Method and system for transmission and display of rich-media alerts
First Claim
1. A method of processing a rich-media short message service (SMS) message including a plurality of characters by a mobile device, said method comprising:
- receiving said rich-media SMS message over a network by said mobile device;
depacketizing said rich-media SMS message by said mobile device to retrieve an encoded rich-media message and a number of addressing characters in said rich-media SMS message; and
routing said encoded rich-media message to a rich-media software application on said mobile device, according to said number of addressing characters addressing said rich-media software application on said mobile device;
decoding said encoded rich-media message by said rich-media software application to generate a first message and rich-media content information;
displaying said rich-media content information on said mobile device.
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Abstract
There is provided a method and system of generating a rich-media message using a short message service (SMS) message. In one aspect, the method comprises encoding data and rich-media content information to generate an encoded rich-media message, and formatting the encoded rich-media message into a rich-media SMS message. In one aspect, the method includes transmitting the rich-media SMS over a network. In another aspect, the method includes receiving the rich-media SMS by a mobile device, decoding the SMS, and displaying the message. The method may include obtaining rich-media content from a server. In one embodiment, a system for communicating a rich-media message to a mobile device comprises an alerts generator configured to encode a rich-media message and format the message into a rich-media SMS, a content server configured to provide rich-media content to a mobile device configured to decode and display the rich-media SMS.
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6 Claims
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1. A method of processing a rich-media short message service (SMS) message including a plurality of characters by a mobile device, said method comprising:
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receiving said rich-media SMS message over a network by said mobile device; depacketizing said rich-media SMS message by said mobile device to retrieve an encoded rich-media message and a number of addressing characters in said rich-media SMS message; and routing said encoded rich-media message to a rich-media software application on said mobile device, according to said number of addressing characters addressing said rich-media software application on said mobile device; decoding said encoded rich-media message by said rich-media software application to generate a first message and rich-media content information; displaying said rich-media content information on said mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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