	US 7,577,433 B2
	Method and system for managing delivery of communications
Timo Ahopelto, Helsinki (Finland); Timo Romppanen, Helsinki (Finland); Marko Ahtisaari, Helsinki (Finland); and Ismo Antikainen, Masala (Finland)
Assigned to Cvon Innovations Limited, London (United Kingdom)
Filed on Apr. 07, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/80,940.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/936094, filed on Jun. 18, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0312996 A1, Dec. 18, 2008
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2009.01)

U.S. Cl. 455—432.1 [706/1; 706/14; 379/114.01; 379/114.1; 379/114.13]

28 Claims

1. A method for managing delivery of communications from a plurality of content providers to at least one user of a mobile communications device, comprising:

determining a communications network being used by a user;

determining whether the communications network being used by the user is a home communications network or a roaming network;

identifying a prespecified delivery parameter of at least one of the plurality of content providers based on the determination of whether the communications network being used by the user is a home communications network or a roaming network, each of the plurality of content providers having respective prespecified delivery parameters, wherein a respective delivery parameter is specified by a respective content provider and the user is required to receive or be available to receive communications from at least one of said plurality of content providers;

selectively delivering communications to the user based on the identified prespecified delivery parameter, wherein the communications delivered to the user comprise content from at least one of said plurality of content providers;

deriving available resource usage from resource usage allocated by the at least one of said plurality of content providers for delivery of communications to the user; and

comparing the available resource usage to resource usage required for delivering such communications,

wherein the step of selectively delivering communications to the user comprises managing delivery of communications based on the comparison of the available resource usage and the resource requirement for delivering communications to the user using a roaming network.