Wireless device detection

• US 9,152,958 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2009
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xylon LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Remote Sales LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Tanumihardja, Marcellino, Brown, Gregory A.
• Primary Examiner(s): WINDER, PATRICE L
• Application Number:
  US12/419,246
• Publication Number:
  US 20090240779A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,374 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/045 using payment protocols involving tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4547 for personal communications, i.e. using a personal identifier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453

Abstract

A managed message, having a structured messaging element, may be sent to a plurality of devices. Detection that a recipient device has a wireless device capability with audible message presentation may be performed. The message data of the managed message may be transformed to be sent to the recipient device according to a wireless device capability specific file set into a format for audible presentation of the message data. A response aggregation message having a plurality of message statuses of the managed message may also be received.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating a managed message to be sent to a plurality of recipient devices, wherein each recipient device is associated with a respective address and the managed message includes a structured messaging element;

determining a target wireless-device type of each recipient device;

detecting at least one recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices having a wireless device capability that includes an audible message presentation;

in response to detecting the at least one recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices having the wireless device capability, transforming message data of the managed message to be sent to the at least one recipient device according to a wireless device capability specific file set into a format for audible presentation of the message data;

determining, for each recipient device, whether a format of the respective address is valid and marking the respective address as undeliverable in response to determining the format of the respective address is invalid; and

receiving a response aggregation message that includes a plurality of message statuses of the managed message, wherein the plurality of message statuses includes a viewing of the managed message or a non-viewing of the managed message by a respective recipient device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the structured messaging element includes one of an RSVP, a query, a thing to bring, a comment, a sender location, an electronic card, a recipient list exposure, or an electronic commerce transaction.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a target wireless-device type of each recipient device comprises:

determining each target wireless-device type by an asynchronous process.

4. A system comprising:

circuitry configured to create a managed message to be sent to a plurality of recipient devices, wherein each recipient device is associated with a respective address and the managed message includes a structured messaging element;

circuitry configured to determine a target wireless-device type of each recipient device;

circuitry configured to detect at least one recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices having a wireless device capability that includes an audible message presentation;

circuitry configured to transform message data of the managed message, in response to the detection of the at least one recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices having the wireless device capability, to be sent to the at least one recipient device in accordance with a wireless device capability specific file set into a format for audible presentation of the message data;

the circuitry further configured to determine, for each recipient device, whether a format of the respective address is valid and to mark the respective address as undeliverable in response to a determination that the format of the respective address is invalid; and

circuitry configured to receive a response aggregation message that has a plurality of message statuses of the managed message, wherein the plurality of message statuses includes a viewing of the managed message or a non-viewing of the managed message by a respective recipient device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the structured messaging element includes any one of an RSVP, a query, a thing to bring, a comment, a sender location, an electronic card, a recipient list exposure, or an electronic commerce transaction.

6. The system of claim 4 further comprising:

the circuitry further configured to determine each target wireless-device type by an asynchronous process.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with stored instructions executable by a computer, the instructions comprising:

instructions to create a managed message to be sent to a plurality of recipient devices, wherein each recipient device is associated with a respective address and the managed message includes a structured messaging element;

instructions to determine a target wireless-device type of each recipient device;

instructions to detect at least one recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices having a wireless device capability that includes an audible message presentation;

instructions to transform message data of the managed message, in response to the detection of the at least one recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices having the wireless device capability, to be sent to the at least one recipient device in accordance with a wireless device capability specific file set into a format for audible presentation of the message data;

instructions to determine, for each recipient device, whether a format of the respective address is valid and to mark the respective address as undeliverable in response to a determination that the format of the respective address is invalid; and

instructions to receive a response aggregation message that has a plurality of message statuses of the managed message, wherein the plurality of message statuses includes a viewing of the managed message or a non-viewing of the managed message by a respective recipient device.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the structured messaging element includes any one of an RSVP, a query, a thing to bring, a comment, a sender location, an electronic card, a recipient list exposure, or an electronic commerce transaction.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7 further comprising:

instructions to determine each target wireless-device type by an asynchronous process.