Session management system and method for use with stateless messaging services

• US 8,001,249 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2007
• Issued: 08/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: MarketTools Research Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Markettools, Inc. (Macromill, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zawadka, Kristopher, Priddle, Steve G., Hendrickson, Kirk L., Murphy, Anthony J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Serrao; Ranodhi N
• Application Number:
  US11/733,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20080256191A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,589 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/227, 709/217, 455/412.1, 705/10
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/061 for key exchange, e.g. in peer-to-peer networks cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key agreement H04L9/0838
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066

Abstract

The present system uses dynamic assignment of key codes to select options of response content in request messages prior to transmission from an application server to a communication device. Dynamic assignment of key codes to selection options can occur according to a list of key codes having a predefined order also known as a predefined key code series. A key code series could be ordered according to ergonomic considerations or other considerations such as according to an alphabetic or numeric ordering. Communication occurs between one or more server applications running on an application server and a particular communication device, such as a cell phone. Dynamic key code assignment addresses problems raised when one communication device is concurrently carrying on more than one session with one or more server applications since the communication device identifier, such as a phone number, will be the same for all sessions.

Claims

1. A method for communication with a wireless communication device, the method comprising:

transmitting a first content request message comprising a plurality of response content options to the wireless communication device;

assigning a different key code to each of the response content options of the first content request message prior to transmission of the first content request message to the wireless communication device;

after transmitting the first content request messages to the wireless communication device but before a response to the first content request message is received from the wireless communication device, transmitting a second content request message comprising a plurality of response content options to the wireless communication device;

dynamically assigning a different key code to each of the response content options of the second content request message prior to transmission of the second content request message to the wireless communication device based upon the key codes assigned to the response content options of the first content request message, the key codes dynamically assigned to the response content options of the second content request message being different from the key codes assigned to the response content options of the first content request message;

storing key code assignments for the second content request message; and

identifying a characteristic of a response message containing one of the key codes assigned to the response content options of the second content request message, identifying the characteristic of the response message being based upon the key code received in the response message and the key code assignments contained in the data storage, the response message having been elicited by the transmitting of the second content request message to the wireless communication device.

2. The method of claim 1 further including:

providing a plurality of content request messages, each content request message including a plurality of response content options;

providing a plurality of applications, each application having a different portion of the plurality of the content request messages; and

providing instructional control of at least one communication session, each of the communication sessions of each of the applications having exchanges of content request messages of the application and response messages transmitted by the wireless communication device in response to transmitted content request messages of the communication session.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first content request message is of a first communication session and the second content request message is also of the first communication session.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the dynamically assigning includes assigning one of the different key codes to one of the content response options of the second content request message after the first communication session has concluded.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the first content request message is of a first communication session and the second content request message is of a second communication session, the first communication session being different than the second communication session.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first content request message is of a first application and the second content request message is also of the first application.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the first content request message is of a first application and the second content request message is of a second application, the first application being different than the second application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the different key codes assigned to the response content options of the second content request message are characters.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the different key codes assigned to the response content options of the second content request message are alphanumeric characters.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as a communication session of the response message.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as a response content of the response message.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as a server application of the response message.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as an identity of the response message.

14. The method of claim 1 for communication with a plurality of wireless communication devices, the method further including:

providing a plurality of content request messages, each content request message including a plurality of response content options;

providing a plurality of applications, each application having a different portion of the plurality of the content request messages; and

providing instructional control of at least one communication session with each of the plurality of wireless communication devices, each of the communication sessions of each of the applications having exchanges of content request messages of the application and response messages transmitted by one of the plurality of wireless communication devices in response to transmitted content request messages of the communication session.

15. The method of claim 1 for communication with a plurality of wireless communication devices, wherein the first content request message is of a first communication session with a first of the plurality of wireless communication devices, and the second content request message is of a second communication session with a second of the plurality of wireless communication devices.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the characteristic of the response message identified is the second communication session of the second content request message.

17. A non-transitory computer program storage medium readable by a computing system and encoded with a computer program that when executed by the computing system performs a computer process for communicating with a wireless communication device, the computer process comprising:

transmitting a first content request message comprising a plurality of response content options to the wireless communication device;

assigning a different key code to each of the response content options of the first content request message prior to transmission of the first content request message to the wireless communication device;

after transmitting the first content request messages to the wireless communication device but before a response to the first content request message is received from the wireless communication device, transmitting a second content request message comprising a plurality of response content options to the wireless communication device;

dynamically assigning a different key code to each of the response content options of the second content request message prior to transmission of the second content request message to the wireless communication device based upon the key codes assigned to the response content options of the first content request message, the key codes dynamically assigned to the response content options of the second content request message being different from the key codes assigned to the response content options of the first content request message;

storing key code assignments for the second content request message;

identifying a characteristic of a response message containing one of the key codes assigned to the response content options of the second content request message, identifying the characteristic of the response message being based upon the key code received in the response message and the key code assignments contained in the data storage, the response message having been elicited by the transmitting of the second content request message to the wireless communication device.

18. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17, wherein the computer process further comprises:

providing a plurality of content request messages, each content request message including a plurality of response content options;

providing a plurality of applications, each application having a different portion of the plurality of the content request messages; and

providing instructional control of at least one communication session, each of the communication sessions of each of the applications having exchanges of content request messages of the application and response messages transmitted by the wireless communication device in response to transmitted content request messages of the communication session.

19. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 18, wherein the first content request message is of a first communication session and the second content request message is also of the first communication session.

20. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 18, wherein the first content request message is of a first communication session and the second content request message is of a second communication session, the first communication session being different than the second communication session.

21. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 20, wherein the dynamically assigning includes assigning one of the different key codes to one of the content response options of the second content request message after the first communication session has concluded.

22. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 20, wherein the first content request message is of a first application and the second content request message is also of the first application.

23. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 20, wherein the first content request message is of a first application and the second content request message is of a second application, the first application being different than the second application.

24. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17, wherein the different key codes assigned to the response content options of the second content request message are characters.

25. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 24, wherein the different key codes assigned to the response content options of the second content request message are alphanumeric characters.

26. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17, wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as a communication session of the response message.

27. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17, wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as a response content of the response message.

28. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17, wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as a server application of the response message.

29. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17, wherein the identifying includes identifying the characteristic of the response message as an identity of the response message.

30. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17 encoded with a computer program that when executed by the computing system performs a computer process for communicating with a plurality of wireless communication device, wherein the computer process further comprises:

providing a plurality of content request messages, each content request message including a plurality of response content options;

providing a plurality of applications, each application having a different portion of the plurality of the content request messages; and

providing instructional control of at least one communication session with each of the plurality of wireless communication devices, each of the communication sessions of each of the applications having exchanges of content request messages of the application and response messages transmitted by one of the plurality of wireless communication devices in response to transmitted content request messages of the communication session.

31. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of claim 17 encoded with a computer program that when executed by the computing system performs a computer process for communicating with a plurality of wireless communication device, wherein the first content request message is of a first communication session with a first of the plurality of wireless communication devices, and the second content request message is of a second communication session with a second of the plurality of wireless communication devices.

32. The non-transitory computer program storage medium of clam 31, wherein the characteristic of the response message identified is the second communication session of the second content request message.