Providing digital content usability for a mobile device user

• US 8,639,227 B1
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Martin, Geoffrey, Kindred, Jonathan
• Primary Examiner(s): SIVJI, NIZAR N
• Application Number:
  US13/687,773
• Time in Patent Office: 426 Days
• Field of Search: 455/419, 455/420, 455/426, 455/466, 709/232, 709/219, 717/173
• US Class Current: 455/414.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0661 by reconfiguring faulty entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0817 by checking functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for ensuring usability of digital content on a mobile device. In exemplary aspects, digital content on a mobile device is rendered unusable, such as where a download is interrupted. The usability of the digital content is automatically restored to the mobile device without user intervention. In situations in which the mobile device is unavailable, digital content might be restored to an alternative mobile device and an advisory notification might be communicated.

Claims

1. A method of restoring a usability of digital content to a mobile device, the method comprising:

detecting a motion event of said mobile device, wherein said motion event relates to a motion experienced by said mobile device and exceeds a severity threshold;

communicating a diagnosis request to a server, which results in a determination as to whether any digital content associated with said mobile device is unusable, wherein the determination includes a comparison of usable digital content stored on the mobile device to a list of known digital content associated with the mobile device; and

when said server determines that at least a portion of said any digital content is unusable, said portion comprising a digital-content portion, automatically restoring usability of said digital-content portion without user intervention.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said motion event comprises one or more of an impact, an acceleration, and a deceleration.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said any digital content associated with said mobile device comprises digital content that should be stored on said mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said any digital content associated with said mobile device comprises digital content that was downloading to said mobile device when said motion event was experienced.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said mobile device comprises an accelerometer, which detects said motion event.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said determination comprises said server executing a diagnostic scan of said mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said list of known digital content associated with said mobile device is stored in a wireless backup system.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital-content portion is unusable because transmission was interrupted.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein said digital-content portion is unusable because said digital-content portion is corrupted.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said automatically restoring comprises one or more of:

receiving a usable version of said digital-content portion; and

restoring a setting on said mobile device that enables said usability of said mobile device.

11. Non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-useable instructions thereon for performing a method of restoring a usability of digital content to a mobile device, the method comprising:

measuring a motion-event parameter that describes a motion event experienced by the mobile device;

comparing the motion-event parameter to a severity threshold to determine that the motion-event parameter exceeds the severity threshold;

transmitting to a server a notification, which indicates the mobile device experienced the motion event, and a list of usable digital content stored on the mobile device, wherein the list of usable digital content includes a set of digital content, wherein the notification and the list are transmitted when the motion-event parameter exceeds the severity threshold, and wherein the notification and the list are not transmitted when the motion-event parameter does not exceed the severity threshold; and

receiving from the server an item of digital content item that was associated with the mobile device before the motion event and that is not included in the set of digital content included in the list of usable digital content.

12. The media of claim 11 wherein said motion event comprises one or more of an impact, an acceleration, and a deceleration.

13. The media of claim 11 wherein the item of digital content that was associated with the mobile device comprises digital content that was downloading to said mobile device when said motion event was experienced.

14. The media of claim 11 wherein said mobile device comprises an accelerometer, which detects said motion event.

15. The media of claim 11 wherein the item of digital content is not included in the list of usable digital content because transmission was interrupted when the item of digital content was downloading to the mobile device.

16. Non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-useable instructions thereon for performing a method of restoring a usability of digital content to a mobile device, the method comprising:

detecting a motion event experienced by the mobile device, which includes a set of digital content;

in response to the motion event, automatically transmitting to a server a notification, which indicates the mobile device experienced the motion event;

receiving from the server a diagnostic scan that is executed by the mobile device and that deems an item of digital content included in the set of digital content to be not usable;

transmitting another notification to the server indicating that the item of digital content is not usable; and

receiving from the server a restoration of the item of digital content that was included in the set of digital content and that was deemed not usable by the diagnostic scan.

17. The media of claim 16 wherein said motion event comprises one or more of an impact, an acceleration, and a deceleration.

18. The media of claim 16 wherein said mobile device comprises an accelerometer, which detects said motion event.

19. The media of claim 16 wherein receiving a restoration of the item of digital content includes receiving a usable version of the item of digital content.