SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT TO SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE TO BUY

• US 20170104711A1
• Filed: 12/21/2016
• Published: 04/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qwasi Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qwasi Inc.
• Inventors: Hanson, Lara, Thies, Jon, Samuel, Leon
• Application Number:
  US15/387,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20170104711A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/048 mobile agents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• 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 4/18 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

Abstract

Methods and systems for publishing content received via a cellular message to a social networking server to convert visitors of the published content into customers are provided. An agent executing on a device including one or more processors receives, via a cellular communication channel, a cellular message to publish content included in the cellular message to a server of a social networking web site. The agent identifies, from the cellular message, an entity corresponding to one of a tag or address included in the cellular message. The agent identifies a uniform resource locator (URL) of the entity based on the content included in the cellular message. The agent communicates a request to publish the content included in the cellular message to the server. The request includes the URL of the entity to direct traffic from the server to a resource of the entity corresponding to the URL.

Claims

1. A method for publishing content received via a cellular message to a server of a social networking web site, the method comprising:

receiving, by an agent executing on a device including one or more processors and configured with a network interface to communicate via a cellular network, via a cellular communication channel, a cellular message to publish content included in the cellular message to a server of a social networking web site;

identifying, by the agent, from the cellular message, an entity corresponding to one of a tag or address included in the cellular message;

identifying, by the agent, a uniform resource locator (URL) of the entity based on the content included in the cellular message; and

communicating, by the agent, a request to publish the content included in the cellular message to the server of the social networking web site, the request to publish including the URL of the entity to direct traffic from the server of the social networking web site to a resource of the entity corresponding to the URL.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising uploading, by the agent, the content included in the cellular message to the resource of the entity, the resource of the entity configurable by the agent.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource of the entity is a first resource and further comprising:

uploading, by the agent, the content included in the cellular message to a second resource configurable by the agent; and

wherein the URL of the entity included in the request includes an address of the second resource that is linked to the first resource of the entity.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising creating the second resource to which the content is uploaded responsive to receiving the cellular message.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by the agent, an address of a resource of the social networking web site to which the content is published;

transmitting, by the agent, via the cellular communication channel, to a cellular device that transmitted the cellular message, the address of the resource of the social networking web site.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the cellular message includes an image and instructions corresponding to the image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the instructions include a title of the image, a description of the image, or a product identifier corresponding to a product shown in the image.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag includes a predetermined set of characters, a subset of the set of characters unique to the entity;

and wherein identifying, by the agent, from the cellular message, the entity includes identifying the entity based on the subset of characters.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying, by the agent, the content included in the cellular message prior to communicating the request to publish the content to the server of the social networking web site.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying, by the agent, a product identified by the content included in the cellular message and identifying a resource of the entity identified by the cellular message that corresponds to the product.

11. A system for publishing content received via a cellular message to a server of a social networking web site, the system comprising:

an agent executing on a device including one or more processors and configured with a network interface to communicate via a cellular network, the agent including

a message manager configured to

receive, via a cellular communication channel, a cellular message to publish content included in the cellular message to a server of a social networking web site;

identify, from the cellular message, an entity corresponding to one of a tag or address included in the cellular message; and

a content configuration manager configured to

identify, a uniform resource locator (URL) of the entity based on the content included in the cellular message; and

communicate a request to publish the content included in the cellular message to the server of the social networking web site, the request to publish including the URL of the entity to direct traffic from the server of the social networking web site to a resource of the entity corresponding to the URL.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the content configuration manager is further configured to upload the content included in the cellular message to the resource of the entity, the resource of the entity configurable by the agent.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the resource of the entity is a first resource and wherein the agent is further configured to upload the content included in the cellular message to a second resource configurable by the agent;

and wherein the URL of the entity included in the request includes an address of the second resource that is linked to the first resource of the entity.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the content configuration manager is further configured create the second resource to which the content is uploaded responsive to receiving the cellular message.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the content configuration manager is further configured to:

identify an address of a resource of the social networking web site to which the content is published;

transmit, via the cellular communication channel, to a cellular device that transmitted the cellular message, the address of the resource of the social networking web site.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the cellular message includes an image and instructions corresponding to the image.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the instructions include a title of the image, a description of the image, or a product identifier corresponding to a product shown in the image.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the tag includes a predetermined set of characters, a subset of the set of characters unique to the entity;

and wherein identifying, by the agent, from the cellular message, the entity includes identifying the entity based on the subset of characters.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein the content configuration manager is further configured to modify the content included in the cellular message prior to communicating the request to publish the content to the server of the social networking web site.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the content configuration manager is further configured to identify a product identified by the content included in the cellular message and identifying a resource of the entity identified by the cellular message that corresponds to the product.