Patent ID: 8204488

Claim:
Method for distributing web content to personal cellular telecommunications devices each having feed reader functionality for receiving and processing syndicated information files for displaying syndicated items on a display screen, each syndicated item having an embedded universal resource locator (URL) for accessing a full story, and browser functionality for accessing full stories in web page format, the method comprising the steps of: (a) executing point-to-point (P2P) syndicated information pull transactions at least one syndication feed for fetching a corresponding number of most recent syndicated information files each containing syndicated information including syndicated items; (b) compiling a status notification compilation file including a list of at least one syndication feed and status information regarding same; and (c) point-to-multi-point (P2MP) pushing the compilation file to all available personal cellular telecommunications device in at least one cell selected by a cellular operator for enabling determination at the personal cellular telecommunications devices whether their feed reader functionality has processed the most recent syndicated information files, thereby enabling users to selectively access full stories based on syndicated items of interest to them for rendering the full stories on their personal cellular telecommunication devices.