Yahoo! Inc.

Daniel John Woods

Zhaowei Charlie Jiang

Ben Kim

Jiuhe Gan

Tong Zhu

Michael Jeremy Temkin

Kenneth Tsz Ho

Venkata Narasimha Rao Yerubandi

Min Zhou

James Liang

Olga Volodymyrivna Gavrylyako

Jeff Leung

Nigel Choi

Heidi Ann Pollock

A device, system, and method are directed towards communicating mobile information over a network. A mobile message (MM) is generated by an Internet Protocol (IP) enabled application interface. The MM may include advertising information. The MM is received at a routing server and comprises a destination phone number and/or advertising information. If the MM is determined to be locally processed, the routing server selectively routes the MM to a destination carrier associated with the destination phone number. If the MM is determined to be remotely processed, the MM is recursively forwarded until the MM reaches another routing server associated with the destination phone number. The other routing server is configured to selectively route the MM to the destination carrier. A response MM may be received at a boundary routing server.

Application interface for global message delivery

A network device, system, and method are directed towards a mobile device catalog that contains capability information about a variety of mobile devices including, for example, the mobile device type, mobile carrier, and mobile browser. The capability information can be used to tailor content requested by the mobile device.

Mobile device catalog registration based on user agents and customer snapshots of capabilities

A device, system, and method are directed towards communicating mobile information over a network. A mobile message (MM) is generated by an Internet Protocol (IP) enabled application interface. The MM may include advertising information. The MM is received at a routing server and comprises a destination phone number and/or advertising information. If the MM is determined to be locally processed, the routing server selectively routes the MM to a destination carrier associated with the destination phone number. If the MM is determined to be remotely processed, the MM is recursively forwarded until the MM reaches another routing server associated with the destination phone number. The other routing server is configured to selectively route the MM to the destination carrier. A response MM may be received at a boundary routing server. The response MM may be sent to the API if at least a portion of the response MM matches information associated with the MM.

Application interface for global mobile message delivery

A method and apparatus tracks and blocks content requested by a first remote device for forwarding over a network to a second remote device. For a given content item, one or more usage identities are tracked. Usage identities may include any combination of one or more of a source identity, a content identity, and/or a destination identity. One or more thresholds associated with the tracked usage identities are applied to determine whether a request to forward content should be blocked; a threshold is a limit on the number of times a content item having a particular usage identity may be forwarded within a time period. Misuse of content-forwarding messaging services by spammers and the like may thereby be discouraged. In one embodiment, the invention may be employed as part of a content clipping service for forwarding content to mobile devices by way of SMS or another mobile messaging technology.

Tracking and blocking of spam directed to clipping services

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Daniel John Woods