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

• US 8,706,112 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2013
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• 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:
  US13/746,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20130132496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 456 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 server computer system comprising:

a memory and processor coupled to the memory;

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

a detecting module configured to detect an Internet Protocol address of a user mobile device in response to the server computer system receiving an SMS message from the user mobile device via a Wireless Application Protocol network;

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

a first matching module configured to attempt to match the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system with the registered user data;

an interface configured to display a link to a user-specific homepage transmitted to the user mobile device in a second SMS message in response to a successful match, wherein the user-specific homepage includes links corresponding to media files a user of the user mobile device is authorized to access; and

the interface further configured to display a link to a general homepage transmitted to the user mobile device in a third SMS message in response to a failure to match, wherein the general homepage provides restricted access by the user mobile device to media files based on registration of the user mobile device.

2. The computer system of claim 1, the registered user data includes a unique identifier of a user mobile device associated with a particular registered user.

3. The computer system of claim 2, the unique identifier is a unique phone number of the user mobile device.

4. The computer system of claim 2, the user-specific homepage including links from a file database corresponding to media files the particular registered user has previously accessed.

5. The computer system of claim 1, the Internet Protocol address is dynamically updated.

6. The computer system of claim 1, the first message is a request for a file.

7. A computer-based method comprising:

providing an interface with a field for entering registration information to a user computer system associated with a user, the registration information including a unique identifier associated with a user mobile device associated with the user;

in response to receiving registration information from the user computer system via the interface, identifying the user as a registered user and storing the unique identifier as a registered unique identifier in a file database supported by the server computer system;

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

receiving a second message from the 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 the user mobile device;

in response to determining that the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system corresponds to the registered unique identifier, transmitting a second SMS message to the user mobile device, the second SMS message including a link to a registered user area of a web site supported by the server computer system; and

in response to determining that the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system does not correspond to the registered unique identifier, transmitting a third SMS message to the user mobile device, the third SMS message including a link to an unregistered user area of the web site.

8. The computer-based method of claim 7, the registered user area of the web site comprises a user-specific homepage, wherein the user-specific homepage includes links from the file database corresponding to media files the registered user is authorized to access.

9. The computer-based method of claim 8, the user-specific homepage also includes links from the file database corresponding to media files the registered user has previously accessed.

10. The computer-based method of claim 7, the unregistered user area of the web site comprises a general homepage, wherein the general homepage includes provides restricted access by the user mobile device to media files based on registration of the user mobile device.

11. The computer-based method of claim 7, the Internet Protocol address is dynamically updated.

12. The computer-based method of claim 7, the first SMS message is a request for a media file.