Patent ID: 8359031

Claim:
A computer-based method for logging a user mobile device onto a server computer system, comprising: registering a unique identifier of a user mobile device; receiving by the server computer system a first message from the user mobile device via a network maintained by a mobile carrier computer system, the network maintained by the mobile carrier computer system being a Wireless Application Protocol network, and wherein the first message is an SMS message; detecting an Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device in response to receiving the first message; receiving by the server computer system a second message originating from the mobile carrier computer system, the second message including a unique identifier from the mobile carrier computer system, the unique identifier corresponding to the Internet Protocol address associated with the user mobile device; comparing the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system to the registered unique identifier of the user mobile device; and and in response to determining that the unique identifier received from the mobile carrier computer system corresponds to the registered unique identifier of the user mobile device, transmitting to the user mobile device a third message, wherein the third message is an SMS message and has a link to a user-specific homepage, and wherein the user-specific homepage also includes links from a file database corresponding to media files a user of the user mobile device is authorized to access.