Dynamic web content via contextually aware text messaging
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsIan Lynn, Lodema Margaret Steinbach
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Abstract
A system may provide dynamic web-based content in conjunction with text message content. A user may use text messages to interact with web content (e.g., to select hyperlinks, request information, provide information, etc.). A content server may process the text messages, sent by the user, in order to determine web content to provide to the user. The text messages may be authenticated by a message relay server, thereby eliminating the need for the content server to request authentication or identification information from the user.
Claims20
A user device, comprising:
- a memory device storing a set of processor-executable instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the processor-executable instructions, wherein executing the processor-executable instructions causes the user device to:
- identify a telephone number associated with a sender of a text message received by the user device from a message relay device;
- determine a location identifier that is associated with the telephone number, wherein the location identifier includes at least one of:
- a uniform resource locator (“URL”), or
- an Internet protocol (“IP”) address;
- retrieve web content, from a content server, using the location identifier;
- and
- concurrently present, via a display screen of the user device, the text message and the retrieved web content.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a user device, a text message;
- identifying, by the user device, a telephone number associated with a sender of the text message;
- determining, by the user device, a location identifier that is associated with the telephone number, wherein the location identifier includes at least one of:
- a uniform resource locator (“URL”), or
- an Internet protocol (“IP”) address;
- retrieving web content, from a content server, using the location identifier;
- and
- concurrently presenting, via a display screen of the user device, the text message and the retrieved web content.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a content server and via a message relay server, information regarding a text message sent by a user device to a telephone number associated with the content server, the information including:
- content of the text message, and
- an indication that an identity of the user device has been verified by the message relay server;
- determining, by the content server, web content to provide to the user device, wherein the web content includes secure or personal content, the determining being based on the content of the text message and the indication that the identity of the user device has been verified;
- and
- outputting, by the content server, the web content to the user device, the outputting being performed without requesting authentication information, from a user of the user device, for the secure or personal content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.