Method, apparatus and system for management of information content for enhanced accessibility over wireless communication networks

• US 9,032,039 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2014
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mobile Data Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Wireless Ink Corporation
• Inventors: Harper, David Walker, Sabella, Jason James, Munch, William Henry
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US14/483,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20140380150A1
• Time in Patent Office: 243 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/223, 709/228, 709/248, 709/250, 709/203, 709/246
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/18 for broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 : Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 : Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 : using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 : Network data management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 : Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method includes obtaining content at a mobile device, determining information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device responsive to user input, and providing the content and determined information to at least one server for insertion into a specified application-based information channel. Another method includes receiving, at a server from a mobile device, content for insertion into a specified application-based information channel, receiving, at the server from the mobile device, information associated with at least one wireless network functionality of the mobile device, and integrating the content and the information associated with said at least one wireless network functionality of the mobile device into the specified application-based information channel.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

capturing content at a mobile device;

identifying a previously established application-based information channel into which the captured content is to be inserted, the identified application-based information channel permitting interaction between a user of the mobile device and one or more additional users;

determining information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device;

providing the captured content from the mobile device to at least one server for insertion in association with the determined information into the identified application-based information channel; and

receiving other content, at the mobile device via the identified application-based information channel, from at least one of the additional users.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the identified application-based information channel comprises a personalized content application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the identified application-based information channel comprises a collaborative workspace.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the identified application-based information channel comprises a chat channel.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the identified application-based information channel comprises an Internet storefront.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises location information of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises information specifying at least one location-based service action implementable over said at least one wireless network.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises information specifying at least one messaging action implementable over said at least one wireless network.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises information specifying at least one collaboration action implementable over said at least one wireless network.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises:

providing one or more content integration options to the user of the mobile device;

receiving user input selecting at least one of the content integration options; and

determining the information associated with said at least one wireless network functionality of the mobile device in accordance with the selected content integration options.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein providing the one or more content integration options to the user of the mobile device comprises providing a subset of a plurality of content integration options to the user of the mobile device, the subset being based in part on wireless networking functionalities available at the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises information associated with a billing system accessible to the mobile device via said at least one wireless network.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the captured content is obtained from a device-captured data source of the mobile device, the device-captured data source comprising a source of at least one of device-captured video data, device-captured image data, device-captured audio data and device-captured location coordinates.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device comprises at least one of a mobile telephone, a tablet computer and a camera.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device comprises a global positioning system (GPS)-based navigational device.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device comprises a watch or other timepiece.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein said executable program code when executed by a processing element of the mobile device causes the mobile device to perform the method of claim 1.

24. The method of claim 1 further comprising accessing integrated content at the mobile device via the identified application-based information channel, the integrated content comprising a combination of at least a portion of the captured content and at least a portion of the determined information.

25. The method of claim 1 wherein integrated content is stored by the at least one server, the integrated content comprising a combination of at least a portion of the captured content and at least a portion of the determined information.

26. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving additional content at the mobile device via the identified application-based information channel, the additional content being based on at least a portion of the determined information.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein the additional content comprises advertising content.

28. The method of claim 1 wherein the application-based information channel is accessible via a mobile website previously established for the user of the mobile device.

29. The method of claim 1 wherein the application-based information channel is accessible via a personalized content application particularly configured to run on the mobile device.

30. The method of claim 1 wherein the other content comprises at least one message relating to the captured content that is received at said at least one server and inserted by said at least one server into the application-based information channel.

18. A mobile device comprising:

at least one processing element comprising a processor coupled to a memory; and

at least one network interface;

said at least one processing element being configured to;

capture content at the mobile device;

identify a previously established application-based information channel into which the captured content is to be inserted, the identified application-based information channel permitting interaction between a user of the mobile device and one or more additional users;

determine information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device;

provide, via said at least one network interface, the captured content from the mobile device to at least one server for insertion in association with the determined information into the identified application-based information channel; and

receive other content, via the identified application-based information channel, from at least one of the additional users.

19. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server from a mobile device, content for insertion into a previously established application-based information channel, the previously established application-based information channel permitting interaction between a user of the mobile device and one or more additional users;

receiving, at the server from the mobile device, information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device;

integrating the content and the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device into the previously established application-based information channel; and

inserting other content from at least one of the additional users into the previously established application-based information channel.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein integrating the content and the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device comprises:

obtaining location information of the mobile device; and

inserting additional content into the previously established application-based information channel based on the obtained location information.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein said additional content comprises advertising content.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein said executable program code when executed by a processing element of the server causes the server to perform the method of claim 19.

23. A server comprising:

at least one processing element comprising a processor coupled to a memory; and

at least one network interface;

said at least one processing element being configured to;

receive, from a mobile device, content for insertion into a previously established application-based information channel, the previously established application-based information channel permitting interaction between a user of the mobile device and one or more additional users;

receive, from the mobile device, information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device;

integrate the content and the information associated with said at least one wireless networking functionality of the mobile device into the previously established application-based information channel; and

insert other content from at least one of the additional users into the previously established application-based information channel.