Customized signature messaging service

• US 7,502,622 B1
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Issued: 03/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lekutai, Gaviphat
• Primary Examiner(s): ZEWDU, MELESS NMN
• Application Number:
  US11/772,720
• Time in Patent Office: 617 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-4566, 455 412- 413, 455/62, 455/3.06, 455 631- 632, 455/67.11, 455/67.13, 455/67.7, 455/115.1, 455/115.3, 455410-411, 4554121-4122, 455/414.1, 455/415, 455/458, 455418-421, 455/422.1, 4554321-4323, 455433-434, 455/435.1, 455/466, 455/500, 455507-508, 455/550.1, 455/556.2, 455/561, 455/414.4, 455/435.3, 455/463, 455/466.5, 455/503, 455512-515, 455/517, 455/524, 455557-558, 455566-567, 455/569.2, 709/203, 709/219, 709/228, 709/FOR.101, 709/207, 370/328, 370/338, 370332-334, 370/310, 3703952-39521, 3703954-39542
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Architecture that facilitates the broadcast of a custom signature message to one or more portable wireless devices that enter an associated area of coverage. A subscriber to the service pays a premium to have the rights to broadcast the custom message to all users who enter and/or leave the cell. The rights can be exclusive for a coverage area over an extended period of time. For example, a company can subscribe to broadcast a single message to all wireless users who enter a cell for a period of one year. Subscriber account information includes quality-of-service (QoS) data that indicates the highest level of service such that when a wireless device is detected as entering the cell, only the subscriber'"'"'s message will be broadcast to all users for a brief time.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates transmission of a customized message to a portable wireless device, comprising:

a presence detection component that detects the presence of the portable wireless device in a specific cell site; and

a signaling component that transmits the customized message to the portable wireless device in response to the detection thereof,

wherein the customized message is transmitted according to broadcast priority determined by a quality-of-service (QoS) parameter, and

wherein when the portable wireless device enters the cell site, the customized message is an entry message that is transmitted to the portable wireless device, and when the portable wireless device leaves the cell site, the customized message is a departure message that is transmitted to the portable wireless device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable wireless device is one of a cellular telephone, a person digital assistant, and a wireless air card.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable wireless device is a short message service (SMS) device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message is broadcast to all devices that enter the specific cell site.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message is broadcast for a given period of time.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein a user of the portable wireless device can manually disable reception of the customized message.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a subscriber service component that stores the customized message, and from which the customized message is retrieved for transmission to the portable wireless device when the portable wireless device is brought into a cell site associated with the customized message.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the portable wireless device is a portable computing device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message is transmitted only to a subset of a plurality of portable wireless devices that enter the specific cell site.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising an intelligence component that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that the user desires to be automatically performed based on at least a user input or a subscriber input.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message includes at least one of text, text enhancements, audio, video, and an image.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message is modified according to a type of the portable wireless device on which the message will be presented.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message is one of a plurality of different customized messages each of which is associated with a different cell site, such that as the portable wireless device enters a given cell site, one of the different customized messages is transmitted thereto.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the customized message is broadcast in any language and/or abbreviated text message.

15. A system that facilitates transmission of a customized message to a portable wireless device, comprising:

a subscriber service component that stores the customized message in association with account data of a subscriber;

a detection component that detects a signal property of the portable wireless device in a cell site; and

a signaling component that transmits the customized message to the portable wireless device in response to the signal property;

wherein when the portable wireless device enters the cell site, the customized message is an entry message that is transmitted to the portable wireless device, and when the portable wireless device leaves the cell site, the customized message is a departure message that is transmitted to the portable wireless device.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the account data includes at least one of the customized message, cell site ID, and QoS data.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising an intelligence component that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that the user desires to be automatically performed based on at least a user input or a subscriber input.