TECHNIQUES FOR THIRD-PARTY CONTENT DELIVERY VIA A UNIQUE MOBILE APPLICATION ADDRESS

• US 20130055406A1
• Filed: 08/31/2011
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: West, Graham
• Granted Patent: US 9,179,306 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/106 across networks, e.g. mapping telephone numbers to data network addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/084 using delegated authorisation, e.g. open authorisation [OAuth] protocol
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor

Abstract

Techniques for third-party content delivery via a unique mobile application address are presented. A mobile application on a mobile device of a consumer generates or is assigned a unique address. The consumer uses the mobile application to communicate with an enterprise over a network. The enterprise delegates delivery of content to the mobile application to a third-party service and provides the unique address. The third-party service directly sends the content over the network to the mobile application of the mobile device on behalf of the enterprise.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method programmed in a non-transitory processor-readable medium and to execute on one or more processors configured to execute the method, comprising:

obtaining a unique address for a mobile application that is processing on a first device of a user;

receiving a request from a content service to deliver customized secure content to the user on the first device;

acquiring the customized secure content for the user based on the unique address and the request; and

delivering the customized secure content to the mobile application using the unique address.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining further includes receiving the unique address from the content service with the request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining further includes resolving the unique address using information included with the request and additional information previous registered with the method from the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein acquiring further includes generating the customized secure content as a barcode for use by the user via the mobile application on the first device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein acquiring further includes generating the customized secure content as license-restricted content that is only usable by the mobile application having the unique address on the first device of the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein delivering further includes establishing a connection with the first device via the mobile application to directly send the customized secure content to the mobile application.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising, sending updates to the customized secure content when a change is detected to the mobile application using the unique address.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising, receiving a request for an update to the customized secure content from the mobile application and providing the update when available.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising, instructing the mobile application to retain the customized secure content on the first device based on policy restrictions provided to the mobile application.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising, recording metrics and audit information for the user, the content service, the first device, the mobile application, and the customized secure content.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising, generating a report for the metrics and audit information and sending to the content service.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising, sending an update for the processing instructions of the mobile application to the mobile application to have the mobile application initiate an update of itself on the first device.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising, sending an update for the customized secure content to the mobile application using the unique address based on a new request from the content service.

14. A processor-implemented method programmed in a non-transitory processor-readable medium and to execute on one or more processors configured to execute the method, comprising:

logging a user onto a content service;

requesting secure content from the content service;

receiving the secure content from a third-party content delivery manager that is independent of and external to the content service over a network; and

retaining the secure content for subsequent transactions of the user in a local processing environment of the user.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising, obtaining an update to the secure content from the third-party content delivery manager.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising, registering identifying information for the user with the third-party content delivery manager.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein requesting further includes providing identifying information with the request to the content service that the content service passes on to the third-party content delivery manager and that the third-party content delivery manager uses based on a previous registration of the user to acquire a unique address for the method so that the third-party content delivery manager can directly communicate with the method within the local processing environment of the user.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein requesting further includes providing a unique address for the method with the request to the content service that the content service passes to the third-party content delivery manager so that the third-party content delivery manager can directly communicate with the method within the local processing environment of the user.

19. A system, comprising:

a first machine having a third-party content delivery manager implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and which processes on the first machine; and

a second machine having a third-party content delivery agent implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and which processes on the second machine;

the third-party content delivery manager configured to interact with a content service that the third-party content delivery agent communicates with to acquire secure content for a user of the second machine, the third-party content delivery manager also configured to identify a unique address for the third-party content delivery agent and directly deliver the secure content on behalf of the content service to the third-party content delivery agent, the third-party content delivery agent configured to manage the secure content on the second machine and interact with the content service and the third-party content delivery manager.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the first machine is located in a cloud processing environment and the second machine is a mobile phone of the user.