Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating background processing of push content
View Patent ↗Apparatus, and an associated method, for a communication device operable pursuant to a push content communication scheme. An instruction detector detects a message containing a instruction by which to operate upon push content. The message is, for instance, generated by a mobile station at which an application associated with the content is resident. Once detected by the instruction detector, a content operator operates upon the content in a manner corresponding to the instruction contained in the detected message. Once operated upon, the content is stored at a storage element, available when an application of which the content is associated, becomes active.
1. Apparatus for a receiving communication device operable pursuant to a push content communication scheme, said apparatus comprising:
a content operator configured to receive content associated with an application, the content communicated pursuant to the push content communication scheme, the content including content processing metadata embedded therein , said content operator configured to operate upon the content in an instructed manner as a background operation;
an instruction detector adapted to receive an indication of the content processing metadata embedded within the content, the content processing metadata comprising rules defining the instructed manner by which said content operator is to operate upon the content, said instruction detector configured to instruct said content operator of the instructed manner upon which to operate upon the content; and
a storage element configured to store the content, once operated upon as the background operation by said content operator and prior to said application becoming active.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said content operator is embodied at a first network device.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said storage element further comprises an embodiment at the first network device.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the content processing metadata is originated in conjunction with the application.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the push content communication scheme pushes content to a mobile station, and wherein the application, with which the content operated upon by said content operator is associated, is resident at the mobile station.
6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein the content processing metadata detected by said instruction detector is originated at the mobile station.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said instruction detector detects the content processing metadata directly from the indication of the content processing metadata.
8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the indication of the content processing metadata comprises an XML, Extensible Mark-up Language, message.
9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein the indication of the content processing metadata comprises a binary message encapsulated in an XML, Extensible Mark-up Language, message.
10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said content operator and said instruction detector comprise parts of a network-positioned proxy server.
11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the communication device comprises a first network station connected to a communication network, the communication network having a second network station connected thereto, said storage element embodied at the second network station.
12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the push content communication scheme pushes content to a mobile station, and wherein the content, once stored at said storage element, is accessible by the mobile station.
13. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the indication of the content processing metadata detected by said instruction detector comprises a mobile-station-originated selected content operation.
14. A method for utilizing content at a receiving communication device operable pursuant to a push content communication scheme, said method comprising the operations of:
detecting an indication of content processing metadata embedded within the content, the content processing metadata including rules that define an instructed manner by which to operate upon the content, the content associated with an application; and
operating upon the content in the instructed manner, defined by the content processing metadata embedded within the content, as a background operation; and
storing the content at a storage element once operated upon as the background operation and prior to the associated application becoming active.
15. The method of claim 14 further comprising the operation, prior to said operation of detecting, of sending, from a mobile station to the communication device, the indication of the content processing metadata.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein said operation of detecting comprises detecting the content processing metadata directly from the indication of the content processing metadata.
17. The method of claim 14 wherein said operation of operating upon is performed at a first network station, wherein said operation of storing is performed at a second network location, said method further comprising the operation of transporting the content from the first network station to the second network station.
18. The method of claim 14 further comprising the operation of retrieving, by a mobile station, the content stored at the storage element.