Messaging system and method

• US 9,521,107 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2015
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: T Play Holdings LLC (FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC))
• Original Assignee: TriPlay Incorporated
• Inventors: Rosen, Gil, Ziv, Yaacov
• Primary Examiner(s): MIRZA, ADNAN M
• Application Number:
  US14/879,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20160036742A1
• Time in Patent Office: 431 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/205, 709/206
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4025 where none of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. downloading a file in a parallel FTP session, initiating an email or combinational services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/756 adapting media to device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• 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 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 : with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• 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 60/00 : Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 : Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A method of cross-platform messaging including receiving, by a messaging system, at least one initial message having a message format, an initial message layout and data indicative of at least one user associated with the at least one initial message, and before delivery to a destination communication device associated with the at least one user, converting, by the messaging system, an initial message into an adapted message, and facilitating, by the messaging system, delivery of the adapted message to the destination communication device. The adapted message is characterized by, at least, an adapted message layout, and the adapted message layout differs from the initial message layout in a characteristic associated with respective message layout such as number of media objects, a graphical image of a media object, a size of a placeholder related to a media object, and a location of a media object within a respective message layout.

Claims

1. An electronic messaging system, comprising:

an access block and a media block, wherein the access block is operatively coupled to the media block;

wherein the electronic messaging system is configured to electronically transmit a plurality of messages between an originating communication device associated with a sender and a destination communication device associated with a receiver;

wherein the access block and media block are one or more computers selectively configured by stored programs;

wherein the access block is configured to receive an initial message sent by the originating communication device to the destination communication device, the initial message being characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout, and data indicative of at least one receiver associated with the initial message, wherein content of the initial message includes a video;

wherein the media block is configured to;

i) repackage the initial message by replacing the video with an icon to form a repackaged message, wherein the icon is;

1) based on the video and

2) a visual representation of a link associated with a computer storage location of the video or an adapted version of the video, wherein the computer storage location is within the electronic messaging system;

ii) store the video at the computer storage location within the electronic messaging system;

iii) obtain data indicative of displaying capabilities of the destination communication device;

iv) determine, based on the data indicative of displaying capabilities of the destination device, an adapted message layout for the repackaged message;

v) form, based on the adapted message layout, an adapted message from the repackaged message; and

vi) enable, based on the data indicative of displaying capabilities of the destination device, the icon to be clickable into the adapted version of the video wherein the adapted version video is adapted to the displaying capabilities of the destination device by at least one of;

1) transcoding the format of the video and

2) reducing the video;

wherein the access block is further configured to enable transmitting the adapted message to the destination communication device associated with the at least one receiver; and

wherein the access block is further configured to enable transmitting the adapted version of the video to the destination communication device associated with the at least one receiver.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the initial message is based on at least one template;

wherein the at least one template is a predefined user interface containing information about the content of the initial message, wherein the at least one template is characterized by at least one unique template identifier;

wherein the media block is further configured to determine the information about the content of the initial message based upon the at least one unique template identifier; and

wherein the media block is further configured to utilize the information about the content of the initial message to adapt the video.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the media block is further configured to determine the adapted message layout for the repackaged message, by selecting the adapted message layout from a plurality of predefined message layouts, based, at least in part, on the information about the content of the initial message and at least one capability of the displaying capabilities of the destination device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the media block is further configured to:

generate the adapted version of the video after receiving, by the electronic messaging system, an indication that the icon has been clicked.

5. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by one or more computers selectively configured by stored programs to perform the method, an initial message sent by an originating communication device associated with a sender to a destination communication device associated with a receiver, the initial message being characterized, at least, by message format, an initial message layout, and data indicative of at least one receiver associated with the initial message, wherein the initial message includes a video;

repackaging, by the one or more computers, the initial message by replacing the video with an icon to form a repackaged message, wherein the icon is;

1) based on the video and

2) a visual representation of a link associated with a computer storage location of the video or an adapted version of the video, wherein the computer storage location is within the electronic messaging system;

storing, by the one or more computers, the video at a computer storage location associated with the one or more computers;

obtaining, by the one or more computers, data indicative of displaying capabilities of the destination communication device;

determining, by the one or more computers, based on the data indicative of displaying capabilities of the destination device, an adapted message layout for the repackaged message;

forming, by the one or more computers, based on the adapted message layout, an adapted message from the repackaged message;

enabling, by the one or more computers, based on the data indicative of displaying capabilities of the destination device, the icon to be clickable into the adapted version of the video wherein the adapted version video is adapted to the displaying capabilities of the destination device by at least one of;

1) transcoding the format of the video and

2) reducing the video; and

enabling, by the one or more computers, to electronically transmit to the destination communication device associated with the at least one receiver;

i) the adapted message, and

ii) the adapted version of the video.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the initial message is based on at least one template;

wherein the at least one template is a predefined user interface containing information about the content of the initial message;

wherein the at least one template is characterized by at least one unique template identifier;

wherein the one or more computers are further configured to determine the information about the content of the initial message based upon the at least one unique template identifier; and

wherein the one or more computers are further configured to utilize the information about the content of the initial message to adapt the video.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining, by the one or more computers, the adapted message layout for the repackaged message, comprising:

selecting, by the one or more computers, the adapted message layout from a plurality of predefined message layouts, based, at least in part, on the information about the content f the initial message and at least one capability of the displaying capabilities of the destination device.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

generating, by the one or more computers, the adapted version of the video after receiving, by the one or more computers, an indication that the icon has been clicked.