Patent ID: 7974614

Claim:
A method for downloading content stored in a first mobile station of a subscriber into a second mobile station of the same subscriber in a cellular network comprising: maintaining a server containing a storefront application where subscribers may download content from content providers; maintaining a storefront database associated with the storefront application that stores information about content downloaded by the subscriber; receiving at a gateway of said network information identifying the subscriber; receiving at the gateway a request to download content previously downloaded to the first mobile station to the second mobile station; in response to said request searching the storefront database to determine content previously downloaded by the subscriber to said first mobile station; receiving information about the functionality of the second mobile station; receiving information about the functionality of the first mobile station; determining compatible content previously downloaded to the first mobile station that is compatible with the second mobile station; determining the incompatible content previously downloaded to the first mobile station that is not compatible with the second mobile station; creating a first list of compatible content; searching the storefront database for alternate content that is compatible with the second mobile station equivalent to the content previously downloaded to the first mobile station that is not compatible with the second mobile station; creating a second list of alternate content equivalent to the incompatible content; sending the first list and the second list to the second mobile station; receiving instructions from the second mobile station to download selected content from the first list to the second mobile station; receiving instructions from the second mobile station to download content from the second list; providing the selected content from the first list to the second mobile station; and providing the selected content from the second list to the second mobile station.