Wireless device hub system and method

• US 7,283,830 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2003
• Issued: 10/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Voltari Operating Corp.
• Original Assignee: Motricity
• Inventors: Buckley, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Duc M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE, JUSTIN YE
• Application Number:
  US10/351,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20030139193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,727 Days
• Field of Search: 455415-417, 4554121-4144, 455/466
• 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 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

A system and method for transferring a data file to a wireless device where the system generates a Short Message Service (“SMS”) message including a URL address at which the data file is stored and transmits the SMS message to the wireless device.

Claims

1. A method of enabling a user executing a game application on a first wireless device to send messages to another user contemporaneously playing the same game application on another wireless device, comprising the steps of:

a) receiving a Short Message Service (“

SMS”

) start game message from the first wireless device at a communications hub, the message including an identifier corresponding to the game application and an identifier corresponding to the first wireless device;

b) storing the first wireless device identifier in a database at the communications hub based on the game application identifier;

c) receiving a SMS start game message from the another wireless device at the communications hub, the message including an identifier corresponding to the game application and an identifier corresponding to the another wireless device;

d) storing the another wireless device identifier in the database at the communications hub based on the game application identifier;

e) receiving a SMS send gamers message from the first wireless device at the communications hub, the SMS send gamers message including a taunt message and the first wireless device identifier;

f) determining the another wireless device playing the game application corresponding to the first wireless device identifier based on the game application identifier and the stored wireless device identifiers in the database;

g) generating a gamers taunt message including the taunt message;

h) sending the gamers taunt message to the another wireless device determined to be playing the game application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the gamers taunt message includes a user identifier corresponding to the first wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the taunt message is a SMS message.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

i) receiving a SMS high score message from a wireless device, the message including the game application identifier corresponding to the game and a wireless device identifier corresponding to the wireless device; and

j) removing the wireless device identifier from the database based on the game application identifier.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first wireless device is a cellular phone.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first wireless device has a BREW operating system.

7. A system for enabling a user executing a game application on a first wireless device to send messages to another user contemporaneously playing the same game application on another wireless device, comprising:

a) means for receiving a Short Message Service (“

SMS”

) start game message from the first wireless device at a communications hub, the message including an identifier corresponding to the game application and an identifier corresponding to the first wireless device;

b) means for storing the first wireless device identifier in a database at the communications hub based on the game application identifier;

c) means for receiving a SMS start game message from the another wireless device at the communications hub, the message including an identifier corresponding to the game application and an identifier corresponding to the another wireless device;

d) means for storing the another wireless device identifier in the database at the communications hub based on the game application identifier;

e) means for receiving a SMS send gamers message from the first wireless device at the communications hub, the SMS send gamers message including taunt message and the first wireless device identifier;

f) means for determining the another wireless device playing the game application corresponding to the first wireless device identifier based on the game application identifier and the stored wireless device identifiers in the database;

g) means for generating a gamers taunt message including the taunt message;

h) means for sending the gamers taunt message to the another wireless device determined to be playing the game application.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the garners taunt message includes a user identifier corresponding to the first wireless device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the taunt message is a SMS message.

10. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

i) means for receiving a SMS high score message from a wireless device, the message including the game application identifier corresponding to the game and a wireless device identifier corresponding to the wireless device; and

j) means for removing the wireless device identifier from the database based on the game application identifier.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the first wireless device is a cellular phone.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the first wireless device has a BREW operating system.