Third Party Sponsored Short Messaging Service

    公开(公告)号:US20170237822A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-17

    申请号:US15044101

    申请日:2016-02-15

    申请人: Ari Kahn

    发明人: Ari Kahn

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04W4/24 H04W4/12

    摘要: The methods and systems disclosed herein, enable mobile communications operators to modify and reposition the SMS messaging platform by allowing users to send SMS messages sponsored by third party content that tags along with the original user content. An example of the method comprises: a) receiving at an intermediary network service node, a mobile originating message from a first user on a first telephony device, addressed to a second user on a second telephony device; b) modifying the content of the original message to include additional third party text; and c) sending the modified message to the second user on the second telephony device. In a variant of the method, the original text message content is replaced with an Internet uniform resource locator (URL) referencing the original text content.

    APPLICATION-SPECIFIC MOBILE DATA ALLOCATION

    公开(公告)号:US20170180568A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-22

    申请号:US15447915

    申请日:2017-03-02

    IPC分类号: H04M15/00 H04W4/00

    摘要: Mobile devices may obtain applications from an application market infrastructure. The applications may consume data from a data allocation that has been purchased from a mobile data provider. A user may assign a sub-allocation of the data allocation with a specific application, for use by the application. When the sub-allocation is depleted, the application may alert the user and also give the user an opportunity to purchase additional data. If the user accepts an offer to purchase additional data, the application calls the application market infrastructure to process a purchase transaction for the additional data. The application market infrastructure interacts with the user to complete the transaction and then instructs the mobile data provider to allocation additional data to the mobile device of the user, which is then added to the sub-allocation associated with the application.