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US 8,798,583 B2Granted
Tag ticker display on a mobile device
AssigneeFunMobility, Inc.
InventorsSrivathsan Narasimhan, Skot Leach, Hudson A. George, Lincoln Lydick, Yu-Jen Dennis Chen, Eric F. Allen, Adam Lavine
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Abstract
A method of providing a link to mobile content on a mobile device includes receiving a plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag having at least one piece of mobile content associated therewith. The mobile content is in a format suitable for transmission over a wireless communication network. The method also includes scrolling the plurality of tags across a portion of a display screen of a mobile device.
Claims20
A method of providing a link to mobile content on a mobile device, the method comprising:
- creating a plurality of tags using explicit user input;
- receiving the plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag having a plurality of pieces of mobile content associated therewith, the mobile content being in a format suitable for transmission over a mobile communication network;
- scrolling the plurality of tags across a portion of a display screen of the mobile device;
- receiving first input to select a particular tag from the plurality of tags;
- in response to selection of the particular tag, determining respective pieces of mobile content associated with the particular tag and frequencies with which the particular tag is associated with the respective pieces of mobile content;
- generating a listing of a plurality of links to the respective pieces of mobile content associated with the particular tag based on the frequencies with which the particular tag is associated with the respective pieces of mobile content;
- displaying the listing of the plurality of links;
- receiving second input to select a particular link from the listing of the plurality of links, the particular link corresponding to a particular piece of mobile content associated with the particular tag;
- and
- downloading the particular piece of mobile content to the mobile device.
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A client application residing on a computer readable medium on a mobile device, the client application being configured to perform operations comprising:
- receiving data, the data including a plurality of tags created by explicit user input, and a plurality of links associated with each corresponding tag, each link being linked to a respective piece of mobile content in a format suitable for transmission over a mobile communication network;
- displaying the plurality of tags on a ticker portion of the display screen by scrolling the plurality of tags across the ticker portion;
- receiving first input to select a particular tag from the plurality of tags;
- in response to selection of the particular tag, determining respective pieces of mobile content associated with the particular tag and frequencies with which the particular tag is associated with the respective pieces of mobile content;
- generating a listing of a plurality of links to the respective pieces of mobile content associated with the particular tag based on the frequencies with which the particular tag is associated with the respective pieces of mobile content;
- displaying the listing of the plurality of links;
- receiving second input from the listing of the plurality of links to select a particular link corresponding to a particular piece of mobile content associated with the particular tag;
- and
- downloading the particular piece of mobile content to the mobile device.
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A mobile communication device, comprising:
- a display screen;
- and
- a client application residing on the mobile communication device, the client application being configured to:
- receive a plurality of tags at the mobile device, each tag being explicitly created using user input and having a plurality of pieces of mobile content associated therewith, the mobile content being in a format suitable for transmission over a mobile communication network;
- scroll the plurality of tags across a ticker portion of the display screen;
- receive first input to select a particular tag from the plurality of tags;
- in response to selection of the particular tag, determine respective pieces of mobile content associated with the particular tag and frequencies with which the particular tag is associated with the respective pieces of mobile content;
- generate a listing of a plurality of links to the respective pieces of mobile content associated with the particular tag based on the frequencies with which the particular tag is associated with the respective pieces of mobile content;
- display the listing of the plurality of links;
- receive second input to select a particular link from the listing of the plurality of links, the particular link corresponding to a particular piece of mobile content associated with the particular tag;
- and
- download the particular piece of mobile content to the mobile communication device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.