WAP push over cell broadcast

• US 7,965,682 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2010
• Issued: 06/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cingular Wireless II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: McNamara, Justin, Mikan, Jeffrey C., Tuthill, Carolyn
• Primary Examiner(s): Afshar, Kamran
• Application Number:
  US12/774,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20100216496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 412 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/3.01, 4554141-4143, 455/422.1, 455/424, 455/428, 455433-434, 455450-4522, 455/464, 455/466, 455/509, 455516-517, 455/566, 455/550.1, 455/558, 455/422, 370/282, 370/322, 370/338, 370328-329, 370/341, 370/348, 709206-207
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/12 Application layer protocols, e.g. WAP [Wireless Application Protocol]

Abstract

A system provides push services and information to mobile stations via broadcast messages. The broadcast messages are made on predetermined cell broadcast channels, which are associated with an inbox on the mobile stations. Contained within the messages are Uniform Resource Locators (URL) that, when accessed, provide multimedia and other rich content to the mobile station. The system allows wireless carriers to provide features such as Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) push operations via cell broadcast to many mobile stations in a geographic area without the need to individually address messages to the mobile stations.

Claims

1. A method of delivering multimedia content via a wireless network to a mobile station using a broadcast mechanism, comprising:

converting a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) message received from a push proxy gateway to a cell broadcast text message;

pushing multimedia access content in the cell broadcast text message on a predetermined cell broadcast channel;

monitoring an inbox for multimedia access content included in received cell broadcast text messages received on the predetermined cell broadcast channel; and

accessing multimedia content using multimedia access content included in the cell broadcast text message of the received cell broadcast text messages in response to a command.

2. The method, as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

placing the multimedia access content in an inbox on a mobile station in accordance with the predetermined cell broadcast channel.

3. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein the multimedia access content includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

4. The method, as recited in claim 1, wherein the multimedia content includes at least one of Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) information or Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) information.

5. The method, as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the cell broadcast text message in multiple parts, and combining the multiple parts into a single message.

6. The method, as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

subdividing the broadcast channel into a plurality of subchannels having different priorities, wherein the predetermined channel is one of the subchannels.

7. The method, as recited in claim 6, further comprising:

receiving messages on at least one of the subchannels, and sending the messages to an inbox from a predetermined channel of the plurality of subchannels.

8. The method, as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

communicating the text message to all mobile stations in a predetermined geographic area.

9. The method, as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

automatically generating the command by a mobile station.

10. The method, as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the command from a user of the mobile station.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a push proxy gateway (PPG) operative to push content to a wireless network;

a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) router in the wireless network operative to convert a short message service-based SMPP message received from the PPG to a text message;

a cell broadcast center in the wireless network operative to communicate the text message to multiple mobile stations including the mobile station; and

a mobile station operative to receive text messages on a broadcast channel and operative to place received text messages in an inbox,

wherein the mobile station is operative to monitor the inbox for received text messages including multimedia access content and configured to establish a connection based on multimedia access content detected in a text message of the received text messages and further operative to obtain multimedia services associated with the text message in response to a command.

12. The apparatus, as recited in claim 11, wherein the mobile station is further operative to automatically generate the command.

13. The apparatus, as recited in claim 11, wherein the mobile station is further operative to receive the command from a user of the mobile station.

14. The apparatus, as recited in claim 11, wherein the mobile station is operative to listen to at least one channel subdivided from a channel broadcast channel and assigned a priority of a plurality of priorities.

15. The apparatus, as recited in claim 11, wherein the text message is received in multiple parts, and the mobile station is configured to combine the multiple parts into a single message.

16. The apparatus, as recited in claim 11, wherein the text message is communicated to all mobile stations in a predetermined geographic area.

17. A method of delivering multimedia content via a wireless network to a mobile station using a broadcast mechanism, comprising:

converting a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) message received from a push proxy gateway to a cell broadcast text message;

pushing multimedia access content in the cell broadcast text message on a predetermined cell broadcast channel; and

transmitting multimedia content to a recipient of the cell broadcast text message in response to a received command to access multimedia content using the multimedia access content.

18. An apparatus comprising:

a push proxy gateway (PPG) operative to push content to a wireless network;

a short message peer-to-peer (SMPP) router in the wireless network operative to convert a short message service-based SMPP message received from the PPG to a text message including multimedia access content; and

a cell broadcast center in the wireless network operative to communicate the text message to multiple mobile stations including the mobile station.