Patent ID: 7751807

Claim:
A system for enabling a user to utilize a web site to manage multimedia data for access by an application on a mobile device, wherein the mobile device supports data packet based communications over a mobile network system, the system comprising: a web server component resident at a server configured to transmit web pages of the web site to the user at a terminal separate from the mobile device and record actions taken by the user on the web site at the terminal intended to manage multimedia data residing on the mobile device; a communications engine component resident at the server configured to:(i) transmit an SMS message to the mobile device, wherein the SMS message comprises an IP address of the server, in order to establish a network connection with the mobile device, (ii) establish the network connection with the mobile device, (iii) identify, for each action taken by the user on the web site that relates to multimedia data accessible on the mobile device through the application, a set of file system operation instructions required to perform the action on the mobile device in a manner compatible with the interaction of the application on the mobile device with the file system of the mobile device, and (iv) transmit each set of file system operation instructions to the mobile device through the network connection; and a mobile software component resident on the mobile device, wherein the mobile software component is configured to: (i) launch upon receipt by the mobile device of the SMS message by a push registry of the mobile device, (ii) receive file system operation instructions from the communications engine component and (iii) perform file system operations corresponding to the received file system operation instructions on the file system of the mobile device.