Application programming interface for transferring content from the web to devices

摘要

A tagging structure is used in web pages to identify content in such web pages that can be dragged and dropped into a wireless device when such web pages are rendered as a component of a web page served by a media management service.

主权项

1. A method to retrieve content stored on a third party remote server for delivery to a wireless device, the method comprising:
sending a web page stored on the third party remote server to an end-user computer for display in a web browser, wherein the web browser displays a plurality of icons that correspond to content and wherein a tagging structure associated with the web page identifies content displayed on the web page that is available to a media management server for delivery to the wireless device, wherein content displayed on the web page that is identified by the tagging structure as unavailable is not available to the media management server for delivery to the wireless device, wherein a set of the unavailable content becomes available content when the end-user computer provides information that satisfies an access condition, wherein the tagging structure comprises a location of the content on a network that is available and an HTML code tag that specifies a cost associated with the content that is available; receiving, from the end-user computer, a selection of the content displayed on the web page that is identified as available by the tagging structure; retrieving the selected content from the network by using the location of the content from the tagging structure; delivering the retrieved selected content to the wireless device in response to the selection from the end-user; and charging an account associated with the wireless device for the cost specified by the HTML code tag in response to the delivery of the selected content to the wireless device.