Method and system for mediated access to a data facade on a mobile device

• US 9,002,975 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2008
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Shenfield, Michael, Martin-Cocher, Gaelle, Chitturi, Suresh
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOROBOV, VITALI A
• Application Number:
  US12/209,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070606A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,398 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 705/14.4, 705/14.5
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

A content delivery system, a mobile subscriber terminal and method for mediated access to a data facade are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the mobile subscriber terminal includes one or more applications that may request advertisements, a mediator client, and a delivery client operating as a data facade that interfaces with a delivery server. The mediator client may generate an application profile based on advertising preferences of the applications and may register with the data facade using the application profile. The mediator client may identify, filter and select advertisements to provide targeted content in response to requests from the applications.

Claims

1. A mobile subscriber terminal to receive targeted content comprising:

a mediator client to generate an application profile based on ad-related preferences of applications which are registered with the mediator client, wherein the mediator client is configured in accordance with an Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Dynamic Content Delivery (DCD) specification to operate as a DCD enabled client application (DECA); and

a delivery client for accessing and providing server side content to the mediator client based on the application profile,

wherein the mediator client is configured to submit the application profile to the delivery client and configured to operate as an intermediary between applications and the delivery client to select and provide targeted content to the applications and wherein the delivery client is configured in accordance with an OMA DCD specification.

2. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1 wherein the mediator client is configured to submit more than one application profile to the delivery client, the delivery client being operable to interpret the mediator client as more than one application, each application profile being associated with a corresponding application identifier, and

wherein the mediator client is configured to associate content received from the delivery client with one of the applications or a group of the applications based on the application identifier.

3. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1

wherein the mobile subscriber terminal includes one or more of the applications configured to request advertisements (ads).

4. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 3 wherein the mediator client is configured to:

receive ad-related preferences from the applications during registration of the applications with the mediator client for use in generating the application profile; and

generate ad-related preferences for at least one of the applications based on the information received in an ad request submitted by the one application.

5. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 3 wherein the mediator client submits a mediator client identifier to the delivery client, the mediator client identifier being one attribute of the application profile, and

wherein the mediator client identifier includes one or more of an application name, a universal resource identifier (URI), or hash code associated with either one of the applications or a group of the applications.

6. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 3 wherein the mediator client is configured to include channel selection metadata within the application profile when submitting the application profile to the delivery client, and

wherein the mediator client is configured to include general ad-related preferences in a content-type field of the channel selection metadata,

wherein the channel selection metadata includes at least one of MIME types and content types.

7. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 6 wherein an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema extension mechanism is used to define additional namespace and schema of the content-type field to specify attributes and elements related to the preferences.

8. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1 wherein the application profile is a consolidated application profile,

wherein the mediator client is configured to combine preferences of at least some of the applications to generate the consolidated application profile,

wherein the mediator client is further configured to include shared information common to the applications in the consolidated application profile.

9. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1 wherein the application profile is a consolidated application profile,

wherein the mediator client is configured to combine preferences common to the applications that relate to one or more of capabilities of the mobile subscriber terminal, a user profile and the interests of the user, and

wherein the mediator client is further configured to include contextual information describing a state of the mobile subscriber terminal, the contextual information including at least one of location of the terminal or presence state of a user.

10. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1 wherein the mediator client is configured to submit to the delivery client either multiple application profiles for the applications or a consolidated application profile for a group of the applications, and

wherein the mediator client is configured to perform a one to one, a one to many, and a many to many mapping between the applications and the application profiles.

11. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 10 wherein the mediator client comprises:

an application profile generator to generate the application profile;

a content selector to perform the ad selection; and

a memory to store an application list identifying each of the applications,

wherein the memory is further configured to store an application profile list when more than one application profile is used to register with the delivery client, the application profile list identifying either a single application profile or a consolidated application profile associated with the applications.

12. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 10 wherein the one or more applications, the mediator client, and the delivery client operate on an application layer of the mobile subscriber terminal and comprise one or more software-configured processing elements,

wherein the mobile subscriber terminal further comprises a physical layer to communicate with a wireless transmission network for receipt of advertisement content from the delivery server, and

wherein the delivery client interfaces with the delivery server through the wireless transmission network.

13. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1,

wherein the mediator client is configured to submit a single application profile for each of the applications when ad-related preferences of the applications vary significantly,

wherein the mediator client is configured to submit a consolidated application profile when the ad-related preferences of the applications do not vary significantly, and

wherein the mediator client is configured to combine ad-related preferences of at least some the applications to generate the consolidated application profile.

14. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 1 further comprising a shared storage element to store ads provided by the delivery client,

wherein the delivery client is configured to provide the ads for storage in the shared storage element based on the application profile generated by the mediator client, and

wherein the mediator client is configured to retrieve ads from the shared storage element, perform filtering and selection functions and provide the retrieved ads to the applications in ad-response messages.

15. The mobile subscriber terminal of claim 14 wherein the mediator client is configured to:

identify, filter and select ads stored in the shared storage element; and

provide links to the selected ads to the applications in ad-response messages,

wherein the applications are configured to retrieve the identified ads directly from the shared storage element using the provided links.

16. A method comprising:

generating, at a mediator client on a mobile subscriber terminal, an application profile from ad-related preferences of applications which are registered with the mediator client;

registering with a delivery client using the application profile; and

selecting and providing content, which is received from the delivery client, to applications based on the preferences,

wherein a mediator client operates as an intermediary between the applications and the delivery client to provide targeted content to the applications.