Provision of services through communication networks

• US 8,732,231 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2007
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mavenir Systems Incorporated (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ikonen, Teemu, Koponen, Juha, Vuorjoki, Risto, Ahomki, Timo
• Primary Examiner(s): HOANG, HIEU T
• Application Number:
  US12/521,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20100069052A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,685 Days
• Field of Search: 709/202, 709/205, 709/206
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• 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

Disclosed is a method for providing services through a communication network to an end user device connected to the communication network, the method comprising allowing a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, reading content from the standard format file, and sending at least some part of said content through said communication network to the end user device.

Claims

1. A method for providing services through a mobile communication network to an end user device communicatively coupled to the mobile communication network, the method comprising:

receiving and storing, from a content provider, a standard format file comprising content for the service, the standard format file being a web feed file generated by a standard web-based editing tool;

determining whether the content provider has permission to provide the content for the service;

defining a service by providing a pointer to the standard format file comprising content for the service, wherein the standard format file contains information to define the service;

receiving a request for the service from the end user device;

reading at least a portion of the content from the standard format file;

adapting the content read from the standard format file in accordance with properties of the end user device; and

sending at least a portion of the adapted content read from the standard format file through the mobile communication network to the end user device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the standard format file has been generated by standard web blogging tools.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the standard format file is an external standard format file.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising creating at least one of the following based on sending content to the end user device:

billing information and settlement information.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising reading content from the standard format file periodically or upon receiving a request for content.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the reading and sending is conducted responsive to predefined conditions, wherein the predefined conditions include at least one of the following:

receiving a request for content, finding new content in the standard format file, and finding content matching a predefined definition in the standard format file.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising

receiving a response message from the end user device;

deteimining whether the end user device is authorized to provide response content to the defined service;

storing a content of the response message in a standard format file; and

including the content of the response message in the content for the defined service in response to authorization.

8. An apparatus for providing services through a mobile communication network to an end user device, the apparatus comprising:

a user interface operable to allow, in response to a policy control determination, a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, the standard format file being a standard web feed file generated by a standard web-based blogging tool, wherein the standard format file contains information to define the service; and

a processing unit configured;

to co-operate with a reader component operable to read content from the standard format file;

to adapt the content read from the standard format file to the properties of the end user device; and

to send at least a portion of the adapted content through the mobile communication network to the end user device.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the standard format file is an external standard format file.

10. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the standard format file is an Atom and/or RSS feed file.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the apparatus is further configured to create at least one of the following based on sending content to the end user device:

billing information and settlement information.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the processing unit is further configured to control the reader component to read content from the standard format file periodically or upon receiving a request for content.

13. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said processing unit is configured to control the reader component to read content from said standard format file and/or to send said at least portion of said the content responsive to predefined conditions, wherein the predefined conditions include at least one of the following:

receiving a request for content, finding new content in the standard format file, and finding content matching a predefined definition in the standard format file.

14. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the apparatus is further configured to select which parts of the content to send depending on one of the following:

the properties of the end user device and communication properties between the communication network and the end user device.

15. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the processing unit is further configured:

to receive a response message from the end user device;

to parse response content from the response message; and

to co-operate with a writer component operable to write at least a portion of the response content into a standard format file.

16. A memory comprising computer executable program code adapted to cause an apparatus to allow, in response to a policy control determination, a service to be defined by providing a pointer to a standard format file comprising content for the service, the standard format file being a standard web feed file generated by a standard web-based editing software, wherein the standard format file contains information to define the service;

to read content from the standard format file comprising the standard web feed file;

to adapt the content read from the standard format file to the properties of the end user device; and

to send at least a portion of the adapted content through the mobile communication network to the end user device.

17. The memory according to claim 16, wherein the read and send are conducted responsive to predefined conditions, wherein the predefined conditions include at least one of the following:

receiving a request for content, finding new content in the standard format file, and finding content matching a predefined definition in the standard format file.