Patent ID: 8473558
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of registering a user at a website, comprising: receiving, by a computer at the website, a request to send a media file to a phone number, the user being associated with the phone number, determining, by the computer at the website, that the phone number is not associated with registered users at the website, creating, by the computer at the website, a passive registration for the phone number at the website, obtaining, by the computer at the website, characteristics for a destination device associated with the phone number, storing, by the computer at the website, the characteristics of the destination device in association with the passive registration, configuring, by the computer at the website, the media file based on the characteristics, sending, from the computer at the website to the phone number, the configured media file, and storing in association with the passive registration, by the computer at the website, an event of sending the media file, wherein a subsequent response from the website to a subsequent request from the phone number uses the stored characteristics of the destination device, and wherein, when the passive registration is converted to an active registration, the event stored during passive registration can be retrieved in response to a request from the phone number.