SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING POLICY BASED CONTENT SERVICE IN A MOBILE NETWORK

• US 20110252088A1
• Filed: 06/24/2011
• Published: 10/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Fiatal, Trevor
• Granted Patent: US 8,849,902 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

Serving user selected content in accordance with a service policy is disclosed. The user may select content from a content source to be accessed at a mobile device. The desired content is modified as necessary such that transmission of the content complies with a policy. Alternatively, only content that complies with the policy may be made available for selection. The manner in which a policy is defined and the content provided may be determined by various factors including mobile device capabilities, user preferences, and network conditions.

Claims

1. A system to deliver content to a mobile device based on a policy, the system, comprising:

a content source configured to provide content selected at the mobile device to a content server, the content source further configured to modify content selected by the mobile device prior to the content server providing the selected content to the mobile device; and

a content server configured to discover content at a content source and provide a list of detected content to the mobile device for selection,

the content server further configured to instruct the content source to provide the content in accordance with a policy, the content server including a policy enforcement engine configured to implement a policy;

wherein, the policy includes a service provider policy to enforce service policy on the mobile device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the policy further specifies at least one of a file format and file size.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the policy includes mobile device capabilities.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the policy includes user preferences.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a proxy configured to transfer content to the mobile device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the content source is a personal computer including a connector to provide user selected content to the mobile device.

7. A system to deliver content to a mobile device based on a policy, the system, comprising:

a content source configured to provide content selected by the mobile device to a content server;

a content server configured to discover content at a content source and provide a list of detected content to the mobile device for selection,

the content server further configured to request content from the content source, the content server including a content reformatting engine configured to modify the selected content in accordance with a policy;

wherein, the policy specifies a bandwidth at which transfer is to occur.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the selected content is transferred to the mobile device from the content source via the content server.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the selected content is transferred to the mobile device directly from the content source.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the policy includes a service provider policy.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the policy includes mobile device capabilities.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the policy includes user preferences.

13. A system to deliver content to a mobile device based on a policy, the system comprising:

a content source configured to provide content selected by the mobile device to a content server,

the content source further configured to modify content selected by the mobile device prior to providing the selected content to the mobile device;

a content server configured to discover content at content source and provide a list of detected content to the mobile device for selection,

the content server further configured to instruct the content source to provide the content in accordance with a policy,

the content server including a content reformatting engine configured to modify selected content in accordance with the policy;

wherein, the policy includes a service provider policy.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the policy specifies a video file format.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the reformatting engine is applied on the content server to reformat the video content from a video file having a first frame rate to a video file having a second frame rate.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the policy further specifies a bit rate.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the policy further specifies a DRM limitation.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the policy encompasses a service provider policy.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the policy encompasses mobile device capabilities.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the policy encompasses user preferences.