Patent ID: 7925245
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for offering an option to purchase content to a subscriber of a newly activated mobile station in a cellular network comprising: maintaining a server containing a storefront application where subscribers may purchase content from content providers; maintaining a storefront database associated with the storefront application that stores information about content purchased by the subscriber; maintaining a subscriber database that stores information about the functionality of mobile stations associated with the subscriber; maintaining a content database that stores information about content available for purchase by the functionality of the mobile station; receiving at a gateway of said network a request to activate a new mobile station; upon receiving said request, searching the subscriber database after activation of the new mobile station to determine a record of a second mobile station previously activated by the subscriber; in response to finding record of said second mobile station, then searching the storefront database to determine content previously purchased by the subscriber and downloaded to said second mobile station; upon finding said content previously purchased, then identifying alternate content equivalent to the content previously purchased by the subscriber; determining that said alternate content is compatible with the newly activated mobile station; and determining, based on mobile station's functionality data from the subscriber database, that the newly activated mobile station's functionalities support the compatible alternate content: and sending an offer of the alternate content equivalent to the content previously purchased to the new mobile station.