METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING FULL-TRACK CONTENT MEDIA FILES FROM A SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEM TO A USER MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20090288016A1
• Filed: 05/15/2008
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc. (iHeartMedia, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thumbplay, Inc. (iHeartMedia, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bilman, Joseph M., Buzzard, Paula
• Application Number:
  US12/121,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20090288016A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

The invention provides a method of transferring media, comprising receiving a selection from a user computer system over a network at a server computer system, transmitting a download page from the server computer system to the user computer system, the download page having a link, based on the selection, a full-track content media file being downloadable from the server computer system onto the user computer system when selecting the link, determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content, and transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.

Claims

1. A method of transferring media, comprising:

receiving a selection from a user computer system over a network at a server computer system;

transmitting a download page from the server computer system to the user computer system, the download page having a link, based on the selection, a full-track content media file being downloadable from the server computer system onto the user computer system when selecting the link;

determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining at the server computer system whether a carrier of the mobile device supports full-track content, as part of a process to determine whether the mobile device can receive full-track content.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining at the server computer system whether a type of the mobile device supports full-track content, as part of a process to determine whether the mobile device can receive full-track content.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining at the server computer system whether a data plan is associated with the mobile device, as part of the process to determine whether the mobile device can receive full-track content.

5. The method of claim 4, transmitting a data plan override page from the server computer system to the user computer system if a data plan is not associated with the mobile device;

receiving a data plan override selection from the user computer system after a user makes a selection on the data plan override page; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the user computer system, only if the data plan override selection indicates that the full-track content media file should be transmitted and not when the data plan override selection indicates that the full-track content media file should not be transmitted.

6. A method of transferring media, comprising:

transmitting an options page from a server computer system to a user computer system, the options page including a full-track link and a reduced-track link, selection of the reduced-track link facilitating transmission of a reduced media file corresponding to a time portion only of a full-track content media file, from the server computer system to a user mobile device;

receiving a selection from the user computer system after the user selects the full-track link;

determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.

7. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor of at least one computer system, executes a method of transferring media, comprising:

receiving a selection from a user computer system over a network at a server computer system;

transmitting a download page from the server computer system to the user computer system, the download page having a link, based on the selection, a full-track content media file being downloadable from the server computer system onto the user computer system when selecting the link;

determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.

8. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor of at least one computer system, executes a method of transferring media, comprising:

transmitting an options page from a server computer system to a user computer system, the options page including a full-track link and a reduced-track link, selection of the reduced-track link facilitating transmission of a reduced media file corresponding to a time portion only of a full-track content media file from the server computer system to a user mobile device;

receiving a selection from the user computer system after the user selects the full-track link;

determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.

9. A server computer system, comprising:

a file server;

a database, having entries corresponding to files in the file server;

a memory, holding a set of instructions; and

a processor that executes the instructions, the instructions comprising;

receiving a selection from a user computer system over a network at a server computer system;

transmitting a download page from the server computer system to the user computer system, the download page having a link, based on the selection, a full-track content media file being downloadable from the server computer system onto the user computer system when selecting the link;

determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.

10. A server computer system, comprising:

a file server;

a database, having entries corresponding to files in the file server;

a memory, holding a set of instructions; and

a processor that executes the instructions, the instructions comprising;

transmitting an options page from a server computer system to a user computer system, the options page including a full-track link and a reduced-track link, selection of the reduced-track link facilitating transmission of a reduced media file corresponding to a time portion only of a full-track content media file from the server computer system to a user mobile device;

receiving a selection from the user computer system after the user selects the full-track link;

determining at the server computer system whether a mobile device can receive full-track content; and

transmitting the full-track content media file from the server computer system to the mobile device in response to the selection, only if the mobile device can receive full-track content.