Message transmission system and method, and utilization of the transmission system to investigate services offered

• US 7,130,648 B1
• Filed: 10/18/2000
• Issued: 10/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CP8 Technologies (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: CP8 Technologies (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Fournier, Jean-Claude, Rose, Stéphane
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsang, Fan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anwah, Olisa
• Application Number:
  US09/868,332
• Time in Patent Office: 2,204 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/566, 455/414.1, 455/558, 455/557
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

The present invention relates to a message transmission system comprising a telecommunication network (2) comprising a communication server (4) and at least one wireless telephone (1), the server comprising means for sending messages to one or more wireless telephones, the wireless telephone or telephones (1) being equipped with means for storing and processing message (Mess-Serv), characterized in that the messages (Mess-Serv) comprise a first field (V-TYP) containing information relating to the type profile of the recipient of the message and in that the processing means compare the profile stored in each wireless telephone relative to the subscriber using the wireless telephone to the profile contained in the message, and authorize the storage of the messages in the storage means if the profile of the subscriber using the wireless telephone is compatible with the type profile contained in the field of the message.

Claims

1. Method for transmitting messages in a telecommunications network comprising a communications server and at least one wireless telephone, said server comprising means for sending messages to one or more wireless telephones, the wireless telephone or telephones being equipped with memory means for storing and processing messages, wherein it comprises:

a step for sending a message (Mess-Serv) comprising a field (V-TYP) containing at least one information in a plurality of sub-fields relative to the standard profile of the recipient of the message, and

a step for processing the message received by the recipient, for identifying and for comparing each information of the sub-fields in the standard profile contained in this message (Mess-Serv) with each information of a user'"'"'s subscriber profile stored in the memory means of the wireless telephone,

a step for storing the message in the storage means of the wireless telephone if the user'"'"'s subscriber profile is compatible with the standard profile contained in the message, and

a step for sending a notification from the wireless telephone to the server, containing a number of times a given message has displayed a profile of the wireless telephone that displayed it and data identifying the number of the message displayed and sent by an advertising client, as well as data identifying the advertising client.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the wireless telephone or telephones comprise display means, the method including a step for displaying messages upon occurrence of events specified in a field of the message.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step for sending an acknowledgement of receipt of the message.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein it includes a step for sending an acknowledgement of receipt of the message, the acknowledgement of receipt being accompanied by the profile of the user that received the message.

5. A method according to claim 1 further including the step of logging and extracting statistics from notifications or acknowledgements of reception received from the wireless telephone using an algorithm in the server.

6. A method for operating a wireless telephone receiving messages from a communications server a, said server sending messages to one or more wireless telephones, the wireless telephone or telephones being equipped with memory means for storing and processing messages wherein said method comprises:

a step for receiving a message (Mess Serv) comprising a field (V-Typ) containing at least one information in a plurality of sub-fields relative to a standard profile of the recipient of the message,

a step for processing the receiving message thereby identifying and comparing each information of the sub-fields in the standard profile contained in contained in the message (Mess-Serv) with each information of a user'"'"'s subscriber profile stored in the memory means of said wireless telephone,

a step for storing the message in the storage means of the wireless telephone if the user'"'"'s subscriber profile is compatible with the standard profile contained in the message, and

a step for sending a notification from the wireless telephone to the server, containing a number of times a given message has been displayed and data identifying the number of the message displayed, a profile of the wireless telephone that displayed it, and data identifying the number of the message displayed and sent by an advertising client, as well as data identifying the advertising client.