Patent ID: 8364128

Claim:
A method for centrally distributing mobile content for delivery to mobile devices, the method comprising: at a mobile content provider server device, receiving mobile content and associated subscription data from respective content providers, the subscription data defining content offers and including terms for defining a subscription to receive a plurality of respective content packages comprising the mobile content and at least one of previously published mobile content and subsequently published mobile content defining a series of publications, on behalf of said content providers, for subscribers to receive said mobile content; storing, at the mobile content provider serve device, said mobile content for delivery to respective mobile devices of said subscribers in accordance with respective subscriptions; forwarding the subscription data to a mobile content storage server device on behalf of said content providers, said storage server device providing the content offers to deliver the mobile content to subscribers and completing respective subscriptions to receive the mobile content in accordance with the content offers; and receiving, at a central content delivery server device, respective subscriptions from said mobile content storage server device for configuring delivery of mobile content to said mobile devices.