US 9,866,879 B2Granted

IP-based television messaging services

AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC

InventorsBrian Kevin Daly, DeWayne Allan Sennett

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Abstract

Architecture for the delivery of IP-based messages from wired and/or wireless devices to a television system. The means for delivery can be via an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) technology. The message is processed through a messaging system that obtains a mapping of a message address to an IPTV address, and routes the message to an IPTV network for delivery the desired television system for presentation. Messaging can be via SMS (short message service) for textual content, MMS (multimedia messaging service) for multimedia content, or other messaging technologies, such as instant messaging, an e-mail, for example. Optionally, the message from the user device can include a request for confirmation of delivery of the message to the television. The confirmation can then be routed back over an IP data network to the user device and presented to the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising
receiving, over a first network, a message directed to a television system, wherein the message comprises a request for confirmation of receipt of the message,
determining, based at least in part on the message, an address associated with the television system,
forwarding the message and the address associated with the television system to a routing server for delivery, over a second network, of the message to the television system, and
receiving, via the routing server, from the television system, a confirmation message in response to the request, the confirmation message comprising data indicating whether the confirmation message was generated automatically by the television system based on receipt of the message comprising the request or whether the confirmation message was generated based on user interaction, via the television system, with the request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/822,800Filed 10 Aug 2015 · continuation
Priority: 26 Mar 2007
Published: US 2015/0350693 A13 Dec 2015
Granted: 9 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04N 21/235
Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware: processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of…
H04N 21/262
Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client…:…
H04N 21/4786
Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application: e-mailing
H04N 21/4788
Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application: communicating with other users, e.g. chatting

Family

Application11/691,208Parent of this division · filed 26 Mar 2007
Application14/040,689Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Sep 2013
US 8,683,510 B1Parent of this division · filed 25 Mar 2014
US 2015/0350693 A1Pre-grant publication · published 3 Dec 2015
US 9,106,971 B2Parent of this continuation
Application14/040,689Parent of this division
US 2014/0033255 A1Published application
US 9,866,879 B2This patent

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