WO2013010035A2 - Systèmes et procédés d'affichage de messages électroniques - Google Patents

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WO2013010035A2
WO2013010035A2 PCT/US2012/046550 US2012046550W WO2013010035A2 WO 2013010035 A2 WO2013010035 A2 WO 2013010035A2 US 2012046550 W US2012046550 W US 2012046550W WO 2013010035 A2 WO2013010035 A2 WO 2013010035A2
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  • Text messaging refers to the exchange of brief written messages between electronic devices over a network. Texting typically includes preparing and transmitting information from a sender to a recipient by way of a network. Such information may include text -based information or multimedia content.
  • a text message may be used to direct textual information from a sender to a recipient.
  • Such information may take the form of words or phrases, and in some cases multimedia information (e.g., pictures).
  • the disclosure provides systems and methods for receiving and aggregating information electronic messages on an electronic device, such as a portable electronic device.
  • the electronic messages may include text messages.
  • An aspect of the invention provides a method for receiving and aggregating informational text messages on a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the method comprises receiving on the text- enabled electronic device a plurality of text messages having one or more user-selected categories of informational material, an individual text message of the plurality of text messages having a tag corresponding to a category of informational material included in the individual text message;
  • Another aspect of the invention provides a method for receiving and aggregating
  • informational text messages on an electronic device comprising receiving on the electronic device a plurality of text messages having one or more user-selected categories of informational material.
  • An individual text message of the plurality of text messages has a tag corresponding to a category of informational material included in the individual text message.
  • the plurality of text messages is aggregated based upon the tags associated with each of the text messages.
  • the plurality of text messages are collected and grouped into one or more informational groups.
  • the plurality of aggregated text messages are then made available for view by a user, such as on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display of an electronic device of the user.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • Another aspect of the invention provides a method for receiving and aggregating
  • informational text messages on a text-enabled electronic device comprising receiving on the text- enabled electronic device one or more text messages, and determining, with the aid of a processor, whether the one or more text messages are directed to a standard port or a non-standard port of the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the standard port is dedicated to short message service (SMS) messages and/or multimedia message service (MMS) messages and the non-standard port is dedicated to informational text messages.
  • SMS short message service
  • MMS multimedia message service
  • the one or more text messages are directed to i) an SMS and/or MMS text message inbox of the text-enabled electronic device if the one or more text messages are directed to the standard port, or ii) a custom inbox of the text-enabled electronic device if the one or more text messages are directed to the non-standard port.
  • the one or more text messages are displayed on a user interface (UI) of the text-enabled electronic device.
  • UI user interface
  • Another aspect of the invention provides a method for generating and transmitting informational text messages to a text-enabled electronic device, comprising receiving a subscription request from a text-enabled electronic device, the subscription request corresponding to a type of informational material to be included in an informational text message for distribution to the text- enabled electronic device; generating an informational text message, the informational text message having informational material and a tag corresponding to a type of informational material, the tag for aggregating the informational text message with one or more other informational text messages based on the type of informational material included in the informational text message; and transmitting the informational text message to the text-enabled electronic device.
  • Another aspect of the invention provides a method for generating and transmitting informational text messages to a text-enabled electronic device, comprising receiving a subscription request from a text-enabled electronic device, the subscription request corresponding to a type of informational material to be included in an informational text message for distribution to the text- enabled electronic device.
  • an informational text message is generated.
  • the informational text message includes informational material and a tag corresponding to a type of informational material.
  • the informational text message is then transmitted to the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the informational text message is aggregated with one or more other informational text messages based on the type of informational material included in the
  • Methods above, alone or in combination, may be implemented by a system having one or more processors and a memory location coupled to the one or more processors.
  • the memory location comprises machine-executable code which, when executed by the one or more processors, implements the methods above, alone or in combination.
  • methods may be implemented by an electronic device of a user.
  • methods for receiving and aggregating electronic messages e.g., text messages
  • methods for generating and transmitting text messages can be implemented by a server that is communicatively coupled to the portable electronic device.
  • a system for receiving and aggregating informational text messages on a text-enabled electronic device comprises a receiving module that receives one or more text messages having user-selected informational material; an aggregation module that aggregates a plurality of text messages based upon a tag associated with an individual text message of the plurality of text messages, wherein the tag corresponds to the type of informational material included in the individual text message; and a user interface for making the one or more text messages available for view by a user in a dedicated inbox, the dedicated inbox displaying categories or sub-categories of informational material.
  • a system for generating and transmitting informational text messages to a text-enabled electronic device comprises a subscription module that receives a subscription request from a text-enabled electronic device, wherein the subscription request corresponds to a type of informational material to be included in an informational text message for distribution to the text-enabled electronic device; a text message generation module that generates an informational text message having informational material and a tag corresponding to the type of informational material, wherein the tag permits the text-enabled electronic device to aggregate the informational text message with one or more other informational text messages based on the type of informational material included in the informational text message; and a text message transmission module that transmits the informational text message to the text-enabled electronic device.
  • FIGs. 1A-1K show a graphical user interface of an application configured to display informational text messages on a text-enabled electronic device, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows a method for generating informational text messages for transmission to a text- enabled electronic device, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 3 shows a method for displaying one or more text messages on a text-enabled electronic device of a user, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 4 shows a method for displaying one or more text messages on a text-enabled electronic device of a user, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 shows a system for generating, transmitting and receiving electronic messages, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • network generally refers to a local area network (LAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), wide area network (WAN), or other type of network.
  • LAN local area network
  • MAN metropolitan area network
  • WAN wide area network
  • a network may be a wired or wireless network.
  • an electronic message generally refers to an electronic message transmitted to, or received by, an electronic device.
  • An electronic message can include one or more characters (e.g., character strings) and/or multimedia content (e.g., images, audio, video).
  • an electronic message is a text message, such as a short message service (SMS) message or a multimedia message service (MMS) message.
  • SMS and/or MMS text messages are directed to a standard port of a text-enabled electronic device.
  • informational material generally refers to text or media content that conveys information to a user.
  • Informational material may include news information, trivia information, weather information, sports information, media information, education information, traffic information and other information of interest to a user (e.g., hobbies).
  • informational text message generally refers to a text message having informational material.
  • the informational material may be included in a body of the text message.
  • text-enabled electronic device generally refers to a machine, system, computer or any device or system having a processor such as a central processing unit
  • a text-enabled electronic device may be configured to receive short message service (SMS) messages and/or multimedia message service (MMS) messages.
  • SMS short message service
  • MMS multimedia message service
  • a text-enabled electronic device is configured to send text messages.
  • a text-enabled electronic device is a computer, such as a personal computer (PC), or a telephone, such as a cellular phone or Smart phone.
  • a text-enabled electronic device may be a portable electronic device. Examples of text-enabled electronic devices include Smart phones (e.g., iPhone®, Android®-enabled phone, HTC® phone, Blackberry®) and telephones, such as cellular telephones (e.g., Motorola® phones, HTC® phones).
  • Methods and systems provided herein enable the collection and aggregation of informational text messages.
  • methods and systems are provided to enable a user to subscribe to an information service and receive text messages from the information service.
  • the user's text-enabled electronic device may aggregate and group the text messages and present the information to the user for ready access.
  • the information will be presented to the user by way of a user interface (UI), such as a graphical user interface (GUI).
  • UI user interface
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • methods are provided for generating informational text messages for transmission to a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the informational text messages may be configured to be received and aggregated on a text-enabled electronic device.
  • such informational text messages are configured to be aggregated on a text-enabled electronic device having software and/or hardware for recognizing such informational text messages.
  • methods are provided for receiving and aggregating premium SMS text messages on a text-enabled electronic device. Such methods may be facilitated by an operating system of the text-enabled electronic device or an application ("app") running on the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the text messages may be provided in a dedicated inbox of the user's text- enabled electronic device.
  • a user interface (UI) for a text-enabled electronic device permits a user to subscribe to and view informational material.
  • the informational material may be provided as one or more updates to a category or sub-category of informational material (also
  • the UI may be part of the operating system (OS) of the text-enabled electronic device or an application ("app") residing on the OS.
  • the UI is a graphical user interface (GUI) having one or more menus and, in some cases, one or more sub-menus (or sub- folders) for subscribing to informational material and displaying aggregated informational text messages.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the UI may have a dedicated inbox for displaying informational text messages.
  • the app is configured to enable the user to subscribe to and review informational text messages from the dedicated inbox.
  • FIGs. 1A- 1K show a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application configured for use with a text-enabled electronic device, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • the application is used with a mobile telephone (e.g., Motorola® phones, Nokia® phones).
  • the illustrated application includes a GUI for enabling the user to interact with the app.
  • the user accesses the app by selecting a link of the app on a home screen of the GUI of the text- enabled electronic device.
  • the text-enabled electronic device (“the device") launches the app.
  • the app displays a welcome screen to the user with a welcome message, as shown in FIG. 1 A.
  • the app presents a home screen to the user with various icons, as shown in FIG. IB.
  • the icons may be links to various types of informational material (or categories). Each link provides the user the option of receiving an update to a particular category of informational material.
  • the home screen has a sports link and Twitter® link, which allow the user to receive sports updates (e.g., baseball updates) and Twitter updates.
  • sports updates e.g., baseball updates
  • Twitter® link which allow the user to receive sports updates (e.g., baseball updates) and Twitter updates.
  • various categories include sports information (or updates), movie updates, news updates, shopping updates, Facebook® updates, Twitter® updates, Linkedin® updates, Google+® updates, email updates, horoscope updates, trivia updates, and/or other updates.
  • a sub-menu is presented for the category selected by the user.
  • the news link is selected from the home screen and the device presents the news sub-menu to the user.
  • the news sub-menu includes a Local News sub-menu, National News sub-menu, Technology sub-menu and Arts & Culture sub-menu. In other situations, the news sub-menu may include fewer or more sub-menus.
  • Each sub-menu may enable the user to subscribe to the particular category or sub-category of informational material.
  • the user may elect to receive updates to all news subcategories.
  • the user elects to receive updates to particular sub-categories within a category.
  • the user elects to receive updates to Local News and National News only.
  • the user may elect to automatically receive updates on a set or predetermined frequency, such as on a minute, hourly, daily or weekly basis.
  • the user may be given the option of subscribing to receive local news informational material.
  • the user may select between daily or single update frequencies.
  • the app upon making the selection (i.e., daily or single update), the app requests that the user confirm the subscription request, which may require the user to confirm the cost for subscribing to the selected subscription in cases in which there is a fee associated with the subscription.
  • the app Upon confirming the subscription, the app sends the request to an informational text message system (FIG. IF). The system may then send the user's text-enabled electronic device updates at the interval selected by the user.
  • FIG. 1G shows an update to Local News.
  • the update is sent to the user's text- enabled electronic device by way of an informational text message having a tag that enables the app to categorize and aggregate the text message with other Local News text messages (see above).
  • the user accesses the Local News update via an inbox that is dedicated to categories of informational material, as shown in FIG. 1H.
  • the dedicated inbox differs from a general inbox of the text-enabled electronic device in that the dedicated inbox categorizes informational text messages by category (or tag) whereas the general inbox does not categorize informational text messages in this manner.
  • FIG. 1G shows an update to Local News.
  • FIG. 1G shows an update to Local News.
  • the update is sent to the user's text- enabled electronic device by way of an informational text message having a tag that enables the app to categorize and aggregate the text message with other Local News text messages (see above).
  • the user accesses the Local News update via an inbox that is dedicated
  • the dedicated inbox includes Sports, News, Horoscope and Music categories.
  • the number of text messages received for each category is generally designated by (N), wherein 'N' corresponds to the number of new messages within a particular category or subcategory.
  • New category or sub-category messages may be graphically illustrated by a number within a parenthesis next to the name of the category (e.g., "(1)", "(2)", "(3)”).
  • Sports has two new messages
  • News has three new messages.
  • the number of updates within a sub-category of a category is subsumed into the number of updates within the category.
  • the three new messages under News may include one Local News update and two National News updates.
  • the user may select the category to access a list of any messages received for a category.
  • a category In the illustrated example of FIG. II, two new messages to the Sports category have been received.
  • the user may select each new message to review (or read) informational material provided in the selected message.
  • the app Upon selecting a message, the app presents the user with the informational material included in that message.
  • the app has presented the user with informational material relevant to the second new message (from the top) of FIG. II.
  • the user may elect to delete the selected message, update a category or sub-category, or return ("Exit") to the list of messages (or updates) under a category or sub-category.
  • the user may select to update (or refresh) the list of new messages. If the user selects to refresh the list, the device will query an informational text message system in the network for any new messages within the category or sub-category. Any new messages will then be transmitted to the device and provided in the list of new messages.
  • the dedicated inbox includes categories that have one or more subcategories.
  • Each sub-category may have one or more sub-categories, and so on.
  • each category or sub-category may have 1 or more, or 2 or more, or 3 or more, or 4 more, or 5 or more, or 10 or more, or 20 or more, or 50 or more sub-categories (or sub-sub-categories).
  • the News category includes Local News and National News sub-categories. When the user receives one or more new messages within the News category, the user may select the News category to reveal the Local News and National News sub-categories. The user may then select the sub-category having the new messages to read a list of one or more new messages within the sub-category.
  • Applications described above may be implemented by, or work in conjunction with, one or more modules, systems or subsystems of a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the application of FIG. 1 may be implemented by an operating system of a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the operating system may be configured to collect and aggregate informational text messages.
  • the text-enabled electronic device has a global positioning service (GPS) or other like geographic location (geolocation) device or service that permits the text-enabled device to determine the user's location.
  • GPS global positioning service
  • This may permit the user to subscribe to and receive informational text messages based on the user's geographic location, such as local news updates, local food updates (e.g., deals to local restaurants), local movie updates (e.g., movie deals to a local theater) and local weather updates.
  • the text-enabled electronic device may provide updates based on the user's changing location. Such messages may be sent to the user's device at a predetermined interval, such as on a minute, hourly, daily or weekly basis, or as requested by the user.
  • an informational electronic message system receives a subscription request from an electronic device, the subscription request corresponding to a category of informational material to be included in informational electronic messages for distribution to a user's electronic device.
  • the system then generates one or more informational electronic messages, the informational electronic messages having informational material and a tag corresponding to a category (or type) of informational material, where the tag is utilized in aggregating the informational electronic message with one or more other informational electronic messages based on the type of informational material included in the informational electronic message.
  • the informational electronic message is then transmitted to the electronic device.
  • the electronic message is a text message
  • the electronic device is a text-enabled electronic device.
  • FIG. 2 shows a method 200 for generating and transmitting informational text messages to a text-enabled electronic device, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • an informational text message system receives a subscription request from a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the subscription request corresponds to a category of informational material to be included in an informational text message for distribution to the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the subscription request is for informational text messages related to horoscopes, news, trivia, shopping, sports, education, weather and traffic, or any other category.
  • the informational text message system subscribes the text-enabled electronic device to the requested subscription. Such subscription may be added to a list of subscriptions associated with the text-enabled electronic device or a user account.
  • the informational text message system generates an informational text message having informational material, such as, e.g., a news update, a sports update, a trivia question, or a daily horoscope.
  • Such text message may be generated when new information becomes available or at predetermined intervals, such as every 1 minute, or 10 minutes, or 20 minutes, or 30 minutes, or 1 hour, or 2 hours, or 3 hours, or 4 hours, or 5 hours, or 6 hours, or 7 hours, or 8 hours, or 9 hours, or 10 hours, or 1 1 hours, or 12 hours, or 1 day, or 1 week, or 1 month.
  • the informational text message may include informational material and a tag corresponding to a category of informational material.
  • the informational text message may have a tag corresponding to local news if the informational text message includes a local news update or a different tag corresponding to shopping if the informational text message includes shopping information.
  • the informational text message includes (or is associated with) a news tag, horoscope tag, shopping tag, trivia tag, sports tag, humor tag, business tag, or other tag that corresponds to a category of informational material.
  • the informational text message system directs (i.e., sends or transmits) an informational text message to a non-standard port of a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the informational text message includes a tag corresponding to a category of informational material.
  • the informational text message does not include a tag, and the text-enabled electronic device determines whether the text message is an informational text message based on the port (i.e., standard or non-standard port) the text message was directed to and received.
  • the tag is for aggregating the informational text message with one or more other informational text messages based on the category of informational material included in the informational text message. That is, the tag is for enabling the text-enabled electronic device to group informational text messages having like or similar content with one another (see above).
  • the informational text message system transmits the informational text message to the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the text message is transmitted via wired or wireless transmission.
  • the text message is transmitted over a network, such as a telephone network, an intranet, or the Internet.
  • Methods for generating and transmitting informational text messages may be implemented by systems, such as computer systems, in communication (e.g., network communication) with a text- enabled electronic device.
  • FIG. 5 shows a system 500 for generating, transmitting and receiving electronic messages.
  • the system 500 comprises a server 501 for generating information text messages, as describe elsewhere herein.
  • the server 501 can be a computer system configured to execute machine- execute code stored on the server 501 or at a remote location in communication with the server 501.
  • the server 501 comprises a central processing unit (CPU) 505 and a memory location 510, data storage unit 515, communications interface 520 and other peripheral devices 525 coupled to the CPU.
  • CPU central processing unit
  • the server 501 includes one CPU, the sever 501 may include a plurality of CPU's, such as for parallel processing.
  • the memory location 510 can include one or more data storage units, such as random-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), and/or physical storage media, such as a hard disk.
  • the data storage unit 515 may be a database separate from the memory location 510.
  • the communications interface 520 brings the server in communication with a network 530, which is in communication with an electronic device 535 of a user.
  • the electronic device 535 may be a computer system.
  • the electronic device 535 is a portable electronic device, such as a portable computer (e.g., laptop), slate or tablet personal computer (e.g., Apple® iPad, Samsung® Galaxy Tab), or a Smart phone (e.g., Apple® iPhone, Android® enabled phone), or a portable telephone (e.g., HTC® phone, Samsung® phone).
  • a portable computer e.g., laptop
  • slate or tablet personal computer e.g., Apple® iPad, Samsung® Galaxy Tab
  • a Smart phone e.g., Apple® iPhone, Android® enabled phone
  • a portable telephone e.g., HTC® phone, Samsung® phone.
  • the memory location 510 can include machine-executable code that, when executed by the CPU 505, enables the server 501 to generate and transmit electronic messages (e.g., text messages).
  • the electronic device 535 can include one or more CPU's and a memory location for storing machine-executable code that, when executed by the one or more CPU's, enables the device 535 to receive electronic messages (e.g., text messages).
  • the server 501 and the electronic device 535 can include one or more modules described elsewhere herein.
  • the one or more modules of each of the server 501 and the electronic device 535 can be implemented with the aid of code (or software) executed by one or more processors of each of the server 501 and the device 535.
  • a system for generating and transmitting informational text messages to a text-enabled electronic device comprises a subscription module that receives a subscription request from a text-enabled electronic device.
  • the subscription request corresponds to a category of informational material to be included in an informational text message for distribution to the text-enabled electronic device.
  • a text message generation module of the system generates an informational text message having informational material and a tag
  • the tag permits the text-enabled electronic device to aggregate the informational text message with one or more other informational text messages based on the category of informational material included in the informational text message.
  • a text message transmission module transmits the informational text message to the text- enabled electronic device.
  • a text-enabled electronic device receives a plurality of text messages having one or more user-selected categories of informational material.
  • the user-selected categories of informational material are selected by the user via a subscription.
  • An individual text message of the plurality of text messages has a tag corresponding to a category of informational material included in the individual text message.
  • the tag is a metadata tag.
  • the tag is identifying or identifiable (e.g., machine identifiable) information in the header, footer or body of the individual text message.
  • the text-enabled device aggregates the plurality of text messages based upon the tag.
  • the text-enabled device aggregates the plurality of text messages by grouping text messages having similar or compatible types of tags.
  • the text-enabled device groups the text messages into informational groups (or categories), such as, for example, a news group (or category), trivia group, sports group, astrology group, or horoscope group.
  • a group may have one or more sub-groups (or sub-categories).
  • a news group has a local news sub-group and a national news sub-group.
  • the text-enabled device may sort text messages based on various factors, such as user preferences and the number of text messages in each group of text messages.
  • an individual text message with informational material upon arriving at the text-enabled device, is grouped into a particular informational group based on the tag associated with the text message.
  • the text-enabled device makes the plurality of text messages available for view by a user.
  • the text-enabled device presents the text messages in a UI (e.g., GUI) of the text-enabled device.
  • the text-enabled device displays the text messages in a dedicated inbox of the UI of the text-enabled device.
  • the text messages are provided in folders and/or subfolders of the dedicated inbox, such as sub folders for each category or sub-category of informational material (e.g., sports subfolder, trivia subfolder, news subfolder).
  • the dedicated inbox may be part of a user interface (UI), such as a graphical user interface (GUI), of a system configured to present text messages to a user.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the dedicated inbox displays aggregated and grouped informational text messages.
  • the text-enabled device upon arrival of an informational text message to the text-enabled device the text-enabled device aggregates the informational text message with like types of text messages and makes the text message available for view by a user.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates a method 300 for displaying text messages on a text-enabled electronic device of a user, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • the text- enabled electronic device receives a text message.
  • the text-enabled electronic device is a mobile phone and a message is received by wireless transmission with the aid of a network.
  • the text-enabled electronic device determines whether the text message has an informational tag, as described above. In an embodiment, this entails determining whether the text message was sent to a standard port (dedicated to SMS text messages, for example) or a nonstandard port of the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the text-enabled electronic device display the text message in an inbox of a user interface of the electronic device. For instance, the text-enabled electronic device may display the text message in an inbox as part of a GUI of the text-enabled electronic device. In some situations, the inbox does not aggregate or group text messages.
  • the text-enabled electronic device may aggregate the text message with other text massages based on the category of informational material included in the text message (as indicated by the informational tag).
  • the text message is aggregated with other text messages having news informational material. If there are no other text messages having news informational material, then such aggregation would involve the text-enabled electronic device distinguishing the text message having news informational material from other categories of informational text messages.
  • the text-enabled electronic device displays the text message in a dedicated informational message inbox of a user interface, such as a graphical user interface, of the text- enabled electronic device.
  • the informational message inbox is different from the inbox described above in the context of step 315 in that it is dedicated for informational text messages.
  • the informational message inbox includes folders dedicated to various categories of informational messages. For instance, the informational message inbox includes a folder for news informational messages, hobby informational messages, sports informational messages, or shopping informational messages. Each folder may include a sub- folder. For instance, the news folder may include a local news subfolder.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a method 400 for displaying text messages on a text-enabled electronic device of a user, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.
  • the text- enabled electronic device receives a text message.
  • the text-enabled electronic device determines whether the text message was sent to a pre-defined (or pre-determined) non-standard port.
  • SMS and/or MMS text messages are received on a standard port of the text-enabled electronic device and informational text messages are received on a nonstandard port.
  • step 415 the text-enabled electronic device forwards or directs the text message to a regular SMS and/or MMS inbox (i.e., an inbox dedicated to SMS and/or MMS text messages) of the text-enabled electronic device.
  • a regular SMS and/or MMS inbox i.e., an inbox dedicated to SMS and/or MMS text messages
  • the text-enabled electronic device parses and/or aggregates and stores the text message in a custom inbox based on the type of informational material included in the text message.
  • the text-enabled electronic device stores the text message in a News inbox if the text message has news informational material, or a Sports inbox if the text message has sports informational material, or an entertainment inbox if the text message has entertainment
  • text messages are aggregated and stored as described above, such as, for example, through the approach described in the context of FIG. 3.
  • the text-enabled electronic device notifies the user of the new message(s) in the custom inbox.
  • the text-enabled electronic device displays the text message in the custom inbox and presents a visual and/or audible (e.g., a chime) indicator.
  • the custom inbox is presented on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the text enabled electronic device, and the visual indicator is a number indicating the total number of new informational text messages in the custom inbox (e.g., "1", "2", "3").
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • step 430 the text-enabled electronic device orders the contents of the custom inbox in the graphical user interface.
  • text messages are provided in a list and ordered by category, with the latest text message appearing at the top of the list.
  • step 430 is performed after step 425.
  • step 430 is performed simultaneously with or subsequent to step 425—that is, text messages may be ordered before the user is notified of new messages.
  • the text-enabled electronic displays the text message(s) in the GUI of the text- enabled electronic device when user navigates to the message from its category.
  • the text-enabled electronic device displays the text message in the custom inbox of the GUI.
  • the custom inbox is different from the inbox for storing text messages directed at a standard port of the text-enabled electronic device.
  • the custom inbox is dedicated for informational text messages.
  • the custom inbox includes folders dedicated to various categories of informational messages. For instance, the custom inbox includes a folder for news informational messages, hobby informational messages, sports informational messages, or shopping informational messages. Each folder may include a sub- folder. For instance, the news folder may include a local news subfolder.
  • a system for receiving and aggregating informational text messages on a text-enabled electronic device comprises a plurality of modules.
  • a receiving module of the device receives one or more text messages having user-selected informational material.
  • An aggregation module of the device aggregates a plurality of text messages based upon a tag associated with an individual text message of the plurality of text messages (see above). The tag corresponds to the type of informational material included in the individual text message.
  • a user interface provides the one or more text messages for view by a user.
  • aspects of the systems and methods described herein may be implemented as functionality programmed into any of a variety of circuitry, including programmable logic devices (PLDs), such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), programmable array logic (PAL) devices, electrically programmable logic and memory devices and standard cell-based devices, as well as application specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
  • PLDs programmable logic devices
  • FPGAs field programmable gate arrays
  • PAL programmable array logic
  • ASICs application specific integrated circuits
  • microcontrollers with memory embedded microprocessors
  • firmware firmware
  • software etc.
  • aspects of the systems and methods may be embodied in
  • microprocessors having software-based circuit emulation, discrete logic (sequential and
  • MOSFET metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor
  • CMOS complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
  • ECL emitter-coupled logic
  • polymer technologies e.g., silicon-conjugated polymer and metal- conjugated polymer-metal structures
  • mixed analog and digital etc.
  • aspects of systems and methods provided herein can be embodied in programming.
  • Various aspects of the technology may be thought of as “products” or “articles of manufacture” typically in the form of machine (or processor) executable code and/or associated data that is carried on or embodied in a type of machine readable medium.
  • Machine-executable code can be stored on an electronic storage unit, such memory (e.g., ROM, RAM) or a hard disk.
  • “Storage” type media can include any or all of the tangible memory of the computers, processors or the like, or associated modules thereof, such as various semiconductor memories, tape drives, disk drives and the like, which may provide non-transitory storage at any time for the software programming.
  • All or portions of the software may at times be communicated through the Internet or various other telecommunication networks. Such communications, for example, may enable loading of the software from one computer or processor into another, for example, from a management server or host computer into the computer platform of an application server.
  • another type of media that may bear the software elements includes optical, electrical and electromagnetic waves, such as used across physical interfaces between local devices, through wired and optical landline networks and over various air-links.
  • the physical elements that carry such waves, such as wired or wireless links, optical links or the like, also may be considered as media bearing the software.
  • terms such as computer or machine "readable medium” refer to any medium that participates in providing instructions to a processor for execution.
  • a machine readable medium such as computer-executable code
  • a tangible storage medium such as computer-executable code
  • Non-volatile storage media include, for example, optical or magnetic disks, such as any of the storage devices in any computer(s) or the like, such as may be used to implement the databases, etc. shown in the drawings.
  • Volatile storage media include dynamic memory, such as main memory of such a computer platform.
  • Tangible transmission media include coaxial cables; copper wire and fiber optics, including the wires that comprise a bus within a computer system.
  • Carrier-wave transmission media may take the form of electric or electromagnetic signals, or acoustic or light waves such as those generated during radio frequency (RF) and infrared (IR) data communications.
  • RF radio frequency
  • IR infrared
  • Common forms of computer-readable media therefore include for example: a floppy disk, a flexible disk, hard disk, magnetic tape, any other magnetic medium, a CD-ROM,
  • DVD or DVD-ROM any other optical medium, punch cards paper tape, any other physical storage medium with patterns of holes, a RAM, a ROM, a PROM and EPROM, a FLASH-EPROM, any other memory chip or cartridge, a carrier wave transporting data or instructions, cables or links transporting such a carrier wave, or any other medium from which a computer may read
  • code that is executable by a single processor may be executed by a plurality of processors, such as in a parallel processor environment or distributed computing fashion. Code that is executable by a plurality of processors may be executed by a single processor.
  • Computer-readable media in which such formatted data and/or instructions may be embodied include, but are not limited to, non-volatile storage media in various forms (e.g., optical, magnetic or semiconductor storage media) and carrier waves that may be used to transfer such formatted data and/or instructions through wireless, optical, or wired signaling media or any combination thereof.
  • Examples of transfers of such formatted data and/or instructions by carrier waves include, but are not limited to, transfers (uploads, downloads, email, etc.) over the Internet and/or other computer networks via one or more data transfer protocols (e.g., HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.).
  • data transfer protocols e.g., HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.
  • a processing entity e.g., one or more processors
  • computing may refer in whole or in part to the action and/or processes of a processor, computer or computing system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transform data represented as physical, such as electronic, quantities within the system's registers and/or memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the system's memories, registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
  • processors computer or computing system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transform data represented as physical, such as electronic, quantities within the system's registers and/or memories into other data similarly represented as physical quantities within the system's memories, registers or other such information storage, transmission or display devices.
  • the term “users” referred to herein can be individuals as well as corporations and other legal entities.
  • the processes presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, processing device, article or other apparatus. An example of a structure for a variety of these systems will appear from the description below.
  • embodiments of the invention are not described with reference to any particular processor, programming language, machine code, etc. It will be
  • Systems and methods of the disclosure may be used with electronic messages, such as electronic mail (email) and text messages.
  • electronic messages such as electronic mail (email) and text messages.

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La présente invention se rapporte à des procédés et à des systèmes adaptés pour permettre à un utilisateur de s'abonner à un service d'information et de recevoir des messages texte en provenance dudit service d'information. Selon la présente invention, un dispositif électronique de l'utilisateur, qui est optimisé pour recevoir du texte, peut agréger les messages texte sur le dispositif électronique optimisé pour recevoir du texte, et présenter les informations à l'utilisateur de manière à lui permettre d'accéder auxdites informations, au moyen d'une interface utilisateur graphique, par exemple.
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