Delivering content to mobile clients

• US 8,819,243 B1
• Filed: 05/21/2007
• Issued: 08/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Cope, Warren B., McConnell, Von K., Olding, Douglas A., Santharam, Arun
• Primary Examiner(s): GOODCHILD, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US11/751,281
• Time in Patent Office: 2,654 Days
• Field of Search: 709/227
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

A delivery system, media, and method for communicating content to devices are provided. The delivery system includes a services aggregator and content aggregator for processing requests from the devices. The services aggregator processes the request to identify credentials for the devices that generate the request and to identify providers of content specified in the request. The content aggregator receives the content from the identified providers and formats the content based on limits imposed by the device. Because the devices are configured to allow the services aggregator and content aggregator to perform computational-intensive tasks associated with requesting and transmitting the content, the complexity and cost of the devices are minimized.

Claims

1. One or more non-transitory computer-storage media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method for delivering content to a device over a communication network, the method comprising:

receiving requests for content from a requestor;

processing the requests to identify services and providers associated with the services and content, wherein the requestor is a wireless device that lacks the source or object code associated with the identified one or more services;

receiving credential information corresponding to the requestor from a source remote to the requestor;

authenticating the credentials at one or more providers;

opening communication sessions with the authenticated one or more providers based on device constraints included in the credential information;

obtaining content from the one or more providers during the session;

selecting display positions for the obtained content based on types of content included in the obtained content;

transforming content to a viewable format; and

transmitting the content in the viewable format to the requestor over the communication network.

2. The media of claim 1, further comprising

identifying a scale for a display area associated with the requestor and a connection speed associated with the requestor;

and

sizing the content based on the scale and connection speed.

3. The media of claim 2, wherein a home serving system stores the credentials that allows the user to authenticate at the one or more providers.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein the content in the viewable format is a combination of content having different formats.

5. The media of claim 1, wherein the wireless device is a WIMAX-enabled device.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein some services are legacy services and some services are next-generation services implemented on the communication network instead of the device.

7. A distributed delivery system for delivering content associated with one or more applications, the distributed delivery system comprising:

devices to generate requests for content;

a services aggregator to process the requests, to identify credentials associated with the devices, to identify providers associated with the devices, and to generate sessions with the providers; and

a content aggregator to receive content from the providers and to transform the content based on a scale of a display area associated with the devices, wherein a key logic on the devices is altered based on the content transmitted from the content aggregator to the devices.

8. The distributed delivery system of claim 7, wherein the services aggregator caches credentials associated with each device that generated the requests for content.

9. The distributed delivery system of claim 7, wherein the content aggregator stores content associated with requests generated by the devices.

10. The distributed delivery system of claim 7, wherein the device is one of a mobile phone, a laptop, a personal digital assistant, or a media player.

11. The distributed delivery system of claim 7, wherein the services aggregator provides access to a collection of services.