Podcasting on a mobile phone
AssigneeBouygues Telecom
InventorSamuel Bernard
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Abstract
The field of mobile telephony and, more particularly to accessing podcast content from mobile telephones is disclosed. More precisely, a method and a system for downloading a podcast on a Web server onto a mobile terminal, the method including: a step of a platform storing the address of the podcast at the request of a user on the mobile telecommunications network, a step of the platform verifying the update of the podcast and downloading the updated podcast onto this platform, a step of the platform sending the mobile terminal an address on the platform to allow said downloaded podcast to be downloaded by the mobile terminal via the mobile network, and a step of the terminal actually downloading the podcast stored on the platform via the mobile network.
Claims14
A Method on a mobile terminal for downloading sporadically updated digital content listed in a first data stream including indications for updating said digital content, said first data stream being generated at a first IP address (URL1) by at least one computer server of a computer network, the method comprising the following steps:
- a computer device verifies via said computer network, the update indications generated at said first IP address (URL 1);
- said computer device downloads said digital content listed in said first data stream in the event of an update, said downloaded digital content being stored on the computer device;
- the computer device stores said first IP address (URL1), said storage taking place after sending a first request including said first IP address (URL1) from the mobile terminal to the computer device;
- the computer device verifies whether said first address (URL1) of the first request matches content listed in a first database;
- if the verification is positive:
- the computer device sends the mobile terminal a second IP address (URL2) of the computer device so as to allow said downloaded digital content to be downloaded by the mobile terminal over a mobile telecommunications network;
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- the mobile terminal connects to said second IP address (URL2) via the mobile telecommunications network and downloads said updated digital content from the computer device;
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- if the verification is negative, it stores said first IP address (URL1) in a second database and fulfils said first request for the mobile terminal.
A platform for downloading onto a mobile terminal sporadically updated digital content listed in a first data stream including indications for updating said digital content, said first data stream being generated at a first IP address (URL1) of a computer network, the platform comprising:
- storage of said first IP address (URL1) upon receiving a first request from a mobile terminal, said storage including first and second databases, the first database storing said first IP address upon receiving the first request when this first address is not stored in the second database;
- a verifier, via the computer network, updating indications generated at said first IP address;
- a device downloading and storing said digital content listed in said first data stream in the event of an update;
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- a sender sending the mobile terminal a second IP address (URL2) of the computer device used to download said digital content by the mobile terminal over a mobile telecommunications network.
A system for downloading onto a mobile terminal sporadically updated digital content listed in a first data stream including indications for updating said digital content, the system comprising:
- at least one computer server generating said first data stream at a first IP address (URL1);
- a platform;
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- at least one mobile terminal including means for establishing, on the mobile telecommunications network, a connection with said second IP address (URL2) and downloading said digital content from said computer device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.