Communications platform

• US 8,918,124 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2010
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Darrell Mcdowell, Kenneth Bland
• Original Assignee: Darrell Mcdowell, Kenneth Bland
• Inventors: Bland, Kenneth, McDowell, Darrell
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Application Number:
  US12/919,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20110045802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,737 Days
• Field of Search: 455/403, 455/404.1, 455/404.2, 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/466, 455/566, 340/539.13, 340/825.49, 340/573.14, 340/286.06, 340/286.02, 340/286.01, 340/287
• US Class Current: 455/466
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/385 of the core network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/20 Manipulation of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A communications platform for mobile devices for transmitting data (such as alert messages) to at least one mobile device user comprises a server and an alert client, which client may be responsible for receiving alert messages sent by the server and may further perform specific functions on a mobile communications device to insure that the alert message does not remain unnoticed or ignored. The platform may further comprise a cell broadcast service server to limit transmission of an alert message to mobile device users in a particular locality or localities.

Claims

1. A communications platform, the communications platform comprising at least one server, a transport layer, a client, and at least one mobile communications device,

wherein the client comprises at least one application operatively coupled to the at least one mobile communications device, the client capable of communicating with the at least one server of the platform over the transport layer, the client further capable of receiving a transmission from the at least one server over the transport layer, the client further capable of displaying said transmission on the at least one mobile communications device upon direction from the at least one server, and the client further capable of transmitting a return message communicating to the at least one server that a transmission has been displayed on the at least one mobile device, wherein the communications platform is not dependent upon a data carrier'"'"'s network or carrier'"'"'s transmission facility, thereby providing an independent communication platform for distribution and transmission of data, and wherein the transmission is adapted for direct distribution to one or more individual or categorized users that meet a criterion or criteria.

2. The communications platform of claim 1, wherein the at least one server comprises a short message service internet proxy server.

3. The communications platform of claim 1, wherein the transport layer comprises short message service.

4. The communications platform of claim 1, wherein the transport layer comprises cell broadcast service.

5. The communications platform of claim 1, wherein the at least one server further comprises a mediation server, which mediation server may convert or reformat a transmission for display on a mobile communications device on which the client is not operatively coupled.

6. The communications platform of claim 1, wherein at least one mobile communications device comprises a browser capable of communicating with and displaying a transmission received from the at least one server.

7. The communications platform of claim 1, wherein the client is adapted to permit a user to interact with a multi-page application associated with the user, wherein the client is capable of receiving a request from the user to generate a data transmission, on receipt of the request the client processes the request and retrieves a page from the application so that the user may then enter data in a query form on the page and submit it to the server, the server is capable of processing the query form to generate a message in a page format, wherein the user is capable of requesting that the server distribute the generated message to one or more individual or categorized users that meet a criterion or criteria.