Information sharing for third party applications in cellular telecommunication infrastructure

• US 9,369,572 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2014
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Agrawal, Dakshi, Hill, Michael G., Lee, Sihyung, Srivatsa, Mudhakar, Verma, Dinesh C., Zerfos, Petros, Ziskin, Joseph W.
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DANH C
• Application Number:
  US14/470,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20140364096A1
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/418, 455/411
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 by downloading data to substation equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for providing content to a communications device. In an embodiment of the invention, a communications network receives a first content portion from a content provider and sends the first content portion to the communications device. The communications network also sends a second content portion to the communications device, and this second content portion is customized for the user of the communications device based on selected information about the user that the communications network has. In one embodiment, the communications network uses the selected information about the user to customize the second content portion for the user, and sends the customized second content portion to the communications device. In an embodiment, the communications network sends the selected information to the content provider, and the content provider uses the selected information to customize the second content portion.

Claims

1. A method of managing content for a communications device, wherein a user uses the communications device to receive data via a communications network, and the communications network has selected information about the user, the method comprising:

a content provider sending a first content portion to the communications device via the communications network;

the content provider authorizing the communications network to send a second content portion to the communications device, and wherein said second content portion is customized for the user of the communications device based on the selected information about the user that the communications network has, wherein the authorizing the communications network includes;

authorizing the communications network to use the selected information about the user to customize the second content portion for the user, and to send the customized second content portion to the communications device; and

the content provider sending the second content portion to the communications network before the second content portion is customized for the user; and

wherein;

the content provider is not given the selected information for a given period of time.