Method, apparatus and system for management of information content for enhanced accessibility over wireless communication networks

• US 7,908,342 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2009
• Issued: 03/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Publishing Technologies LLC (Bradley David Liddle)
• Original Assignee: Wireless Ink Corporation
• Inventors: Munch, William Henry, Sabella, Jason James, Harper, David Walker
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US12/548,928
• Publication Number:
  US 20100042700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/250, 709/248, 709/219, 709/223, 709/228, 709/246
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 : Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 : Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 : using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 : Network data management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 : Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Information content is managed in a network-based communication system by providing a content management site accessible to a user of the system. The content management site is configured to permit the user to designate at least one data source that is external to the content management web site. A mobile web site is generated that is accessible independently of the content management web site via one or more mobile devices over a wireless network of the communication system, with the mobile web site being configured to receive data automatically from the external data source designated by the user at the content management web site.

Claims

1. A method for managing information content in a network-based communication system, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a content management web site identified by a first uniform resource locator and accessible to a user of the communication system, the content management web site being configured to permit the user to designate at least one data source that is external to the content management web site; and

generating a mobile web site identified by a second uniform resource locator different than the first uniform resource locator, the mobile web site being accessible independently of the content management web site via one or more mobile devices, the mobile web site being configured to receive data automatically from the external data source designated by the user at the content management web site.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a rich site summary (RSS) feed.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a source of extensible markup language (XML) documents.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a database source.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a file source.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a syndication services source.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a device-captured data source.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source comprises a web services source.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the content management web site permits the user to upload at least one information item, and wherein the mobile web site includes said at least one uploaded information item.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the content management web site permits the user to select one or more information items from a listing of a plurality of information items, and wherein the mobile web site includes said one or more selected information items but does not include other information items in the listing that were not selected by the user.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the content management web site permits the user to enter a message, and wherein the mobile web site includes the entered message.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the data source is associated with a particular entity and the mobile web site is identified by an identifier indicative of the particular entity.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said entity comprises a multi-member organization.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the content management web site is configured to receive location information from at least a given one of the mobile devices and to process the data from the designated data source based at least in part on the received location information.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the given mobile device comprises a GPS-based navigation device.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied therein executable code of one or more software programs for use in managing information content in a network-based communication system, wherein said executable program code when executed by a processing element of the communication system implements the steps of the method of claim 1.

17. An apparatus for use in managing information content in a network-based communication system, the apparatus comprising:

a processing element comprising a processor coupled to a memory;

the processing element providing at least a portion of a content management web site identified by a first uniform resource locator and accessible to a user of the communication system, the content management web site being configured to permit the user to designate at least one data source that is external to the content management web site; and

the processing element generating a mobile web site identified by a second uniform resource locator different than the first uniform resource locator, the mobile web site being accessible independently of the content management web site via one or more mobile devices, the mobile web site being configured to receive data automatically from the external data source designated by the user at the content management web site.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the processing element comprises at least one server.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the server is accessible over the Internet via a network interface.

20. A network-based communication system, comprising:

a plurality of servers configured to communicate over a network;

at least one of the servers providing at least a portion of a content management web site identified by a first uniform resource locator and accessible to a user of the communication system, the content management web site being configured to permit the user to designate at least one data source that is external to the content management web site;

wherein said at least one server generates a mobile web site identified by a second uniform resource locator different than the first uniform resource locator, the mobile web site being accessible independently of the content management web site via one or more mobile devices, the mobile web site being configured to receive data automatically from the external data source designated by the user at the content management web site.