MOBILE CONTENT DELIVERY

• US 20130085864A1
• Filed: 10/03/2011
• Published: 04/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Ahmed, Hassan, Krishnamurthy, Anand, Durand, Terry, Mortsolf, Tim, Sherer, Paul
• Application Number:
  US13/251,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20130085864A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.66
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mobile content delivery. A method includes, in a mobile network, maintaining a database of mobile subscriber information for mobile subscribers derived from the mobile network, receiving a request for content from a mobile subscriber, loading the requested content, processing the requested content in conjunction with mobile subscriber information in the database of mobile subscriber information, and delivering the processed requested content to the mobile subscriber.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in a server residing in a network, maintaining a local database of mobile subscriber information for mobile subscribers derived from mobile subscriber information residing in a database maintained in a mobile access network infrastructure setup by a mobile service provider, the mobile subscriber information comprising owner information, subscriber device information and subscriber mobile charging and subscription plan information;

receiving in the server a request for content from a mobile subscriber of the mobile access infrastructure;

loading in the server the requested content from a content infrastructure of the network;

processing in the server the requested content in conjunction with mobile subscriber information in the local database of mobile subscriber information; and

delivering the processed requested content in the server to the mobile subscriber of the mobile access infrastructure.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein delivering is time shifted based upon subscriber policy or mobile network conditions.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile access infrastructure of the network is selected from the group consisting of Global System for Mobile (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), EDGE, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the requested content from the content infrastructure of the network comprises reformatting the requested content using mobile and Internet Deep Packet Inspection, Mobile Subscriber Database Queries, Mobile Subscriber Policy Queries, content characteristic queries, content characteristics, mobile device characteristics and mobile network conditions.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the requested content from the content infrastructure of the network comprises adding revenue generating services to the content.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the revenue generating services comprise advertisements.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising tracking the delivered processed requested content from the content infrastructure of the network.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising generating one or more reports from the tracked content.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the one or more reports is a billing report.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the content is stored in a local content database in the server.

4. (canceled)

12. A mobile content delivery network (CDN) server residing in a network, the CDN server comprising:

a processor;

a storage device; and

a memory, the memory comprising an operating system, a cache and a mobile CDN process, the mobile CDN process comprising;

maintaining a local database of mobile subscriber information for mobile subscribers derived from mobile subscriber information residing in a database maintained in a mobile access network infrastructure setup by a mobile service provider, the mobile subscriber information comprising owner information, subscriber device information and subscriber mobile charging and subscription plan information;

receiving a request for content residing in a content infrastructure of the network from a mobile subscriber in the mobile access network infrastructure;

loading the requested content from the content infrastructure;

processing the requested content from the content infrastructure in conjunction with mobile subscriber information in the local database of mobile subscriber information; and

delivering the processed requested content from the content infrastructure of the network to the mobile subscriber of the mobile access infrastructure.

13. The mobile CDN server of claim 12 wherein the mobile access infrastructure is selected from the group consisting of Global System for Mobile (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), EDGE, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE Advanced.

15. The mobile CDN server of claim 12 wherein processing the requested content residing in the content infrastructure of the network comprises reformatting the requested content using mobile and Internet Deep Packet Inspection, Mobile Subscriber Database Queries, Mobile Subscriber Policy Queries, mobile device characteristics and mobile network conditions.

16. The mobile CDN server of claim 12 wherein the mobile CDN process further comprises tracking the delivered processed requested content.

17. The mobile CDN server of claim 16 wherein the mobile CDN process further comprises generating one or more reports from the tracked content.

18. The mobile CDN server of claim 17 wherein the one or more reports is a billing report.

19. The mobile CDN server of claim 12 wherein memory further comprises functions enabling visibility into all subscriber data traffic to and from a radio area network (RAN), wherein traffic may be mapped back to cells within the network.

20. The mobile CDN server of claim 12 wherein processing the requested content further comprises determining an acceptable range of experience and encoding the acceptable range in an experience descriptor that is used along with the content requested to locate the content that is delivered.

21. The mobile CDN server of claim 12 wherein loading comprises intercepting a Push Proxy Message using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and redirecting the phone to pull the message from the cache.

22. The mobile CDN server of claim 21 wherein redirecting is time-shifted so that a download occurs during off-peak hours.

14. (canceled)