Patent ID: 9094693
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A server for disseminating a video file to a plurality of mobile subscribers over a mobile communications network, the server comprising: a database storing video files and records of mobile subscribers; a memory storage; a network connection device communicatively coupled with the mobile communications network; a processor communicatively coupled with the database, the memory storage and the network connection device, the processor programmed for: (b) defining a criteria for selecting mobile subscribers for receiving one or more videos from the database, wherein said criteria is based on data from a record for a mobile subscriber; (c) selecting a group of mobile subscribers from the plurality of mobile subscribers by identifying the records of said mobile subscribers that match said criteria, wherein the group of mobile subscribers comprises at least 5 million mobile subscribers; (d) converting, for each mobile subscriber of the group of mobile subscribers, a video file to a format that corresponds to the operating system indicator and the video format indicator in the record for said mobile subscriber, such that a plurality of converted video files are generated; (e) generating, for each mobile subscriber of the group of mobile subscribers, a video message including a corresponding converted video file, such that a plurality of video messages are generated; (f) establishing a live video stream source for the plurality of video messages; (g) establishing a video chat session with each of the group of at least 5 million mobile subscribers, over the mobile communications network and via a video chat service provider, using the live video stream source as a source for the plurality of video messages; and (h) transmitting, to each mobile subscriber of the group of at least 5 million mobile subscribers, via the mobile communications network and the video chat service provider, a corresponding video message of the plurality of video messages to the mobile phone number in the record for said mobile phone subscriber, wherein the video message is transmitted according to the method of access indicator in the record for said mobile subscriber.