Patent ID: 7716281
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method performed at a web server for enabling a user to drag and drop multimedia content from web pages into a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of: serving a web page to a web browser wherein the web page comprises code for (i) an inline frame for rendering web pages, (ii) a receiving panel to receive dragged content rendered in the inline frame (iii) a click handler for directing user clicks in the inline frame to the web server, and (iv) a drag and drop handler for enabling content in the inline frame to be dragged into the receiving panel; receiving from the web browser a web page request containing a URL for a third party web page; transmitting an HTTP request for the URL to the web site of the URL; receiving from the web site of the URL an HTTP response containing HTML code payload for the third party web page; generating a response containing the HTML code payload of the HTTP response; transmitting the response to the web browser in response to the web page request; receiving from the web browser a URL for multimedia content rendered in the inline frame; retrieving a file associated with the URL for multimedia content from the web site of the URL for multimedia content; and transmitting a sequence of file system operation instructions to a client application on the mobile device to instruct the client application to execute a sequence of file system operations on the mobile device corresponding to the sequence of transmitted file system operation instructions in order to store the file in a location of the file system of the mobile device accessible by an application installed on the mobile device and capable of consuming the file.