claim 29, further comprising a content server for providing said rich-media content.

36. The system of claim 29 wherein said rich-media content includes at least one element including a video clip, an audio clip, or an inline graphic.