Wireless market place for multiple access internet portal

• US 7,242,925 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2003
• Issued: 07/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Neil, Douglas R., Rivera, Jose F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild; Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): AJIBADE AKONAI, OLUMIDE
• Application Number:
  US10/431,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20040224693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,524 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/414.3, 455/557, 455/556.1, 455/466, 455/426.1, 455/414.4, 455/456.1, 455/456.2, 455/456.4, 455/456.6, 455/445, 370/401, 370/402, 370/466, 370/467, 370/328, 370/352, 370/338, 709/228, 709/229, 709/218, 709/219, 709/217, 705/14
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing

Abstract

Multiple access internet portals with wireless market place systems are provided. A representative system, among others, includes a wireless internet server and a wireless market place system. The wireless internet server routes internet content from a content provider to a plurality of platform gateways, while the wireless market place system receives a set of rules from a third party vendor, and translates the set of rules into a format operable to be routed by the wireless internet server. Methods and other systems for providing access to wireless customers are also provided.

Claims

1. A system for interfacing with a customer of a telecommunication carrier, comprising:

a wireless internet server operable to route internet content from a content provider to a plurality of wireless platform gateways corresponding to different messaging formats of wireless platforms that are used to access the gateways; and

a wireless market place system operable to receive a set of rules from a third party vendor, the rules including at least one designation for delivering content to customers of a particular wireless platform that is being used to access the wireless internet server, wherein the wireless internet server formats content from the third party vendor in accordance with a messaging format of the particular wireless platform being used to access the wireless internet server and delivers the content to the customers in accordance with the set of rules from the third party vendor and the messaging format of the respective wireless platform utilized by the customers to access the wireless internet server, the wireless internet server accessible by the plurality of wireless platforms.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of wireless platform gateways are operable to deliver a message to a wireless device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless market place system generates a text message to be routed through the wireless internet server to a short message service center to a wireless device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein wireless market place system generates a message to be routed through the wireless internet server to a voice portal and communicated to a wireless device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless market place system generates a wireless markup language file to be routed through the wireless internet server to a wireless access protocol gateway to a wireless device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless market place system generates a hypertext or extensible markup language file to be routed through a proxy server to a computer using the telecommunications carrier as an internet service provider.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless internet server operable to check a customer profile associated with the customer before routing a message from the wireless market place system.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the wireless internet server is operable to reject the message from the wireless market place system if the customer profile indicates that the customer does not want to receive solicitation.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless internet server is operable to authenticate the customer through a centralized mobile authentication registration system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the wireless internet server is operable to provide a customer with a plurality of personalized internet content upon authenticating the customer.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the mobile authentication system is operable to provide the customer with a plurality of internet applications via the wireless internet server.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the mobile authentication registration system is coupled to a content hub which is operable to provide the plurality of internet content.

13. A method of providing access to a plurality of customers, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a message from a third party vendor;

formatting the message for delivery to a recipient according to a messaging format of a wireless platform being used by the recipient to access a wireless internet server, wherein the wireless internet server is accessible by a plurality of wireless platforms; and

sending the message to at least one of the plurality of customers in accordance with a set of rules from the third party vendor, the rules including at least one designation for delivering content to customers of a particular wireless platform that is currently being used to access the wireless internet server.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein sending the message to at least one of the plurality of customers comprises the steps of:

sending the message to the wireless internet server;

sending the message to the appropriate gateway; and

sending the message to a wireless device associated with said at least one of the plurality of customers in a messaging format that was used to access the wireless internet server.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the wireless internet server sends the message to a wireless access protocol gateway and the wireless device is a wireless access protocol enabled phone.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the wireless internet server sends the message to a short message service center and the wireless device is an short message service enabled phone.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the wireless internet server sends the message to a voice portal.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the wireless internet server sends the message to a proxy server and the wireless device is a computer with a high speed wireless internet connection.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein the message is an advertisement from the third party vendor.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the message is internet content from the third party vendor.