Computer based method and system for logging in a user mobile device at a server computer system

• US 8,359,031 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2008
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc. (iHeartMedia, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Clear Channel Management Services LP (iHeartMedia, Inc.)
• Inventors: Schwartz, Evan
• Primary Examiner(s): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sabouri, Mazda
• Application Number:
  US12/234,488
• Publication Number:
  US 20100075641A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• Field of Search: 455/435.1
• US Class Current: 455/435.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/35 involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

The invention provides a computer-based method for logging a user mobile device onto a server computer system including registering a unique identifier of a user mobile device, receiving a first message from the user mobile device, detecting an Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device, receiving the unique identifier corresponding to the Internet Protocol address; and transmitting to the user mobile device a second message.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for logging a user mobile device onto a server computer system, comprising:

registering a unique identifier of a user mobile device;

receiving by the server computer system a first message from the user mobile device via a network maintained by a mobile carrier computer system, the network maintained by the mobile carrier computer system being a Wireless Application Protocol network, and wherein the first message is an SMS message;

detecting an Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device in response to receiving the first message;

receiving by the server computer system a second message originating from the mobile carrier computer system, the second message including a unique identifier from the mobile carrier computer system, the unique identifier corresponding to the Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device;

comparing the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system to the registered unique identifier of the user mobile device; and

and in response to determining that the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system corresponds to the registered unique identifier of the user mobile device, transmitting to the user mobile device a third message, wherein the third message is an SMS message and has a link to a user-specific homepage, and wherein the user-specific homepage also includes links from a file database corresponding to media files a user of the user mobile device is authorized to access.

2. The computer-based method in claim 1, wherein the unique identifier is a phone number.

3. The computer-based method in claim 1, wherein the Internet Protocol address is dynamically updated.

4. The computer-based method in claim 1, wherein the first message is a request for a file.

5. The computer-based method in claim 1, wherein registering the unique identifier of a user mobile device comprising providing an interface with a field for entering registration information.

6. The computer-based method in claim 5, wherein entering registration information comprising entering a phone number.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computer carries out a method comprising:

registering a unique identifier of a user mobile device;

receiving by a server computer system a message from the user mobile device via a network maintained by a mobile carrier computer system, the network maintained by the mobile carrier computer system being a Wireless Application Protocol network, and wherein the first message is an SMS message;

detecting an Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device in response to receiving the first message;

receiving by the server computer system a second message originating from the mobile carrier computer system, the second message including a unique identifier from the mobile carrier computer system, the unique identifier corresponding to the Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device;

comparing the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system to the registered unique identifier of the user mobile device; and

in response to determining that the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system corresponds to the registered unique identifier of the user mobile device, transmitting to the user mobile device a third message;

wherein the third message is an SMS message and has a link to a user-specific homepage, and wherein the user-specific homepage also includes links from a file database corresponding to media files a user of the user mobile device is authorized to access.

8. A server computer system comprising:

a memory and processor connected to the memory;

a database stored in the memory, the database including a plurality of registered users;

a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the program including;

a first interface having field for entering registration information;

a detecting module for detecting an Internet Protocol address of a user mobile device in response to the server computer system receiving a first message from the user mobile device via a network maintained by a mobile carrier computer system, the network maintained by the mobile carrier computer system being a Wireless Application Protocol network, and wherein the first message is an SMS message;

a receiving module for receiving the first message and a second message from a mobile carrier computer system, the second message including a unique identifier of the user mobile device originating from the mobile carrier computer system, the unique identifier of the user mobile device corresponding to the Internet Protocol address of a user mobile device;

a first matching module for matching the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system with registered user data; and

a second interface that is, in response to the first matching module matching the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system with registered user data, transmitted to a user mobile device in a third message, the second interface displaying a user-specific homepage, wherein the third message is an SMS message, and wherein the user-specific homepage also includes links from a file database corresponding to media files a user of the user mobile device is authorized to access.