MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20130080553A1
• Filed: 11/16/2012
• Published: 03/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T Play Holdings LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Gil Rosen, Yaacov Ziv
• Inventors: ROSEN, Gil, ZIV, Yaacov
• Granted Patent: US 8,874,677 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• 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 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4025 where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/756 adapting media to device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 : with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 : Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message;

before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, the at least one initial message into at least one adapted message,

wherein the at least one adapted message characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout,

wherein the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in at least one characteristic associated with respective message layout and selected from the group, comprising;

i) a number of media objects,

ii) at least one graphical image of at least one media object,

iii) a size of at least one placeholder related to at least one media object, and

iv) a location of at least one media object within respective message layout; and

facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the at least one adapted message to the destination communication device.

2. The method of claim 1 further, in case of two or more destination communication devices associated with the at least one user, comprising selecting among the two or more destination communication devices a destination communication device for delivery of a given message, wherein the adapted message layout is provided in correspondence with the selected destination communication device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein selecting the destination communication device for delivery of a given message is provided in response to data received from the at least one user and indicative of the destination communication device to be selected.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the adapted message is further characterized by adapted message format, the method further comprising providing the adapted format by trans-coding the at least one initial message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one initial message is characterized by initial message layout based on a template, the template characterized by, at least, a unique template identifier;

and wherein the adapted message layout is provided in accordance with the unique template identifier and a displaying capability of the destination communication device.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising associating at least the unique template identifier with one or more predefined adapted message layouts, and selecting the adapted message layout from the predefined message layouts, the selecting is performed based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier and a criterion related to the destination communication device.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the template comprises a set of items related to media objects, and wherein the items related to media objects are selected from the group comprising media objects, thumbnails related to media objects, controls related to media objects.

8. A messaging system comprising an access block operatively coupled to a media block, wherein:

the access block is configured to receive at least one initial message characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message;

the media block is configured to convert the at least one initial message into at least one adapted message, the adapted message characterized by, at least, adapted message layout, wherein the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in at least one characteristic associated with respective message layout and selected from the group, comprising;

i) a number of media objects

ii) at least one graphical image of at least one media object,

iii) a size of at least one placeholder related to at least one media object, and

iv) a location of at least one media object within a respective message layout; and

wherein the access block is further configured to enable transmitting the at least one adapted message to the destination communication device associated with the at least one user.

9. The system of claim 8 configured to support at least two destination communication devices associated with the at least one user, the system further comprising a destination block operatively coupled to the media block and configured to select, among the destination communication devices associated with the at least one user, a destination communication device for delivery of a given message, wherein the media block is further configured to provide adapted message layout corresponding to the selected destination communication device.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the destination block is further configured to select a destination communication device for delivery of a given message in response to data received from the at least one user and indicative of the destination communication device to be selected.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the adapted message is further characterized by adapted message format, and wherein the media block is further configured to provide the adapted format by trans-coding the at least one initial message.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one initial message is characterized by initial message layout based on a template, the template characterized by, at least, a unique template identifier;

and wherein the media block is further configured to provide the adapted message layout in accordance with the unique template identifier and a displaying capability of the destination communication device.

13. The system of claim 12 further comprising a data structure associating at least the unique template identifier with one or more predefined adapted message layouts, and wherein the media block is further configured to select the adapted message layout among the predefined message layouts based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier and a criterion related to the destination communication device.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the template comprises a set of items related to media objects, and wherein the items related to media objects are selected from the group comprising media objects, thumbnails related to media objects, controls related to media objects.

15. A computerized service center configured to facilitate:

receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message;

before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting by the messaging system the at least one initial message into at least one adapted message, the adapted message characterized by, at least, the adapted message layout, wherein the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in at least one characteristic associated with respective message layout and selected from the group comprising;

i) a number of media objects

ii) at least one graphical image of at least one media object,

iii) a size of at least one placeholder related to at least one media object, and

iv) a location of at least one media object within a respective message layout; and

delivering the at least one adapted message to the destination communication device.

16. The computerized service center of claim 15, wherein the at least one initial message is characterized by initial message layout based on a template, the template characterized by, at least, a unique template identifier;

and wherein the adapted message layout is provided in accordance with the unique template identifier and a displaying capability of the destination communication device.

17. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying computer readable program code to perform message communication, the computer program product comprising:

computer readable program code for causing the computer to receive at least one initial message characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the message;

computer readable program code for causing the computer to, before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, convert the at least one initial message into at least one adapted message, the at least one adapted message characterized by, at least, the adapted message layout,

wherein the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in at least one characteristic associated with respective message layout and selected from the group, comprising;

i) a number of media objects

ii) at least one graphical image of at least one media object,

iii) a size of at least one placeholder related to at least one media object, and

iv) a location of at least one media object within a respective message layout; and

computer readable program code for causing the computer to facilitate delivering the at least one adapted message to the destination communication device.

18. A method comprising:

receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with said message;

before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting by the messaging system the at least one initial message into at least one adapted message characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, wherein the adapted message layout is provided in accordance with a criterion related to capabilities of the destination communication device; and

facilitating delivery of said adapted message to the destination communication device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the at least one initial message is characterized by initial message layout based on a template, the template characterized by, at least, a unique template identifier;

the method further comprising;

associating at least the unique template identifier with one or more predefined adapted message layouts, and

selecting the adapted message layout from the predefined message layouts, the selecting is performed based, at least in part, on the unique template identifier and a criterion related to a displaying capability of the destination communication device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the template comprises a set of items related to media objects, and wherein the adapted layout differs from the initial layout in at least one characteristic selected from the group comprising number of the items in the set, graphical images of the items in the set, size of placeholders related to the items in the set, relative location of the items in a displayed set.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the items related to media objects are selected from the group comprising media objects, thumbnails related to media objects, controls related to media objects.