Dissemination of video files to mobile computing devices over a communications network

• US 9,094,693 B1
• Filed: 12/10/2014
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip-Com LLC
• Original Assignee: Ip-Com LLC
• Inventors: Ramirez, Alvaro, Otero, Andres, Guzman, Rodrigo
• Primary Examiner(s): Asanbayev, Oleg
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kurien, Christine
• Application Number:
  US14/566,057
• Time in Patent Office: 230 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21815 comprising local storage units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25833 involving client hardware characteristics, e.g. manufacturer, processing or storage capabilities allocation of resources considering hardware capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5044; allocation of resources considering software capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5055
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• 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

A server for disseminating a video file to mobile subscriber over a mobile communications network is disclosed. The server comprises a processor programmed for storing a record for each mobile subscriber, defining a criteria for selecting mobile subscribers for videos, wherein said criteria is based on data from a record for a mobile subscriber, selecting a group of mobile subscribers by identifying the records that match said criteria, generating, for each mobile subscriber of the group, a video message in a format that corresponds to the operating system indicator and the video format indicator for said mobile subscriber, and transmitting a video message to the mobile phone number in the record, wherein the video message is transmitted according to the method of access indicator for said mobile subscriber.

Claims

1. A server for disseminating a video file to a plurality of mobile subscribers over a mobile communications network, the server comprising:

a database storing video files and records of mobile subscribers;

a memory storage;

a network connection device communicatively coupled with the mobile communications network;

a processor communicatively coupled with the database, the memory storage and the network connection device, the processor programmed for;

(a) storing in an attached database a record for each of the plurality of mobile subscribers, wherein said record includes at least a user name, a mobile phone number, an operating system indicator, a video format indicator, a method of access indicator, HLR (Home Location Register) data, and previous call data, wherein at least 5 million records for mobile subscribers are stored;

(b) defining a criteria for selecting mobile subscribers for receiving one or more videos from the database, wherein said criteria is based on data from a record for a mobile subscriber;

(c) selecting a group of mobile subscribers from the plurality of mobile subscribers by identifying the records of said mobile subscribers that match said criteria, wherein the group of mobile subscribers comprises at least 5 million mobile subscribers;

(d) converting, for each mobile subscriber of the group of mobile subscribers, a video file to a format that corresponds to the operating system indicator and the video format indicator in the record for said mobile subscriber, such that a plurality of converted video files are generated;

(e) generating, for each mobile subscriber of the group of mobile subscribers, a video message including a corresponding converted video file, such that a plurality of video messages are generated;

(f) establishing a live video stream source for the plurality of video messages;

(g) establishing a video chat session with each of the group of at least 5 million mobile subscribers, over the mobile communications network and via a video chat service provider, using the live video stream source as a source for the plurality of video messages; and

(h) transmitting, to each mobile subscriber of the group of at least 5 million mobile subscribers, via the mobile communications network and the video chat service provider, a corresponding video message of the plurality of video messages to the mobile phone number in the record for said mobile phone subscriber, wherein the video message is transmitted according to the method of access indicator in the record for said mobile subscriber.

2. The server of claim 1, wherein a record for a mobile subscriber record includes demographic data of a user, a protocol for delivering a video file, video and audio codecs, a signaling communications protocol, a security protocol and a protocol for delivering real time and encrypted media streams.

3. The server of claim 2, wherein a record for a mobile subscriber record further includes a native video chat platform, a manufacturer, an industry sector, a country, and a resolution.

4. The server of claim 3, wherein a method of access indicator defines whether a video file may be accepted by a mobile subscriber using either push technology or pull technology.