Method for mechanically generating content for messages

• US 8,489,772 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2010
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Keith, Chad C., Dunmire, David, Owenby, Clifford Marcus
• Primary Examiner(s): Osman, Ramy M
• Application Number:
  US12/720,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20110225320A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/223, 709/246, 709/203, 709/217, 709/22
• US Class Current: 709/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/08 Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters

Abstract

A method for inserting content through a service delivery hub includes the steps of designating a set of tags to be made available through an API, providing the API for use by third parties; intercepting a communication from the third party; interrogating the communication for a data tag, substituting content for the data tag and delivering the communication to an intended recipient. The method may further include that the content substituted for the data tag is dependent upon a parameter such as the MSISDN.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

designating, by an application service provider of a system-comprising at least one processor, a set of tags to be made available through an application programming interface provided by the application service provider;

providing the application programming interface for use by third parties;

intercepting a communication indicative of being provided by a third party;

interrogating the communication for at least one data tag of the designated set of data tags;

determining that the communication comprises a first data tag of the designated set of data tags made available through the application programming interface;

substituting content for the first data tag for generating an updated communication, wherein the content is dependent upon a network parameter of an intended recipient; and

delivering the updated communication to the intended recipient.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the parameter comprises a MSISDN.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the parameter comprises is a location of a user of the application programming interface.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the parameter comprises a network identifier.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the communication is indicative of being from a third party application accessing the application programming interface.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the substituting comprises inserting a URL in a position of the first tag.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the substituting comprises inserting distribution information in a position of the first tag.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the substituting comprises inserting an advertisement in a position of the first tag.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the advertisement is selected based on an MSISDN.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the substituting comprises inserting partner information in a position of the first tag.