System and method for providing an interactive screen on a wireless device interacting with a server

• US 7,065,388 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2003
• Issued: 06/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Sprigg, Stephen A., Minear, Brian, Chmaytelli, Mazen, Oliver, Mitchell B.
• Primary Examiner(s): GELIN, JEAN ALLAND
• Application Number:
  US10/689,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20040087347A1
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 455407-411, 455418-420, 455/566, 370/395, 370/401, 709217-220, 709/231, 707/10, 713/200, 713/201, 713/202, 715/526
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A system and method for displaying an interactive screen, such as an end-user license agreement or verification form, on the graphic display of a wireless device when the wireless device connects to a network server on a wireless network and attempts to access or download software applications and data. The user of the wireless device must then affirmatively interact with the interactive screen in order to access or download a software application or data from the network server. The interactive screen can be transmitted from the network server where the wireless device seeks to access or download an application or data, or can be transmitted from a separate server to the wireless device. The records of the wireless device-server interactions can be stored on a network server or other data stores on the wireless network.

Claims

1. A system for displaying an interactive screen on the graphic display of a wireless device communicating with network server prior to a download to the wireless device of content comprising at least one of an application and data, the system comprising:

one or more user-interactive wireless devices, each wireless device including a computer platform and a graphic display thereon, and each wireless device in selective communication to a wireless network; and

one or more network servers in selective communication to the wireless network, and each network server selectively in communication with the one or more wireless devices and selectively downloading content to wireless devices thereto,

wherein, upon a wireless device requesting download of content from a network server

said one or more network servers transmits an interactive screen associated with the requested content to the computer platform of the wireless device prior to downloading the requested content to the wireless device, and

the wireless device limits access to the requested content to be downloaded by displaying the interactive screen on the graphic display thereof.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein, the wireless device sends a signal to the network server indicating an interaction of the user of the wireless device with the interactive screen, and the network server determines whether to download the requested data to the computer platform of the wireless device based upon a content of said signal

the wireless device sends a signal to the network server indicating an interaction of the user of the wireless device with the interactive screen, and the network server determining whether to download the requested content to the computer platform of the wireless device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the interactive screen is transmitted to the wireless device from a same network server that the wireless device requested to to download content.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the interactive screen accepts user input the wireless device sends the inputted data to the network server, and the network server determines whether to download the content to the wireless device based upon the inputted data.

5. A system for displaying a user-interactive screen over a wireless network, comprising:

a wireless communication means for selectively communicating to a wireless network, the wireless communication means being user-interactive and comprising a computer platform means and a graphic display means;

a first download means for selectively downloading content comprising at least one of applications and data to the wireless communication means across the wireless network; and

a second download means for downloading an interactive screen associated with content to be downloaded by said first downloading means;

wherein, upon the wireless communication means requesting to download content from the first download means, the second download means transmits an interactive screen corresponding to the requested content to the computer platform means of the wireless communication means prior to the first download means downloading the requested content to the wireless communication means, and the wireless conmmunication means displaying the interactive screen corresponding to the requested content on the graphic display thereof.

6. A method for displaying an interactive screen on the graphic display of a user-interactive wireless devices including a computer platform, the wireless device selectively communicating with a network server and downloading content comprising at least one of applications and data, the method comprising:

responsive to a request to download content from one of the wireless devices,

transmitting an interactive screen associated with the requested content to the computer platform of the wireless device across the wireless network prior to transmitting the requested content downloading the data to the requesting wireless device; and

transmitting the requested content to the computer platform of the wireless device after receiving a signal from the wireless device indicating that the user of the wireless device interacted with the transmitted interactive screen in a predetermined manner.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the requested content is an application.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the requested content is an application, the interactive screen presents an agreement regarding the application on the wireless device, and the predetermined manner corresponds to acceptance of the agreement.

9. A method for displaying an interactive screen on a graphic display of a user-interactive wireless device including a computer platform, the wireless device selectively communicating with a network server and downloading applications and data resident on the network server, the method comprising the steps of:

sending a request to download content from the network server;

responsive to said sending the request, and prior to receiving the requested content;

receiving an interactive screen associated with the requested download;

presenting the interactive screen the graphic display to permit an interaction with an user of the wireless device; and

sending a signal to the network server when interaction corresponds to a predetermined action; and

responsive to said sending the signal;

receiving said content from said network server.

10. A computer readable medium storing a sequence of instructions, which when executed by a computer platform of a wireless device, causes said computer platform to perform the steps of:

sending a request to download content from the network server;

responsive to said sending the request, and prior to receiving the requested content;

receiving an interactive screen associated with the requested download;

presenting the interactive screen the graphic display to permit an interaction with an user of the wireless device; and

sending a signal to the network server indicative of the interaction corresponding to a predetermined action; and

responsive to said sending the signal;

receiving said content from said network server.