Method, apparatus and system for management of information content for enhanced accessibility over wireless communication networks
A method comprises providing an interface permitting a first user to control activation of a mobile information channel through which the first user can share access to content with a plurality of additional users, activating the mobile information channel responsive to input received from the first user via the interface, inserting content provided by the first user into the mobile information channel, receiving additional content relating to the mobile information channel from one or more of said additional users via one or more respective mobile devices associated with at least one wireless network, inserting at least a portion of the additional content into the mobile information channel, and integrating into the mobile information channel information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of said at least one wireless network.
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processing element comprising a processor coupled to a memory; and
a network interface coupled to the processing element and configured to communicate with a plurality of mobile devices over at least one network;
the processing element being configured:
to receive first device-captured data from a first one of the mobile devices via the network interface;
to receive second device-captured data from a second one of the mobile devices via the network interface; and
to integrate the first and second device-captured data into a web-based shared information channel controllably accessible to first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first device-captured data and the second device-captured data comprises image data.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first device-captured data and the second device-captured data comprises video data.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first device-captured data and the second device-captured data comprises device-captured location coordinates.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein at least one of the first device-captured data and the second device-captured data comprises:
location-identifying information of the corresponding mobile device; and
at least one of device-captured image data and device-captured video data associated with a capture location identified by the location-identifying information.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein a given one of the first and second mobile devices comprises one of a mobile telephone, a tablet computer, a GPS-based navigational device, a watch and a portable game player.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a web server that includes the network interface and the processing element and wherein the web server is accessible to the first and second mobile devices over the Internet via the network interface.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the web-based shared information channel is configured to allow a given one of the first and second users to enter a message via the personalized content application of its corresponding mobile device and wherein the message is integrated with the first and second device-captured data into a persistent version of a given set of shared information content of the web-based shared information channel so as to be accessible with the first and second device-captured data to the first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via the respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the message is delivered to one or more of the mobile devices over a wireless network.
10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the web-based shared information channel is configured to identify at least one data feed and wherein data is periodically obtained from a given such identified data feed and integrated with the first and second device-captured data into a persistent version of a given set of shared information content of the web-based shared information channel so as to be accessible with the first and second device-captured data to the first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via the respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the data obtained from the given identified data feed comprises at least one advertisement.
12. A network-based communication system comprising a plurality of servers configured to communicate over said at least one network, a given one of the servers comprising the apparatus of claim 1 .
13. A method comprising:
receiving first device-captured data from a first mobile device over at least one network;
receiving second device-captured data from a second mobile device over said at least one network; and
integrating the first and second device-captured data into a web-based shared information channel controllably accessible to first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:
receiving in the web-based shared information channel a message from one of the first and second users via the personalized content application of its corresponding mobile device; and
delivering the message over said at least one network to another one of the first and second users via the personalized content application of its corresponding mobile device;
wherein the message is integrated with the first and second device-captured data into a persistent version of a given set of shared information content of the web-based shared information channel so as to be accessible with the first and second device-captured data to the first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via the respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
15. The method of claim 13 further comprising:
identifying in the web-based shared information channel at least one data feed;
periodically obtaining data from a given such identified data feed; and
integrating the obtained data with the first and second device-captured data into a persistent version of a given set of shared information content of the web-based shared information channel so as to be accessible with the first and second device-captured data to the first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via the respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein the data obtained from the given identified data feed comprises at least one advertisement.
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein said executable program code when executed by a processing element causes said processing element:
to receive first device-captured data from a first mobile device over at least one network;
to receive second device-captured data from a second mobile device over said at least one network; and
to integrate the first and second device-captured data into a web-based shared information channel controllably accessible to first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein said executable program code when executed by said processing element further causes said processing element:
to receive in the web-based shared information channel a message from one of the first and second users via the personalized content application of its corresponding mobile device; and
to deliver the message over said at least one network to another one of the first and second users via the personalized content application of its corresponding mobile device;
wherein the message is integrated with the first and second device-captured data into a persistent version of a given set of shared information content of the web-based shared information channel so as to be accessible with the first and second device-captured data to the first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via the respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 wherein said executable program code when executed by said processing element further causes said processing element:
to identify in the web-based shared information channel at least one data feed;
to periodically obtain data from a given such identified data feed; and
to integrate the obtained data with the first and second device-captured data into a persistent version of a given set of shared information content of the web-based shared information channel so as to be accessible with the first and second device-captured data to the first and second users of the respective first and second mobile devices via the respective personalized content applications of the first and second mobile devices.
20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19 wherein the data obtained from the given identified data feed comprises at least one advertisement.