Automatic mobile application redirection

• US 9,563,713 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Chin-Nan, Liu, Hsiang-Fu, Huang, Shu-Fong, Huang, Yu-Li
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Halim, Sahera
• Application Number:
  US13/648,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20140101282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/248
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Automatic application redirection may be provided. Upon receiving a request for a first content object, a determination may be made as to whether the request is associated with a mobile device. In response to determining that the request is associated with the mobile device, the request may be redirected to a second content object.

Claims

1. A method for providing automatic application redirection, the method comprising:

receiving at a server a request for a first content object;

determining via the server whether the request is associated with a mobile device communicating with the server;

in response to the server determining that the request is associated with the mobile device, the server redirecting the request from the mobile device to a second content object wherein the second content object has not been requested via the mobile device;

determining via the server whether a user of the mobile device has accepted redirection to the second content object in place of the requested first content object;

in response to the server determining that the user has accepted redirection to the second object in place of the requested first content object, the server providing the second content object without having received a request for the second content object; and

in response to the server determining that the user has not accepted redirection by the server to the second content object, the server providing the first content object to the mobile device as was requested.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises at least one of the following:

a cellular telephone, a smartphone, a handheld gaming device, a netbook, a laptop computer, and a tablet computer.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the request is associated with the mobile device comprises identifying a version of an application executing on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the application comprises at least one of the following:

a web browser and an operating system.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a cookie object to the mobile device, wherein the cookie object comprises a property value associated with the determination of whether the request is associated with the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content object comprises a first web page.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second content object comprises a second web page comprising a formatting associated with a display of the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first web page and the second web page share at least one content element.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising dynamically generating the second web page according to the request for the first content object.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising identifying at least one functionality enabled on the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein dynamically generating the second web page comprises generating the second web page comprising the at least one functionality enabled on the mobile device.

12. A system for providing automatic application redirection, the system comprising:

a memory storage; and

a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit operates to;

receive a request at a server for a first content object;

determine via the server whether the request comprises at least one mobile characteristic in association with a mobile device communicating with the server;

in response to the server determining that the request from the mobile device comprises the at least one mobile characteristic, provide via the server at least one second content object, wherein the at least one second content object shares at least one element with the first content object and wherein the second content object has not been requested via the mobile device;

determine via the server whether a user of the mobile device has accepted the second content object in place of the requested first content object;

in response to the server determining that the user has accepted the second object in place of the requested first content object, the server providing the second content object to the mobile device without the server having received a request from the mobile device for the second content object; and

in response to the server determining that the user has not accepted the second content object, provide via the server the first content object as was requested in association with the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processing unit operating to determine whether the request comprises the at least one mobile characteristic comprises identifying a hardware element of the device.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the processing unit operating to determine whether the request comprises the at least one mobile characteristic comprises identifying a path to the requested content object.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processing unit operates to provide a second content object located at a second path.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the processing unit operating to determine whether the request comprises the at least one mobile characteristic comprises identifying a type of the requested content object.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the processing unit operates to provide a viewer associated with the type of the requested content object.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the processing unit further operates to store the determination that the user has not accepted the second content object as a user preference.

19. A computer-readable device which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for providing automatic application redirection, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:

receiving at a server a request for a first content object from a mobile device;

determining via the server whether the request from the mobile device comprises at least one mobile characteristic, wherein the at least one mobile characteristic comprises at least one of the following;

a version of an application executing on the mobile device, a hardware identifier associated with the mobile device, a web browser cookie stored on the mobile device, a parameter associated with the request, a configured property associated with the mobile device, and a location path of the first content object; and

in response to the server determining that the request from the mobile device comprises the at least one mobile characteristic;

redirecting via the server the request from the mobile device to a second content object, wherein the second content object comprises at least one common element with the first content object and wherein the second content object has not been requested via the mobile device,

determining via the server whether a user of the mobile device accepted the redirect to the second content object in place of the requested first content object, wherein determining via the server whether the user of the mobile device accepted the redirect to the second content object comprises at least one of the following;

determining via the server whether the user requested the first content object again, receiving via the server a previously configured user preference, and receiving via the server a response to a displayed notification of the redirect to the second content object,

in response to the server determining that the user of the mobile device has accepted the second object in place of the requested first content object, providing via the server the second content object; and

in response to the server determining that the user of the mobile device did not accept the redirect to the second content object, providing via the server the first content object to the mobile device.