Processing of interactive screens for a wireless device

• US 20050282535A1
• Filed: 08/23/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bryan Minear, Mazen Chmaytelli, Mitchell B. Oliver, Stephen A. Sprigg
• Original Assignee: Bryan Minear, Mazen Chmaytelli, Mitchell B. Oliver, Stephen A. Sprigg
• Inventors: Sprigg, Stephen A., Minear, Brian, Chmaytelli, Mazen, Oliver, Mitchell B.
• Application Number:
  US11/209,490
• Publication Number:
  US 20050282535A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/420
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/253 where a visual mode is used instead of a voice mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/382 using authorisation codes or passwords
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 by downloading data to substation equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0036 where the data service is an information service
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/12 for working between exchanges having different types of switching equipment, e.g. power-driven and step by step or decimal and non-decimal
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/1235 where one of the core networks is a wireless network

Abstract

A system and method for displaying an interactive screen, such as an end-user license agreement or verification form, on the graphic display of a wireless device when the wireless device connects to a network server on a wireless network and attempts to access or download software applications and data. The user of the wireless device must then affirmatively interact with the interactive screen in order to access or download a software application or data from the network server. The interactive screen can be transmitted from the network server where the wireless device seeks to access or download an application or data, or can be transmitted from a separate server to the wireless device. The records of the wireless device-server interactions can be stored on a network server or other data stores on the wireless network.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A method for processing interactive screens for a wireless device, comprising:

(a) receiving, from the wireless device, a download request for content;

(b) determining whether the wireless device has an interactive screen associated with the content;

(c) if it is determined that the wireless device has the interactive screen associated with the content,

transmitting the content to the wireless device without transmitting the interactive screen.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

(d) if it is determined that the wireless device does not have the interactive screen associated with the content,

transmitting the interactive screen prior to the wireless device before transmitting the content associated with the download request.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

after step (d),

receiving a signal indicating a satisfactory action of the wireless device upon the interactive screen, and

after said receiving, transmitting the content requested by the wireless device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said satisfactory action comprises acceptance of a license agreement.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein said satisfactory action comprises supplying information regarding an age of a user of the wireless device.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein said content comprises data.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein said content comprises an application.

23. The method of claim 16, wherein said content and said interactive screen are stored on a same server.

24. The method of claim 16, wherein said content and said interactive screen are stored on different servers.

25. The method of claim 16, wherein said content and said interactive screen are transmitted by a same server.

26. The method of claim 16, wherein said content and said interactive screen are transmitted by different servers.

27. A system for supporting a wireless device, comprising:

means for receiving, from a wireless device on a wireless network, a download request for content;

means for determining whether the wireless device has an interactive screen associated with the content; and

means for transmitting the interactive screen and the content to the wireless device; and

wherein if said means for determining determines that the wireless device has the interactive screen,

said means for transmitting transmits the content to the wireless device without transmitting the interactive screen.

28. The system of claim 27, wherein if said means for determining determines that the wireless device does not have the interactive screen,

said means for transmitting transmits the interactive screen to the wireless device before transmitting the content.

29. A computer readable medium for storing a program, which when executed cause a computer to perform the steps of:

(a) receiving, from the wireless device, a download request for content;

(b) determining whether the wireless device has an interactive screen associated with the content;

(c) if it is determined that the wireless device has the interactive screen associated with the content,

transmitting the content to the wireless device without transmitting the interactive screen; and

(d) if it is determined that the wireless device does not have the interactive screen associated with the content,

transmitting the interactive screen prior to the wireless device before transmitting the content associated with the download request.