Methods, systems, and computer products for download status notification

• US 8,484,335 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2006
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bedingfield, James Carlton Sr., Whitfield, Lloyd Thomas Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): VOSTAL, ONDREJ C
• Application Number:
  US11/593,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109823A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,437 Days
• Field of Search: 709/318, 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer products for download notification including identifying content for download, requesting a download of the content to a device and requesting a notification related to the status of the download.

Claims

1. A download notification method, comprising:

identifying a movie for download by a user device;

requesting, by the user device, a download of the movie to the user device;

configuring a notification application of the user device to provide a notification to a user related to a status of the download, wherein the notification application is operative to monitor the status of the download;

before the download is complete, receiving at the user device an alert in a notification message for display to the user on a display of the user device, in which the notification message indicates that the download will be viewable on the user device when a certain buffer is attained prior to completion of the download; and

during the download and while the notification application monitors the download, receiving an alert in another notification message for display on the display of the user device in a notification window, in which the another notification message asks on the display of the user device whether the user desires to change notification preferences at that point for notifying the user about the status of the download of the movie;

the notification preferences being an identification of a notification device upon which the user desires to receive display of the status of the download of the movie including a progress of the download, successful conclusion, and stopped;

wherein the notification device to receive display of the status of the download of the movie is initially the user device, and the user configures the notification application to change the display of the status of the download of the movie from the user device initially used to a new notification device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving at the user device an alert in a different notification message for display to the user responsive to the certain buffer being attained but before the download is complete, in which the different notification message indicates that the download is now viewable;

wherein the notification message, the another notification message, and the different notification message are via email.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the notification message further comprises displaying to the user on the user device a successful download in an event of the successful download, displaying to the user on the user device transfer stopped due to a fault in an event the transfer stopped due to the fault, displaying to the user on the user device stopped for unknown reason when stopped for the unknown reason, and displaying to the user on the user device the certain buffer is attained such that the download is viewable in an event the certain buffer is attained.

4. The method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the notification is related to an unsuccessful download.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving the movie of the download.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving the notification that the download of the movie is successful.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising requesting that the notification related to the status of the download is received in a presentation device.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7 wherein the user device receiving the download is the presentation device.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7 wherein the presentation device is coupled to the user device receiving the download.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising receiving the notification from a notification server via a network.

11. A download notification system coupled to a network, comprising:

a presentation device for receiving a notification related to a download of a movie; and

a download notification application residing on the presentation device, the download notification application having instructions to;

identify the presentation device;

monitor the download of the movie to the presentation device;

receive the notification to the presentation device upon a download event for the movie;

before the download is complete, receive at the presentation device an alert in a notification message for display to a user on a display of the presentation device, in which the notification message indicates that the download will be viewable on the presentation device when a certain buffer is attained prior to completion of the download; and

during the download of the movie and while the download notification application monitors the download of the movie, receive an alert in another notification message for display in a notification window on the display of the presentation device, in which the another notification message asks on the display of the presentation device whether the user desires to change notification preferences at that point for notifying the user about the status of the download of the movie;

the notification preferences being an identification of a notification device upon which the user desires to receive display of the status of the download of the movie including a progress of the download, successful conclusion, and stopped;

wherein the notification device to receive display of the status of the download of the movie is initially the user device, and the user configures the notification application to change the display of the status of the download of the movie from the user device initially used to a new notification device.

12. The system as claimed in claim 11 further comprising a notification server coupled to the network, the notification server having the notification preferences for notifying the presentation device of the status of the download.

13. The system as claimed in claim 12 wherein the notification application is in communication with the notification server to receive the notification preferences from the notification server.

14. The system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the download event is a successful download in an event of the successful download, an unsuccessful download in an event of the unsuccessful download, and a partial download in an event of the partial download.

15. A computer program product, tangibly embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for providing download notification services, the computer program product including instructions for causing a computer to execute a method, comprising:

identifying a presentation device for receiving download of a movie;

identifying the presentation device for receiving a download notification related to the download of the movie;

monitoring a downloading process of the download of the movie;

sending the download notification to the presentation device in response to a download event on the presentation device for receiving the download of the movie;

before the downloading process is complete, sending to the presentation device an alert in a notification message for display to a user on a display of the presentation device, in which the notification message indicates that the download of the movie will be viewable on the presentation device when a certain buffer is attained prior to completion of the download of the movie; and

during the downloading process, receiving an alert in another message for display in a notification window on the display of the presentation device, in which the another notification message asks on the display of the presentation device whether the user desires to change notification preferences at that point for notifying the user about the status of the download of the movie;

the notification preferences being an identification of a notification device upon which the user desires to receive display of the status of the download of the movie including a progress of the download, successful completion, and stopped;

wherein the notification device to receive display of the status of the download of the movie is initially the presentation device, and the user configures the notification application to change the display of the status of the download of the movie from the presentation device initially used to a new notification device.