System and method for centrally distributing mobile content

摘要

There are provided methods, systems, devices and computer program products for distributing mobile content, on behalf of mobile content providers, to mobile devices. A central mobile content delivery system and a central mobile content delivery store system are provided. Interfaces permit a mobile content provider to author and publish mobile content in association with subscription data. Content offers may be defined from such data and offered to mobile device user subscribers such as in a catalog system. Content is delivered on behalf of the content providers in accordance with the subscriptions concluded by the store system. Subscriptions may relate to single packages of mobile content or a plurality of packages (e.g. in a series of publications) such as previously or subsequently published mobile content. Subscriptions are provided to the central delivery system to assign and deliver mobile content to devices.

主权项

1. A method for centrally distributing mobile content comprising:
at a mobile content provider server device, receiving mobile content and associated subscription data from respective content providers, the subscription data defining content offers and subscription terms to receive a plurality of respective content packages comprising the mobile content and at least one of previously published mobile content and subsequently published mobile content defining a series of publications; forwarding the subscription data to a mobile content storage server device, said mobile content storage server device providing the content offers to deliver the mobile content to subscribers completing respective subscriptions to receive the mobile content in accordance with the content offers; and receiving, at a central content delivery server device, the respective subscriptions from said mobile content storage server device.