Share web feeds through messaging

• US 8,799,370 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2007
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ahlin, Eskil Gunnar, Marcus, Erica Kato
• Primary Examiner(s): THIAW, CATHERINE B
• Application Number:
  US11/960,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20090164585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,420 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-209, 4554351-437
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method may include creating a message having a web feed uniform resource locator (URL), providing an indicator in the message that the web feed URL is included in the message, the indicator being in addition to the web feed URL, identifying that the message includes the web feed URL based on the indicator, and associating the web feed URL to a contact entry.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device, an electronic message that includes a web feed uniform resource locator (URL), where the electronic message corresponds to one of an e-mail message, a short message service message, a multimedia messaging service message, an instant messaging and presence service message, an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem instant messaging service message, or an attachment to an e-mail message;

determining, by the mobile device, whether the web feed URL includes a character string that identifies the web feed URL as a web feed URL;

recognizing, by the mobile device, sender information associated with the electronic message; and

associating, by the mobile device, the web feed URL with a contact entry in the mobile device in response to determining that the web feed URL includes the character string that identifies the web feed URL as a web feed URL, where the contact entry is an existing contact entry or a new contact entry, where the associating includes linking the web feed URL to the contact entry that corresponds to the sender information.

2. The method of claim 1, where the electronic message further comprises;

an indicator to indicate that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message, where the indicator includes an extension header to the electronic message, the extension header including the character string to indicate that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message.

3. The method of claim 2, where the extension header includes the web feed URL.

4. The method of claim 2, where the electronic message further comprises:

a property statement relating to the web feed URL to indicate that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message.

5. The method of claim 2, where the electronic message further comprises:

a type property in the web feed URL to indicate that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message.

6. The method of claim 1, where the determining comprises:

identifying the character string in the web feed URL, the character string indicating that the web feed URL is a web feed URL.

7. The method of claim 6, where the character string comprises at least one of:

really simple syndication (rss), atom, feed, videofeed, or feeds.

8. The method of claim 1,

wherein the contact entry corresponds to a phonebook entry.

9. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor to execute the instructions to;

receive an electronic message that includes a web feed uniform resource locator (URL) link, where the electronic message corresponds to one of an e-mail message, a short message service message, a multimedia messaging service message, an instant messaging and presence service message, an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem instant messaging service message, or an attachment to an e-mail message,

identify that the electronic message includes the web feed URL link based on a character string of the web feed URL link or an indicator that indicates that the electronic message includes the web feed URL link, and

associate the web feed URL link to a contact entry associated with a sender of the electronic message in response to determining that the electronic message includes the web feed URL link.

10. The device of claim 9, where the processor is further to execute the instructions to:

inspect the electronic message for an extension header that includes an indication that the electronic message includes the web feed URL link.

11. The device of claim 9, where the processor is further to execute the instructions to:

recognize the character string, in the web feed URL link, that provides an indication that the electronic message includes the web feed URL link, where the character string includes at least one of;

really simple syndication (rss), atom, feed, videofeed, or feeds.

12. The device of claim 9, where the processor is further to execute the instructions to:

match sender information of the electronic message to the contact entry, where the contact entry is an existing contact entry or a new contact entry.

13. The device of claim 9, where the processor is further to execute the instructions to:

prompt a user of the device to associate the web feed URL link to the contact entry; and

associate the web feed URL link with the contact entry based on input from the user, where the contact entry is an existing contact entry or a new contact entry.

14. The device of claim 9, where the instructions to identify further comprise instructions to:

connect to a document to which the web feed URL link points; and

inspect the document for one or more character strings that verify that the document is a web feed document.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by at least one processor of a device, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions for receiving an electronic message that includes a web feed uniform resource locator (URL), where the electronic message corresponds to one of an e-mail message, a short message service message, a multimedia messaging service message, an instant messaging and presence service message, an Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem instant messaging service message, or an attachment to an e-mail message;

one or more instructions for determining whether the web feed URL includes a character string that identifies the web feed URL as a web feed URL;

one or more instructions for recognizing sender information associated with the electronic message; and

one or more instructions for associating the web feed URL to a contact entry of the device when it is determined that the web feed URL includes the character string that identifies the web feed URL as a web feed URL, where the one or more instructions for associating includes one or more instructions for linking the web feed URL to the contact entry that corresponds to the sender information.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, where the-character string corresponds to at least one of:

really simple syndication (rss), atom, feed, videofeed, or feeds.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

one or more instructions for determining whether an indicator, in the electronic message, indicates that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message; and

one or more instructions for associating the web feed URL link to the contact entry when it is determined that the electronic message includes the indicator that indicates that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17, where:

the electronic message includes an extension header that corresponds to the indicator to indicate that the web feed URL is included in the electronic message.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising:

one or more instructions for receiving another electronic message including a second web feed URL; and

one or more instructions for identifying that the other received electronic message includes the second web feed URL.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 19, further comprising:

one or more instructions for associating the second web feed URL of the received other electronic message with another contact entry.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20, where the one or more instructions for associating comprise:

one or more instructions for identifying information, associated with a sender of the received electronic message, that corresponds to the other contract entry.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 20, where the one or more instructions for associating comprise:

one or more instructions for providing a user interface to allow a user to select the other contact entry to be associated with the second web feed URL, where the other contact entry is an existing contact entry or a new contact entry to be created.