Patent ID: 8838686

Claim:
A method comprising: retrieving media content; determining one or more user devices that are to receive the media content using a directory system configured to provide an electronic directory service, wherein the electronic directory service is a network service that identifies all resources configured to a given network and an administrator of the electronic directory service determines the one or more user devices that can access each of the resources, and wherein determining one or more user devices that are to receive the media content includes: generating a query to obtain identifiers of the one or more user devices from the directory system, and receiving the identifiers of the one or more user devices from the directory system in response to the query; pushing an application to provide an indicator representing the media content to one of the user devices; receiving a request for the media content from the one of the user devices, the request including an ID associated with the one of the user devices; and determining whether to grant the request for delivery of the media content to the one of the user devices based on whether the ID included in the received request matches any of the identifiers of the one or more user devices in the directory system, wherein the indicator indicates a first indication for a first time that the media content has been published when the media content has not been previously published, and indicates a second indication, different from the first indication, for an update to the media content when the media content has been previously published, wherein the pushed application includes information describing at the one of the user devices what the media content that is to be delivered is about and the information is displayed at the one of the user devices prior to triggering the request for the media content, and wherein the request for the media content from the one of the user devices is triggered by activating the indicator representing the media content.