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20090276318 | Nagivation Provision System and Framework for Providing Content to an End User - The invention relates to navigation devices and to the provision of both data and functionality to navigation devices. The invention provides a navigation device running basic navigation framework software, supporting a complete navigation content provision framework, wherein the framework can support a fixed set of plug-in software object types. The supported plug-in software can provide data and additional functionality to the navigation device. Plug-in software objects can be downloaded to the navigation device from a server which is also part of the framework. The download can be via a wireless network, during operation of the navigation device, and in response to user selections on the navigation device. | 11-05-2009 |
20090281901 | Transmission system and method thereof - A transmission system comprises a server, a media receiver, and a communication device. The server is for outputting an audio advertisement data, which comprises a metadata. The media receiver is for receiving the audio advertisement data, playing the audio advertisement data, generating advertisement information based on the metadata, and outputting the advertisement information through a first communication link. The advertisement information has a markup language format. The communication device is for receiving and displaying the advertisement information. | 11-12-2009 |
20090299856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN WITH A COMMON GOAL - A system and method are provided for a viral marketing campaign with a common goal. A first wireless device may complete the first part of a campaign application, and a second wireless device may complete the second part of the campaign application. A reward may be given if at least two wireless devices participate in completing at least one part of the campaign application. The reward may be given to all participating wireless devices or a subset therein. | 12-03-2009 |
20090307092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDIA CONTENT - A system and method is provided for providing media content to a client device. The system includes a digital player that delivers time-sequenced advertisement, such as merchandise information displayed in coordination with the content presented by the digital media. The player includes a media panel for presenting the digital media and an advertisement panel for presenting advertisements associated with content currently displayed in the media panel. The player further includes a history panel that lists in sequence advertisements presented in the advertisement panel during the presentation of the media content. In this manner, the player enables the view to access previously presented advertisements at the viewer's convenience. | 12-10-2009 |
20090319375 | Advertisement Insertion During Application Launch in Handheld, Mobile Display Devices - A time delay that occurs when an application is launched in a mobile handheld display device (MHDD), when the application or content is downloaded, before the MHDD is ready for the user to interact with it, wastes the user's time and, in an embodiment of the invention, this time delay constitutes an interval that is used to display targeted advertisements that are already stored on the MHDD, and that are rendered and displayed to the user on the screen while the user waits for completion of downloading of the application or content to the MHDD. An embodiment of the invention provides a micro-splicer that inserts alternate content for display on an MHDD, and renders and displays pre-stored advertisements during application launch time. | 12-24-2009 |
20100004996 | Information Processing Server, and Information Processing Method - It is an object to increase advertising effectiveness by a synergetic effect between communication using a mobile phone or the like, and an electronic money system. The present embodiment is configured such that an advertisement is transmitted to a user's mobile phone via e-mail, and if the user purchases an article in values based on the advertisement, cashback is performed through the user's mobile phone in values. Thus, giving a feeling of value to the user makes it possible not only to increase advertising effectiveness but also to confirm the advertising effectiveness. If purchasing an article in values according to an advertising mail sent to a mobile phone | 01-07-2010 |
20100023404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING AND MANAGING SHOWROOM ITEMS - Systems and methods display and manage showroom items of a vendor. A first computer terminal is connected to a wireless communication network and programmed with automatic updating software to update information and/or multimedia data indicative of the showroom items. The systems and methods include a digital line sheet having a display, a memory and a first wireless transducer connected to a microprocessor. The first wireless transducer is connectable to the first communication network such that the digital line sheet communicates with the first computer terminal via the first communication network. The display of the digital line sheet renders the information and/or multimedia data received from the first computer terminal over the wireless communication network. The first computer terminal automatically updates the information and/or multimedia data accessible by the digital line sheet to be indicative of one or more available showroom items of the vendor. The systems and methods enable a buyer to use the digital line sheet in a showroom of a vendor to access information about the showroom items and to record notes and preferences pertaining to the showroom items. An order can be prepared and finalized using the digital line sheet in the showroom or subsequently from a remote computer terminal via a website of the vendor. | 01-28-2010 |
20100057573 | Systems and methods for an electronic coupon system - A coupon delivery and redemption system provides, (i) for wireless delivery of a product coupon file with the coupons of the product merchants to customers' wireless mobile devices from a coupon system anywhere, at home or in store while shopping, (ii) for customer to search and select for display a product coupon from the coupon file, (iii) for coupon redemptions by retail merchants by scanning the coupon bar code from the wireless device screen, (iv) for validation of the coupon for one time use by interfacing of the retail merchant system with the coupon system, (iv) for the product merchant to receive coupon redemption data from the coupon system, and (v) for the retail merchant to receive aggregate funds for redeemed coupons via the coupon system for an efficient and convenient paperless coupon system. | 03-04-2010 |
20100070370 | System and Method of Providing Peer-to-Peer Message-Based Advertising - A system and method that analyze content of an electronic message to determine advertisements that may be relevant to the content. Relevant advertisements may be presented to the user. The user may select one or more advertisements to be transmitted with the message to a message recipient or may be automatically appended to the message. The advertisements are presented to the message recipient with the message. The user may be compensated based on activity associated with the message. | 03-18-2010 |
20100076849 | Managing Advertising Services for Mobile Devices and Users - This description provides tools and techniques for managing advertising services for mobile devices and users. These tools may provide methods that include establishing advertising databases for storing representations of geographic areas. These methods may include receiving bids from advertisers, with these bids referencing keywords and the geographic areas. The advertisers specified in the bids may be associated with the keywords and geographic areas specified in the bids, such that when a user of a mobile communications device activates the keyword within a geographic area, the mobile device received advertising information associated with the advertiser. | 03-25-2010 |
20100094710 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND CONSUMER-ACCEPTABLE ADVERTISING VIA DATA COMMUNICATIONS CLIENTS - In a data communication system a SMS data communication client operates in known fashion. An additional communication channel is established and data being entered into the client is transmitted to a central server. At the server end the user is identified in a customer database which also stored a profile of the user. Information from an ad database is selected for transmission back to the client in dependence upon the data and profile. Where the information takes the form of advertising, it may be displayed by the client as a truncated indicator during message entry and a fuller composition with active links after sending is completed. | 04-15-2010 |
20100094711 | RECEPTION DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT DEVICE OF SERVICE ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for transmitting advertisement information to a device, in which the apparatus includes a receiving unit and a transmitting unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive from the device attribute information representing an attribute of the device and request information representing a request for the advertisement information. The information represents the attribute of the device indicating a presence of a battery in the device. The transmitting unit is configured to transmit the advertisement information to the device in response to reception of the request information. | 04-15-2010 |
20100100445 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING THE DELIVERY OF INVENTORIED CONTENT OVER MOBILE NETWORKS TO UNIQUELY IDENTIFIED USERS - A method and system for targeting online advertisements. The method includes receiving a request for an advertisement from a publisher, wherein the request includes an identifying data uniquely associated with a user. The method includes sending a response to the publisher, wherein the response includes the advertisement and an image URL. The method includes receiving a request for the image identified by the image URL and a unique user cookie from the user. The method includes if the identifying data has been previously received, determining a unique user identifier associated with the user from the identifying data. The method includes if the identifying data has not been previously received, determining the unique user identifier associated with the user from the unique user cookie, and associating the identifying information with the unique user identifier. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100446 | METHOD FOR ADVERTISING USING MOBILE MULTIPLAYER GAME AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method of advertising using a multiplayer game for a mobile device, comprising: transmitting/receiving data for executing the multiplayer game in the mobile device through a network channel; checking whether a user of the multiplayer game has paid to play the multiplayer game! and determining whether or not to display an advertisement on a screen of the mobile device for the multiplayer game based on the check result and whether or not a free trial period has expired. | 04-22-2010 |
20100114709 | REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT AND SPONSORED CONTENT - A method and system for serving advertisement or sponsored content information is provided. The method employed by the system may include receiving information that describes the capabilities of an ad serving device, receiving information that enables sensing the presence of individuals in a vicinity of the ad serving device, matching advertisement and/or sponsored content information to the ad serving device, and serving the advertisement and/or sponsored content information. Receiving presence information, matching, and serving of the advertisement and/or sponsored content information may occur in real-time. The ad serving device may be located at a fixed location or be portable and carried by an individual. Behaviors of individuals with portable devices may be determined and the advertisement and/or sponsored content information served may be related to the determined behavior. | 05-06-2010 |
20100121719 | MOBILE SCRATCH OFF ADVERTISING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the disclosure may provide a method, system, and computer program configured to display advertising to mobile user. The method may include uploading logon information from a mobile device to a server, wherein the logon information contains at least a geographical location identifier, downloading a current electronic scratch off game to the mobile device from the central server, wherein the current electronic scratch off game corresponds to the geographical location identifier, displaying a foreground image to a user of the mobile device, and receiving a wiping input from the user of the mobile device on a touch screen of the mobile device. The method may further include removing a portion of the foreground image corresponding to the wiping input, displaying background image in areas corresponding to the wiping input, displaying a win or loss indicator, and using the win indicator at a retail sponsor advertising location to obtain a prize or item of value. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER GENERATED ADVERTISING - One embodiment of the inventive concept permits users to generate non-commercial advertisings and place those advertisings for insertion into other content accessed, viewed or requested by other users. In one particular embodiment, the inventive system may be implemented using, for example, ad exchange methodology, which permits free exchange of advertisings between individual users. | 05-13-2010 |
20100138303 | DELIVERING TARGETED ADVERTISING TO MOBILE DEVICES - A method for loading a layout with advertising item data is provided. Layout header data is parsed. A layout item object is then built. Global layout variables are replaced with values. Local layout variables are replaced with data from content objects. Displayed data is then created. | 06-03-2010 |
20100145806 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OUTDOOR ADVERTISING - An apparatus and method for outdoor advertising are disclosed. The apparatus for outdoor advertising includes an input unit receiving data related to desired advertising, a search unit searching for an advertisement, which is highly associated with the data, and a display unit displaying the searched advertisement. The method for outdoor advertising includes receiving data related to desired advertising, searching for an advertisement, which is highly associated with the data, and displaying the searched advertisement. | 06-10-2010 |
20100191602 | Mobile banking and payment platform - To eliminate, or at least substantially eliminate, the security concerns of conventional Internet-enabled mobile banking operations, and mobile banking operations in general, the present invention provides perhaps the most secure mobile banking and payment or product/service purchase method extent which avoids security problems of the Internet and provides a rapid transfer of transactional information and other information as desired, inclusive of revenue generating advertisements with the architecture and techniques of the present inventive Internet data protocol (DTP). | 07-29-2010 |
20100205061 | INCENTIVE MARKETING WITH A CONTEXT-ENRICHED MESSAGE - Disclosed are a system, method, and article of manufacture of incentive marketing with a context-enriched message. In one embodiment, a message is generated with a computing device. A context of the computing device pertaining to a message component is determined. A context data derived from the context is linked with the message component. An ad message related to at least one of the context of the computing device and the message component is provided. The ad message may be associated with the message. The message and the ad message may be communicated to a recipient computing device. The ad message and the message may be rendered with a user interface. | 08-12-2010 |
20100217673 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE CUSTOMISED DELIVERY OF TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS FROM A LOCAL SERVER - The invention relates to a device and methods for the customised delivery of targeted advertisements from a local server. In particular, the invention relates to the advertising server embedded in an electronic device and to the delivery and updating methods necessary for the operation thereof. According to the invention, the impact of the delivered advertising is optimised since the advertising content presented to the public matches each individual's requirements and centres of interest. Age, sex and geographical location are examples of criteria employed according to the invention. | 08-26-2010 |
20100223136 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR SENDING ADVERTISEMENT MESSAGES TO A MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A communications system includes at least one mobile wireless communications device operable based upon payment of a wireless network user subscription fee, and for sequentially playing media files. The communications system also includes an advertising server for sending at least one advertisement message to the at least one mobile wireless communications device to be played between the media files. The at least one mobile wireless device plays the audio advertisement messages between the media files for a discount of the wireless network user subscription fee. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223137 | System and Method for Provisioning a Device for Communicating - A method of communicating on a computing device is provided in which a message is presented and user attention thereto verified before the communication is initiated. In one embodiment the method comprises receiving a first input indicating a request for initiating a communication using the computing device. The message is presented. While presenting the message, a cue is presented to request a second input to proceed with the communication. A second input is received. The communication is initiated only after the presentation of the message is completed and only if the second input is responsive to the cue. In a second embodiment, the message and cue are combined such that presenting the message presents the cue. The message and cue may be combined before transmitting to the communication device. Cue presentation information may be transmitted with the combined message and cue to assist with verification of the second input. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223138 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MARKETING BY COMMUNICATING TONES TO A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing marketing information by communicating tones to a mobile device are provided by certain embodiments of the invention. A tone may be stored in at least one memory associated with a tone transmission device. The tone may include at least one location identifier for information associated with the tone. The tone may be transmitted from the tone transmission device to the mobile device. Following receipt by the mobile device, the location identifier(s) may facilitate the receipt of the information associated with the tone from an information source. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223139 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device associated with a respective user, a network server within a protected computer network, and a notification server outside of the protected computer network for generating generic notifications. The network server may be for storing within the protected computer network personalizing information for the user of the at least one wireless communications device, receiving generic notifications from the notification server, and generating and sending to the at least one wireless communications device personalized notifications based upon the personalizing information and the generic notifications. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223140 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING PERSONALIZED MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device associated with a respective user and storing personalizing information for the user, a network server within a protected computer network, and a notification server outside of the protected computer network configured to generate generic notifications. The network server may be configured to receive generic notifications from the notification server and sending the generic notifications to the at least one mobile wireless communications device. Moreover, the at least one mobile wireless communications device may be configured to receive the generic notifications from the network server and generate personalized notifications based upon the personalizing information and the received generic notifications. | 09-02-2010 |
20100274670 | Advertisement Platform - A mobile advertisement is stored in a database associated with an advertisement platform. A unique ad ID identifying a corresponding advertisement placement is associated with the mobile advertisement. The unique ad ID is communicated to an advertisement sender along with the corresponding advertisement placement. A message provided by said advertisement sender is parsed to identify the unique ad ID and mobile device contact information for an advertisement recipient in order to forward the associated mobile advertisement to the advertisement recipient. Advertisement placement information based on the unique ad ID received from the advertisement sender is recorded. The mobile advertisement is messaged to the advertisement recipient. The mobile advertisement comprises contact information providing a network path for the advertisement recipient to contact the merchant through the advertisement platform. The instances that the advertisement recipient is routed through the advertisement platform to the merchant are recorded. | 10-28-2010 |
20100287052 | Short-range commercial messaging and advertising system and mobile device for use therein - Short-range commercial messaging and advertising systems and mobile devices for use therein allow merchants to deliver advertising over wireless networks to mobile devices operated by roaming consumers who are in the vicinity of the merchant. A distinguishing feature of the systems and mobile devices is that they eliminate traditional advertising intermediaries, such as television, radio and Internet networks, allowing businesses to advertise directly to consumers at dramatically lower costs relative to traditional advertising. | 11-11-2010 |
20100299208 | MERCHANT COMPETITION ALERT - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for determining the products involved in a transaction, and transmitting messages containing product specific data. Systems may be implemented to product identifiers during payment processing. The messages may be sent including product identifiers, and further information regarding the products associated with the product identifiers. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306060 | METHOD FOR ADVERTISING USING MOBILE DEVICES - A method for advertising using mobile devices is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for advertising using mobile devices includes syncing at least one identifier code to the phone number of a mobile device, wherein the at least one identifier code corresponds to data encoded on the integrated circuit of an RFID tag. The method also includes receiving a first keyword at a target phone number from the phone number of the mobile device and associating the phone number of the mobile device and the at least one identifier code to at least one advertising program based at least partially upon the first keyword. The method further includes producing one or more incentive messages based at least upon the detection of the data encoded on the RFID tag. | 12-02-2010 |
20100324995 | Method and System for Content Delivery using Delivery Report Message - The present invention relates to a data messaging system and method for transmitting content to a subscriber of telephony services which are provided by an operator, such as a mobile network operator. The method and system facilitates the transmission of content in a delivery report message sent to the subscriber device from a messaging centre. Such a system and method enables the use of the status/delivery report message mechanism associated with a data messaging services as a backwards communication channel. | 12-23-2010 |
20100332327 | Advertisement consumer system for a mobile communications device - The present invention relates to an advertisement consumer system for a mobile communications device, which includes a mobile communications device and a sensor marker, and the mobile communications device is linked to a preset electronic consumer system. The mobile communications device and the sensor marker transmit commercial messages by means of wireless radio frequency transceivers. Accordingly, recently received transaction messages can be referenced directly from the mobile communications device and within the user interface, which can be used to transmit the transaction message when wanting to execute a consumer transaction. Hence, the user can instantaneously learn of special discount news or related preferential benefits on all kinds of commodities, products or commercial activities at any time, thereby expediting the convenience of executing consumer transactions for the user, while companies or suppliers can save on the cost of advertising and use the sensor marker to achieve more extensive advertising effectiveness. | 12-30-2010 |
20100332328 | Browser Cache Based Ad Insertion - HTML-5 functionality is used to enable browser cache-based ad insertion for display on a mobile handheld device (MHD), thus enabling proper display of ads during user browsing with an MHD. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010246 | SERVICE INFORMATION EXCHANGE IN WIRELESS NETWORK - Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments of the invention are disclosed to automatically advertise a change in service offering of a wireless first device in wireless networks. In an example embodiment of the invention, if there is a change in service offering of the first device that is connected to a wireless second device, the first device automatically generates a reassociation request frame and transmits it to the second device. In addition to the standard processing of the reassociation request frame, the second device considers the received reassociation request frame as a trigger to respond by transmitting a generic advertisement service request to the first device. The first device will then have an opportunity to transmit its updated and up-to-date service description to the second device in a generic advertisement service response frame. The second device buffers the first device's updated service description and makes it available to other wireless devices searching the network for services, to facilitate network selection. | 01-13-2011 |
20110022472 | PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A payment system and method employing wireless capability where a wireless-enabled device carried by a purchaser communicates with a wireless-enabled transaction terminal. The two devices communicate with each other to exchange transaction data to effect the transaction and exchange additional information that supports and expands the transaction event. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022473 | MOBILE DEVICE MARKETING AND ADVERTISING PLATFORMS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS - A mobile marketing campaign platform and method including: a planning module including: a definition module for setting budget and objectives; and a design module for designing the campaign utilizing a plurality of templates; an execution module including: design tools for designing an executable campaign from the campaign design made from the templates; and operating tools for causing the executable campaign to execute over multiple mobile services; and a reporting module including: tracking means for tracking at least one of a campaign activity, the campaign performance objectives; and the brand performance objectives. | 01-27-2011 |
20110029386 | ALLOCATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA STORE CREDIT FOR PRESENTATION OF AN ADVERTISEMENT WITH A MEDIA PLAYER - Disclosed are a method, system and apparatus of an allocation of digital media store credit for presentation of an advertisement with a media player. In one aspect, an advertisement is provided to a media player. A media player is instructed to present the advertisement. A credit to an account associated with the media player is allocated if the media player presented the advertisement to a human user. The media player may present the advertisement according to a verification protocol. The verification protocol may be provided by the media server. The verification protocol may include a challenge-response test that ensures a response to the challenge-response test is generated by a human. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029387 | Carrier-Based Mobile Advertisement Syndication - Improved mobile advertisement syndication capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. These and other capabilities are employed to improve delivery of mobile advertisements and their syndication to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035285 | ADVERTISEMENT TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER-CUSTOMIZED MOBILE ADVERTISING SERVICE - A method for setting a number of advertisements desired to be received from an advertisement server when a user requests an advertising service. In particular, if the user sets the desired number of advertisements through an advertisement application, the advertisement application provides an advertisement engine with an advertisement request including the set number of advertisements. An advertisement engine determines if the number of advertisements stored in a memory of the terminal is greater than or equal to the requested number of advertisements. If the number of advertisements stored in the memory of the terminal is less than the requested number of advertisements, the advertisement engine makes a request for advertisements to an advertisement server and receives the advertisements. Therefore, the advertisement application can receive the requested number of advertisements from the advertisement engine, so that it is possible to provide the user with a more differentiated MobAd service. | 02-10-2011 |
20110040627 | VIRAL ADVERTISEMENTS - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods for propagating viral advertising content to multiple mobile devices without utilizing an intermediary interposing hosting and/or distribution service. The system includes devices that receive viral advertising content on a mobile device, modify the viral advertising content with further viral advertising content previously received from a disparate mobile device, determine sets of recipients to whom the modified viral advertising content can be perceived as compelling, and disseminates the modified viral advertising content to the sets of recipients each of whom can be associated with a disparate mobile device. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040628 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, A DEVICE AND AN ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION METHOD USING A FEMTOCELL - It is required to provide an advertisement distribution system and an advertisement distribution method capable of a highly cost-effective information distribution at a low cost. When a mobile terminal is connected to a femtocell type narrow area small-scale mobile communication base station, public information that is stored in a memory unit and that a user who founded the base station concerned has specified is transmitted to a mobile terminal. | 02-17-2011 |
20110047030 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING/RECEIVING MOBILE DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for receiving/providing mobile digital advertisement service. The mobile digital advertisement service receiving method includes receiving a connection guide message from an access point installed at a first store, establishing connection to the access point by transmitting a connection acceptance message in response to the received connection guide message, and receiving the advertisement contents from an advertisement managing server connected to the access point after establishing connection to the access point. The connection guide message is a message for inquiring whether to receive the advertisement contents or not. | 02-24-2011 |
20110066501 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RENDERING ADVERTISING CONTENTS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An apparatus and method for rendering advertising contents on a mobile communication device is disclosed. The method includes embedding a set of advertising contents provided by one or more advertisers in a memory at the time of manufacture of the mobile communication device. The method then detects one or more user activities with the mobile communication device, a user location and one or more alerts associated with the mobile communication device. Thereafter, the method identifies one or more advertising contents from the set of advertising contents in response to detecting the user activity on the mobile communication device, the user location and the at least one alert associated with the mobile communication device. Subsequently, the method renders the one or more advertising contents on the mobile communication device. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066502 | Interactive messaging system - The interactive messaging system of the present invention provides for an interactive communication process between users, both senders and recipients. The sender composes a message by filling in a template stored in data services. Once completed, the sender pushes the message to a recipient's wireless device if the wireless device contains a WAP browser, which is capable of receiving pushed messages. Typically the message includes a question along with answers for the recipient to choose from. Each answer corresponds with a pre-assigned response key and the recipient answers the question by selecting one of the pre-assigned response keys. The recipient's response is available to the sender in the form of an e-mail, WAP Push, on-line access or interactive message that is shown to the sender on an on-line status screen. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066503 | System and Method for Transferring Digital Media - A method is described that provides for selecting digital content and sending a download message to a mobile device. The method further includes sending a message from the mobile device using information from the download message to a download facilitation service. Additionally, the method includes initiating transfer from the mobile device from the download facilitation service, and transferring the digital content to the mobile device. | 03-17-2011 |
20110071905 | MARKETING METHOD - A server implements a marketing method. The server may receive a wireless call or message originating at a given facility and return a menu of choices particular to that facility. On receiving a choice selected from said menu, the server may return one or more messages with information particular to a part of said given facility. The information may be a marketing incentive, marketing information, or a promotion. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078025 | REAL TIME AUTHENTICATION OF PAYMENT CARDS - An authentication sever ( | 03-31-2011 |
20110087549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH CAPABILITY AND TARGETED ADVERTISING FOR AUDIO, IMAGE, AND VIDEO CONTENT OVER THE INTERNET - The present invention provides an apparatus and method for extracting the content of a video, image, and/or audio file or podcast, analyzing the content, and then providing a targeted advertisement, search capability and/or other functionality based on the content of the file or podcast. | 04-14-2011 |
20110093343 | System and Method of Content Generation - Methods and systems are given for representing and generating contents from pre-existed and pre-built contents for a given content. Methods are given for transforming information representation from one medium, type, or language to another medium, type and language. Exemplary embodiment is given for transforming the semantics of a given text or spoken language to a visual representation or combination of them. The systems and methods generate new contents in general and multimedia contents in particular in response to or for representing an input composition utilizing pre-existed and pre-built contents of various types, languages, and forms. The associated client server systems over the communication network are also given for generating contents for the contents given by the clients. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099071 | Real Time Content Editing and Filtering - A digital magazine publishing system is presented. A magazine publishing system can include one or more publishing development environments where different digital magazine publishers can create, manage, or distribute their digital magazines to their subscribers. Issues of the magazines can be stored on a magazine server. A subscriber can submit a request to the server for a magazine issue from the subscriber's cell phone, where the request includes device attributes related to the subscriber's phone. In response, the magazine server can obtain the requested issue and edit the issue based on the device attributes in preparation for presentation on the cell phone. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099072 | METHOD OF CREATING INCENTIVES FOR ESTABLISHING HOTSPOT LOCATIONS - A process of creating incentives for wireless hotspots by a service provider is disclosed. An access point is provided to a wireless hotspot for wireless devices to wirelessly connect to a larger network in a publicly accessible location. Use of the access point for a portable device is authenticated by requesting submission of an account identifier to the service provider and billing data for a user of the portable device for use of the access point is generated. Use statistics are evaluated of the access point of the wireless hotspot by portables devices and an inducement is provided to the publicly accessible location based on the evaluated use statistics. | 04-28-2011 |
20110106626 | Method and System for Real-Time Insertion of Advertisements into Mobile Messages - The present invention is directed to Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) based advertising, and more specifically to methods and systems for the real-time insertion of one or more ads into said messages for effective and targeted advertising to consumers. In one embodiment, a web-based purchasing marketplace (i.e. an Ad Marketplace) is provided, which facilitates sale, by publishers to advertisers, of ads space on a publisher's message or message inventory. In a further embodiment, methods and systems for managing the process by which ads are selected and inserted into a given message, in real-time, without substantial interruption of the standard process for delivery of said message during a messaging campaign, are provided. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112905 | MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT AND MARKETING INTEGRATION WITH BUSINESS PROCESS AND WORKFLOW SYSTEMS - A mobile communications marketing and advertising platform is described for delivering advertising content to subscribers of a telecommunications network over telecom-based channels, such as SMS, MMS and WAP Push. The platform is integrated with business tools, such as business process execution language (BPEL) based systems, business intelligence (BI) systems, Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) and business analytics monitoring (BAM) systems. By integrating these systems, the business tools can leverage the data generated by the mobile marketing and advertising platform in order to provide an improved view, analysis and understanding of the content delivery process. Similarly, the mobile marketing platform can utilize the functionality provided by the integrated business systems in order to more efficiently deliver the advertising content to subscribers. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112906 | INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE FOR MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT, MARKETPLACE AND SERVICE PROVIDER INTERFACE - A communications marketing and advertising system is described for delivering advertising content to subscribers of a telecommunications network. The system includes a marketplace component accessible by advertisers and ad space owners, which is used to create ad space for delivering content to subscribers of a telecommunications network. The marketplace allows advertisers to submit bids on the ad space and the ad space owners to approve or reject the bids. The system also includes a campaign manager that creates a campaign upon determining that the bid has been approved by the ad space owner. The campaign includes a set of messages containing ad content to be sent out to the subscribers. The subscriber profile module of the system obtains profile data associated with the subscribers of the telecommunications network and customizes the content of the messages according to the profile data. The ad engine delivers the messages to the recipients. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE BY USING TEXT MESSAGES - The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing an advertisement service by using a text message, which provide advertisement content when a user uses a text message service. The method of the present invention comprises: When a text message is transmitted from a mobile terminal through a mobile communication network, an SMS server requesting an advertising system to transmit advertisement content, depending on whether or not there is a request for the reproduction of the advertisement content; the advertising system selecting the advertisement content and transmitting the advertisement content to the mobile terminal through the mobile communication terminal; the mobile terminal storing the advertisement content transmitted from the advertisement system; and if a transmission key is inputted for the transmission of the text message, the mobile terminal reproducing the advertisement content, which are stored during the transmission of the previous is text message, while transmitting the text message to the SMS server. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112908 | Transportation Routing - A computer-implemented method of providing personalized route information involves gathering a plurality of past location indicators over time for a wireless client device, determining a future driving objective using the plurality of previously-gathered location indicators, obtaining real-time traffic data for an area proximate to the determined driving objective, and generating a suggested route for the driving objective using the near real-time traffic data. | 05-12-2011 |
20110119135 | CONDITION-BASED WIRELESS POWER - Exemplary embodiments are directed to methods and devices for transferring or receiving wireless power. A method may include receiving acceptance of at least one wireless power access entity required condition. The method may further include transferring wireless power to at least one electronic device based on the acceptance of the at least one wireless power access entity required condition. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125583 | TRAFFIC DATA DISTRIBUTION IN A NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM - A server identifies areas of traffic congestion and generates traffic objects associated with the identified areas of traffic congestion. The server receives, from a mobile device, a request for traffic objects, where the request includes a current geographic location of the mobile device and a destination geographic location to which the mobile device plans to travel. The server determines a length of travel based on the current geographic location and the destination geographic location, identifies a particular traffic object based on the length of travel, the current geographic location, and the destination geographic location, and provides information regarding the particular traffic object to the mobile device to permit the mobile device to generate navigational directions based on the particular traffic object. | 05-26-2011 |
20110153428 | TARGETED ADVERTISING TO SPECIFIED MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeted distribution of advertising content of a sponsor based on rendering capabilities of mobile communication facilities within a cellular telephony infrastructure includes (a) presenting to a sponsor data corresponding to a first type and a second type of mobile communication facility; (b) receiving from the sponsor: (i) a selection corresponding to the first type of mobile communication facility; and (ii) an advertising content, wherein the advertising content requires the rendering capability of the first type of mobile communication facility to be rendered thereon; and (c) receiving an advertising request associated with the first type of mobile communication facility and in response thereto, transmitting the advertising content to the first type of mobile communication facility. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153429 | TARGETING CONTENT TO NETWORK-ENABLED TELEVISION DEVICES - Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and content targeting and management techniques. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153430 | METHOD FOR BROADCASTING AND METHOD FOR RECEIVING LOCATION INFORMATION OF BASE STATION - A plurality of location-based service advertisement messages including location information of base stations belonging to each network are broadcasted with different timing in multiple wireless networks. Therefore, a terminal receives only at least on location-based service advertisement message corresponding to an accessible network among the plurality of location-based service advertisement messages. | 06-23-2011 |
20110178875 | Hot Spot Use in Advertising - The delivery of targeted advertisements (ads) to wireless mobile handheld display devices (MHDDs) with client specific advertisement and dynamic content for response and feedback is becoming important in advertising. As the return for ads on MHDDs becomes higher, there is a push to show larger and more interactive ads on devices that have small displays. This has created a need to maximize the area available for ad viewing. The need for larger viewing area reduces the area available for call-to-action response enabling switches or inserts on the screen for customer interaction. To overcome this deficiency and provide the necessary end-to-end response capability, hot-spots on the ad image are provided as call-to-action response regions without limitation on the ad viewing area. The use of such hot-spots provides users of MHDDs a preferred interaction mechanism for responding to the advertisement, while maintaining a large ad viewing area. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184808 | TARGETED CONTENT IN PRINT MEDIA - A device for retrieving targeted content associated with a print medium that includes a transceiver that receives identification data indicative of a user of the print medium where the transceiver transmits the identification data to a content server and an output module that provides targeted content received from the content server to a user of the device, where the target content is based on the identification data indicative of the user. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184809 | Method and system for managing advertisments on a mobile device - Methods and systems for distributing advertisements are disclosed. The system includes an advertisement data store for storing a set of advertisements. The system includes a content data store for storing a set of contents. The system includes an advertisement management server to select an advertisement and user content for bundling into a standardized publishing web feed. In embodiments, the advertisement management server transmits the web feed to a mobile device via a wireless network for display. The advertisement management server subsequently executes a user-selected action in conjunction with the user action data. | 07-28-2011 |
20110184810 | Method and Apparatus for Maximizing Brand Exposure in A Minimal Mobile Display - The delivery of targeted advertisements (ads) to wireless mobile handheld display devices (MHDDs) with client specific advertisement and dynamic content for response and feedback is becoming important in advertising. As the return for ads on MHDDs becomes higher, there is a push to show larger, complex, and more interactive ads on small displays. This has created a need to maximize the area available for ad viewing. The need also exists for increasing the engagement time of the ads. An embodiment of the invention establishes such capability by providing a rolled up ad display where the banner area is used to present a continuously rolling, rolled up ad, which is displayed on the screen at the ad spots by unrolling. Furthermore, the use of transparent hot-spots on the ad allows the whole display screen of the MHDD to be used for presentation of such large and complex ads | 07-28-2011 |
20110191187 | FINDING MOBILE STATION FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION - According to one example, a method may comprise receiving, by an advertising mobile station in a wireless network, a master profile message from an access node, the master profile message comprising, for each of a plurality of mobile stations in the wireless network, a timing parameter and at least one profile element; selecting at least one receiving mobile station from the plurality of mobile stations based, at least in part, on comparing the timing parameter of the receiving mobile station to the timing parameter of the advertising mobile station and checking the at least one profile element of the receiving mobile station against a proposed advertisement; sending a location request message to the at least one receiving mobile station; receiving the location message from the at least one receiving mobile station, the location message indicating a location of the at least one receiving mobile station. | 08-04-2011 |
20110202408 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING MESSAGES - A system for generating a schedule for use in triggering transmission of message content in a telecommunications network is provided. The system comprises a store for storing profiles of a plurality of recipients, and a plurality of message delivery campaigns with one or more criteria. The campaigns to be executed in relation to a given inventory, which may relate to a predetermined time period, may be arranged into one or more campaign clusters. A suitable allocation method may be used individually for each of said plurality of campaign clusters to allocate, among the plurality of recipients, target recipients for each of the campaign clusters based on campaign criteria and the profiles. The allocation process may be repeated to obtain, for example as high a number of messages as possible with the network resources available without exceeding a predetermined maximum number of messages per any given recipient. After the allocation process is completed, the campaign messages are delivered to the allocated target recipients via a communications network. | 08-18-2011 |
20110213666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY BASED ON INDICATED STATUS - A method and system for delivery and display of an advertisement message on a communication device, based on an indicated status at the communication device. The computer implemented method comprises receiving, at the communication device, an advertisement message, determining whether a status indicator mode is active; upon determining that the status indicator mode is active, determining a reconfiguration rule for applying to the advertisement message, reconfiguring the advertisement message, and presenting the reconfigured advertisement message at the communication device. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213667 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREPARING A DISH AND CONTENT PRESENTATION - A sous chef method and system guides the preparation of a dish according to a recipe and using a communication device. The recipe is presented to direct the preparation of a dish in recipe steps; progress of the recipe steps is monitored; and one or more advertisements are presented in response to the progress. Monitoring may comprises receiving input indicating the progress and presenting one or more advertisements may be responsive to the input. The input may comprise cooking appliance data received from a cooking appliance in communication with the communication device. The communication device may configure the cooking appliance for operation in response to the recipe steps. An advertisement may be contextually selected for presentation in response to recipe data associated with the recipe. It may be presented interactively to invoke a communication function of the device, for example to conduct an e-commerce or other transaction. | 09-01-2011 |
20110218861 | Transform for Display of Advertisements on a Variety of Different Mobile Handheld Devices - Elements and object types of any advertisement are transformed to a predefined intermediate format, thus enabling conversion to any of a plurality of mobile handheld device (MHD) displays. This achieves load reduction by enabling one time development of a transform for each element and object type from the predefined format to each different MHD display. | 09-08-2011 |
20110251899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY AND PRESENTATION OF MESSAGES IN DEPENDENCE UPON THE MODE OF OPERATION OF THE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and system for delivery and presentation of a message on a communication device. A detection of a connection of a call made by a communication device is detected at the communication device. A further detection that the communication device is operating in a pre-defined mode of operation is performed, a message accessibly stored in memory is accessed, and display or other presentation of the message is initiated on an interface such as a display screen of the communication device. The call connection status is monitored, and the message is presented at least while the call is connected and the device is operating in the pre-defined mode of operation. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251900 | System And Method For Providing Short Message Targeted Advertisements Over A Wireless Communications Network - A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on certain wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device that is specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages stored in the database is also associated with one or more demographic codes, and users of wireless communications device select from one more demographic codes to describer their advertisement preferences. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographics codes that are associated with the messages. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258048 | System And Method for Communicating Media Content - A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264530 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SECONDARY CONTENT AND DATA INSERTION AND DELIVERY - Apparatus and methods for providing primary and secondary content and data to users. In one embodiment, management entities at a content delivery network core cooperate to provide primary content with contextually related or germane inserted secondary content to user devices. Inserted secondary content may include e.g., advertisements, multimedia applications, interactive programming, and scheduled programming. A network entity monitors user-specific data such as demographics, geographic location, and viewing patterns, and facilitates content selection and delivery based thereon. Content insertion may further be managed by a campaign manager according to business rules. In another embodiment, the primary and secondary content is pushed to a device at or near the network edge based on the applicability thereof to devices serviced by the edge device. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270682 | Solar panel wind turbine communication server network apparatus method and mechanism - The method included herein is an alternative energy wireless solar panel wind turbine communication server appliance node mechanism with built in communications server array, wireless energy and communications mechanism with protection, sharing, storage, accessing, authentication, battery management, certification, processing attachment and tracking mechanisms. The method and mechanism is utilized via networked servers, solar panels, and wireless electronic devices (online and offline) as well as mobile (wireless) communications devices built into one waterproof, temperature, controlled self sensing hardware package. The method and mechanism also works as part of a kilowatt hour banking system, and thermal passive solar control mechanism for living spaces. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276403 | HANDOVER DECISION PROCEDURE IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - In an advertisement based movement detection a mobile node adjusts its advertisement waiting period when it receives an advertisement from a serving access entity of the mobile node and an advertisement from another access entity. By adjusting the waiting period a timely handover may be performed. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282747 | System and method for advertising - A system of the present invention provides system and method for location based advertising of goods and services provided by retailers to attract potential consumers. The system networks the retailers and the consumers subscribed to the system. A controller of the system allows the retailers to input the information about the goods and services to be sold through virtual coupons. A program of the controller is adaptable to store predetermined numerical or non-numerical identifiers with each of the identifiers representing a particular good and service of the retailer. A global positioning system is operably communicated with the controller to determine location of the consumer proximate to the retailer and electronically transmitting virtual coupon(s) to the communications device of the consumer thereby providing the consumer with option to redeem the coupon in exchange for discount or free goods and/or services at the retailer's establishment. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282748 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING A PERSONALIZED DATA REPOSITORY - The APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING A PERSONALIZED DATA REPOSITORY (“PDR”) transform merchant promotional offer inputs and individual user or consumer transaction inputs into targeted promotional offer outputs, which are distributed to individual user or consumers. In one embodiment the method includes a personalized data repository processor-implemented method that includes receiving, over a communications network, communication messages associated with a user's mobile communication device, whereby the communication messages associated with the user's mobile communication device are aggregated and packaged, upon authorization, from the mobile communication device. Merchant promotional offer information corresponding to promotional goods information or promotional services information is received over the communications network. The received user's sale transaction information is then correlated with the received promotional offer information for determining one or more targeted promotional offers based on the promotional goods or promotional services information and the purchased goods or purchased services information. The one or more targeted promotional offers are sent over the communications network to a mobile communication device of the user. | 11-17-2011 |
20110307337 | System and Method for Mobile Advertising Platform - Leveraging the ubiquitous nature of Wireless Devices (WDs), the popularity of different messaging paradigms, and the advantageous response rate that is associated with messaging-based advertising, an infrastructure that augments messages with advertising in dynamic, intelligent, etc. ways (based on various constraints including for example the body of a message, characteristics of a Mobile Subscriber [MS], the current physical location of a MS' WD, a particular advertising campaign's characteristics, etc.). The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307338 | Bidding to Receive Data After a Consumer is in a Zone - An announcement distributor distributes, or auctions an opportunity to distribute, an announcement to an announcement recipient such as a consumer, issuer, merchant, or acquirer within a payment processing system. The announcement when there has been a satisfaction of an announcement condition, such as the consumer being determined to be located within a predetermined spatial zone. The content of the announcement may, in turn, facilitate a subsequent cashless transaction for resources of merchants. Implementations describe various permutations of the content of the announcement, the announcement condition, and the announcement recipient. | 12-15-2011 |
20110313861 | MOBILE ADVERTISING RELAY SYSTEM (MARS) - A mobile advertising relay system and related methods for relaying images between a designated server and one or more mobile communication devices. The system includes at least one designated server that is configured to supply images, and a database adapted to record information relating to images, users, image publishers (e.g., advertisers), and interactions therebetween. An image queue is uniquely associated with each mobile device whereby a plurality of images are stored for future presentation to the mobile device user. In embodiments, the image queue is stored in the mobile device to facilitate rapid display of the image upon receipt of an incoming communication. The designated server includes an image selection unit for replenishing images queues, and a user profile unit for recording user preferences and image interactions. Images may be rated by the user to enable future images to be selected in accordance with the user's tastes. | 12-22-2011 |
20110313862 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320279 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320280 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320281 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320282 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A PLURALITY OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320283 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Monitoring Service Usage - Usage information is received that describes usage of communication services by a communications device. The usage information is compared to monitoring criteria. When the monitoring criteria is satisfied, an electronic notification message is sent to the communications device. The electronic notification message when a communications service is initiated and before an additional charge for the communications service is incurred. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005025 | METHODOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCED CONTACT DIRECTORY-RELATED FUNCTIONALITY - An enhanced contact directory application and associated enhanced contact directory for provisioning in a mobile device that enables the mobile device user to have access to information identifying the cost or likely cost of communicating with listed contacts via the mobile device prior to initiating communication with the contacts. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005026 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR UTILIZING A CONSUMER OPT-IN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for utilizing a consumer opt-in management system are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes interfacing a near field communication (NFC) enabled mobile device with a touch point associated with an electronic marketing program to obtain touch point identification information from the touch point and receiving, at a trigger management server (TMS), an opt-in request message from the NFC enabled mobile device, wherein the opt-in request message includes a subscriber identifier associated with the NFC enabled mobile device and the touch point identification information. The method further includes accessing a business rules database using at least one of the subscriber identifier and the touch point identification information from the opt-in request message to identify an electronic marketing program identifier and using the electronic marketing program identifier to trigger the provisioning of content data associated with the electronic marketing program to the NFC enabled mobile device. | 01-05-2012 |
20120016747 | System and Method of Delivering Advertising Messages from a Shop Window to a Stop-by Potential Customer - A system for delivering advertising messages from a shop window to a stop-by potential customer is disclosed. An image capturing system including multiple digital cameras is employed to determine orientation of the person towards at least one of displayed items. Advertising messages related to the displayed item are transmitted to a mobile device carried by the person. | 01-19-2012 |
20120016748 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, NETWORK ELEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH BROWSING OF WEB/WAP SITES AND SERVICES - Methodologies, systems and software support or implement functionality to provide sponsored browsing of web/WAP sites and/or services for mobile device users wherein web sites are selected for browsing in dependence on a data size requirement for providing access to content available from a given web/WAP site. | 01-19-2012 |
20120022947 | ADVERTISEMENT GENERATING SYSTEM - An advertisement generating system comprises a database of advertisement templates and a controller operable to: a. access the database to correlate product related data with the advertisement template to selectively retrieve one or more advertisement templates associated with the product, b. output at least partially completed advertisement. The advertisement generating system may comprise a client device such as a point of sale or a service point device, e.g. a weighing scale. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022948 | ADVERTISING FRAMEWORK FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - Discovery of services between devices is provided prior to establishing a connection between devices, including wireless-enabled devices or devices that are communicatively coupled to wireless access points or other wireless communication devices. Discovering services prior to establishing a connection may facilitate finding a desired service. The services that may be discovered may be, for example, print services, camera services, PDA services or any other suitable services. Services may be discovered using 802.11, Bluetooth, UWB or any other suitable wireless technology. A graphical user interface is provided that enables a user to select a desired service. | 01-26-2012 |
20120036017 | DIGITAL VOUCHER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - The invention concerns a method of distributing one or more digital vouchers to the communications device of a user comprising: identifying, based on a user input to the communications device ( | 02-09-2012 |
20120041823 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC ADVERTISEMENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE - According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for providing an electronic advertisement to a mobile device. The method includes receiving, at an advertisement management server and from a mobile device, a request message for an electronic offer certificate associated with a touch point, the request message including an offer identifier associated with the touch point and a subscriber identifier associated with the mobile device, wherein the offer identifier was obtained by interfacing the mobile device with the touch point. The method also includes identifying, based on the offer identifier, an electronic offer certificate. The method further includes utilizing the subscriber identifier to communicate the identified electronic offer certificate to the mobile device. The method further includes identifying, based on the offer identifier, an electronic advertisement. The method further includes utilizing the subscriber identifier to communicate the identified electronic advertisement to the mobile device. | 02-16-2012 |
20120041824 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE ADVERTISING SERVICE IN MOBILE ADVERTISING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus is provided for providing a mobile advertising service in a mobile advertising system, and for sharing a preference to deliver a personalized advertisement requested by a particular group member to other users. In a method for providing a mobile advertising service by a server of a mobile advertising system, a group creation request message including a user list and a group user preference is received from an advertising engine, a group is created according to the user list and the group user preference in the group creation request message, a response message to the group creation request message is sent to the advertising engine, an advertisement request message is received from one of advertising engines included in the user list, an advertisement appropriate for the group user preference is selected, and the selected advertisement is delivered to at least one advertising engine included in the user list. The at least one advertising engine is included in the same group. | 02-16-2012 |
20120047019 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND ADVERTISING SERVER FOR PROVIDING MOBILE ADVERTISING THROUGH MOBILE BROADCASTING NETWORK - Disclosed is a method for providing a mobile advertising service using a mobile broadcasting network. The method includes the steps of: creating and providing, by a BCAST server, a service guide to which advertisement information is applied to a BCAST client when a MobAd server (Ad Server) provides the advertisement information to the BCAST Server which handles a broadcast service; and requesting, by an advertising engine (Ad engine), the BCAST client to provide a desired advertisement when the Ad server notifies the Ad engine of an object advertisement, and receiving the requested advertisement from the BCAST client. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066068 | Advertisement Delivery System Based on Electronic Coupon - A method of delivering advertisements to a user of mobile communication device is disclosed. An electronic coupon is transmitted from an electronic terminal to a mobile device carried by a user. The electronic coupon may include an advertising message. The received coupon may be displayed on a screen of the mobile device as an icon. The received coupons may be organized in a hierarchical manner. The user may select the icon to display an image of the coupon including the advertising message. The user may further select the advertising message for more details. In accordance with one implementation, the coupon value may be increased if the advertising message is viewed by the user. In accordance with another implementation, a new coupon may be delivered to the mobile device. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066069 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING, SALES, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION - Systems and methods for providing online sales, advertising, and information distribution are disclosed. A user may provide a request for a mobile advertisement or other mobile content by capturing images or other content associated with items to be listed, and enter and transmit a description of the item or other associated information, typically in the form of text or a text message, to a content management system. The information is then received by the content management system and processed and stored to quickly provide displays, listings, and/or messages associated with the content, based on criteria such as item description or type, location, and price. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066070 | MANAGEMENT OF ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED IN TEXT/MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES - Message filtering systems and associated methods are disclosed for filtering advertisements that are inserted in a text/multimedia message by an originating network. The message filtering system includes a criteria database that stores filter criteria defined for a user of a mobile device. The filter criteria are defined to filter advertisements on a per message basis based on the content of the advertisement and/or the source of the advertisement. The message filtering system further includes a message processor that receives a Mobile Terminated (MT) text/multimedia message from an originating network that is destined for the mobile device. The message processor identifies an advertisement inserted in the text/multimedia message by the originating network, and identifies the filter criteria defined for the user of the mobile device as stored in the criteria database. The message processor then filters the identified advertisement in the text/multimedia message based on the filter criteria. | 03-15-2012 |
20120084152 | Offer Message Flow System - Database creation, maintenance, and use with related components, including but not limited to one or more computer programs, enable a message originator to identify cellular telephone subscribers who are associated with a particular linking entity, and to then transmit messages to subscribers via their cellular telephones according to individualized input settings received from particular subscribers. | 04-05-2012 |
20120101902 | COMMERCIAL INFORMATION TAGGING - An approach to commercial information tagging. A digital radio receiver may be configured to receive commercial metadata that is part of a digital radio stream. A user may be able to provide input indicating that a particular commercial is of interest, thereby selecting the commercial metadata. The digital radio receiver may then determine one or more devices, from a set of devices that are communicatively connected to the digital radio receiver, that are configured to receive advertising associated with the commercial metadata. The digital radio receiver may then transmit the advertising to the various devices. In response, the devices may display information about the entity that sponsored the particular commercial; for example, a cellular phone may display a coupon, while a GPS device displays directions to the nearest location. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109754 | SPONSORED MULTI-MEDIA BLOGGING - The sponsored multi-media blogging technique is an advertising-driven service on a computing device, such as a mobile phone, that makes the multi-media micro-blog or blog an effective carrier for advertising. The data collected while employing the sponsored multi-media blogging technique is used for user intent mining and increasing advertisement relevance for mobile advertising projects. The benefits to the sponsored multi-media blogging technique's users are a natural interface for composing multi-media micro-blogs/blogs and instant experience sharing, while the benefits to advertisers is the promoted brand impression from the contextual advertising in rich media micro-blogs/blogs. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116885 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING AND ADVERTISEMENT BRANDING - Techniques are provided in which positive review, positive comment, or purchase information is obtained, of a first user and relating to a product, service or brand. A second user is identified who is in a social network of the first user. An online advertisement is generated, targeted to a second user, that includes at least one visible feature to allow the second user to recognize the advertisement as relating to a product, service or brand that has been positively commented on, positively reviewed, or purchased by a user in a social network of the first user. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116886 | USING A FIRST NETWORK TO CONTROL ACCESS TO A SECOND NETWORK - A wireless communication device is configured to be able to communicate via both a first access point and a second access point for using the first access point to obtain validation credentials in order to permit use of the second access point to access a network. The wireless communication device comprises a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions. The instructions are operable to: initiate communication with the second access point in order to access a network; obtain an access point identifier from the second access point, the access point identifier for identifying the second access point; transmit the access point identifier to a validation server via the first access point; receive validation credentials from the validation server via the first access point; the validation credentials including at identifier of a third party, the third party sponsoring access to the second access point; use the validation credentials to validate the wireless communication device with the second access point to obtain access to the network; and present advertising information on the wireless communication device, the advertising information pertaining to the third party. | 05-10-2012 |
20120116887 | Method and Apparatus for Electronic Payment and Authentication - A first device may be operable to receive a request to accept a payment via an ISO 18000-7 interface. The first device may transmit, via the ISO 18000-7 interface, a wake-up message to a second device comprising an ISO 18000-7 interface. The first device may transmit, via the ISO 18000-7 interface, an authorization request to the second device. The first device may receive an authorization message from the second device. The first device may decide whether to accept the payment based on the received authorization message. The first device may register with a retail outlet's network upon coming into range of a registration terminal of the network. While registered with the network, the first device may communicate with the network utilizing the ISO 18000-7 interface. The first device may deregister with the network upon coming into range of a deregistration terminal of the network. | 05-10-2012 |
20120143691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER-SPECIFIC ADVERTISEMENT ON BASIS OF M2M COMMUNICATION, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided are a system and method for providing a user-specific advertisement on the basis of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, and a mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving an advertising message broadcasted from at least one mobile terminal; extracting an advertisement according to a user situation using profile information set by a user of the mobile terminal; and presenting and displaying the extracted advertisement. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143692 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING ADVERTISING AND INCENTIVIZING CONSUMERS TO RECEIVE ADVERTISING - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering advertising messages from advertisers while incentivizing consumers to receive the advertising messages. In some embodiments, a provider selects a consumer to receive advertising content from an advertiser, sends a message to a portable device for the consumer, and provides a financial incentive to the consumer for receiving the message. In other embodiments, a provider determines that a consumer qualifies to receive an advertisement based on target consumer criteria and sends the advertisement to the consumer. The provider also receives payment from the advertiser and shares the payment with the consumer by providing a reward to the consumer. In additional embodiments, a provider accesses aggregate consumer information relating to a plurality of consumers to select consumers to receive advertising content, sends an advertisement to the selected consumers, and provides an incentive to the selected consumers. | 06-07-2012 |
20120158511 | PROVISION OF CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING - Embodiments related to the provision of advertising in an electronic media environment are disclosed. For example, one embodiment provides, on a computing device including a media player and an advertising layer configured to display advertising information related to media played via the media player, a method of presenting advertising content for media. The method includes receiving an input requesting playback of a media content item, sending a request for the media content item to a media server, receiving the media content item from the media server, and receiving advertising layer information from the media server. The method further comprises associating trigger points in the advertising layer information with the media content item, playing the media content item, and upon reaching a selected trigger point during playback of the media content item, triggering display of a notification to notify the user of available advertising content. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158512 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO INFORMATION RESOURCES USING A DIGITAL NETWORK PROTOCOL - A method and apparatus for providing an automatically upgradeable software application includes targeted advertising based upon demographics and user interaction with the computer. The software application includes a display region used for banner advertising that is downloaded over a network such as the Internet. The software application is accessible from a server via the network and demographic information on the user is acquired by the server and used for determining what advertising will be sent to the user. The software application further targets the advertisements in response to normal user interaction with the computer. A distribution tool is provided for software distribution and upgrading over the network. Also provided is a user profile that is accessible to any computer on the network. Furthermore, multiple users of the same computer can possess Internet web resources and files that are personalized, maintained and organized. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166286 | Method and Apparatus for Mobile Response Rate Tracking - Techniques are described to compute response counts and response rates in a mobile marketing environment. Such techniques may be fully automated. Computed counts and rates are accessible in near real-time. Certain techniques use contextual information of transactions events to compute accurate response counts and rates. A flexible filtering algorithm may be configured and applied by a user. | 06-28-2012 |
20120179550 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONTEXTUAL ADVERTISING - A method includes receiving message data at a mobile communication device from a user via a user input device of the mobile communication device. The message data is associated with a text message to be sent to at least one intended recipient device. The method includes receiving at least one address associated with the least one intended recipient device. The method further includes instructing a transmitter to send the text message to the at least one intended recipient device via a wireless network. The method also includes receiving advertisement data associated with at least one advertisement in response to a determination that a threshold number of messages have been sent by the transmitter. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179551 | Personalised Items in Mobile Devices based on User Behaviour - A method and arrangement for enabling purchase of an item offered by an item provider. The content of a communication session in which a user takes part at a communication network is analysed ( | 07-12-2012 |
20120185335 | DIFFERENTIATED DISPLAY OF ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON DIFFERENTIATING CRITERIA - A method of operating a wireless device includes displaying an advertisement on the wireless device. In addition, the method includes differentiating the display of the advertisement based on at least one criterion in order to indicate to a user of the wireless device a satisfaction of the at least one criterion. A method of operating a server includes receiving at least one criterion. In addition, the method includes differentiating a display of an advertisement based on the at least one criterion in order to indicate to a user of a wireless device a satisfaction of the at least one criterion. Furthermore, the method includes sending the differentiated advertisement for display on the wireless device. | 07-19-2012 |
20120197726 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUGGESTING SERVICES TO A USER - A method for presenting a vendor selection to a user of a mobile device, including receiving a notification that a first telephone call is initiated by the user of the mobile device to a telephone number for a vendor; while the first telephone call is active and prior to placing an order with the vendor: extracting a set of matching data for the vendor using the telephone number for the vendor, selecting at least one suggested vendor associated with an offer using a set of matching parameters and the set of matching data, generating a message comprising the vendor and the at least one suggested vendor with the offer; and presenting the message to the user of the mobile device, terminating, prior to placing the order, the first telephone call to the vendor, and initiating a second telephone call to the at least one suggested vendor based on the offer. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197727 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION HAVING EMBEDDED ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION - An apparatus and a method for providing an application having embedded advertisement information, in which an application having embedded advertisement information may be transmitted and received between a server which transmits the application and a terminal which receives the application. The apparatus includes a receiving unit to receive an application and advertisement information added to an execution file of the application from an application providing server, a control unit to execute the application and to control the output of the advertisement information based on an execution environment of the application, and an output unit to output the advertisement information during execution of the application. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197728 | SINGLE ACTION ACCESS TO CONTEXT SPECIFIC CONTENT AT A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for single action access to context specific content at a mobile device are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for user interface features, also referred to as “hot buttons” which can enhance a mobile user environment or mobile application by linking to real time or near real time information outside of one's social network to include selected web content, within a single dashboard. Hot buttons provide a place to surface dynamic outside of messaging and mobile application contexts. Since many large content providers earn revenue only from site visits by users, hot buttons can provide an ever-present link to the content site, while providing value over a simple URL, since selected context specific or relevant content is being pushed or aggregated dynamically to be accessed via the hot button. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197729 | SHELF-BASED PROMOTION TARGETING - A system and method for implementing promotions in a retail environment is provided. Transceivers located at one or more locations within the retail environment are adapted for communication with personal mobile devices carried by shoppers. Promotions can be offered and accepted based on factors such as a shopper's location within a store, shopper identity, shopper purchase history, shopper promotion redemption history, date and time and other factors. Applicable promotions are then activated within the retailer point-of-sale system for application during checkout. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197730 | METHODS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT PLATFORM - Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement with the alternate offer serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with the primary offer. Such methods and systems may further include methods and systems for selecting one or more alternate offers engagement with which serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with a primary offer, presenting the selected alternate payment offers to a user, receiving an indication of engagement with at least one and providing payment to the offeror the primary offer. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197731 | METHODS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT PLATFORM - Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement with the alternate offer serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with the primary offer. Such methods and systems may further include methods and systems for selecting one or more alternate offers engagement with which serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with a primary offer, presenting the selected alternate payment offers to a user, receiving an indication of engagement with at least one of the alternate offers, receiving payment in exchange for presenting the accepted offer and providing payment to the offeror of the primary offer. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203638 | System and Method for Establishing and Managing Short Code Campaigns - A campaign management system having a user interface that enables a content provider to initiate a request for a short code campaign, and identify information relating to the requested short code campaign; a first communication interface for communicating with a code registry; and a second communication interface for communicating with one or more carriers, each of which is capable of communicating with mobile devices using short code messaging. The campaign management system further includes a controller configured to receive the information for the requested short code campaign, reserve a short code with a code registry for use in the campaign via the first communication interface, activate the reserved short code with the one or more carriers via the second communication interface, and process messages received by the one or more carriers from end-users via the activated short code. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209716 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SERVING PROMOTIONS IN A LOW-POWER WIRELESS NETWORK - A first electronic device may begin communicating with a second electronic device in response to detecting that the second electronic device is within communication range of a low-power wireless interface of the first electronic device. The first device may receive, via the low-power wireless interface, information about a status and/or profile of the second electronic device. The first device may generate a promotion customized based on the received information. The low-power wireless interface | 08-16-2012 |
20120209717 | TARGETED DELIVERY OF PAYLOAD TO MOBILE USERS - Embodiments of the present invention enable targeted mobile payload (such as advertisement) delivery to mobile users, optimized for user experience, wireless access network characteristics and performance and advertising/marketing impact. Embodiments leverage subscriber situational insights, provided either by the wireless network or external providers, to associate with a request for advertisement (taking place while end user accesses content) a segment description and/or attributes that describe the end user. Accordingly, the advertisement industry standard (or advertiser, content-provider defined) audience to which the end user belongs can be determined in real-time, and a targeted advertisement can be delivered to the mobile end user. As such, content publisher inventory (i.e., advertisement space) can be purchased by advertisers based on audience. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215642 | Advertisement Based on Contextual Usage of Application - A device to detect a contextual usage of an application by a user, transmit data of the contextual usage to a second device, and receive an advertisement based on data of the contextual usage from the second device and output the advertisement on an output component of the device. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221415 | METHOD FOR PERSONALIZING MESSAGES DELIVERED TO A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL THAT PRESERVES THE PRIVACY OF THE RECIPIENT OF THE MESSAGE - A method for enhancing the privacy of recipients of personalizing text messages such as advertisements delivered to communication terminals such as cellular telephones. A common carrier such as a cellular telephone service provider gathers personal information from a subscriber at the time the subscriber signs on for service and receives a communication terminal. The carrier loads the terminal with a table that assigns variables to elements of personal information. The carrier accepts messages such as advertisements for distribution to subscribers. These messages use the variables that the carrier has loaded into the subscribers' terminals. When such a message is received, a subscriber's terminal replaces the variables with the elements of personal information by referring to the table. | 08-30-2012 |
20120226555 | PERSONAL ARTICLES WITH RECONFIGURABLE SURFACES AND SUBSCRIPTION-BASED SYSTEM FOR OPERATING WITH SAME TO ENABLE TARGETED DISTRIBUTED MOBILE ADVERTISING - A method for operating with reconfigurable personal articles to enable targeted distributed mobile advertising is disclosed. A web server is provided for product registration. The web server receives identifying personal data from a mobile subscriber and stores the personal data in a database. Non-identifying demographic data is received from the mobile subscriber and stored in the database. A unique serial number associated with a reconfigurable article purchased by the mobile subscriber and is received and stored in the database, in association with the mobile subscriber. A portal accessible via the world wide web is created for the mobile subscriber. A patch having an advertisement thereon is sent to said mobile subscriber for display on the reconfigurable article, and advertisers are provided with electronic access to the non-identifying demographic data. A personal article with a reconfigurable surface substantially covering each exposed exterior surface is disclosed. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226556 | SHOPPING CART AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a shopping cart includes a cart, a display, a registration and a display control unit. The cart configured to convey commodities. The display mounted on the cart. The registration unit configured to register a customer who operates the cart. The display control unit configured to display on the display premium infatuation indicating premium which is offered to the customer registered by the registration unit within the premiums offered to customers when purchasing commodity. | 09-06-2012 |
20120226557 | METHOD OF MARKETING USING MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method of marketing using mobile communication devices provides a computer database of market potentials. Fields associated with the computer database that are representative of demographic characteristics are established. Access is provided to the computer data base to consumers enabling consumers to populate the fields with characteristic demographic information. Access to the computer database is provided to businesses seeking to market goods and services to consumers having a predetermined demographic characteristic. The computer database is transformed into market segments defined by the business' predetermined market demographic and an electronic message is generated and transmitted to mobile communication devices owned by the consumers whose characteristic demographic information match the market segment defined by the business. Remuneration is provided to the consumer whose characteristic demographic information matches the market segment in response to the consumer receiving the electronic message. | 09-06-2012 |
20120232995 | VEHICLE SALES INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A new vehicle sales information providing method comprises providing a new vehicle having a vehicle information disclosure sheet and machine readable indicia associated with the disclosure sheet. The indicia include coded information representing a vehicle identification code unique to the new vehicle. The method also comprises receiving the coded information at a location remote to the new vehicle, with the coded information having been obtained from captured image data representing a captured image of the indicia. The method further includes retrieving additional vehicle information based on the coded information. The additional vehicle information includes information associated with and in addition to information present on the vehicle information disclosure sheet, and the additional vehicle information is unique to the new vehicle and inapplicable to any other vehicle. Additionally, the method includes wirelessly providing to a wireless device at least additional vehicle information data representing the retrieved additional vehicle information. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING AD TAGGED WORDS - A method and apparatus for providing advertisement on a mobile communication device is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a primary keyword and at least one secondary keyword are identified in a list or a body of text at the mobile communication device. A compound keyword is formed from the primary keyword and the at least one secondary keyword. At least one advertising resource link is associated with the formed compound keyword, and the formed compound keyword is visually distinguished. | 09-13-2012 |
20120232997 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING TARGETED INSERTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS USING METADATA AS IN-CONTENT DESCRIPTORS - A mechanism for transmitting metadata that contain identifying characteristics of advertisements to be inserted, details of an advertisement-spot, and targeted viewing group details as in-content descriptors to a mobile handset is disclosed. Tight synchronization and control of the display of advertisements within an advertisement-spot during wireless content transmission is thus provided. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239503 | SHARED INTERACTIVE MOBILE ADVERTISING PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD - A shared interactive mobile advertising platform with a messaging display is provided that allows for advertising to an audience. The messaging display displays advertising campaigns in the form of response codes and data collection destinations, and displays advertising messages. Advertising users generate or create the advertising campaign and rent advertising space on the display from the platform owner. A member of the audience sees the advertising campaign and if he is interested he enters the response code and the data collection destination information into a personal communication device. The shared interactive mobile advertising platform sends a response to that member in the form of a discount, sale, coupon et cetera and the response and may be redeemed by the member. The advertising user only receives input from interested members of the audience and can focus on marketing to these members in the future. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246006 | System and Method for Peer-To-Peer Advertising Between Mobile Communication Devices - Disclosed are a method and system for peer-to-peer advertising between mobile communication devices. A subsidy program is set up based on a profile of an advertiser having at least one advertising media. A qualified subscriber is identified for the advertiser based on a profile of a subscriber. One or more advertisers and subsidy programs for the qualified subscriber is selected. In addition, when a communication transmission is received from a source communication device, at least one advertising media is associated with the communication transmission and the communication transmission is transmitted from a source communication device to a destination communication device. | 09-27-2012 |
20120253940 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTION OF MOBILE COUPONS - A method and system for distributing mobile coupons. The method includes providing a mobile coupon to a mobile communication facility; delivering a mobile coupon based on mobile user characteristics such that the mobile coupon may be displayed on the mobile user device; receiving a mobile coupon from mobile user device in order to redeem the mobile coupon; recording transaction in a data repository; and uploading transaction from data repository for analyzing mobile coupon distribution. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259707 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MEDIA DELIVERY TO MOBILE DEVICES AND MOBILE DEVICE LOCKSCREENS - A method and system for automated media delivery to mobile devices and mobile device lockscreens. The method includes receiving a first media request associated with a first target device, obtaining a first user account associated with the first media request, wherein the first user account comprises first user category criteria; selecting a first user-submitted media item based on the first user category criteria, and sending, to the first target device, the first user-submitted media object, wherein the first user-submitted media object is presented on a lock screen of the first target device. The method further includes receiving a second media request associated with the first target device, selecting a first advertiser-submitted media object based on the first user category criteria, and sending, to the first target device, the first advertiser-submitted media object, wherein the first advertiser-submitted media object is presented on the lock screen of the first target device. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259708 | Method of Providing Targeted Information Using Wireless Subscription Management - A wireless communication device receives targeted information and/or advertisements. The wireless communication device is preprogrammed with a generic network address only. To communicate over a network, the wireless communication sends an activation request message to the network, including its generic network address (GNA) and information indicative of the base station via which communication is taking place. Knowing the geographical location of the base station, it is possible to send to the wireless communication device via its GNA, or a subsequently provided unique network address (UNA), information or advertisements targeted to the geographical location or particular wireless device. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265617 | SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC AUDIENCE SIZE MEASUREMENT AND INTERACTIVITY - A system for automatically measuring the size of a radio or television audience at any particular time is provided. In the system, a remote computer may identify the broadcast stations to which listening devices, such as radios or televisions, are tuned. To identify the broadcast stations, the remote computer commands the listening device instructing/commanding the listening device to poll its radio receiver tuner to determine the frequency it is tuned to. This information is then transmitted from the listening device to the remote computer where it may be used to determine what broadcast station the listening device is tuned to. This data is then stored and accumulated, so that over time the listening habits of the user may be identified. The collected data may be used by broadcast stations to determine the cost of advertisements. Additionally, the system provides for the monetization of advertising by charging advertisers for downloads. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONETIZING ON-LINE USER-GENERATED CONTENT - A method and system for generating revenue on the internet by an internet content provider. The method can include the steps of publishing content on a web page accessible via a web browser; providing on the web page a first area for at least one user-generated default-format comment; providing on the web page a second area for an advertisement; providing on the web page a third area for at least one fee-paid comment; displaying on the web page in the first area at least one of the user-generated default-format comment; displaying on the web page in the second area at least one advertisement; and displaying on the web page in the third area at least one fee-paid comment. Readers of the content can read the default-format comment, the advertisement, and the fee-paid comment on the same web page. | 10-18-2012 |
20120278175 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR MONETIZING TELECOM APP-STORES THROUGH NETWORK API USAGE - Methods and arrangements for monetizing telecom application. Advertising input is accepted, as well as contractual input relating to advertisement dissemination. An advertisement is associated with a telecom customer based on matchmaking criteria, and the advertisement is output to the customer based on the contractual input. This outputting includes propagating the advertisement selectively via at least one of: an in-application channel, wherein the advertisement is associated with a telecom application used by the customer; and an out-of-application channel, wherein the advertisement is propagated directly to the customer. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284122 | Smartphone-Based Methods and Systems - Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 11-08-2012 |
20120290396 | SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION ENABLED LOCATION SERVICE - In some examples, aspects of the present disclosure may include techniques to identify a physical location of an item with potentially enhanced precision. In one example, a method includes, receiving an item descriptor that describes one or more physical items. The method also includes receiving a data payload from a peripheral device using short-range wireless communication that includes information usable to locate at least one of the one or more physical items. The further includes selecting physical location data based on the item descriptor and the data payload, wherein the physical location data includes a representation of a physical location of the at least one of the one or more physical items; and outputting the physical location data that is usable to locate the at least one of the one or more physical items. | 11-15-2012 |
20120290397 | METHOD FOR ADVERTISING ON DIGITAL CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND REDUCING COSTS TO THE END USER - The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, consumer promotions, and customer service announcements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones. One method includes downloading wirelessly a single database containing a plurality of graphical interactive advertising contents. The plurality of graphical interactive advertising contents are stored to a mobile wireless communications device. At least one graphical interactive advertising content is displayed a particular time period the display of the mobile wireless communication device. The mobile wireless communication device is connected to a mobile communications medium upon user activation of the at least one graphic interactive advertising content. | 11-15-2012 |
20120296745 | USING A MEDIA CONTENT RECEIVER TO PROVIDE PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION TO A MOBILE DEVICE - A method of communicating promotional information to a mobile device begins by determining that a user of a media content receiver is likely to be interested in an advertised item. In response to the determination, the method obtains promotional information related to the advertised item, generates a message that includes the promotional information, and communicates the message from the media content receiver in a manner intended for wireless receipt by the mobile device. In certain situations, the message includes or identifies an electronic coupon for the advertised item, and the message is directly transmitted in a wireless format from the media content receiver to the mobile device. | 11-22-2012 |
20120303459 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATING ADVERTISING CONTROL INFORMATION - Various embodiments are directed to the transmission, e.g., broadcast, of identification information and corresponding control information in discovery signals by a wireless communications device as part of a discovery process. In some embodiments, the identifier identifies one of: an advertisement, a user, or a module. In one embodiment the identifier identifies an advertisement, and the corresponding control information communicates a bid factor used in determining the value of a bid for an ad display opportunity. In another embodiment, the identifier identifies a dynamically modifiable advertisement, and the corresponding control information communicates information that is used to set and/or modify the dynamically modifiable portion of the advertisement. In still another embodiment, the identifier identifiers a user and the control information communicates status information. In yet another embodiment, the identifier identifies a module, e.g., a software application, and the control information communicates a command for the module to perform a particular operation. | 11-29-2012 |
20120303460 | INTERACTIVE VOTING OR SURVEY - An interactive direct response system combines the use of short text message systems (SMS) via cell phones ( | 11-29-2012 |
20120316966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - The invention provides for advertising content selection, presentation, and statistics reporting at a wireless user terminal. The invention includes a method for selecting a subset of advertising content for presentation at the wireless user terminal. The invention includes a method for presenting advertising content at a wireless user terminal in response to one or more conditions detected at the wireless user terminal. The invention includes a method for collecting advertising content presentation statistics and providing the advertising content presentation statistics to at least one network system. In one embodiment, the invention may include one or more of the advertising content selection, presentation, and statistics reporting functions. | 12-13-2012 |
20120316967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILE FILTERED ADVERTISEMENTS - Embodiments of the present invention include improved communication system and methods. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a wireless communication method comprising, on a first wireless device, receiving one or more wireless device identifications associated with one or more other wireless devices, and transmitting at least one of the one or more wireless device identifications from the first wireless device to a remote computer system, and on the remote computer system, receiving the at least one wireless device identification, and accessing information associated with the at least one wireless device identification. Embodiments of the present invention may be used for electronic dating, social networking and other communication applications. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323693 | Electronic Advertisement System and Method for Display Control therefor - An electronic advertisement system includes a communication unit that receives a plurality of patterns of edited advertisement data and service data from an external apparatus. The edited advertisement data is based on a plurality of advertisement data. The system also includes a read/write unit that communicates with an external communication device. The system further includes a controller that determines a pattern of the plurality of patterns of the edited advertisement data to be displayed based on received data from the external communication device and transmits the service data to the external communication device via the read/write unit. | 12-20-2012 |
20130013413 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING TO DRIVERS - The present invention relates to an advertising method for reaching drivers who utilize the Toll Road System. By utilizing toll info on a driver as the toll is paid, advertisers can target the driver based on their location and can offer toll reimbursement in return for visiting or utilizing an advertiser's product or service. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013414 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIRECT DISCOVERY OF DIGITAL CONTENT FROM OBSERVED PHYSICAL MEDIA - The invention provides apparatus and associated method(s) for interrelating digital content stored on Internet websites to physical form media such as that used in out-of-home (e.g., outdoor) advertising. The invention provides apparatus for use in a communications network adapted to provide registered images of physical form media to a plurality of mobile devices connectable to the communication network, comprising: an interface for registering on a registrar device digital images of physical form media, a receiver for receiving at the registrar device geospatial coordinates of a mobile device, a transmitter for transmitting to the mobile device from the registrar device registered digital images of physical form media observable at the received geospatial coordinates, an input for including hyperlinks in registered digital images enabling access to digital content related to physical form media, the digital content being accessible to the mobile device on storage servers connected to the communications network. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013415 | Media Play Optimization - Systems, methods, and a user interface for automatically scheduling a media play is disclosed. The user can specify criteria for play of the media play, including times, stations, and/or external criteria such as a weather condition or the occurrence of an event. Information relevant to the entered criteria is received and assessed against the criteria to determine if the criteria are met. Responsive to the received information meeting the criteria for play of the media play, an accessor accesses the media play inventory and inserts the media play into a media feed. | 01-10-2013 |
20130024288 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING MULTIMEDIA RENDEZVOUS POINTS FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods create multimedia rendezvous points for mobile devices. The mobile devices access digital media and/or a rendezvous identification (RID) for a rendezvous point of the digital media via a server and/or a network. The mobile devices connect to the rendezvous point via the RID of the digital media for communicating with each other. The mobile devices connect to and/or communicate with each other at the rendezvous point without disrupting consumption of the digital media. The rendezvous points may have subgroups which are based on attributes of the users, the mobile devices and/or the digital media. The users of the mobile devices create a private rendezvous point and/or a private RID which is accessible via an invitation and/or is based on the attributes of the users, the mobile devices and/or the digital media. | 01-24-2013 |
20130030920 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING AVAILABILITY OF POWER STORAGE DEVICES AT A POWER STORAGE DEVICE COLLECTION, CHARGING AND DISTRIBUTION MACHINE - A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Availability of charged portable electrical energy storage devices available at a collection, charging and distribution machine are communicated to or acquired by a mobile device of a user or a user's vehicle. Once the mobile device of a user or a user's vehicle comes within close proximity of the collection, charging and distribution machine or within a particular area surrounding the collection, charging and distribution machine, the collection, charging and distribution machine or a collection, charging and distribution machine management system communicates an alert (e.g., over a cellular network, short range wireless signal or wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network) to the mobile device or vehicle indicating how many portable electrical energy storage devices are available at the distribution machine. | 01-31-2013 |
20130041755 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT AND PERSONAL CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, monitoring access by communication devices of second users to personal content associated with a first user, selecting advertisement content based on the monitoring of the access, and providing the advertisement content for presentation with the personal content when the personal content is accessed by a communication device of a third user. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-14-2013 |
20130041756 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLECTION AND USE OF WIRELESS APPLICATION ACTIVITY INFORMATION - A method for targeting one or more users. User interaction with a wireless application is monitored. Information based on the user interaction is analyzed. Based on the analysis, one or more customizations of the application are determined in order to target users. The customizations are dynamically applied to the application. | 02-14-2013 |
20130054371 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXTUALIZING SERVICES FOR INLINE MOBILE BANNER ADVERTISING - The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for processing advertisement opportunities when a user views content on a mobile device. An agent on a mobile device may contextualize a portion of a page being viewed to identify and send contextual data to a contextualization service. The contextualization service may use the contextual data to select a campaign from a plurality of campaigns to deliver an in line banner advertisement for content being viewed. Based on the selected campaign, the contextualization service may send the agent an advertisement or campaign information for display, such as an inline banner at a natural break in the content being viewed. Instead of having an advertisement predetermined or fixed prior to the display of the content, the present systems and methods may dynamically contextualize the page at the point of viewing based on the content of the page being viewed. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054372 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for providing an advertising service in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes an attribute information confirmation unit for sorting attribute information based on a priority of each piece of the attribute information by acquiring landmark information and then, by recognizing attribute information in which information to be used to determine a user preferences is written; a request information determination unit for recognizing a user-preferred advertisement by using information written in the sorted attribute information; and a controller for controlling the attribute information confirmation unit and the request information determination unit to receive the user-preferred advertisement. | 02-28-2013 |
20130066722 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVANCED AND REAL TIME MOBILE MARKETING VIA SMS - The present invention generally relates to mobile marketing techniques. Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for providing advanced and real time (or near real-time) mobile marketing means through SMS messages. Numerous methods are described herein for the provision of and functionalities provided by one or more mobile marketing networks. | 03-14-2013 |
20130066723 | MANAGING PAYMENT FOR SPONSORED CONTENT PRESENTED TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system and method for targeted delivery of advertising of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of cellular phones of a first or second type by way of a competitive bid auction process includes (a) receiving a credit card datum from a credit card provider; (b) presenting to the first and second sponsor data corresponding to (1) the credit card datum and (2) the first type and the second type of cellular phone; (c) receiving from each sponsor advertising associated with credit card characteristic relating to the credit card datum, wherein each advertising has a different rendering capability associated therewith; (d) attributing a priority to the delivery of the advertising based upon a resultant yield determination; and (e) transmitting the appropriate advertising to the types of cellular phones having the corresponding rendering capabilities of the advertising. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073394 | HUMAN CURATED TARGETING OF OFFERS - There is disclosed a method, apparatus and server for human curated targeting of offers. The method includes sending the link to the first offer to the first group of mobile devices via short message service using the first user group contact information; and accepting input of second user group contact information for a second group of mobile devices to which to provide the first offer from a mobile device of the first group of mobile devices. The method also includes retaining the first and second user group contact information and the first offer provided to the first and second groups of mobile devices. Finally, the method includes creating a second offer for at least one of the first and second groups of mobile devices based upon the input of the first and second user group contact information. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080258 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMER SUPPORT - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing sales or customer support using a telephone having a camera to capture at least a partial image of a product or service; wherein the at least partial image is used to select a database updated by one or more knowledgeable persons on the product or service. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085863 | System and Method for Centrally Distributing Mobile Content - There are provided methods, systems, devices and computer program products for distributing mobile content, on behalf of mobile content providers, to mobile devices. A central mobile content delivery system and a central mobile content delivery store system are provided. Interfaces permit a mobile content provider to author and publish mobile content in association with subscription data. Content offers may be defined from such data and offered to mobile device user subscribers such as in a catalog system. Content is delivered on behalf of the content providers in accordance with the subscriptions concluded by the store system. Subscriptions may relate to single packages of mobile content or a plurality of packages (e.g. in a series of publications) such as previously or subsequently published mobile content. Subscriptions are provided to the central delivery system to assign and deliver mobile content to devices. | 04-04-2013 |
20130124326 | PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method for providing advertisements in an augmented reality environment to a user includes receiving data related to a marker, the marker placed amongst one or more physical objects captured by the video camera. The computer-implemented method also includes retrieving dynamic digital content associated with the marker. Further, the computer-implemented method includes displaying the dynamic digital content amongst the one or more physical objects. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes receiving a user interaction with the dynamic digital content. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes performing an action based on the user interaction. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124327 | IDENTIFYING A SAME USER OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES BASED ON WEB PAGE VISITS - A system for identifying a same user of multiple communication devices is configured to perform the steps of: (a) receiving first data relating to a first device operated by a user; (b) receiving second data relating to a second device operated by a user; (c) determining that the user of the first device is the user of the second device based on identifying that the first data is substantially the same as the second data; and (d) selecting and transmitting a sponsored content to the second device for display thereon, wherein the sponsored content has a relevance to the first and second data and/or a user characteristic datum associated with the user. | 05-16-2013 |
20130144724 | PRESENTATION OF SPONSORED CONTENT ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system and method for targeted distribution of advertising of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of cellular phones of a first or second type includes establishing a competitive real time bid auction process and attributing in real time a higher ordering priority to the advertising of the first sponsor than the advertising of the second sponsor based upon a determination that the amount of the first sponsor is greater than the amount of the second sponsor. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151341 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SENDING INTERACTIVE PROMOTION INFORMATION AND RECORDING MEDIUMS USING THE SAME - Methods for sending interactive promotion information used between a portable device and a multimedia device are provided. The multimedia device stores a plurality of multimedia information and corresponding promotion information. The portable device is connected to the multimedia device of a specific place through a communication network. The portable device obtains a first certificate corresponding to a product of the specific place, wherein the first certificate includes consumer behavior information of the product and connection information for the multimedia device. The portable device logs into the multimedia device through the first certificate and the communication network. After successfully logging into the multimedia device, the portable device generates an operation user interface for operating the multimedia device to select one of the multimedia information to play. After the selected multimedia information has been completely played, the multimedia device transmits promotion information corresponding to the selected multimedia information to the portable device. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151342 | ONLINE GAME COMMUNITY WITH CONTROLLED CROSS-PROMOTION - A cross-promotion system that controls promotion between video game makers in an online video game community is described. A video game user operates an instance of a video game on a computing device. Information about the operation of the video game and/or the video game user is transmitted to a server of the online cross-promotion system. The online cross-promotion server determines that the maker of the video game is participating is a cross-promotion message, and therefore a cross-promotion message should be displayed within the instance of the video game. The online cross-promotion server can further customize the cross-promote message to increase its relevance to the video game user. The promotion message is transmitted from the online cross-promotion server to the computing device and is displayed within the instance of the video game that is operating on the computing device. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151343 | DISPLAYING MOBILE ADVERTISING BASED ON DETERMINING USER'S PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FROM MOBILE DEVICE SENSOR DATA - A mobile handset device determines a physical activity performed by a user based on local sensor data. The local sensor data can include sensors within the mobile handset device and local sensors in communication with the mobile handset device. The mobile handset device provides an indicator of the physical activity to a publisher. The publisher targets advertisements based on the current activity or activity pattern of the user. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159109 | Method for Exchanging Data Concerning an Electronic Transaction - A method for exchanging data concerning an electronic transaction between two entities, includes: a step which consists in determining and booking an origin address (TPOA) in conformity with a bidirectional mobile telephony (GSM) digital messaging service protocol (SMS); a step which consists in sending in accordance with the protocol (SMS), an offer message (OFFRE_SMS) of the transaction (TR), the offer message (OFFRE_SMS) being sent from the first entity (MW) and addressed to the second entity (CL); and a step which consists in sending, from the second entity (CL) and addressed to the first entity (MW), a reply message comprising an information (REP) representing acceptance or rejection of the transaction. | 06-20-2013 |
20130166388 | TECHNQUES FOR REAL-TIME OFFER EVALUATIONS - Techniques for real-time offer evaluations are presented. An enterprise system detects and interaction with a customer. Metrics for the interaction are acquired and a centralized preference server delivers real time preference values known for the customer. The metrics and the preference values are used to dynamically and in real-time evaluate conditions for an enterprise offer and when met the offer is delivered to the customer in real time. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173391 | LISTENING DEVICE - A listening device can be configured to receive an audio signal from a specific source. For example, the listening device may be configured to receive commentary at a sporting event or may be configured to receive audio from a television transmission. The listening device may be part of a system adapted to send the audio signal, and may also be configured to insert advertising into the audio stream where appropriate. For example, at a baseball game, the stadium may send an audio signal that with game stats, commentary and the like. Many fans may desire to receive such commentary and may, rent or buy a listening device specifically designed to receive the audio signal from the stadium. The stadium may then insert advertising in between innings, for example. This may permit the stadium to gain revenue through advertising, while also provide the fans with advertising that may be of interest. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173392 | MEDIATION ROUTER - Advertisement vendors can be dynamically selected in response to a request from a wireless communication device. A mediation router can receive an ad request from a portal interfaced with a wireless device. Specifically, the mediation router analyzes the request and dynamically selects an ad vendor to service the request, based in part on the analysis. The selected ad vendor supplies the ad and the mediation router ensures that the portal receives the ad. The mediation router selects an ad vendor in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, business decision rules or artificial intelligence and/or a combination thereof. The mediation router further employs customer profiles that help vendors target advertisements to specific consumers and wireless devices. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179267 | MOBILE TERMINAL FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON USER CIRCUMSTANCE, AND METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and method for providing an advertisement based on a user circumstance is provided. The mobile terminal includes a user input unit for receiving user-input circumstance information; a storage unit for storing the user-input circumstance information terminal-obtained circumstance information obtained by the mobile terminal, and user profile information; a communication unit for receiving a customized advertisement information configured based on the user input circumstance information, the terminal-obtained circumstance information, the user profile information, and user movement prediction information; a controller for predicting a movement of the user based on the user-input circumstance information, the terminal-obtained circumstance information, and the user profile information, providing the predicted movement of the user, and controlling output of a corresponding advertisement based on the received advertising information; and a display unit for displaying the corresponding advertisement. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185157 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF MEDIA CONTENT - Information is provided a user of a mobile device. Media content is sensed by the mobile device and sent to an information processing server. The information processing server also obtains media content from another source and associates at least a portion of the obtained media content with a product or service offer. The sensed media content is correlated to the obtained media content such that an associated buy or service offer is selected. The buy or service offer is sent to the mobile device for display to the user. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185158 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSER BASED ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION - Content is downloaded to a mobile handheld device (MHD) and buffered on the MHD prior to, and during, viewing. Normal wireless bandwidth varies with atmospheric conditions, distance, obstructions in the path, etc. and hence the speed at which a content-buffer (CB) on the MHD is replenished changes. Because this can result in very low quality viewing experience for the user, the capability for alternate content scheduling provided a micro-splicer is used to enable stored alternate content or advertisement insertion during periods of low viewing quality, when the CB does not hold sufficient content during the viewing period. This alternate content insertion allows the CB to be refilled before the user resumes content viewing. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191219 | System and Method for User Generated Content in Media Advertisements - Allowing an app having access to hidden resources on a device to present third party media to the device user via that app such that requests included in the third party media which require access to hidden resources can be fulfilled without requiring further permission by the user. In one embodiment, a third party advertisement is presented to a user via an app that has been enabled by the user. The enabled app is pre-approved by the user, and by any authorizing organization, to access hidden resources, such as camera, recorder, and personal data. In this manner, third party requests that require access to such hidden data can control such access without requiring further action by the user. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191220 | Systems and Methods for Displaying Over-Scroll Regions on Electronic Devices - A method and system are provided for displaying advertising content on a mobile device by displaying an over-scroll region on a display of the mobile device, and displaying a first advertisement in at least a first portion of the over-scroll region. The method may include determining information associated with the over-scroll region, and selecting the first advertisement based on the information associated with the over-scroll region. The method may also include displaying a second advertisement in a second portion of the over-scroll region and selecting the second advertisement based on the information associated with the over-scroll region. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191221 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR INTERCUTTING ADVERTISEMENTS - The embodiments of the present invention relate to communication technologies and disclose a method, a device, and a system for intercutting advertisements according to User Equipment (user terminal) information to improve user experience and effectiveness of advertisement intercutting. The method includes: receiving a service request sent by a user terminal and forwarded by a Radio Access Network (RAN) network element, and obtaining a service corresponding to the service request; obtaining user terminal information from the RAN network element; and determining a corresponding advertisement according to the user terminal information, and sending the obtained service and the determined advertisement to the user terminal through the RAN network element. The embodiments of the present invention are applicable to precise intercut of advertisements. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198004 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT INFORMATION VIA SMS MESSAGING - A system and method for providing content information via SMS messaging. User interest activity information and user situational information are accumulated by a processor operating on a server and used to update a dynamic portion of a user profile associated with the user. A first rule is applied to the updated user profile to select information from an information database. A second rule is applied to the updated user profile to determine whether the user of the mobile device qualifies to receive SMS marketing messages. A reply message is generated using the selected information. The reply message further comprises an invitation to receive SMS marketing messages when the user of the mobile device qualifies to receive SMS marketing messages. Alternatively, the reply message further comprises an invitation to opt-out from receive SMS marketing messages when the user of the mobile device otherwise qualifies to receive SMS marketing messages. | 08-01-2013 |
20130211918 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT - A method of providing a targeted advertisement is provided. A mobile terminal receives user characteristic information including information indicating favorite shops and basic information used for user classification, and generates an access control key used for encoding advertisement content by using the received user characteristic information. An advertisement main server selects at least one of shop management servers installed in respective shops by using the user characteristic information, and transmits the user characteristic information to the selected at least one shop management server. The shop management server receiving the user characteristic information encodes advertisement content selected using the user characteristic information with a specific access control key, and broadcasts the encoded advertisement content. The mobile terminal decodes the broadcast advertisement content by using the generated access control key. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211919 | System and Method for Sharing and Endorsing Content - A system and associated method to enable individual users of the system to preferably share and/or endorse a set of information by actively embedding the information within a user's existing communications, which include but are not limited to a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a smart phone, a tablet, or any other similar networked and internet-ready device. Additionally, the system is preferably configured to enable a content creator to monitor the content distribution to users of the system in real-time. | 08-15-2013 |
20130211920 | METHOD FOR DELIVERING AND DISPLAYING CONTENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - This invention concerns content distribution, in particular providing promotional messages and images to mobile devices. It includes a method of content distribution in which the probability of familiarization of a user with the content is increased, maintaining convenience of use of a mobile device. The abovementioned technical result is achieved by installing on the mobile device an original external program, required for reception, processing and display of promotional and informational messages. | 08-15-2013 |
20130218684 | System and Method for Targeted Marketing and Consumer Resource Management - Systems and methods are provided for providing targeted marketing to goods and services provides and consumer resource management services to consumers. An example system and method for targeted marketing comprises collecting transaction data from point-of-sale (POS) terminals and using a consumer identifier in the transaction data to access stored information about the consumer. This information may be used to target offers and advertisement to the consumer. In an example system for consumer resource management, a consumer may configure a consumer account on the enterprise infrastructure via a web-site. The consumer may use the consumer account to purchase and configure gift cards that may be used for purchasing goods and services. A universal transaction identifier may be associated with the consumer account and used to purchase goods and services from more than one selected goods and services providers. | 08-22-2013 |
20130232008 | ADVERTISING ON MOBILE DEVICES - Techniques and systems for advertising on mobile devices allow advertisements to be presented on a mobile device during delay periods caused by wireless data communications. An advertisement may initially be stored on a mobile device. Subsequently, when a wireless data communication involving the mobile device is initiated, the advertisement may be presented on the mobile device during at least a portion of the wireless data communication. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232009 | BROWSING AND QUALITY OF SERVICE FEATURES - Embodiments are configured to provide browsing and other functionality that can be used to provide viewable data based in part on a current viewable space of a browser interface, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, components of a system can operate to communicate viewable data to a browser engine based in part on a configuration of the browser engine and/or a display architecture. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a browser application that can be used to provide data associated with viewable portions of a browser display, wherein the provided data can be used to monetize advertising revenue according to monetization and/or advertising requirements. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232010 | MOBILE DEVICE CLUSTER ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY - Methods provide advertisement delivery to a cluster of mobile devices with computer readable program code, when read by a processor, configured for identifying, among a plurality of mobile devices associated with a network, a cluster of two or more mobile devices. The identification may be based at least in part on a relative displacement of the two or more mobile devices during a period of time being less than a maximum relative displacement. The methods may further include displaying an advertising message on each mobile device in the cluster. | 09-05-2013 |
20130232011 | RELEVANT CONTENT DELIVERY - Various arrangements for delivery of relevant content to a mobile device of a user are presented. Physiological state data and image data related to the user of the mobile device may be received by a host computer system from a mobile device. The image data may be analyzed to identify a characteristic of the image. The physiological state data may also be analyzed. Content to deliver to the mobile device of the user may be selected at least partially based on the physiological state data of the user and the characteristic of the image. The content may be transmitted to the mobile device. | 09-05-2013 |
20130238442 | Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Wirelessly Preprocessing a Transaction While in a Queue for a Point-of-Transaction - A transaction is preprocessed wirelessly in response to a wireless transaction preprocessing user device being in a queue for a point-of-transaction. The transaction that was preprocessed is then completed in response to the wireless transaction preprocessing user device reaching the point-of-transaction. Financial transactions and/or purchase of goods and/or services may thereby be preprocessed wirelessly and then completed at a point-of-transaction. Related devices and computer program products are also disclosed. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238443 | System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 09-12-2013 |
20130246182 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION FROM OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE - Apparatuses, methods and systems for acquiring information from objects in a virtual space. A processor accumulates interest activity that includes a scan by the mobile device of a 3-D object in a 3-D virtual environment and situational information that includes information about the 3-D virtual environment and associates the accumulated information with user identifying information. A dynamic portion of a user profile associated with the user identifying information is updated with the accumulated user activity information and the accumulated user situational information. A rule is applied to the updated user profile to select information from an information database. A reply message is generated that includes the selected information and sent to the mobile device. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246183 | System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254036 | Method and/or System for User Authentication with Targeted Electronic Advertising Content through Personal Communication Devices - An apparatus and method is provided for generating a request for a one-time password (OTP), and with the OTP transmitted to a mobile device in an electronic message that includes the OTP in conjunction with an electronic advertising content that is targeted to the user of the mobile device. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254037 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVERTISING USING A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method for providing advertisements on mobile communication devices includes identifying at least one URL link to which it is desired to add an advertising functionality and adding the advertising functionality to the at least one URL link. Upon the addition of the advertising functionality to the at least one URL link, selection of the at least one URL link results in opening both a primary first web page directly associated with the at least one URL link clicked by the user and a secondary second web page. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254038 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHARING PROMOTIONAL INFORMATION FROM A 3-D SCAN FROM A MOBILE DEVICE - Apparatuses, methods and systems for sharing promotional information from a 3-D scan from a mobile device. Interest activity information and situational information provided by a 3-D capable mobile are accumulated. The interest activity information may include a scan by the mobile device of a 3-D object in a 3-D virtual environment and user identifying information. The situational information may include information about the 3-D virtual environment. A dynamic portion of a user profile associated with user identifying information is updated with the accumulated user activity information and the accumulated user situational information. A first rule is applied to the user profile to select information from an information database. A message is generated using the selected information and sent to the mobile device. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254039 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a method and apparatus for providing an advertisement service in a mobile communication system. A method of a server for providing an advertisement service in a mobile communication system includes receiving a message for requesting to provide an advertisement corresponding to an advertisement board to a terminal, searching at least one advertisements corresponding to the advertisement board, determining an advertisement corresponding to user attributes of the terminal among the searched advertisements, and transmitting the determined advertisement to an external device. | 09-26-2013 |
20130262232 | Method for transmitting directed advertisements over the Internet - Method for sending advertisement over the Internet, including a main computer system having a central computer and recorded advertisement videos, includes inputting a profile into the central computer for each user wishing to see advertisement, which profile is constituted by the user's replies to specific questions, inputting a categorization of each recorded video into the central computer, which categorization is constituted by one or several choices from a number of predefined options giving information about to whom the advertisement is directed and/or what each respective video is advertising, storing the videos in the central computer or on the Internet, and when a user of a portable personal electronic device requests access to a wireless network connected to the Internet and central computer, causing the central computer to send an offer to the portable device that the user can connect to the wireless network at no charge. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262233 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING 3D CONTENT BASED ON DETECTED MOBILE DEVICE CAPABILITY - Apparatuses, methods and systems for sharing promotional information from a 3-D scan from a mobile device. Interest activity information and situational information provided by a device mobile are accumulated. Capability information of the mobile device is obtained and is used to determine whether the mobile device is capable of displaying content in 3-D. The interest activity information may include a scan by the mobile device of a 3-D object in a 3-D virtual environment and user identifying information. The situational information may include information about the 3-D virtual environment. A dynamic portion of a user profile associated with user identifying information is updated with the accumulated user activity information and the accumulated user situational information. A rule is applied to the user profile to select content from an information database. The content is rendered in a 3-D format when the mobile device is 3-D capable. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NETWORK BASED TARGET ADVERTISING - A telecommunication system implements a method for providing a targeted on-line advertisement to a user accessing a content provider node of the system. The system further comprises an ad selection node and an user identification node. A user signal indicative of an information request is routed through the system to determine a geographic location of the user and/or a demographic profile of the geographic location. An advertiser corresponding to the geographic location and/or demographic profile is thereafter communicated to the user. | 10-03-2013 |
20130268367 | COMUPTERIZED MARKETING AND ADVERTISING PLATFORM BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - Described herein are methods and systems allowing a merchant to market its brands, products and/or services through its customers' social network platforms. In particular, a computerized advertising platform generates and tracks social network activities of participating customers in exchange of honoring related marketing incentives. Using this platform, a merchant can submit bargain items, and in exchange for receiving a bargain item, a customer authorizes an echo message regarding the merchant and bargain item to be posted on his or her social network account(s). | 10-10-2013 |
20130268368 | Advertisement Tunes And Messages - Disclosed herein is a method and system for generating revenue and sharing the generated revenue. The telecom company acquires advertisements from one or more of a plurality of advertisers. The advertisements comprise advertisement tunes, text messages, audio messages, or video messages. The telecom company acquires permission from the subscriber for inserting advertisements in phone calls and messaging service messages of the subscriber. The advertisements may be inserted during one of initiation, active state, engaged state and termination of the phone call. Further, the advertisements are inserted at the beginning or the end of the messaging service messages of the subscriber. The revenue generated from advertising by the telecom company is shared with the subscriber through discounts on call charges or through payments of predetermined amount to the subscriber. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275225 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY PLAYING ADVERTISEMENT CONTENTS - A method and a device for playing advertisement contents are provided. The method includes transmitting, to an advertisement server, an advertisement request, including information corresponding to at least one peripheral device connected to the device; receiving, from the advertisement server, advertisement connection information for each peripheral device in response to the advertisement request; and transmitting, upon detecting a selection corresponding to a currently output advertisement, an advertisement play request including the advertisement connection information to the at least one peripheral device to play advertisement contents corresponding to the currently output advertisement and corresponding to respective characteristics of each of the at least one peripheral device. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275226 | System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275227 | System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282491 | System for Targeting Advertising Content to a Plurality of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290106 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIRECTIONS TO ITEMS OF INTEREST - The system and method directs or routes a user on a path within the mercantile environment which is either i) the quickest path from the user's position to a given product within the mercantile environment, or ii) a path that exposes the user to a plurality of products of potential interest to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130297425 | QUICK TRANSACTION COMPLETION USING MOBILE DEVICE - Upon receiving an indication that a user wishes to conduct a financial transaction with an online retailer, the user's identity is determined. Instead of requiring the user to create and log into an account with the online retailer, the user's identity may be determined from an identity framework generated for the user from at least one of a plurality of sessions the user is in. A mobile device identifier, such as a mobile phone number associated with the user's identity framework is then retrieved. The mobile device identifier is then used to complete the financial transaction, providing a measure of security. A one-step or two-step request is transmitted to the mobile device having the associated mobile device identifier to authorize the financial transaction. Upon receiving authorization from the mobile device for the financial transaction, the financial transaction can then be enabled. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TIMELY ADVERTISING TO PORTABLE DEVICES - Systems and methods for displaying advertisements on a portable device that utilizes an Activity-based operating system are described. The method includes receiving an indication that an Activity is being transitioned away from, and determining whether or not the Activity is finishing. Upon determining that the Activity is finishing, the method includes causing an advertisement display routine to be executed immediately, otherwise submitting the advertisement display routine into a processing queue to be executed subsequently. The advertisement display routine displays the advertisement only upon determining that the state of the Activity and the state of the portable device are characterized by one or more predetermined conditions. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304581 | SYNDICATION OF BEHAVIORAL AND THIRD PARTY DATUM FROM A MONETIZATION PLATFORM - A system for delivering behavioral data for purposes of facilitating providing targeted advertising to mobile devices may include integrating third party data in order to provide a more comprehensive set of behavioral data. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304582 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR PRIVATE REFERRALS AMONG SOCIAL CONTACTS - A system and method are provided for enabling a brand owner to generate, via a template, promotions such that an endorser may engage a gateway to those promotions to disseminate referrals to selected contacts within a trusted environment. The system includes the ability to select a brand owner promotion to enter the trusted environment. The endorser selects at least one contact and parameters at the trusted environment. The trusted environment generates incentive data based on the selected parameters and displays the incentive data, normalized for contacts related to an endorser at a webpage. The trusted environment includes a messaging application to generate a personal message for a contact, including a URL, to enable the contact to enter the trusted environment. In the trusted environment, a contact interacts with incentive data of various endorsers. The endorser select may a promotion from a brand owner and disseminate referrals to selected contacts. | 11-14-2013 |
20130304583 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal capable of wireless charging and a control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a power receiving unit formed to receive power in a wireless manner from a wireless charging pad; a wireless communication unit configured to transmit user information to a server or the wireless charging pad, and receive advertisement content associated with the user information from the server or the wireless charging pad; a display unit formed to display the advertisement content; and a controller configured to manage history information displayed with the advertisement content on the display unit and control the power receiving unit to receive power in a wireless manner from the wireless charging pad based on the history information. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311294 | MOBILE MESSAGING ECOSYSTEM - CLOSED LOOP - This disclosure relates to the use of a content message layer or a mobile device edge technology to render and measure interactive impression messages to a mobile device during a specified time and place and with discretionary control. Furthermore, the disclosure describes a new mobile message delivery and measurement channel that joins the message sender and recipient in a closed-loop progressive conversation and where messages can be rolled over in time. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311295 | DISPLAY CONTENT ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for providing advertising information to a user includes a holding device attached to a shopping cart. The holding device removably holds a mobile device. The system includes a recognizable indicia supported by the holding device. The recognizable indicia is recognizable by the mobile device. As such, the mobile device can transmit a first set of information related to the recognizable indicia to a server and receive a second set of information from the server in response. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311296 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING TO A DEVICE BASED ON INSTALLED APPLICATIONS - A system for targeting advertising can include a communications interface and a processor. The communications interface can receive data associated with times of use of applications. The processor can be communicatively coupled to the communications interface and can categorize the applications by genres. The categorization is within a time of use group and is based on at least part of the retrieved data. The processor can also determine priority values associated with the genres based on levels of use of the applications during a period of time associated with the time of use group. The processor can also identify a current time and determine an advertisement according to at least one genre of the genres. The at least one genre can be associated with a highest priority value of the determined priority values. The period associated with the time of use group can correspond to the identified current time. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311297 | EMBEDDING SPONSORED CONTENT IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS - In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for distribution of advertising of sponsored content within an application of a mobile communication facility, wherein selection of the sponsored content is based at least on one or more predefined hardware or software characteristics of the mobile communication facility. | 11-21-2013 |
20130317912 | Advertising in Augmented Reality Based on Social Networking - A system and method for advertising in augmented reality to a user uses an augmented reality device and a processing device in communication with the augmented reality device. The processing device is also adapted to communicate with a network. Media scrape and advertising databases are in communication with the processing device. The advertising database stores advertising data. The processing device contains software or is programmed to receive an image from the augmented reality device, scrape social media data relating to the user stored on the network, store the scraped social media data on the media serape database, compare the image to the scraped social media data to determine if there is a connection between the user and the image, compare the image to the advertising data to determine if there is a connection between the user and the image, generate an advertisement using advertising data corresponding to the image and transmit the advertisement to the augmented reality device for viewing by the user. | 11-28-2013 |
20130317913 | CAMPAIGN REWARD SYSTEM IN COMMUNICATION WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTION - A campaign offer system provides an offer using a mobile device. A service provider includes one or more servers with engines and attached storage. The service provider is configured to be in communication with a mobile application running on a user mobile device of a use. The service provider is in communication with an advertiser, a retailer and a financial institution. A retailer gateway is in communication with a retailer checkout system that has a unique identifier for each retailer checkout location captured by the mobile device. The unique identifier is transmitted to the service provider which effects transactions between the user and the retailer checkout system via the retailer gateway. The service provider invoices the advertiser for the offer with redemption information. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325619 | SAVING ELECTRONIC COUPONS FOR FUTURE USE - An advertising platform can embed metadata into a coupon such that the coupon can be saved together with other coupons for later use. The coupons can be associated with multiple different, and unrelated stores. Additionally, the coupons can be stored together in a common coupon storage area, located locally or on a network. The coupons can have two separate selectable portions. A first portion can allow the user to download a webpage associated with the coupon to view additional information associated with the product or service offered for sale. A second portion can allow the user to save the coupon for later use. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325620 | Consumer assistance systems - A system for aiding either or both a consumer or an establishment where a consumer in an establishment can obtain timely on site information through communication between a consumer hand held cellular device and a computer kiosk and the on site information may be communicated to a remote control station through a wireless cellular network to enable on the go individualized presentation of requested or relevant information to the consumer to thereby benefit both the consumer and the establishment. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325621 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING DEDICATED MOBILE APPS FOR USE BY CELEBRITIES - A system for providing a software application customized with subject matter pertaining to a celebrity, including a processor, data storage, and software thereon that implement a content provision hub operable to provide a mobile application and content related thereto for download to a user device, an advertising server operable to download an advertisement under the direction of the content provision hub to the mobile application, and a charging engine operable to effect a payment transaction between the celebrity, the user, and/or an advertiser. The system can be used by a celebrity to generate a celebrity-specific downloadable mobile application by selecting templates and options that control the celebrity app appearance and operation. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325622 | DIGITAL WATERMARK ADVERTISING CONTENT SERVICE SYSTEM - The present invention provides an advertising content service system including a client terminal equipped with a camera, and a server that provides an advertising content associated with a digital watermark ID received from the client terminal. The client terminal includes a means for reading a digital watermark image embedded in a medium with the advertising content printed or displayed thereon by using the camera, analyzing the digital watermark image, extracting the digital watermark ID from the digital watermark image, and transmitting the digital watermark ID to the server. The server includes a means for acquiring from a database a detail of the advertising content associated with the digital watermark ID received from the client terminal, and transmitting the detail to the client terminal as a request source for display. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332283 | DEVICES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR REDEMPTION OF MERCHANT OFFERS - Devices, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for the redemption of merchant offers, such as online coupons, are provided. In some embodiments, online coupons may be provided in a native application of a mobile user device. When a user selects to use an online coupon, a coupon code box having a coupon code associated with the selected coupon may visually move from a first location to a second location of the native application, and a merchant website may be displayed in the native application. Additionally, in some embodiments, a user may drag-and-drop a coupon code box to an input field of a merchant webpage. Movement of a visual copy of the coupon code box may be animated along the drag path. Upon a drop of the coupon code box, a value of the coupon code may be entered into the input field. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339151 | Method for communicating spatially localized information to a mobile terminal - The invention concerns a method for communicating data representing spatially localized information to a mobile terminal ( | 12-19-2013 |
20130339152 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide an electronic marketplace that matches units of content from secondary content providers with suitable vacancies from primary content providers. Vacancies may constitute, or be included in, any digital transmission containers, such as a television or radio programming, web pages, and the like. Specifically, the electronic marketplace automatically matches content offered by secondary content providers with vacancies offered by primary content providers thus filling the vacancies in these containers through a real-time content trading, placement, and distribution system. To do so, attributes associated with the vacancies and with units of secondary content are used to trade and match suitable vacancies with suitable content. This invention enables both secondary content owners and vacancy owners (primary content providers) to obtain the full commercial benefit of their secondary content and containers. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346207 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHODS FOR SYNCHED DISTRIBUTED ADVERTISEMENT FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE DISCOVERY - Examples of a communication device and methods for synched distributed advertisement for device-to-device are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a method can include transmitting, from a first device of a publishing group, at a group publishing beacon interval (T), a first publishing beacon (PB) including social information of the first device and social information of (N−1) other devices, wherein the group publishing beacon interval (T) represents a preset interval of time between each successive publishing beacon transmission of the publishing group, and wherein the first publishing beacon and the each successive publishing beacon includes a first value representative of the group publishing beacon interval. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346208 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AD-HOC APPLICATIONS BASED ON ADVERTISEMENT - The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods and systems for a Framework for Ad-hoc Applications Based on Advertising (FAABA). The FAABA may employ short-range radio-frequency communications. The disclosure teaches mechanisms for providing targeted advertising in connection with ad-hoc applications/point-to-point (P2P) communications between user terminals. In a manner, the invention teaches general collection components for user terminals, which is responsible for collecting and maintaining a dynamic set of advertisements as a background operation. This allows the user terminals to initiate applications that are based on P2P communication, and furthermore, allows collections of pre-loaded advertisements to be provided to the user terminals along and/or during the P2P communications. Also, the FAABA teaches that after advertisements are stored in the receiving device, the advertisements can be tailored more closely to the interests of the user of the device and the advertisements can be filtered based on current context of the user. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346209 | Mobile Device Advertising Chains - Mobile device advertising chains are described herein. Presenting a primary offer, comprising a first action, is caused on a mobile computing device. The first action is caused on the mobile computing device. An end of the first action is detected. Presenting a purchase offer, comprising a purchase action, is caused on the mobile computing device after the end of the first action. Data indicating that the purchase action was completed in connection with the mobile computing device based on the purchase offer is received. A sum of the value to confer in connection with the device for accepting both the primary offer and the purchase offer is determined. The sum of the values may be used in optimizing subsequent presentations of the primary offer to other mobile devices. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346210 | Apparatus and Method for Branded Messaging - A server has a message processing module with instructions executed by a processor to support the generation of a message with a branded element with an associated hyperlink. The branded element includes an identifier of a vendor of goods or services. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346211 | Location Blocking Service From a Wireless Service Provider - Subscriber authorization information from a wireless communication device is identified. The subscriber authorization information indicates that an identity of a subscriber associated with the wireless communication device is authorized to be shared without sharing information that identifies a location of the wireless communication device. Subsequent to the subscriber authorization information being identified, the identity of the subscriber associated with the wireless communication device is received or retrieved without information that identifies the location of the wireless communication device. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346212 | COMMUNICATION METHOD OF A MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF ADVERTISING TO A MOBILE TERMINAL - A communication method of a macro base station including reporting information about a broadcast channel section in order to identify a femtocell in a macrocell of the macro base station set in a downlink broadcast channel of the macrocell, is provided. The macro base station receives position information of a mobile terminal and a request for information about neighboring femto base stations from the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal identifies an accessible femto base station among the at least one femto base station in the broadcast channel section. The macro base station generates a list of the neighboring femto base stations of the mobile terminal and information about the neighboring femto base stations based on the position information of the mobile terminal, and transmits the list of the neighboring femto base stations and the information about the neighboring femto base stations to the mobile terminal. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006165 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING OFFERS DURING AN IN-STORE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE | 01-02-2014 |
20140006166 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING OFFERS BASED ON PREDICTIONS OF USER INTEREST | 01-02-2014 |
20140006167 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING ADVERTISEMENTS WITH MESSAGES IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES | 01-02-2014 |
20140012676 | PROVIDING MOBILE ADVERTISING TO CONSUMERS OVER A NETWORK - Data is received from an advertiser regarding a mobile advertising campaign. At least one content item is created based on the data. The content item is made accessible over a network. A mobile tag having a link is generated for the content item, the mobile advertising campaign, and/or the advertiser. The mobile tag is made available to the advertiser, who may then distribute the mobile tag. A consumer scanning the mobile tag with an electronic communication device makes a request for the content item by accessing the link. In response, access to the content item is provided over the network. The advertiser may be charged based on the consumer accessing the content item. More than one of the content items may be created for the mobile advertising campaign, and the advertiser may be charged differently based on which of the content items is provided to the consumer. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012677 | Mobile Device Application for Dynamic Delivery of Advertising-Based Content - Described is a system, method, and computer readable medium for dynamically delivering advertising-based content. The system can include a first mobile device adapted to transfer data based on an end user's preferences, an advertising transmitter, and a network. The system can also include a first server adapted to store advertising-based content, a second server adapted to store test market data sent from an advertising entity, and an end user device adapted to receive advertising-based content. The computer readable medium can store a program adapted to execute instructions for receiving an input from an end user, receiving an audio signal from an advertising transmitter, transmitting a digital signal to a first server based on the received audio signal, and receiving advertising-based content from the first server. The program can further display advertising-based content options on a first mobile device for the end user to share through social media services. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION SESSION BETWEEN A MERCHANT AND A CONSUMER - A system and method are provided for initiating a text message communication session between a merchant and a consumer. A two-way communication session may be facilitated between the consumer and the merchant, a mobile telephone number disclosed by the consumer during the two-way communication session may be detected, and a text message communication session between the consumer and the merchant may be initiated if a mobile telephone number was detected. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012679 | System and Method for Providing Short Message Targeted Advertisements Over a Wireless Communications Network - A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages stored in the database is also associated with one or more demographic codes, and users of wireless communications device select from one more demographic codes to describe their advertisement preferences. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019253 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND DISPLAYING INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING CONTENT WITH A LOCK SCREEN - Systems and methods are provided for selecting and displaying interactive advertising content on a lock screen or splash screen of a touch-sensitive portable electronic device. A lock screen is provided with at least one interactive advertisement where a user can select one or more options relating to the advertisement, scroll through numerous different advertisements, or unlock the portable electronic device. The splash screen is provided with at least one interactive advertisement for display when the portable electronic device is loading an application or transitioning from one device setting to another. The interactive advertising content may be selected by a remote advertisement selection server based on user data collected from the portable electronic device, such as the location of the user, content from social media applications, search queries and other information about the user that is available on the portable electronic device. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019254 | LOCATION-BASED DATA PROCUREMENT - Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, devices, products and other implementations, including a method that includes detecting a signal from an access point located within a geographical area, including identifying the access point based on data included in the signal representative of an identity of the access point. The method further includes establishing through a communication node, different from the access point, a communication link with a remote server in response to detecting the signal from the access point, and receiving from the remote server via the communication node data associated with the geographical area in which the access point is located. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019255 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING AVAILABILITY OF POWER STORAGE DEVICES AT A POWER STORAGE DEVICE COLLECTION, CHARGING AND DISTRIBUTION MACHINE - A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). Availability of charged portable electrical energy storage devices available at a collection, charging and distribution machine are communicated to or acquired by a mobile device of a user or a user's vehicle. Once the mobile device of a user or a user's vehicle comes within close proximity of the collection, charging and distribution machine or within a particular area surrounding the collection, charging and distribution machine, the collection, charging and distribution machine or a collection, charging and distribution machine management system communicates an alert (e.g., over a cellular network, short range wireless signal or wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network) to the mobile device or vehicle indicating how many portable electrical energy storage devices are available at the distribution machine. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025501 | System and Method for Adding an Advertisement to a Personal Communication - A system and method is provided for adding an advertisement to a digital message. An advertisement generator residing on a network host accepts digital messages from contributors and allows the contributors to select an advertisement to be displayed with their contributed messages. These digital messages may be sent to specified recipients or published on a Web site. Using stored personal data associated with the contributor and with the recipient of a digital message, in addition to the content of the message itself, the advertisement generator suggests advertisements to be included with the digital messages based on their contextual relevance. If the contributor-selected advertisement is provided by a third party advertiser, the message, contributor, and advertisement data may be utilized to compensate the contributor of that message for sending it to at least one recipient or posting it on a Web site. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025502 | MANAGING PAYMENT FOR SPONSORED CONTENT PRESENTED TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - A system and method for targeted delivery of advertising of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of cellular phones of a first or second type by way of a competitive bid auction process includes (a) receiving a offline purchase datum; (b) presenting to the first and second sponsor data corresponding to (1) the offline purchase datum and (2) the first type and the second type of cellular phone; (c) receiving from each sponsor advertising associated with the offline purchase datum characteristic, wherein each advertising has a different rendering capability associated therewith; (d) attributing a priority to the delivery of the advertising based upon a resultant yield determination; and (e) transmitting the appropriate advertising to the types of cellular phones having the corresponding rendering capabilities of the advertising. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025503 | System and Method for Task Specific, Metered Bandwidth Control Within Shared Client Environment on Mobile Communications Platforms - A communications system is provided which comprises (a) a platform having a plurality of tenants associated therewith, wherein each tenant has a set of mobile communications devices associated with it which has a plurality of members, wherein each mobile communications device in the set maintains an open connection to a communications network and is equipped with a graphical user interface (GUI); and (b) for each of the plurality of tenants, a group of offers selected by the tenant which are displayed on the GUI of each member of the set of mobile communications devices associated with that tenant. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025504 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTING WITH DISPLAYS USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION NFC - A method, apparatus and system for interacting with media screens using near field communications includes determining an identity of a near-field communication enabled mobile communications device in proximity to a display device, the display device including near-field communication capabilities and selecting content to communicate to the display device based on the determined identity of the near-field communication enabled mobile communications device. In one case, selecting content to communicate to the display device includes displaying an alternate segment of content then what was scheduled to be presented on the display device. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032327 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INCLUDING DIGITAL SIGNAGE AND RELATED MOBILE CONTENT - A system may include a signage controller configured to control digital signage (e.g., at least one digital display). In one embodiment, the signage controller may collect and compile demographic information and feedback from mobile devices via close-proximity or short-range communication prior to providing it to cloud resources. The cloud resources may then determine content and mobile content based on the demographic information and feedback. At least the content may be provided to the signage controller, which may cause the digital signage to display some of the content (e.g., at least one advertisement). The mobile content may be pushed to the mobile devices, and may cause the mobile devices to display information and/or provide functionality related to the displayed content. In one embodiment, statistics (e.g., at least one of offer availability or offer acceptance statistics corresponding to the at least one advertisement) may also be displayed on the digital signage. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032328 | Method for manufacturer coupon delivery combining incentiveized music and/or video distributed via short code technologies to personal mobile wireless devices - Defines a business enterprise system of incentivizing a manufacturers coupon offer or promotion through the use of music and/or video combined with wireless mobile delivery of the manufacturers coupon, which may contain a scan-able QR code. The method describes the delivery of free (to consumer) audio or video files containing original music or visual elements combined with manufacturers discount coupons and delivered to a personal mobile wireless device. The method utilizes branded musical artist presentations (live concerts) at retail point of sale locations and delivery methods consisting of SMS and MMS short codes, email and the internet. Promotion of this method includes, but is not limited to, in-store audio containing aural instructions for short code texting to an automated server; in-store signage containing scan-able QR codes; two way short code texting; and other solicitations of gaining opt-in customer response via traditional marketing and promotion methods. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032329 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING A FEED MESSAGE - An apparatus, method, and computer readable storage medium for generating a feed message and receiving information related thereto. At least one request to generate a feed message is received from an external party system, and includes message content and one or more sets of instructions provided by the external party system. The feed message is generated in accordance with the at least one request and stored. The feed message is also transmitted to a mobile device. One or more message acknowledgments are received from the mobile device, including any one of: a receiving message acknowledgment, a viewed message acknowledgment, and an operated message acknowledgment, or a combination thereof. A message state database is updated in accordance with the one or more message acknowledgments received from the mobile device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140032330 | Image Capture and Identification System and Process - A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040036 | ADVERTISEMENT PLATFORM - Method, device, and storage medium for providing an advertisement platform that allows users to purchase advertisement space on user devices. The advertisement platform delivers the advertisements to the user devices. The advertisement platform uses information from the users of the user devices to identify the available advertisement space. The advertisement platform calculates credits to be applied to services associated with the users of the user devices based on the available advertisement space offered by the users of the user devices. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040037 | SYSTEM FOR MOBILE CONTENT ADVERTISING AND METHOD FOR MOBILE CONTENT ADVERTISING - Disclosed is a system for providing mobile content which improves the quality of the advertising and promotional content service, and which also improves the efficiency of advertising and promotion. The suggested system includes: a code creating means for creating original content information and a code corresponding to content to be provided; and a terminal for storing the content and the original content information, obtaining at least one content providing means and code which enable the transmission of the corresponding content in response to a received content request message, extracting original content information corresponding to the obtained code and then broadcasting a content request message including the extracted original content information, and receiving corresponding content from at least one content providing means or at least one other terminal. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046765 | RICH MEDIA MOBILE ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile advertisement content development and management platform which may enable users without programming expertise to create mobile advertisement content suitable for display by, and distribution to, a wide variety of mobile devices and platforms. The platform may, for example, assist users with various aspects of creating rich media mobile advertisement content, associating a set of advertisements with one or more campaigns, managing ongoing campaigns, and/or measuring the effectiveness of campaigns and individual mobile advertisements. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046766 | RICH MEDIA MOBILE ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile advertisement content development and management platform which may enable users without programming expertise to create mobile advertisement content suitable for display by, and distribution to, a wide variety of mobile devices and platforms. The platform may, for example, assist users with various aspects of creating rich media mobile advertisement content, associating a set of advertisements with one or more campaigns, managing ongoing campaigns, and/or measuring the effectiveness of campaigns and individual mobile advertisements. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046767 | RICH MEDIA MOBILE ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - Some embodiments of the invention provide a mobile advertisement content development and management platform which may enable users without programming expertise to create mobile advertisement content suitable for display by, and distribution to, a wide variety of mobile devices and platforms. The platform may, for example, assist users with various aspects of creating rich media mobile advertisement content, associating a set of advertisements with one or more campaigns, managing ongoing campaigns, and/or measuring the effectiveness of campaigns and individual mobile advertisements. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046768 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INITIATING A TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION SESSION BETWEEN A MERCHANT AND A CONSUMER - A system and method are provided for initiating a text message communication session between a merchant and a consumer. A two-way communication session may be facilitated between the consumer and the merchant, a mobile telephone number disclosed by the consumer during the two-way communication session may be detected, and a text message communication session between the consumer and the merchant may be initiated if a mobile telephone number was detected. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046769 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD, TERMINAL ESTIMATING APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL ESTIMATING METHOD - An advertisement delivery apparatus includes a related information acquiring unit, a similarity determining unit, terminal estimating unit, and an advertisement delivery unit. The related information acquiring unit receives a plurality of pieces of related information from each of communication terminals. The related information is information about each of the communication terminals and is unable to identify each of the communication terminals. The similarity determining unit determines similarity of the pieces of the related information received from the communication terminals. The terminal estimating unit estimates that the communication terminals are a same communication terminal based on the similarity. The advertisement delivery unit, when the communication terminals are determined as the same terminal, delivers an advertisement corresponding to a behavior of a same user to the communication terminals each serving as a transmission source of the related information. | 02-13-2014 |
20140046770 | PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION FOR SPOKEN INFORMATION - Techniques are described for providing relevant information to users (e.g., information that is at least potentially of interest to the users). Relevant information for a user may be automatically determined based on a determined context of the user and/or on a request for that information from the user. For example, voice-based information may be obtained from a user in one or more ways, and then analyzed to identify requests or other indications of information of interest and/or to otherwise determine a context of the user that corresponds to potential information of interest. Relevant information for a user may be provided to the user in various ways, such as via a voice-based response during a telephone call and/or via one or more electronic messages sent to the user (e.g., via emails, instant messages, paging messages, SMS or other text messages, etc.). | 02-13-2014 |
20140046771 | GENERATING AND USING NETWORK DATA TO PROVIDE A CONTENT CUSTOMIZATION SERVICE - A system is configured to receive a request for a customization packet associated with a user device; retrieve data associated with the device; encode portions of the network data using a group of keys, wherein each portion is encoded using a different one of the keys, and wherein each key corresponds to a different set of fields, of one or more sets of fields within the packet; store the encoded portions in the one or more sets of fields within the packet; and transmit, to a content provider, the packet, wherein the packet enables the content provider to decode all or a portion of the network data using one of the keys, and wherein all or the portion of the decoded network data enables the content provider to generate customized content for the device. | 02-13-2014 |
20140067542 | Image-Based Advertisement and Content Analysis and Display Systems - Disclosed are computer-implement systems and methods for identifying and analyzing content (e.g., images, videos, text, etc.) published on digital content platforms (e.g., webpages, mobile applications, etc.). Such analysis is used to identify contextually relevant content (e.g., advertisements, images, videos, etc.) for publication proximate to the originally published content. Embodiments of the present invention are also directed to user-interface systems and methods for displaying such contextually relevant content. Example embodiments generally include: (a) publishing an image on the mobile device software application; (b) providing one or more actionable user to activate the image and provide an indication of interest; (c) identifying when an end-user has activated the image; and (d) upon an end-user's activation of one or more of the actionable user interfaces, displaying contextually relevant content to the end-user based on the activated user interface. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067543 | Smart Display Media - A method and smart media system implementation, is provided, which includes the following steps. Setting one or more media devices to show a piece of media information. The media devices are managed by a server. A mobile terminal sets the one or more neighboring media devices as the media devices associated with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal sends information and requests for receiving detailed media information of the associated media device to the server. The server searches the detailed media information related to the associated media device, and sends the detailed media information to the mobile terminal. As a result, consumers are provided with the effective media information according to their preferences. Also, the cost of sending information to consumers is lower than other methods. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074613 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Queuing Advertisements - Methods, systems, and products allow advertisers to self-manage their advertisements. An advertiser submits an advertisement to a queue for delivery to end user devices. Before the advertisement is presented, a set of conditions may be defined that govern presentation. A current value of each condition may be provided in a user interface. The user interface may display a position of the advertisement in the queue, based on the current value of each condition. When each condition in the set of conditions is satisfied, the advertisement may then be removed from the queue and presented. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074614 | TIME SERIES-BASED ENTITY BEHAVIOR CLASSIFICATION - Techniques are disclosed that leverage time series techniques to express entity-activity data in a longitudinal temporal form, which may then be employed to dynamically classify the entity's behavior. In some embodiments, groupings or segmentations of different entities that exhibit similar profiles of longitudinal temporal form are identified using various techniques, including frequency-domain analysis, and/or unsupervised model-based clustering. The clustering of entities enables directing of offerings to, for example, a telecommunication's customer based on characteristics of the cluster. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074615 | Commerce System and Method of Controlling the Commerce System Using Triggered Advertisements - A module is provided to monitor an electronic device. An advertisement and a triggering event are delivered to the module. The triggering event is detected based on a status of the electronic device. The advertisement is presented on a graphical interface of the electronic device in response to the triggering event. The advertisement is stored in a database and delivered to the electronic device. The advertisement further includes presenting a notification. The advertisement further includes presenting an overlay. The advertisement further includes a list of triggering events containing the triggering event. The triggering event includes an application download or an application installation. Choices for selecting individual permissions to monitor a component of the computer system are presented. The triggering event includes an application search, an application download, or an application installation. The triggering event further includes a set of running applications. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074616 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MANAGING SERVICE PROVIDER OFFERS - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for managing service provider offers. An offer associated with a service provider is generated and the offer includes attributes defining the offer. A campaign is selected to pair the offer to. The campaign includes criteria for receiving the offer. The offer is delivered to a mobile device associated with a consumer matching the campaign criteria, and is rendered at the mobile device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074617 | Business Applications Using Social Media with Mobile Technology - A business method is provided on a secure web service by a vendor for a client to develop a business application(s). The vendor provides a wireless access point at the client site for disseminating business application(s) to consumers over mobile devices when the mobile devices connect to a wireless or a cellular network using the wireless access point provided at the client site. The business application is received by the consumers after providing a feedback to a consumer survey that generates a consumer profile by gathering consumers' anonymized demographic, socio-economic, age, gender, preferences, and social networking information. The business method provides additional premium services to the client that includes providing consumer satisfaction information and analytics using consumer profile information generated from feedback and consumer satisfaction information. The analytics are used for creating customized business application(s) to provide target advertisement and promotion incentive to the consumers. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074618 | Advertisement Communication And Revenue Sharing - A computer implemented method and system generates revenue and shares the generated revenue. An advertisement management platform (AMP) receives advertisements, for example, advertisement tunes, text messages, audio messages, video messages, etc., from one or more advertisers. The AMP acquires permission from a subscriber for inserting advertisements in phone calls and messaging service messages of the subscriber. The AMP inserts the advertisements by replacing a ring back tone of the phone call with the advertisements or by interrupting the phone call and presenting the advertisements. The AMP inserts the advertisements during an initiation, an active state, an engaged state, or a termination of the phone call. Furthermore, the AMP inserts the advertisements at the beginning or the end of the messaging service messages of the subscriber. The AMP shares the revenue generated from advertising with the subscriber through discounts on call charges, through predetermined amount payments to the subscriber, etc. | 03-13-2014 |
20140074619 | ADVERTISING WITH MOBILE MESSAGING - In accordance with one or more aspects of the content-based advertising in mobile messaging, a message is received from a first mobile device, the received message targeting a second mobile device. One or more advertisements to associate with the message are identified based at least in part on content in the message. Both the message and the one or more advertisements are sent to the second mobile device. The second mobile device receives both the mobile message and the associated one or more advertisements, and displays both the mobile message and the one or more associated advertisements on the mobile device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140081765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ADVERTISING FOR USE ON INTERNET AND/OR DIGITAL NETWORKING CAPABLE DEVICES - A system and method of advertising for use on an internet and/or digital networking capable device, wherein the system allows advertisers to use a loading space generated during the initiation of a process on the device to post any media and/or advertising content during the time between when a program or web page is requested and when it actually loads. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081766 | Transaction Arbiter System and Method - A transaction arbiter system and method is disclosed which incorporates a merchant function database under control of a transaction arbiter that permits merchants to interact in an automated way with bids generated by other merchants. Rather than utilizing fixed price schedules as taught by the prior art, the present invention permits each merchant to define a set of functions which describe how the merchant will respond to a customer request-for-quote for a given product or service. These merchant functions interact with both the customer request-for-quote and the results of other merchant functions to generate a dynamic real-time bidding system which integrates competition among merchant bidders to achieve an optimal consumer price for a given product or service. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089095 | Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) With Integrated Advertising Channel - A system includes an access point (AP)/charging station, a client device, a local business advertising content/query system, a remote Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) processing and billing management service, an advertising content/query service, and an alternate AP. The station provides compensation to the client device in exchange for the client device consuming advertising content. The advertising content may include one or more of a product advertisement, a service advertisement, and a survey. The compensation may include one or more of Internet access, charging power, a product discount, and a service discount. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089096 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING IDENTIFIERS ASSOCIATED WITH PRODUCTS FOR APPLYING A MOBILE DEVICE SKIN - A system and method for applying a skin to a mobile device is described. The mobile device includes a camera and a rear screen. The method analyzes an image captured by the camera to detect an identifier and associates the identifier with a product or a vendor. A skin representing the product or vendor is applied to the rear screen of the mobile device and posted to a social networking website, such that the user may express their personal sense of affinity toward a product, an artist, or an organization. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089097 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON GAZE OF USER - Methods and systems of modifying content displayed by a mobile device are provided. A region of interest (ROI) of a user is recognized. The ROI may be associated with content being displayed on a display of the mobile device. A time duration of interest based on the ROI is determined. The displayed content is modified based on the ROI, the time duration of interest, and a content type of the displayed content. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089098 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING INTERACTIVE SERVICES ON MOBILE DEVICE, SUCH AS TIME OR LOCATION INITIATED INTERACTIVE SERVICES - A system for performing interactive services at a mobile device is disclosed. In some cases, the system receives an indication of an event, and provides interactive services to a user of the mobile device based on the event. In some cases, an indication of an event in invokes a script-based process that determines one or more actions to present to a user of the mobile device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095315 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH REVEAL OF DYNAMIC CONTENT - A mobile device displays a page-turn icon with abbreviated dynamic content. When a user interacts with the page-turn icon, additional dynamic content is revealed. Dynamic content may be selected and/or controlled by an operating system or a mobile application. Analytics may be collected that describe user behaviour when interacting with the dynamic content. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095316 | MOBILE ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure generally relates to an application for displaying advertisements. The application resides on a mobile device or an electronic device with mobile networking capability and is in communication with a user database mediation server and an advertisement inventory server. The application and associated servers are adapted to acquire users' permission to automatically display advertisements on the incoming call screen of their electronic device, connect users who wish to view advertisements on their electronic device whenever they receive a call from one another, download an advertisement to a contact image record of a users' electronic device address book, display a contact record, and credit users for the calls that they place to other users which result in the display of an advertisement on the other user's electronic device. Related systems and methods are described. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095317 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED MEDIA DELIVERY TO MOBILE DEVICES AND MOBILE DEVICE LOCKSCREENS - A method and system for automated media delivery to mobile devices and mobile device lockscreens. The method includes receiving a first media request associated with a first target device, obtaining a first user account associated with the first media request, wherein the first user account comprises first user category criteria; selecting a first user-submitted media item based on the first user category criteria, and sending, to the first target device, the first user-submitted media object, wherein the first user-submitted media object is presented on a lock screen of the first target device. The method further includes receiving a second media request associated with the first target device, selecting a first advertiser-submitted media object based on the first user category criteria, and sending, to the first target device, the first advertiser-submitted media object, wherein the first advertiser-submitted media object is presented on the lock screen of the first target device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140100961 | System for Providing Information to Client Terminal when Conducting Communication Service - The present invention relates to a system for providing information to a client terminal when conducting a communication service, and more particularly, to a system for providing information to at least one client terminal including an outgoing terminal and an incoming terminal when conducting a communication service, comprising: a call control and maintenance server for forming and maintaining a media session to conduct the communication service between the outgoing terminal and the incoming terminal; and an information maintenance server for maintaining the information to be transmitted to at least one client terminal, wherein the information maintenance server transmits to either the outgoing terminal or the incoming terminal information-related data, which is related to the information to be provided to the client terminal before the media session for the communication service between the outgoing terminal and the incoming terminal, or while the communication service is being conducted, and wherein the client terminal which receives the information-related data provides information to an information display area on the display portion of a terminal based on the information-related data. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100962 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR AD-SUPPORTED WIRELESS OFFLOADING - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for advertisement-supported wireless offloading are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system for advertisement-supported wireless offloading includes an offload controller for controlling mobile device offloading, the controller including a network interface for sending and receiving messages in a telecommunications network and a control module for detecting a subscriber offload request, causing an advertisement to be sent to the subscriber's mobile device, determining whether the subscriber did or did not accept the advertisement, and providing a response to the offload request based on whether the subscriber did or did not accept the advertisement. | 04-10-2014 |
20140100963 | Method, System and Device For Filtering Mobile Terminal Webpage Advertisements - The present invention relates to the field of internet technology, which discloses a method, device, server and system for filtering mobile terminal webpage advertisements content. The method includes: a mobile terminal making a request to a server for visiting a website for browsing a webpage via a browser; the server analyzing types of sub-resources data of the webpage, and filtering advertisements content associated with the webpage using filtering rules corresponding to the type of sub-resources data; returning to the mobile terminal, the requested webpage content having the advertisements content been filtered out. The server performs intelligent layout of the sub-resources data on the filtered content of the requested webpage of various websites. By performing advertisement filtering according to the preset filtering rules, download speed is increased and traffic volume is reduced, thus enhances the user experience. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108149 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETAIL SALES USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A wireless network is established by direct communication between a user equipment (UE) and wireless access points within a shopping venue. After initial registration, the UE may be automatically authenticated upon entry into the shopping venue. In the venue, the UE sends a periodic signal that includes information from which the UE location within the venue may be determined. The system can develop a shopper profile based on the amount of time spent within the shopping venue, user purchases, and user-provided profile data even under circumstances where the specific identity of the user is not known. The customer analysis and profile generation can be used to produce individualized ads and offers for the UE. In addition, the analysis can develop a retail DNA rating for the user based on various factors, including responsiveness to advertising. A high retail DNA rating may result in even better advertising offers to the user. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108150 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING A PROVIDER FOR ADVERTISEMENTS DISPLAYED ON A MOBILE PHONE - A method and apparatus for advertising on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of downloading an advertisement to the mobile phone using an advertisement server; selecting the downloaded advertisement on the mobile phone by a user of the mobile phone; providing by a server additional information in response to the user selection; and tracking the selection and additional information by the server. In another embodiment the compensation provided is in response to the display screen of said advertisement. In another embodiment the step of providing additional information includes the step of using space reserved, in the user interface of the mobile phone, for advertisements. Another aspect the invention relates to a system for displaying advertisements on a mobile phone. In one embodiment the system includes a server; and a mobile phone in communication with said server. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108151 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED INTELLEGENT ADVERTISING ON WEARABLE DEVICES - A method and system for automated intelligent advertising on wearable devices. The wearable devices includes digital eyewear, clothing, jewelry, watches, etc. Messages sent to an invalid alphanumeric identifier (e.g., WiFi addresses, e-mail address, text message address, social networking identifier, etc.) for a desired network service are returned including a notification that an attempt to connect to the desired network service has failed and also includes electronic advertising information that allows a network device to view and display a retrieved pre-determined advertisement or the dynamically generated advertisement and make a selection input to automatically connect to another network device associated with the retrieved pre-determined or dynamically advertisement to obtain additional electronic advertising information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114765 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN ADVERTISEMENT AMONG TERMINALS - The present invention has the purpose of providing a system for transmitting an advertisement among terminals to only a user interested in a product by using the method of near-field communication. To achieve this, provided is a terminal that provides an advertisement among terminals, including: an advertisement data storage unit; a near-field communication unit transmitting and receiving advertisement data stored in another terminal and the advertisement data storage unit; a server communication unit communicating with an advertisement server; and a control unit processing the advertisement data in order to include a user's own terminal information when transmitting the advertisement data to another terminal, and transmitting advertisement identification information, terminal information for transmitting the advertisement data, and the user's own terminal information to the advertisement server through the server communication unit after watching the advertisement when receiving the advertisement data to watch. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114766 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTIZING SERVICE TO PLURALITY OF MOBILE DEVICES - A method for providing an advertisement from a digital signage control apparatus to multiple mobile devices accessible to an access point installed in a digital signage terminal. The method may include determining whether the number of the mobile devices requesting the identical advertisement for a predetermined amount of time is greater than a threshold, and if the number of the mobile devices is greater than the threshold, transmitting the identical advertisement to the mobile devices through a multicast channel. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114767 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING INFORMATION - The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for acquiring information, applied in the field of information technologies and invented to push a mobile advertisement that meets a requirement of a user to the user. The method includes: acquiring a behavior pattern of a user according to acquired user data; acquiring advertisement content and a playing mode of a mobile advertisement according to the behavior pattern of the user; and playing the advertisement content according to the acquired playing mode. The present invention is mainly applied to a process of pushing a mobile advertisement. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114768 | OUTPUT OF CONTENT FROM THE INTERNET ON A MEDIA RENDERING DEVICE - A system and method for controlling output of content on a media rendering device. A mobile phone may be effective to receive a request for content where the content is from a content processor. The mobile phone may be effective to generate a command based on the request, the command including a URL, the URL including an address of a gateway processor and an identification of the content processor. The mobile phone may be effective to send the command to the media rendering device. The media rendering device may be effective to send a request to the gateway processor using the URL. The gateway processor may be effective to receive the content from the content processor and send the content to the media rendering device. The media rendering device may be effective to output the content. | 04-24-2014 |
20140122241 | Method and Apparatus for Injecting Advertisements into Mobile Documents - Techniques for injecting advertisements into mobile documents delivered to mobile devices are presented. Mobile documents are generated that are dynamically sized to the display of the mobile devices and relevant advertisements are also dynamically sized for use in the mobile documents. The mobile documents include an optical code that is encoded with information about a purchase by a customer and allow the customer access to the purchase, for example, an airline boarding pass, event pass or the like. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122242 | PRE-ASSOCIATION MECHANISM TO PROVIDE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WIRELESS SERVICES - In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprising a transceiver configured to send and receive data and logic coupled to the transceiver. The logic is configured to determine from a signal received by the transceiver whether an associated device sending the signal supports a protocol for advertising available services. The logic is configured to send a request for available services from the associated device via the transceiver responsive to determining the associated device supports the protocol. The logic is configured to receive a response to the request via the transceiver, the response comprising at least one service advertisement and a signature. The logic is configured to validate the response by confirming the signature. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122243 | Managing Sponsored Content for Delivery to Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeted delivery of advertising of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of cellular phones of a first or second type by way of a real-time competitive bid auction process includes (a) presenting to a first and second sponsor data corresponding to a model of the first type and the second type of cellular phone; (b) receiving from each sponsor advertising corresponding to the rendering capability associated with each model of cellular phone; (c) attributing a priority to the delivery of the advertising based upon a resultant yield determination; and (d) transmitting the appropriate advertising to the types of cellular phones having the corresponding rendering capabilities of the advertising. | 05-01-2014 |
20140122244 | PERSONAL AUGMENTED REALITY ADVERTISING - Personal augmented reality advertising involves detecting a proximity between a participant's mobile device and a viewer's mobile device. An identifier of the participant's mobile device and biometric data that describes the participant have both been made publicly available. The biometric data is obtained in response to detecting the proximity between the participant's mobile device and the viewer's mobile device. A match is detected between the biometric data of the participant and an image captured from a sensor of the viewer's mobile device. In response to detecting the match, the captured image and an advertisement presented with the captured image is presented in the viewer's mobile device. The advertisement is associated with the participant. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129341 | CUSTOMIZABLE APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY ACTIVITY - In one example of customizable application functionality activation, a user interface receives a user's interactive input to a functionality activation sequence field, a security component receives a user's interactive input to the functionality activation sequence field on the user interface to unlock functionality for one or more device features, an integration component receives a customized algorithm for revising at least the appearance of the functionality activation sequence field on the user interface to unlock functionality for the one or more device features, and a functionality implementation component implements a customized functionality activation sequence on the user interface. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136331 | USING WIRELESS DEVICE CALL LOGS FOR SOLICITING SERVICES - A processor-based method for composing an electronic service solicitation using mobile device call logs. The service, when delivered to a mobile device, can be a promotion of a third-party mobile device application, the presentment of a coupon, or the administration of a caller experience survey. The service is delivered in connection with the user making a call to a particular number on the mobile device. The method for composing the solicitation includes selecting a business number, selecting a group of wireless subscribers, sending an information request to the mobile devices of the selected wireless subscribers, receiving affirmative responses from the selected wireless subscribers who recently called the selected business number, counting the affirmative responses, and using the count for composing the solicitation. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143062 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ADVERTISING USING BIOMETRICS DRIVEN REGISTRATION - The present invention utilizes a web app on both user's mobile device and merchant's website for using biometrics to identify and deliver user information across multiple merchants and allow for targeted advertising to be delivered to the user from the merchant using the identified user's information. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149223 | Targeted Advertisements In Mobile Applications - A social networking system enables targeted advertising to its users on mobile devices, either directly in third-party applications or via an ad exchange. An application on the mobile device associated with the social networking system stores user identifying information in a shared memory location on the user's mobile device. To deliver a targeted ad to the user on the mobile device, an application executed by the mobile device retrieves the user identifying information, which is transmitted to an ad server associated with the social networking system or to the social networking system. Based on the user's profile in the social networking system, an advertisement is selected for the user (e.g., using targeting criteria and an auction model) and sent to an ad exchange or to the application on the mobile device for presentation to the user on the mobile device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149224 | Methods and Systems for Selecting Internet Radio Program Break Content Using Mobile Device Location - Methods and systems for selecting content for outputting on a mobile device during a program break in an Internet radio stream using mobile device location information. In one aspect, the methods and systems seamlessly select content for outputting on a mobile device during a program break in an Internet radio stream using mobile device location information and program break markers. In another aspect, the methods and systems select content for outputting on a mobile device during a program break in an Internet radio stream using mobile device trajectory information. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156414 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING EVENT-TRIGGERED ADVERTISING TO PORTABLE DEVICES - A portable communication device including a communication module, a processor and a memory storing instructions which the cause the processor to receive, via the communication module, configuration parameters and store the configuration parameters in the memory, the configuration parameters defining one or more trigger events. The instructions further cause the processor to monitor an operating system of the portable device to detect an event signal, the event signal being indicative of occurrence of a first event; determine the first event corresponds to one of the one or more trigger events; send, via the communication module, an advertisement request message; and receive, via the communication module, an advertisement to be rendered by the portable device. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164132 | Client-Side Advertising Decisions - In one embodiment, a method includes a client computing device receiving one or more advertisements for presentation to a user associated with the client computing device. The client computing device selects from among the received advertisements for presentation to the user based on information stored locally on the client computing device and associated with a value of the advertisements with respect to the user. The client computing device then presents to the user one or more of the selected advertisements to the user. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164133 | Method for Transmitting a Mobile Business Card, and Recording Medium for Same - The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a mobile business card, and to a recording medium for same. According to the method of transmitting the mobile business card and the recording medium for same, when calling a third party through a mobile phone, a multimedia file and a personal information file are converted into an XML file and transmitted to the third party so that the converted XML file is automatically stored in the mobile phone of the third party, the information extracted from the automatically-stored XML file is saved as separate pieces of information in the mobile phone of the third party, and the information is displayed again in real time, so as to enable the effect of making available the information and promotional information of a user. By continuously displaying the stored information extracted from the XML file on the mobile phone of the third party when the corresponding number thereof is called, the publicizing effect of the business card of the user can last for a long time in order to make a lasting impression on the third party. Because there is no need for a separate passive storage process for information on an incoming mobile phone number due to the automatic storing by means of the initial XML file, user convenience for the user of the mobile phone is increased. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164134 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES BASED ON DEVICE STATUS - A wireless communication system monitors device status of a wireless communication device to generate device status data. The system associates a device identifier with the device status data and an anonymous key. The system receives a content request from the wireless communication device and transfers the anonymous key and the device status data to an advertising system. The transferred device status data does not identify the wireless communication device. The system receives the anonymous key and advertising data transferred from the advertising system and associates the advertising data with the wireless communication device based on the anonymous key. The system transfers the content and the advertising data to the wireless communication device. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164135 | CUSTOMIZED INFORMATION WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION - A method and system for customizing a mobile application running on a mobile communication device of a user. In one implementation, the method includes providing the mobile application to the mobile communication device of the user, the mobile application having a generic platform; determining a special interest group (SIG) that is affiliated with the user; and customizing the generic platform of the mobile application based on information specific to the special interest group (SIG) that is affiliated with the user. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIGGERING MOBILE DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY USING A PAYMENT CARD - A system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include providing functionality triggers to a consumer's mobile device in response to using a payment card in order to make a purchase. Functionality triggers may include account functionality, rewards functionality, social networking functionality, and offer or advertisement functionality to be performed on a consumer's mobile device. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172578 | Hot Spot Use in Advertising - The delivery of targeted advertisements (ads) to wireless mobile handheld display devices (MHDDs) with client specific advertisement and dynamic content for response and feedback is becoming important in advertising. As the return for ads on MHDDs becomes higher, there is a push to show larger and more interactive ads on devices that have small displays. This has created a need to maximize the area available for ad viewing. The need for larger viewing area reduces the area available for call-to-action response enabling switches or inserts on the screen for customer interaction. To overcome this deficiency and provide the necessary end-to-end response capability, hot-spots on the ad image are provided as call-to-action response regions without limitation on the ad viewing area. The use of such hot-spots provides users of MHDDs a preferred interaction mechanism for responding to the advertisement, while maintaining a large ad viewing area. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180822 | TARGETED MOBILE ADVERTISING AND SYSTEM THEREFOR - A mobile advertising exchange and method includes a data processing system that receives notification of a potentially ad-triggering event associated with a mobile subscriber, generates an advertising package including filtered mobile subscriber data, transmits the advertising package to an advertising entity, and receives fee from the first advertising entity. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180823 | VALIDATION OF MOBILE ADVERTISING FROM DERIVED INFORMATION - A system and method of validating an advertisement presented to an advertisement recipient via a mobile communication device includes presenting an advertisement for a product or service to a recipient via a mobile communication device, monitoring the geospatial location of the mobile communication device relative to some predetermined criteria, and inferring information about the reaction of the advertisement recipient to the advertisement on the basis of the monitored geospatial location information. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180824 | Usage of video for advertising and marketing on a web or mobile platform - The websites that features deals and coupons from retail businesses and other directory or classified websites only features descriptions and photos of businesses that advertise on these websites and mobile applications. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180825 | Interactive Mobile Advertisement Banners - In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for associating an interactive element with a sponsored content, presenting the sponsored content to a mobile communication facility based at least in part on a relevancy to a mobile subscriber characteristic associated with the mobile communication facility, and allowing a user of the mobile communication facility to engage the interactive element within the sponsored content. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188619 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REBROADCASTING OF RADIO ADS OVER OTHER MEDIUMS - A method and system for specifying content of interest using a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. A digital radio broadcast signal includes an alternate way of distributing content-rich Advertisements over the digital radio broadcast networks and rebroadcast these Advertisements over technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the like to smart devices. A digital out-of-home network system will act as a bridge to relay the received Advertisements to smart devices. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY OF VOICEMAILS TO HANDHELD DEVICES - Briefly, a variety of embodiments, including the following, are described: a system embodiment and methods that allow random access to voice messages, in contrast to sequential access in existing system embodiments; a system embodiment and methods that allow for the optional use of voice recognition to enhance usability; and a system embodiment and methods that apply to the area of voicemail. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188621 | Dynamically and Predictively Updating Mobile Devices as Mobile Users Pass Through Projected Locations - This description provides tools and techniques for dynamically and predictively updating mobile devices as mobile users pass through projected locations. These tools may provide methods that include defining thresholds applicable to at least portions of travel itineraries on which mobile users are traveling. The methods may also identify advertisements to send to mobile devices associated with the mobile users, upon meeting the threshold. The methods may also send the selected advertisements, as associated with corresponding advertisers, to the mobile devices. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188622 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DISTRIBUTING COUPON CODES OR DISCOUNT OFFERS VIA SHORT CODE AND SMS MOBILE AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGY FOR A CONVENIENCE FEE - Among other things, there are disclosed systems and methods for providing coupons on demand to a consumer, to make the process of offering coupons and redeeming coupons more efficient. Embodiments of such systems may include a server reachable by mobile telephones or other communication devices with a database of coupon information, with modules or software for entering and administering coupon information and monitoring activity of coupons and reporting it to merchants. A consumer may text a keyword to a dedicated address, requesting coupons related to the keyword, and a selection of coupons (if any are available) is returned. If any coupon(s) are desired, they are returned to the consumer's mobile communication device, and a fee is added to the consumer's bill for the mobile communication device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195353 | Advertising On Computing Devices - The present invention relates generally to a method executable at a networked computing device having a display. The method generally includes (i) displaying advertising content on the display when the computing device is in a locked state in which interactions with the computing device are limited, (ii) receiving an unlocking user input to cause the computing device to enter an unlocked state in which interactions with the computing device are less limited than when in the locked state, and (iii) displaying, in the unlocked state, a home screen including an activatable image associated with the advertising content. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195354 | MEDIA MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and process is provided for distributing branding and content messages to wireless mobile devices such as mobile handsets. The system has a mobile media portal process that enables a content owner and one or more sponsors to cooperate in negotiating, planning, and executing a branding or content campaign. For a campaign, a set of consumers has indicated a desire to receive particular content information on their mobile handset, and may have used a web interface or their phone to provide demographic information and content choices. A media center interface, either automatically or under human control, associates a particular marketing message from a sponsor with the content information, and distributes the marketing message and information to the user's handset. Since the marketing message has been selected and adapted to the demographics and preferences of the user, it is likely that the user will positively respond to receiving the marketing message. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195355 | THEME BASED ADVERTISING - Various embodiments of the present disclosure are related to leveraging mobility management techniques implemented in mobile networks to distribute advertisements to mobile devices. In certain embodiments of the present disclosure, advertisements can be transmitted on a broadcast control channel of a base station and in at least one embodiment the advertisements can be relevant to the area the base station services. Mobile devices that detect the broadcast control channel can store the advertisements. If for example, a user is interested in the service, e.g., a product or service, that is offered in the advertisement they can initiate a purchase procedure. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195356 | Advertisement display method of mobile communication terminal using button bar or notification bar, and apparatus thereof - The present invention relates to a method for displaying an advertisement in a mobile communication terminal using a button bar (icon) or an indication bar (icon), and an apparatus thereof, the method comprising the steps of: sensing whether a user operates a call allowance button bar; and inserting and displaying advertisement contents on a predetermined first set screen (or area) within the call allowance button bar when sensing the user operation for the call allowance button bar according to the sensed result. In addition, the present invention can effectively provide the advertisement for the user by using the call allowance/rejection button bar (icon) or the indication bar (icon) such as a character and the like. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201005 | MOBILE ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a mobile advertising system comprising a database comprising a plurality of advertising organization entries, each advertising organization entry representing an advertising organization, each advertising organization entry associated with at least one competitor telephone number and at least one executable advertisement file, an advertisement file comprising either an active or an inactive advertisement file and an advertising organization entry associated with at least one active advertisement file referred to as an active advertising organization entry, a processor for retrieving, upon determining that a number dialed on a telephonic device is a competitor telephone number associated with at least one active advertising organization, an active advertisement file out of the at least one active advertisement file that corresponds to one of the at least one active advertising organization that corresponds to the competitor telephone number and an execution engine for executing the retrieved active advertisement file on the telephonic device. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201006 | System And Method For Creating and Distributing Electronic Advertisements - A system and method for creating and distributing electronic advertisements, wherein a business can create a user account in order to create and manage advertisements stored in an advertisement repository. A quick response code is created for the user account of each business, with the quick response code having an encoded value. Consumers can scan the quick response code using a portable computing device. Once the quick response code a code reader software of the portable computing device determines a decoded value. The decoded value is then matched to the encoded value in order to retrieve at least one advertisement from the advertisement repository. The at least one advertisement is then formatted according to operating specifications of the portable computing device and a display arrangement is determined for the at least one advertisement. The at least one advertisement is then transmitted to the portable computing device in the display arrangement. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207576 | DIGITAL ADVERTISING CELLULAR DISPLAY SYSTEM - A digital advertising cellular display system comprising a retail outlet having at least one location for displaying goods and services for purchase, at least one electronic display means located proximal the location for displaying goods and services with electronic display means displaying consumer information images, videos, and audios therefrom, a central processing unit located in each of said electronic display means, and at least one offsite control center in wireless communication with the electronic display means for transferring control information and product and services advertisement and product and services information between the offsite control center and the electronic display means. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207577 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system includes a call answering center; a first mobile phone that registers a call answering setting in the call answering center; a second mobile phone that makes a call to the first mobile phone and includes a display unit and an operation unit; and a telephone communication network that connects the first mobile phone, the second mobile phone, and the call answering center in a communicable manner. When a call is made and the call answering setting is performed, the call answering center composes a call answering message accompanied by a reply program having an advertisement image attached thereto in accordance with the call answering setting, and transmits the call answering message to the second mobile phone. Upon receiving the call answering message, the second mobile phone causes the display unit to display an image of the reply program having the advertisement image superimposed thereon. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207578 | System For Targeting Advertising To A Mobile Communication Device Based On Photo Metadata - A system for targeting advertising to a mobile communication device is configured to perform the steps of: (a) receiving at least one photo taken by a user via the mobile communication device; (b) extrapolating at least one metadata from the photo; (c) creating a user profile for the user if a user profile has not been created for the user; (d) storing the metadata in the user profile; (e) determining that a first advertisement is more relevant to the user than a second advertisement based on a respective relevancy of the first and second advertisements to the metadata; and (f) transmitting the first advertisement to the mobile communication device for display thereon. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214545 | RANKING OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR DISPLAY ON A MOBILE DEVICE - An online system ranks an advertisement for display on a user's mobile device based on a mobile friendliness score for the advertisement. The mobile friendliness score is calculated using information about the advertisement's landing page, such as feedback received for the landing page. The mobile friendliness score may also reflect additional information, such as information about the user to be presented with the advertisement, parameters of the mobile device on which the advertisement is to be presented, or user feedback associated with the advertisement. Based on the mobile friendliness score, the advertisement is ranked for presentation to the user via the mobile device. A higher ranking may increase the likelihood and/or frequency of presenting the advertisement via the user's mobile device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214546 | FOUR DIMENSIONAL (4D) INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention provides for a four dimensional (4D) information distribution system and method which allows on-demand and real-time transmission of time-sensitive and useful self-help data or instructional materials to user. The transmission of the 4D information can be initiated at the user's request or it can be automatically carried out based on a set of established rules, such as a schedule of events. The 4D information distribution system includes a processing device for generating the 4D information, a distribution device for transmission of the 4D information, a receiving device for accepting the 4D information, and a display device for outputting the received 4D information. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214547 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUGMENTED RETAIL REALITY - Systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for Augmented Retail Reality (ARR). | 07-31-2014 |
20140222579 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a first advertisement management part configured to manage an output of first advertisement content from a first device, a second advertisement management part configured to manage an output of second advertisement content from a second device, the second device being different from the first device, the second advertisement content being related to the first advertisement content, and a linked output controller configured to control, based on first information acquired by the first advertisement management part from the first device and linked output setting information defining an operation of the second advertisement content in association with the first information, the output of the second advertisement content from the second device through the second advertisement management part. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222580 | DISCOVERING AN EVENT USING A PERSONAL PREFERENCE LIST AND PRESENTING MATCHING EVENTS TO A USER ON A DISPLAY - A user profile is used to assist a user in identifying events of interest and to provide context to users regarding events that matches user preferences. The user profile may be based on behaviors exhibited on a mobile device, on input by the user or on data on the mobile device. The user profile is analyzed to provide notification of events of interest to the user based upon the analysis of the user profile. The user profile may include anything that contributes to a state on the device. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236730 | System And Method To Communicate Targeted Information - A method for targeted advertising is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one piece of demographic information associated with a user of a portable device, selecting an advertisement to be delivered to the user based at least in part on the demographic information, and initiating communication of a version of the advertisement configured for presentation at the portable device. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244397 | System and Method for Providing Short Message Targeted Advertisements Over a Wireless Communications Network - A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network are provided. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages is associated with one or more demographic codes, and a demographic code is selected to describe an advertisement preference of a user of a wireless communications device. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages. | 08-28-2014 |
20140249926 | Providing Advertisements in Response to Idle Time During Navigation on an Electronic Device - Certain embodiments involve providing advertisements during navigation on an electronic device. For example, when the device is left idle for a period of time because the user of the device has not given a navigation command, the mobile device may present an advertisement. The advertisement may be displayed, for example, until the user returns and gives an additional navigation or other command, ending the idle period. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CYCLIC RECOGNITION-PRIMED NOTIFICATIONS AND RESPONSIVE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS IN AN ADVERTISING DISPLAY NETWORK - A system and method for enabling and improving user engagement through responsive iterative and cyclic interaction using mobile devices, for the creation of, response to, or alteration of, notifications on public display screens. The invention includes computer hardware and software for implementing, by delivering notification content, notification type, and means of notification, an iterative or cyclic response by users responsive to sensed or observed real world events and computer system events. The inventions also includes systems for synthesizing user interaction originating on groups of mobile devices in order to, through responsive cyclic iterative interaction, create, respond to, or alter, at least two separate and separately sourced simultaneously occurring notifications on a public display screen or screens. The invention further relates to a system and method on computer hardware and software system display or notification means for enabling and improving user situational awareness, cognition, and response, by recognizing and delivering, for a response option, cyclic, iterative responses through to notifications on a display. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249928 | SHELF TO CONSUMER PLATFORM - The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus and means for addressing the limitations of existing technology and practices with respect to in-store advertising. The present disclosure enables marketers to direct commercial messages to consumers whilst enabling consumers to control or influence if and when messages are received, as well as the content of the messages. The disclosure can provide this functionality is through the use of broadcast beacons and demand beacons. The disclosure also provides a means for interacting with applications located on PEDs, including from a sleeping or non-active state and ensuring that the messages transmitted are secure. The disclosure also provides a means for marketers to design, track and alter in real-time a marketing strategy, including on a store-by-store basis. | 09-04-2014 |
20140249929 | ADVERTISEMENT MATCHING PLATFORM - A computerized customer managed offer matching system configured to match advertising and criterion queries in a computer network. In one embodiment, the matching system receives a request to display advertisement(s) on a mobile device. The request can specify a desired condition of display of an advertisement, a desired condition including one or more of match terms, geographic origins of the match terms, time of searches for the match term, and/or placement of advertisements. | 09-04-2014 |
20140279022 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT UNITS DURING APPLICATION USE - A method for producing approved content units for an application. The method can include receiving a new content unit from a content provider, approving the new content unit and forming a list of approved content units, wherein the list of approved content units includes at least the new content unit, and wherein each approved content unit for the application can be integrated within the application during real-time use. In addition, the method can include receiving a request from a client library of the application for the list of approved content units for placement within the application during real-time use, and transmitting to the client library a list of approved content units and, for each of the approved content units, associated data for placement within the application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279023 | METHOD FOR DATA COMMUNICATION IN A MOBILE TELEPHONE SYSTEM - Method for data communication in a mobile telephone system with a mobile telephone ( | 09-18-2014 |
20140279024 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD FOR A CONSUMER EXPERIENCE PLATFORM - Exemplary embodiments provide a campaign tool that enables content providers to bid for the opportunity to transmit their content mobile devices associated with consumers though a cloud based computing environment. The campaign tool is hosted by another entity. The content may be any of a variety of different contents types and may be tailored to be relevant to the consumer. The campaign tool may have a bidding system that implements one or more algorithms to manage the bidding process. The content is pushed to the mobile device following an affirmative action, such as an NFC tap, by the consumer. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279025 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY OF MOBILE ADVERTISING CONTENT - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that enable users to create mobile advertisements having any of several formats. In one format, one or more animated elements may be displayed as an ad transitions from one display state to another. In another format, one or more elements of the mobile advertisement may react to input by a viewer of the mobile advertisement. In yet another format, a viewer may cause a banner ad to expand by “sliding” an element in a given direction, and/or in accordance with a specified pattern. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279026 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT MOBILE ADVERTISING - Various technologies described herein pertain to prefetching advertisements for mobile advertising. A prediction model for estimating a number of advertisements that a mobile client is likely to request during an upcoming prediction time period can be employed. An estimated total amount of time of likely interaction with application(s) executed by the mobile client can be predicted; based upon such prediction, a number of advertisement slots likely to be available and a probability of each of the advertisement slots being available can be computed. Moreover, an ad server can allocate advertisements in a pending advertisement queue and/or disparate advertisements collected from an ad exchange to the mobile client based upon the number of advertisement slots likely to be available, the probability of each of the advertisements slots being available, and aggregated probabilities of the pending advertisements in the pending advertisement queue being displayed prior to corresponding deadlines for expiration. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279027 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING SERVICES BASED ON DEVICE PROFILES - Methods and systems are described for providing advertising services based on device profiles. In one embodiment, a system generates a device profile for a device based on at least two parameters of a plurality of parameters including location of the device, a social profile for a user of the device, and applications installed on the device. The system determines a likelihood that the user will install an uninstalled application among a set of uninstalled applications and then selects an uninstalled application having a highest likelihood of being installed on the device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279028 | Mobile Display Device with Flip-Screen Functionality - A method includes displaying a front slate advertisement on a screen of a mobile display device. If a flip-screen command is detected, an animation is displayed on the screen which “flips” the front slate advertisement to the back slate advertisement. Optionally, a flip-screen command detected while in the back slate advertisement will cause an animation to be displayed on the screen which “flips” the back slate advertisement back to the front slate advertisement. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279029 | MOBILE DEVICE USER INTERFACE WITH DYNAMIC ADVERTISING CONTROL INTERFACE AREA - A software development kit for providing advertising in a mobile device user interface is provided. The software development kit includes computer executable program instructions for generating a wrapper view object that wraps an advertising corner control view object. The kit allows an application developer to create an application interface and wrap it in the wrapper view object. When the resulting computer executable instructions are executed, a user interface is displayed with an advertising corner control interface area and an application interface area. The user can select the advertising corner control interface area using a first selection technique to display an advertising interface area and remove the advertising control interface area and the application interface area. The user can select the advertising corner control interface area using a second technique to remove the application corner control interface area while continuing to display the application interface area. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279030 | Email-Based Promotion for User Adoption - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, by the one or more processors, user input, the user input indicating an assignment of a particular task by a first user to a second user, the first user being a user of a product that provides the particular task; determining, by the one or more processors, that the second user is a non-user of the product and, in response: appending product promotion data to an electronic document, the product promotion data providing a summary of task-based action data that is associated with the second user; and transmitting the electronic document to the second user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279031 | MOBILE IN-STORE LOYALTY ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems, methods, and media for providing an electronic messaging system in a retail environment are provided. An electronic message board is created in association with a retailer. The electronic message board is accessible in the retail environment and includes a host advertisement. The host advertisement is determined in association with the retailer from a host advertisement database that includes advertisements of indirect advertisers obtained by the host server. The retailer is provided with retailer access controls which enable the retailer to access and control a content of the electronic message board. The retailer access controls further enable the retailer to provide advertiser access controls to a direct advertiser obtained by the retailer. The advertiser access controls enable the direct advertiser to also access and control the content of the electronic message board, and are different than the retailer access controls. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279032 | MOBILE CREATIVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A user interface for generating an ad creative for displaying a video advertisement on a mobile includes a control section and a preview section. The operator enters control parameters in the control section and previews the look-and-feel of a video advertisement as it will be played back on a target mobile platform, based on the control parameters. Control parameters include one or more of URLs for video, a web site visited after completion of the video and a web site visited when a user requests additional information. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279033 | REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD OVER MOBILE WEB MESSAGING SERVICE - An interactive digital advertising system and method may include an advertising component for generating qualified leads in response to a lead request using interactive advertising units. The advertising system may provide “real-time” matching of leads, which may be validated based on a criteria defined by the lead requestor, to the services or products offered by the lead requestor. The interactive advertising units may communicate with leads over mobile messaging services, such as short message service (SMS), instant messaging (IM) service, or the like. The advertising component may generate a unique identification code for each lead request, which responders may use to initiate an interactive screening session with the advertising unit. The advertising component may track the unique identification code, responder's caller ID, and the state of the screening session to maintain the proper sequence of interactions. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279034 | PRODUCTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND INTERACTING WITH A MOBILE COMMUNITY - The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for users to engage with a mobile community. The system includes a mobile device configured to send and receive communication, and a mobile community provider that is communicatively coupled to the mobile device via a network, wherein the mobile community provider includes a user activity analyzer engine and a relationship analyzer engine. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289050 | OUTPUT OF ADVERTISEMENT UTILIZING EXCHANGE OF ITEM DATA - A terminal device includes an owner attribute information holding unit, a program execution unit, an item data holding unit, an output unit, an item data reception unit, a partner attribute information holding unit, an advertisement output unit, and network communication unit. The owner attribute information holding unit holds one or more pieces of owner attribute information. The program execution unit executes a program. The item data holding unit holds item data. The output unit outputs the held item data with the held owner attribute information through short-range wireless communication. The item data reception unit receives the item data with partner attribute information. The partner attribute information holding unit holds the received partner attribute information. The advertisement output unit outputs an advertisement on a basis of the held partner attribute information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289051 | PROMOTION OPERABLE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A recognition system is employed in conjunction with a subscriber's cellular phone and the network serving the subscriber. According to an embodiment, a subscriber can use a cellular phone to receive and capture data signals, from, for example, an audio output. The captured data signals can be transmitted to a remote network element that receives and translates the captured data and performs a plurality of functions. A promotion can be selectively tailored to a user based in part on the user location. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297419 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSERTING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT BY MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS THROUGH WEBSITE CUE TONES - The present invention describes a method for inserting targeted advertisement content by a last mile operator (typically a Mobile Network Operator (MNO)) onto websites accessed through its network and this websites has placeholder or cue tone for inserting advertisement by last mile operator. The invention also enables parsing of the placeholder or website cue tone by MNOs, wherein such placeholders being created on website to allow advertising content placing by participating MNOs. The MNOs can either use Internet ad service platform like Google AdSense or use their own advertisement serving platform to replace website cue tone with advertisement content in HTTP response and such HTTP response is passed onto its subscribers. This method allows subscribers to receive content from website publisher and targeted advertisement content from MNOs. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297420 | INTERACTIVE SHOPPING SYSTEM FOR USE WITH MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - A computer-implemented system links product information, location and sales information with mobile computing devices such as a smart-phone of a shopper. The shopper's smart-phone displays a route to the products in which she is interested by input to the application on his or her phone or mobile computing device. The shopper is efficiently mapped to the products in the most efficient order, and product and promotional sales information, such as instant coupons, are downloaded to the shopper's phone or device leading to an efficient shopping event without wasted time or missed sales or coupon opportunities. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297421 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEXT BASED TARGETED ADVERTISING - A context sensitive targeted advertisement. system, comprising an advertisement database configured to store a plurality of advertisements, a text analysis engine configured to: receive a message sent by a user using the users mobile device, and search the message and recognize the message context; an ad insertion engine, coupled with the text analysis engine and the advertisement database, the ad insertion engine configured to: select one of the plurality of advertisements based on the context of the message, and insert the advertisement into the received message. | 10-02-2014 |
20140297422 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MASS MEDIA COMMERCE - Systems and methods for implementing point of advertising purchasing include using mass media publications configured for or containing service, product or vendor transmittable signals, such as from radio frequency identification tags. In a preferred arrangement, a consumer perceiving an advertisement of the mass media publication may activate a reader in a portable communications device, such as a smart mobile or cellular phone, to receive information from the radio frequency signal associated with the advertisement to identify a vendor, product or service associated with the radio frequency identification. The smart mobile phone or communications device of the consumer may communicate with a system of a vendor across a network to order a product or product information from a system of the vendor over the network by using the information from the radio frequency identification. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304081 | ADVERTISING SERVICE METHOD USING DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - Disclosed is an advertising service method using D2D communication for efficiently using limited radio resources and control channel resources. The advertising service method includes setting a D2D common bearer with a network, receiving advertising terminal information from at least one other advertising terminal through the D2D common bearer, registering the advertising terminal in the network, transmitting advertising information to the at least one other advertising terminal and a user terminal through the D2D common bearer, and setting a user terminal and a D2D dedicated bearer on the basis of information received from the network. Accordingly, an advertisement can be easily transmitted to a plurality of user terminals which were not previously connected, and a collision between advertising terminals which are located in plurality in a specific area and transmit advertisements can be avoided. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304082 | PERSONALIZED MOBILE BANKING TRANSACTIONS AT A SERVER WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION AND ADS - A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304083 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS FROM SUBSCRIBERS OF DIRECTORY SERVICES - Disclosed are systems, computer-readable medium and a method for delivering advertisements to user devices. The method includes storing first data associated with online and physical activity of plurality of customers, storing second data associated with current status of plurality of advertisers, matching a customer with an advertiser based on analysis of the first data and the second data and delivering an advertisement to a device associated with the matched customers online and physical activity. The on-line and physical activity is captured by a plurality of devices including a mobile device via a plurality of sensors. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310104 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD - It is provided a method for distributing a multimedia message to a user having an electronic communication device comprising a packet based communication application stored thereon, the method comprising initiating a communication between the user and a recipient using the packet based communication application, determining the availability of a multimedia message stored locally on a the electronic communication device, providing the locally stored multimedia message to the user, connecting the user to the recipient for allowing a communication between the user and the recipient when the multimedia message has been provided to the user, requesting an updated multimedia message based on a profile of the user, and storing the updated multimedia message locally on the electronic communication device. | 10-16-2014 |
20140337138 | PAYMENT CODES FOR ENHANCED CONSUMER EXPERIENCE - Methods and systems for facilitating payments with a mobile device are described. The methods include detecting a location of a mobile device, receiving identifying information from a user through the mobile device when the mobile device is near at least one merchant without a request from the user, generating a payment code without a request from the user, transmitting the payment code to the mobile device, receiving the payment code and a payment request from a merchant, and processing the payment request. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344060 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING USER INTERESTS BASED ON MOBILE CALL LOGS - Techniques are provided that include targeting a user of a mobile electronic device with an interest-based advertisement, based at least in part on various call logs on a user device. Techniques are provided in which a set of calls from a user's call log from a mobile device are assigned to one or more categories indicative of potential user interests for the purposed of targeted advertisements. The usage pattern of the user's call log takes into account the time of the day, week, and/or month that the user tends to make particular calls to determine recurring patterns and calculate individual metrics for comparison with other users. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344061 | System and Methods for Managing Content in Pre-Existing Mobile Applications - Methods and systems for managing distribution and retrieval of data (for example advertising content and viewing statistics) and insertion of control logic (for example display of advertising content) into pre-existing mobile applications. In some arrangements the method includes analyzing the pre-existing application in the context of the target platform and the desired placement of new content, and instrumenting the application to support the addition of the new content. The instrumenting process can include modification of the application to support one or more of features selected from a group comprising user identification, usage tracking, bi-directional communication with an advertising server, and displaying advertising content. The analysis and instrumenting process can be applied in a just-in-time fashion during application download. In some arrangements, a portal application can be provided to reside on the mobile device for managing communications with an advertising server. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344062 | METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE ADVERTISING AND ON-DEMAND INFORMATION TO USER COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Methods, systems, software, computer-readable media, and the like relate to providing and receiving relevant data from one or more entities. Data is received by a wireless user device directly from a wireless transmitter. The data may be provided to a stationary or moving user. A consumer in a vehicle, for instance, may have a smartphone, mobile phone, tablet PC, navigation system, or other similar mobile device, and can use such device to interact with a geographically proximate advertising module having a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter may also be stationary or moving, and can be incorporated into structures such as a vehicle, a billboard, a building, a road sign, a traffic light, or the like. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344063 | Intelligent Communication and Advertising Mechanism - Disclosed is a system and method for exchanging information between a mobile device and a physical advertising medium, such as a billboard. The method and system enables a pluggable device, coupled with the mobile device, to detect the mobile device within its vicinity of the physical advertising medium. On detection of the mobile device, the pluggable device establishes a handshake communication channel with the mobile device by authorizing the mobile device. Upon authorizing the mobile device, the pluggable device initiates the advertisement information exchange between the physical advertising medium and the mobile device in a non-intrusive manner. In one aspect, the method and system further enables the mobile device to relay the advertisement information to other mobile devices or any other physical advertisement mediums within its vicinity. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344064 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSUMER-BASED STORING, RETRIEVING AND TRANSMITTING OF PROMOTIONAL CONTENT TO OTHER CONSUMERS - A system and method for targeted delivery of promotional messages from a sender to a receiver are disclosed. The system includes a website providing access to a plurality of promotional messages, and comprises a web-based user interface enabling the sender to create a set of promotional targeting records. A promotional targeting record comprises the sender's communication identifier, a targeted destination's communication identifier, and a selected promotional message. The created promotional targeting records are stored in a database. After a communication transmission from the sender to the receiver, system application software is used to: obtain the communication identifiers of the sender and the receiver; search the database to identify a promotional targeting record with matching sender and receiver communication identifiers; and after identifying such a promotional targeting record, retrieve from the database and deliver to the receiver the promotional message associated with the identified promotional targeting record. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344065 | System For Targeting Advertising Content To A Plurality Of Mobile Communication Facilities - A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively. | 11-20-2014 |
20140351055 | CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - Methods, systems, and products provide contextual information for communications. A call, for example, is processed from an origination address to a destination address. A query is made for a brand of device associated with the origination address making the call. The brand of device is announced during the call. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351056 | CUSTOMER TERMINAL AND SELF-SHOPPING SYSTEM - A customer terminal of a “self-scanning shopping” system, which is configured to store at least one shopping session in a non volatile memory, includes a main processor, a product code reader, a location for non volatile storage of an open shopping session indicator and/or an identifier, either direct or indirect, of a shopping session, and a supervisor circuit. In a working operating state, the main processor periodically sends a heartbeat to the supervisor circuit. The supervisor circuit commands a reset of the main processor when, from the lack of receipt of the heartbeat, it detects a non working operating state of the main processor. The main processor, upon reset, checks whether there is an open shopping session based on the contents of said memory location and in the affirmative case restores said shopping session. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351057 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ISSUING MOBILE VAS - A system and method for issuing a mobile VAS is provided. The method for issuing the mobile VAS generates a mobile VAS based on a user attribute grasped from user information of a mobile terminal, and issues the mobile VAS. Accordingly, a customized VAS can be issued effectively. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351058 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING POINT OF SALE FUNCTIONALITY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - The invention broadly comprises a method for enabling point of sales (POS) functionality in a wireless communications device (WCD) including the steps of: transmitting, using an interface element in at least one specially programmed general purpose computer, a POS function control signal to a communication network for transmission to a WCD, the WCD located in a retail location; activating a POS function, in response to the control signal, to enable POS functionality in the WCD, the POS function stored in a memory element for the WCD or in a memory element for the at least one specially programmed computer; acquiring, using the POS function, an identification of an item via the WCD; receiving, using the interface element, the identification data for the item from the WCD via the communication network; and generating, using a processor for the at least one general-purpose computer, an order including the first item. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358687 | Merchandising Product With Auto-Dial Cellular Communication - A method and a device for making a wireless cellular communication using a merchandising product with a marketing message. A merchant delivers a merchandising product to a user. The merchandising device contains an electronic module that comprises memory that stores multimedia and an identifier such as telephone number. The electronic module contains the components necessary to play the multimedia, including one or more audio output devices and optionally a video screen. The electronic module also contains the components necessary to connect to a wireless network and to place a cellular communication using the wireless network to the identifier. The electronic module is activated by a switch. Upon activation, the electronic module plays the multimedia on the one or more audio output devices and, optionally, the video screen. While the multimedia is playing, the module connects to a wireless network. Upon the conclusion of playing the multimedia, the module makes a wireless communication with the stored identifier number with no further action on the part of the user. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358688 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TARGETED DISPLAYS AND INFORMATION - In some examples, a system comprises a memory and at least one module executing on one or more computer processors to receive user behavior information and associate the user behavior information with at least one mobile user device identifier. The at least one module may further provide targeting information to an advertiser, the targeting information comprising the at least one mobile user device identifier, and transmit targeted information for display in an interface on the mobile user device based on the user behavior information associated with the at least one mobile user device identifier as defined in the specification. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358689 | Merchandising Product With One-Touch Connection Wireless Communication - A device for making a one-touch connection wireless communication using a merchandising product with a marketing message. A merchant delivers a merchandising product to a user. The merchandising device contains an electronic module that comprises memory that stores multimedia and an identifier such as telephone number. The electronic module contains the components necessary to play the multimedia on an output device, such as a speaker or video screen. The electronic module also contains the components necessary to connect to a wireless network and to place a wireless communication using the wireless network to the identifier when a dial switch is triggered. The electronic module is activated by a main switch. In one embodiment, upon activation, the electronic module plays the multimedia on the output device. When the user triggers the dial switch, the module makes a wireless communication with the stored identifier. The wireless communication may be voice, text, e-mail and/or other digital data. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358690 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER IDENTIFICATION AND COMMUNICATION - Method and system is disclosed for identifying and communicating with a user across a multi-connected networked environment such as through both telephony and internet-based networks. The method includes receiving a predefined keyword directed to a predefined shortcode from a mobile device, storing a phone number associated with the mobile device, generating a unique URL address based upon the keyword, the shortcode and the stored phone number, transmitting the unique URL address to the mobile device, receiving a request from the mobile device to access the unique URL address, resolving the unique URL address to a second URL address comprising numerical digits of the phone number, recording user interactions with the website based upon the second URL address, and communicating information to the user via the mobile device based upon the stored phone number and the second URL address. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358691 | SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AND RECEIVING PRIMARY AND SUPPLEMENTAL ADVERTISER INFORMATION USING A WEARABLE-COMPUTING DEVICE - A system for detecting an advertisement is configured to sense a first information associated with the advertisement by a first wearable-computing device, and identify the advertisement from one of a multitude of stored advertisements. The system is further configured to request, in response to a user input, a second information associated with the identified advertisement. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358692 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING PRIMARY AND SUPPLEMENTAL ADVERTISER INFORMATION USING A SERVER - A method for communicating with a server includes receiving, by the server, a first information associated with an advertisement, and identifying, using the server, the advertisement from one of a multitude of stored advertisements. The method further includes supplying, in response to a request, a second information associated with the identified advertisement. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358693 | Method and Apparatus for Publishing Literature - A price to advertise in an e-book is calculated for a product placement. The price is based on a frequency of a word forming part of the content of the e-book. The word is associated with the product placement in the context of the e-book. Payment and a destination network address are received from a purchaser. The payment is calculated based on the price and representative of consideration for purchase of the word in the e-book. The destination network address is accessible to the plurality of mobile electronic devices via a computer network. Links are provided within the content of the e-book in association with the word, the links configured to direct a mobile electronic device of the plurality of mobile electronic devices to the destination network address. The e-book, including the word and the associated links, is transmitted to the plurality of mobile electronic devices via the computer network. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365308 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, WIRELESS TERMINAL, AND INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD - A wireless terminal according to an embodiment includes a list of identification information of wireless LAN access points according to a behavior history of a user, and receives information corresponding to an entrance place from an information management device when the entrance to a communication area of a wireless LAN access point whose identification information is included in the list is performed. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372222 | Transmission of Promotional Messages to a Mobile Device - Methods and systems for transmitting a promotional message associated with a promotion to a mobile device are disclosed. The method includes assigning a phone number to a promotion, receiving a call to the phone number assigned to the promotion from the mobile device, registering the call as a missed call at the mobile device, and transmitting the promotional message to the mobile device in response to receiving the call. In some embodiments, the phone number assigned to the promotion is a toll-free number. In some embodiments, the promotion is a coupon, rebate, an electronic refund, or a promotional offer. | 12-18-2014 |
20150012359 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING ON A MOBILE GAMING DEVICE - In various embodiments, promotions are featured on mobile gaming devices. Data based on which a first promotion associated with a first advertiser may be displayed on a mobile gaming device. The data may include a first set of criteria identifying when the first promotion should be displayed. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012360 | INTEGRATED AND SYNCHRONIZED CROSS PLATFORM DELIVERY SYSTEM - A system and method for delivering targeted advertisements to consumers by inserting the targeted advertisements into a content stream. The content stream may be monitored for advertisement placement opportunities, such that the targeted advertisements may be seamlessly inserted into the content stream to replace an advertisement in the content stream. The content stream's owner and/or provider may be identified such that revenues from the targeted advertisement may be shared with the owner's and/or providers. The system and method are further able to use a biometric recognition technique to verify that the targeted advertisement is actually delivered to the targeted consumer. Another aspect allows the targeted advertisements to be delivered across multiple platforms in accordance with an advertising campaign. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012361 | METHOD OF DISSEMINATING ADVERTISEMENTS USING AN EMBEDDED MEDIA PLAYER PAGE - A method of disseminating advertisements includes the step of transmitting to a media device ( | 01-08-2015 |
20150019341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method for displaying information on mobile devices via a user interface (UI) includes an overlay structure on top of an application or web page which shows content related to a product or service. The overlay structure on top of an application or web page showing content related to the promoted product enables user action such as purchasing the product or service without taking the user away from the original view used for accessing the information. | 01-15-2015 |
20150025976 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MOBILE APPLICATIONS TO USERS AT A PREDETERMINED DATA RATE - Systems and methods are described for providing mobile applications at a predetermined data rate. In an embodiment, a request for a campaign is received, the request including an application title, an access endpoint, a campaign duration, and a list of a plurality of communication network operators. In response to receiving the request for the campaign, a special rating request is sent to each communications network operator on the list. The special rating request requests that a predetermined data rate be applied to data associated with the access endpoint for the campaign period. The data associated with the access endpoint is made available at the predetermined data rate on a communications network. Furthermore, advertising may be provided that communicates that the application is available for download and for use on the communications network at the predetermined data rate. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032547 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS IN A DIGITAL RADIO AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and a mobile computing device comprises receiving multiplexed data comprising an audio program and one or more advertisements from a broadcasting computing device, wherein the advertisements are each assigned to one of one or more genres. The received multiplexed data is demultiplexed to separate the audio program and the one or more advertisements. Next, based on program information of the audio program, genre corresponding with the program information of the audio program is identified. Further, one or more of the advertisements associated with the identified one of the genres that corresponds with the program information of the audio program are identified. The audio program and the identified one or more of the advertisements are output. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039438 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RECALL NOTIFICATIONS TO CUSTOMERS - A method and apparatus for providing targeted recall notifications are provided herein. During operation the system will determine a probability of a customer actually having purchased a recalled product. A notification of the recall will then be sent to the customer based on this probability, even if no direct evidence exists that the customer actually purchased the product. Because recall notifications will be provided to customers based on their probability of purchasing a recalled product, customers will be more likely to receive a recall notification on a product that they purchased. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039439 | Retailer-Controlled Showrooming - A method for offering a purchase incentive from a retail merchandiser to a retail customer through a handheld customer communications device is executed at least in part by a computer system and includes receiving, at a first processor having a network address, data from an encoding that is scanned and wirelessly transmitted from the handheld customer communications device. A product that is associated with the encoding data is identified and a wireless address that is associated with the handheld customer communications device is recorded. The method further includes transmitting, from the first processor, pricing information for the identified product for display on the handheld customer communications device at the recorded wireless address and responding to a customer selection from the transmitted pricing information by transmitting an incentive message for display on the handheld customer communications device at the recorded wireless address. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039440 | DISPLAYING ADS ON A MOBILE DEVICE OUTSIDE OF A MOBILE APP - Ads delivered to mobile devices by virtue of a mobile app executing on the device are displayed on the device screen outside the confines or borders of the mobile app. This enables app developers to display ads through their apps to app users wherein the ads are displayed outside the confines of the actual app as displayed on the device. That is, the ad may be displayed as what may be characterized as a ‘regular non-app generated’ ad, such as on the device's home or lock screen (display areas not normally associated with an app). In this manner, clutter is decreased within mobile apps that would otherwise be caused by the ads. Consequently, advertisers are more likely to pay higher rates thereby generating more revenue for app developers or related entities. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039441 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AD-HOC APPLICATIONS BASED ON ADVERTISEMENT - The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods and systems for a Framework for Ad-hoc Applications Based on Advertising (FAABA). The FAABA may employ short-range radio-frequency communications. The disclosure teaches mechanisms for providing targeted advertising in connection with ad-hoc applications/point-to-point (P2P) communications between user terminals. In a manner, the invention teaches general collection components for user terminals, which is responsible for collecting and maintaining a dynamic set of advertisements as a background operation. This allows the user terminals to initiate applications that are based on P2P communication, and furthermore, allows collections of pre-loaded advertisements to be provided to the user terminals along and/or during the P2P communications. Also, the FAABA teaches that after advertisements are stored in the receiving device, the advertisements can be tailored more closely to the interests of the user of the device and the advertisements can be filtered based on current context of the user. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046263 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING CONTENT USING MOBILE MESSENGER - Provided is a method of providing commercial content by a mobile messenger in a mobile device. The method includes: receiving a request to start the mobile messenger; displaying a virtual keyboard in a virtual keyboard region of a display unit of the mobile device as a virtual input unit, wherein the virtual keyboard is adapted to receive user input indicating a first message to be sent to a recipient; and displaying commercial content on at least a portion of the virtual keyboard region during a standby state after the first message is sent to the recipient and before a first response message is received from the device of the intended recipient. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046264 | Location Blocking Service From a Wireless Service Provider - Subscriber authorization information from a wireless communication device is identified. The subscriber authorization information indicates that an identity of a subscriber associated with the wireless communication device is authorized to be shared without sharing information that identifies a location of the wireless communication device. Subsequent to the subscriber authorization information being identified, the identity of the subscriber associated with the wireless communication device is received or retrieved without information that identifies the location of the wireless communication device. | 02-12-2015 |
20150058128 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NEIGHBORHOOD-BASED RINGTONE ADVERTISEMENTS - An approach is provided for sending a neighborhood-based ringtone advertisement. The approach involves receiving a ringtone request from a mobile communication device, wherein contextual information of the mobile communication device is determined and processed. The approach also involves determining the neighboring mobile communication devices, and then determining and processing the contextual information associated with the neighboring mobile communication devices. The approach further involves determining a ringtone that has the best influence on the users of the request sending mobile communication device, and the users of the neighboring mobile communication devices. Then, a neighborhood-based ringtone advertisement is selected. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058129 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC INTERACTION WITH MERCHANDISING VENUES - The disclosed systems and methods refer to electronic interaction between a consumer and one or more merchandising venue systems in order to personalize and enhance the shopping experience. The interaction begins automatically upon consumer arrival at or near a venue. A consumer profile may be used to tailor programming material transmitted by the merchandising venue system. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058130 | ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION DURING APPLICATION LAUNCH IN HANDHELD, MOBILE DISPLAY DEVICES - A time delay that occurs when an application is launched in a mobile handheld display device (MHDD), when the application or content is downloaded, before the MHDD is ready for the user to interact with it, wastes the user's time and, in an embodiment of the invention, this time delay constitutes an interval that is used to display targeted advertisements that are already stored on the MHDD, and that are rendered and displayed to the user on the screen while the user waits for completion of downloading of the application or content to the MHDD. An embodiment of the invention provides a micro-splicer that inserts alternate content for display on an MHDD, and renders and displays pre-stored advertisements during application launch time. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING TOURISTIC PATHS - Systems and methods provide touristic routes to users. For example, a user at a client device may request a touristic route between an initial and a final destination. A server uses the initial and final destinations to determine a shortest route. The server then defines an envelope around the route in order to identify points of interest. The identified points of interest are ranked and filtered, in order to select the most relevant points of interest. Once the points of interest are selected, the server determines a final route between the initial destination, the points of interest, and the final route. This information is then transmitted to the client device and displayed to the user. The server may also identify and transmit content associated with the final route and/or the points of interest, including, but not limited to, photos, videos, hyperlinks, and advertisements. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066650 | Method and Apparatus for Advertisements in Mobile Content Distribution Systems - An approach is provided for optimally matching advertisements to content items for targeted consumers using the content distribution characteristics. A distribution processor determines one or more distribution characteristics of one or more first content items that are distributed among one or more devices. The distribution processor then processes and/or facilitates processing of the one or more distribution characteristics to cause, at least in part, a selection of one or more second content items. In one scenario, the one or more second content items may include advertisements. From there, the distribution processor processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more first content items to cause, at least in part, an embedding of the one or more second content items in the one or more first content items. | 03-05-2015 |
20150088656 | ACCESS POINT BROADCASTING OF ADVERTISEMENTS - Advertisements are presented to users of cell phones and other types of access terminals. For example, advertisements may be presented to a user when the user's access terminal is served by or camped on an access point such as a small cell. After obtaining an advertisement, an access point broadcasts a message that includes the advertisement. Advantageously, the advertisement may be broadcast via an HNB Name field defined in 3GPP. Consequently, upon receiving a broadcast including an HNB Name field, an access terminal will automatically display the advertisement included in the HNB Name field (e.g., instead of an HNB Name). | 03-26-2015 |
20150088657 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD - An advertisement delivery apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first advertising information output unit and a second advertising information output unit. The first advertising information output unit outputs advertising information according to user information on a company corresponding to an entry site of a wireless terminal as first advertising information to the wireless terminal. The second advertising information output unit outputs advertising information according to a user having a wireless terminal when the wireless terminal accesses a server as second advertising information to the wireless terminal. One of the first and second advertising information output units outputting, to the wireless terminal to which the advertising information of the other advertising information output unit is output, advertising information related to the advertising information output from the other advertising information output unit. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088658 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVER APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT DELIVER METHOD - An advertisement delivery apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first advertising information output unit and a second advertising information output unit. The first advertising information output unit outputs first advertising information corresponding to user information on a company to the wireless terminal when the wireless terminal enters a site corresponding to the company. The second advertising information output unit outputs, to the wireless terminal, second advertising information corresponding to behavior of a user having the wireless terminal after the output of the first advertising information. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENTS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of providing contents in a communication system by a proxy server includes selecting one of a first content and a second content based on a first channel bandwidth usable by a terminal and a second channel bandwidth usable by a base station; and providing the selected content to the terminal, wherein the first content requires a wider channel bandwidth than a channel bandwidth of the second content. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088660 | Device, System, and Method of Soliciting and Accepting Offers from Merchant Members of a Virtual Network - A user's need to purchase a service or a good is communicated to a commercial network. The commercial network includes a plurality of merchant members that offer services or goods for sale. A plurality of electronic channels of communication is established between the mobile computing device and respective electronic devices of a subset of the plurality of merchant members. Offers for the service or good needed by the user are received from the merchant members through the electronic channels of communication. The user accepts one of the offers from a selected merchant. Thereafter, the electronic channels of communication between the mobile computing device and the respective electronic devices of the rest of the merchant members are automatically terminated. Meanwhile, the electronic channel of communication between the mobile computing device and the electronic device of the selected merchant is maintained. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095160 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISING ON MOBILE DEVICES - A method of providing advertising on a mobile device having a plurality of applications is provided by executing a set of computer executable advertising instructions stored on the mobile device. The instructions are stored as part of an operating system or a secondary application that can run in the background and are capable of identifying an application executing in the foreground. The instructions are stored separately from the executable code for the applications on which advertising is displayed. As a result, application developers can subscribe to an advertising service that displays advertising on their application interfaces without creating any code. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095161 | Universal Retail App and Auxiliary Methods - Schemes and methods are described whereby a single Universal Retail App for mobile communications and computing platforms auto-detects its fine-grained location within or outside retail locations and launches itself with a retailer or collection of retailers' native branding and retailer specifiable messaging. Methods are described for use of ISM Band devices as locationing beacons where GPS may not be available. Also described is MBox, a self-managing, real-time, always in-context by-location promotional messaging system that stays out of consumers' personal messaging channels and that can be used by retailers in conjunction with the Universal Retail App. A Universal Shopping Cart usable across all retail establishments and embeddable in the Universal Retail App that allows secure conduct of eCommerce is also disclosed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100427 | Associating Advertising Content with a Channel - The disclosure includes a system and method for identifying advertising content and providing a user of a mobile device with a channel related to the advertising content. A recognition application receives advertising content comprising a series of frames, identifies images corresponding to the frames within the advertising content, identifies a first set of feature points from a first image of the advertising content, determines whether the first set of feature points matches a second set of feature points stored in a database, and in response to determining that the first set of feature points fails to match the second set of feature points, identifies the first image as being unique, indexes the first image and the first set of feature points and associates the first image with a channel. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100428 | CONTAINER WITH USER LINK - A container tracking system includes a plurality of containers each having a user link, such as an RFID or NFC chip or optical code, such as a barcode or QR code. The user link is activatable by a user's mobile device. A server is configured to be accessed by the user's mobile device upon activation of the user link. The server provides information to the user's mobile device in response to activation of the user link. The server may log the location of the user's mobile device at the time of activation in order to log the location of the container. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100429 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A MESSAGE FOR A WIRELESS DEVICE - Methods and apparatus for generating a message ( | 04-09-2015 |
20150106207 | METHOD OF PROVIDING FORWARDING ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE IN MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention proposes a method of providing a forwarding advertisement service in a mobile device, wherein a service providing server receives an advertisement forwarding signal from a mobile device, and forwards to a predetermined advertisement medium an advertisement assigned according to execution information on an application program that is installed in the mobile device. Thus, a user may not be exposed to an advertisement when the application program is executed in the mobile device. As a result, the user may get rid of any inconvenience and cumbersomeness due to the display of advertisements, and pay attention to the main content of the application program. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112811 | Method for Tailoring a Web Advertisement to a Specific User Adapting for Display on a Mobile Device - A method for tailoring an advertisement to a specific user based upon that user's available information, then adapting a suitable advertisement for display on a mobile device, and then delivering that advertisement on the user's mobile device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120460 | Displaying Advertisement using Personal pictures - Displaying Advertisements on personal pictures over the web or mobile platform. Users can attach advertisements to their personal picture; they can do so by picking and choosing the Advertisements from any advertisement providers. These pictures, once shared, can be accessed through the web or any mobile platform. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120461 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A communication terminal ( | 04-30-2015 |
20150120462 | Method And System For Pushing Merchandise Information - Method, system, and terminals for pushing merchandise information are disclosed. The method includes: at a server: receiving first identification data from a first client device, wherein the first identification data is acquired by the first client device from a first merchandise item; establishing a first association between the first merchandise item and a first user account of the first client device; generating second identification data for the first association between the first user account and the first merchandise item; receiving the second identification data from a second client device; and in response to receiving the second identification data from the second client device, establishing a second association between a second user account of the second client device, the first merchandise item, and the first user account. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127462 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SERVER, AND CHARGING DEVICE - An information distribution server | 05-07-2015 |
20150127463 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION - A system for providing advertisement information is disclosed. The system includes a display device, at least one near field communication (NFC) antenna and a control for controlling the display device for displaying advertisement contents and NFC antenna for providing data related to the advertisement contents displayed on the display device. The system may include as advertisement management server to supply the advertisement contents and data related to the advertisement contents. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134456 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING A DIGITAL ASSISTANT PERSONA - A method that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a first digital assistant to engage in a first communication exchange with a user of the first communication device where the first digital assistant has a first digital assistant persona that controls information provided by the first digital assistant during communication exchanges, analyzing user input during the first communication exchange, and adjusting the first digital assistant persona based on one or more of the user persona, user deficiency, or promotional offers. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134457 | DYNAMIC DIGITAL FLYER SYSTEM - In this disclosure, a system and method for displaying digital flyer having dynamic flyer content on a communication device are disclosed. The system includes a communication module configured to request for a digital flyer from a server and to receive flyer content of the digital flyer from the server, the digital flyer comprising a source flyer image for the flyer content, the source flyer image having one or more regions and an associated modular co | 05-14-2015 |
20150134458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER PROFILING - A user profiling system, comprising: elements for acquiring an image of a receipt, related to a purchase of one or more products from a distributor, by a mobile device, which is identified by a unique identification code; elements for sending the image and the unique identification code to a unit for managing the service, the unit comprising: elements for processing the image, which extract from the image textual information comprising information identifying the one or more products at the distributor; elements for processing the textual information, which associate, for each product of the one or more products, the identification information at the distributor with information identifying the product at a manufacturer; and profile processing elements and profile storage elements, which are configured to store the information identifying the one or more products at the distributor and at the manufacturer, associated with said unique identification code of the mobile device. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134459 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING MOBILE DEVICES TO CREATE SECURITIZED LOCALLY DEPLOYED SIGNALS TO DELIVER VALUE - A system and method for using mobile devices to create securitized locally deployed signals to deliver value are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: detecting a trigger event in a location, by a data processor in a first mobile device without the use of a stationary transmission device at the location; initiating a local broadcast of a signal from the first mobile device in the location in response to the trigger event, the signal including a value offering; and receiving the signal at a second mobile device in the location. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142575 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING ON CLOTHING - A method for displaying targeted content on an article of clothing includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each consumer profile including a consumer identifier and consumer behavioral data; storing a plurality of content profiles, each content profile including data related to a visual content item including one or more selection criteria; reading payment card data corresponding to a payment card associated with a specific consumer, the payment card data including a specific consumer identifier associated with the specific consumer; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included consumer identifier corresponds to the specific consumer identifier; identifying a specific content profile based on the one or more selection criteria and the consumer behavioral data included in the identified specific consumer profile; and transmitting the visual content item included in the identified specific content profile for display on an article of clothing directed toward the specific consumer. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142576 | METHODS AND MOBILE DEVICES FOR DISPLAYING AN ADAPTIVE ADVERTISEMENT OBJECT AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING THE ADAPTIVE ADVERTISEMENT OBJECT - A method for displaying an adaptive advertisement object on a mobile device, the method includes the following steps. Execute a mobile application to display a page including at least one adaptive advertisement object. The mobile application includes a description file, at least one content resource file, at least one advertisement resource file and a parsing module. The resource file includes at least one content object being displayed on the page. The description file includes a content description and an advertisement object description. The advertisement object description includes at least one keyword, at least one visual characteristic and at least one advertisement presentation description. The advertisement resource file is acquired from an advertisement resource file database. The parsing module displays the page including the adaptive advertisement object according to the content description and the advertisement presentation description of the description file, the content resource file, and the advertisement resource file. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142577 | PUBLIC MOBILE ADVERTISEMENT MOBILE DISTRIBUTE DEVICE - A public mobile advertisement mobile distribute device, which comprises a distribute mechanism; a total member mechanism, connected to the distribute mechanism; an advertisement agent mechanism, connected to the distribute mechanism; a coin mechanism, connected to the distribute mechanism; a group mechanism, connected to the distribute mechanism, where the advertisement agent mechanism and the distribute mechanism are coordinated to distribute the associated advertisement content according to different users in a group mechanism, and a coin mechanism provides a considerable reward to be used as necessary after the users anticipate the advertisement activity, so that efficacies of an increase advertisement proficiency, a widened advertisement service range and avoidance of a wasted communications resource may be achieved. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142578 | Targeted Advertisement Selection for a Wireless Communication Device (WCD) - Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for accurately identifying a mobile thing motion activity (MTMA; e.g., stationary, walking, running, biking, driving, etc.) associated with a mobile thing (MT) using sensor data from one or more sensors associated with a wireless communication device (WCD) transported by the MT, so as to enable targeted selection and communication of an advertisement that is suited for the identified MTMA. The one or more sensors produce sensor data indicative of physical movement of the WCD in three dimensional space and may include, for example, one or more of the following: an accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, etc. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142579 | ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide an advertisement insertion method. The method includes: before a voice call or a video call is connected, sending, by a media gateway or an advertisement storage, an advertisement to a terminal; and playing, by the terminal, the advertisement, so as to implement advertisement insertion. In the present invention, after a call is requested and before the call is connected, an advertisement is sent to a terminal by a media gateway by using a transmission resource of a video call or by an advertisement storage by using a packet switched network, thereby solving a problem in the prior art that advertisement insertion can be implemented only when a mobile terminal requests data in a specific server in the Internet. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149290 | DIGITAL COUPON SYSTEM FOR SMART PHONES - A phone is adapted to receive a digital coupon for a business after the business is called with the phone. The digital coupon is displayed in one of a call log, call screen or contacts at a position associated with the business. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149291 | MAGNETIC CARD TRANSACTION SYSTEM BASED IN CLOUD COMPUTING AND SIMULATED MAGNETIC CARDS - A system based in cloud computing able to manage financial transactions related to debit and credit cards provided by financial institutions or service providers, using software applications or web application accessed by mobile devices or computer units and magnetic card simulators able to excite coils to simulate up to three credit and debit cards tracks avoiding the storage of magnetic card data. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149292 | LEVERAGING SENSORS ON SMART MOBILE PHONES AND TABLETS TO CREATE ADVERTISEMENTS TO REPLICATE A REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE - Systems, methods, and apparatus are described herein for replicating a real world experience consuming a product or service to advertise products or services. Data from sensors on mobile devices, tablets, computers, etc. may be read and translated into data corresponding to an action. A user of the computing device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet, computer, etc.) performs a required action by activating the appropriate sensors, which may provide the user with a benefit, reward, or incentive. The action taken by the user represents a real world activity that a user would normally perform when consuming a product or service. Advertisers are charged once the actions associated with consuming the product or service have been performed. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149293 | ADVERTISEMENT STORAGE METHOD AND ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of mobile communications and provide an advertisement storage method and advertisement insertion method, device, and system; the advertisement insertion system includes an advertisement providing device, an advertisement policy and charging control function, an advertisement storage, an advertisement insertion device, and a terminal, where the components are connected through a wireless network or a wired network. In the present invention, processes of automatically receiving, storing, and inserting an advertisement can be achieved by the advertisement insertion system including the advertisement policy and charging control function, the advertisement storage, the advertisement insertion device, and the terminal without any manual intervention by a service provider. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294021 | System and Method for Creating A Computational Bookmarking Icon - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided that allow host web sites to enable vendor landing pages from those web sites to be associated with automatically generated custom vendor icon bookmarks for addition to the display screen (e.g., home screen) of a user computing device when a user accesses the vendor landing page, and especially to generate a plurality of such generated custom vendor icon bookmarks for addition to the home screen of the user's computing device. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENT IN AN APPLICATION - The present invention provides a system and method for displaying advertisements in an application. The system and method include, receiving an advertisement request for displaying advertisement in the application installed on a mobile device, selecting an advertisement data from an advertisement server, transmitting the advertisement to the application, and displaying the advertisement in the application at the advertisement placement region during execution of the application | 10-15-2015 |
20150310493 | Lock-Screen-Based Advertisement Delivery Systems and Methods - An exemplary method includes an advertisement delivery system providing an advertisement for display together with a lock screen on a mobile device, detecting a sequence of user inputs associated with the lock screen and the advertisement, determining that the sequence of user inputs satisfies a predefined user input sequence requirement, and identifying, based on the determining that the sequence of user inputs satisfies the predefined user input sequence requirement, one or more billable impressions associated with the detected sequence of user inputs and the advertisement. Corresponding systems and methods are also described. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310494 | TECHNOLOGY AND PROCESS FOR DIGITAL, MOBILE ADVERTISING AT SCALE - The system delivers a single unit that includes the software that makes up an ad unit as well as a container for that ad unit that protects it from the harsh environments of ad network SDKs. The system allows for a container of other software to be tested in these various environments instead of sending the Ad Tag directly into the SDK. This allows Ad Tag units to display reliably within a container that is certified once instead of needing to certify each occurrence of the ad unit. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317684 | ACOUSTIC TAGS, RELATED COMPUTING DEVICES/SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - A method for mobile advertising, comprising transmitting, by an acoustic tag, a pre-determined acoustic signal associated with the acoustic tag, using a first software program executed on the acoustic tag, initiating, by a handheld electronic device, a monitoring of ambient sound for the emitted acoustic signal associated with the acoustic tag, determining, in the ambient sound, a particular acoustic signal associated with a particular acoustic tag; and presenting at least one advertisement message. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324854 | ADVERTISING CREATIVE AND APPLICATION DELIVERY TO COMPUTING DEVICES - A method is performed by a computing device. A request is sent comprising request data, the request data comprising one or more identifiers. Payload data is received, where the payload data includes advertising creative retrieval data and application retrieval data for downloading one or more application installation files for an application, where the advertising creative is associated with the application. The advertising creative is downloaded. If the application is not installed on the computing device, the one or more application installation files are downloaded. An advertising creative display opportunity is generated. The advertising creative is displayed in the advertising creative display opportunity. If a user interaction with the advertising creative is detected and the application is not installed on the computing device, the application is installed from the downloaded one or more application files. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324855 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT TO A USER OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Disclosed is a method for providing advertisement to a user of a communication network. An advertisement database stores an association between the identifier of a further user and at least one visual advertisement associated with and selected by the further user. When a communication session is set up in the communication network between the user and the further user, an advertisement manager uses the identifier of the further user for retrieving from the advertisement database a visual advertisement selected amongst the visual advertisements associated with the further user. The advertisement manager then transmits the selected visual advertisement to the user for display on a display of the user device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324856 | ADVERTISEMENT UNIT AND A METHOD THEREOF - A method is disclosed for displaying two series of content items simultaneously on a certain screen area. The method includes receiving user signals regarding user attention to the already displayed items of a first series of text items, extracting an indication that the user attention is focused outside a certain zone, and displaying a second series of content items on the certain zone. The second series of content items may include advertisements, textual items or images. The certain screen area may serve a mobile device having a touch screen. Alternatively, the user signals are provided by tracking a user eye. The user signals may indicate that the user scrolls the first series of content items in a certain direction for displaying further content items of the first series exposable at the certain direction while hiding instantly uninterested content items located in a countering direction. Thereby, the user signals identify a certain zone in the countering direction as being outside the user attention. The second series of content items is gradually displayed while propagating in a direction substantially perpendicular to the certain direction. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324857 | CROSS-PLATFORM ADVERTISING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present disclosure provides a method for aggregating user data from multiple data sources for use in mobile targeted advertising, comprising receiving a first data set and a second data set. The first data set comprises a mobile device identifier that uniquely identifies a mobile electronic device of a user and a first non-mobile identifier. The second data set includes the first non-mobile identifier and a second non-mobile identifier. Next, the first data set is compared to the second data set to identify the first non-mobile identifier as a match between the first data set and the second data set. The mobile device identifier is then associated with the second non-mobile identifier to generate a profile of the user that is stored in computer memory in a manner that is indicative of an association between the mobile device identifier and the second non-mobile identifier. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324858 | MESSAGING WITH GREETING CARD AND GIFT OPTION - A messaging solution that provides for creating and embedding gift cards into a text message or multi-media message. The inclusion of the gift card may be invoked when a user is sending a greeting card or, a user may directly invoke the sending of a gift card, or similarly a subscription. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324866 | Advertising Creative Delivery to Computing Devices - A method is performed by a computing device. A request including request data, the request data including one or more identifiers, is sent, by the computing device, to an ad decision server. Payload data, including advertising creative retrieval data for downloading one or more generated advertising creatives generated based at least in part on the request data is received asynchronously with respect to the request, by the computing device, from the ad decision server. One or more advertising creatives of the one or more generated advertising creatives is downloaded, by the computing device, based on the advertising creative retrieval data. An advertising creative display opportunity is generated by the computing device. A first advertising creative of the one or more advertising creatives is selected, by the computing device, based on advertising selection criteria. The first advertising creative is displayed, by the computing device, in the advertising creative display opportunity. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324875 | PROCESS OF SPONSORSHIP OF A PURCHASE - A process for sponsors such as corporations, institutions, non-profits, or individuals, to pay for customer's purchases at the time or after the time of payment, before or after a customer presents a credit card or other payment method that identifies the customer, or pays with a smartphone, tablet, smartwatch or wearable device app such as Apple Pay, or Google Wallet. Both physical and virtual, Internet, and application (app) based stores are able to practice the present invention. | 11-12-2015 |
20150332332 | SELF-DESTRUCTING AD MESSAGES IN MESSAGING APPS - The present application is directed to systems and methods for providing and displaying advertising messages within applications running on smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices while minimizing the disruptive effect of those advertising messages. The application may include an instant messaging or chat function. Within the application, advertising content may be presented in the portion of the screen dedicated to displaying the instant messaging or chat conversation, or in the portion of the screen dedicated to displaying a list of conversations, contacts or other content. The advertising content is set to be displayed for a certain amount of time and the display may indicate the amount of time remaining before the advertising content will disappear. The advertising content may include, for example, a limited-time offer that the user may accept while the advertising content is displayed. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332333 | System and Method for Providing Advertising Slots Before Hyperlink Destination - Disclosed is a system and method for providing ads on mobile devices. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a software application that is adapted to display an ad to a user before directing the user destination of a hyperlink embedded within the application. The ad remains open on a mobile screen until the user taps a skip/close button. When the ad closes, the user is automatically directed to another website or a hyperlink destination. Accordingly, the user must close or skip the ad before he or she is directed to a hyperlink destination. In another preferred embodiment, the ad is cached to increase the speed of ad content viewing for the user. In this regard, the ad is displayed immediately when the user clicks or taps on a hyperlink instead of being called from an ad server after the hyperlink is activated. | 11-19-2015 |
20150334594 | WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS - A network access point may control access by limiting time of access to users, and by granting additional access time in exchange for certain user behavior, such as viewing advertisements. Other rewards may be granted as well, such as changes to the user's network access quality, or access to restricted content. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339655 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PROXIMITY BASED E-COMMERCE TRANSACTIONS - A method comprises transmitting, by a merchant web-client, a signal using a low energy consuming device, wherein the signal may be received by a transaction account holder web-client, wherein the signal may carry content associated with a merchant, and wherein the merchant is associated with the merchant web-client, and/or receiving, by the merchant web-client, a response from the transaction account holder web-client, wherein the response may be transmitted by the transaction account holder web-client to the merchant web-client using the low energy consuming device. The content may comprise an advertisement associated with an item offered for sale by the merchant. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339722 | TARGETED ADVERTISING BASED ON USER PRODUCT INFORMATION - Methods and systems of targeting advertising are presented. In an example method, a media content device of a user accesses user product information originating from a user product and describing at least one characteristic of the user product. At least one advertisement is selected from a plurality of available advertisements based on the user product information. The selected advertisement is forwarded from the media content device for presentation to the user. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339723 | USER-BASED ANALYSIS OF ADVERTISEMENT POOLS - In at least one embodiment, a method comprises receiving data associated with one or more user computing devices, wherein the data comprises the identity of a application stored on one or more of the one or more user computing devices; receiving a pool of advertisements, wherein an advertisement in the pool of advertisements comprises advertisement information associated with the advertisement; analyzing the data, the pool of advertisements, and the advertisement information to identify one or more suitable advertisements for presentation to the one or more of the one or more user computing devices; and sending information comprising an identification of the suitable advertisement. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348113 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DERIVING A STORY ON A STORY BOARD ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE'S LOCK SCREEN - A method and system for deriving a story on a story board on mobile communication device's lock screen. Particularly, the application provides a method and system for deriving a story on a story board on mobile communication device's lock screen by a user, characterized by deriving said story on said story board by cumulating a plurality of visual segments of information pertaining to said story. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348115 | CONTENT OUTPUT APPARATUS, CONTENT OUTPUT METHOD, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A content output system for outputting content to digital signage makes customers continuously feel interactivity with content to maintain their interest. A content output system | 12-03-2015 |
20150356318 | LOCATIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING USING A MOBILE DEVICE - Technologies are generally described for providing a locative social networking service utilizing wireless access point. In some examples, a method performed under control of a mobile device may include connecting to a wireless local area network, finding at least one other mobile device connected to the wireless local area network and satisfying a predetermined condition, and for each found mobile device, requesting a public user profile associated with the found mobile device, in response to the request, receiving the public user profile associated with the found mobile device, and for each found mobile device from which an associated public user profile is received, transmitting to the found mobile device a public user profile associated with the mobile device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356615 | Application Integrated Advertising Display Control - Application integrated advertising display control techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a request is detected, which is received by the one or more computing devices from a client device via a network, for receipt of one or more image editing content packages that are branded to correspond to one or more advertisers. The one or more image editing content packages include functionality usable as part of an image editing process to alter appearance of pixels in an image but not replace the pixels or functionality usable to supplement additional pixels to the image without replacing the pixels in the image. Responsive to the detecting by the one or more computing devices, streaming is controlled of the one or more content packages that are branded to correspond to the one or more advertisers via the network for receipt by the client device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356617 | MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE DISPLAYING A USER INTERFACE THAT INCLUDES USER CUSTOMIZED CONTENT - A mobile computing device includes a wireless communication unit connected to a central server, a touch screen, and a processing unit that is programmed to generate a user interface on the touch screen. The user interface includes a plurality of elements that trigger the processing unit to execute instructions when touched. A touching of one of the elements causes the processing unit to generate an updated user interface displaying an element associated with content prompting a future transaction. The content is generated at the central server according to user profile data. The content generated at the first time has a higher correlation to the user profile data at the first time than that at the second time, and the content generated at the second time has a higher correlation to the user profile data at the second time than that at the first time. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356618 | TECHNIQUE FOR BILLBOARD ADVERTISING - A method for initiating an action responsive to a promotion. The method comprises causing placement of a visual indicator on a billboard, said visual indicator to indicate an existence of a promotion associated with an advertisement carried by the billboard; enabling a scanning process to cause a consumer to scan the visual indicator with a mobile device to generate scan data; and processing the scan data to initiate at least one action based on at least one pre-provisioned action a server system as part of said promotion. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356619 | SYSTEM FOR DIRECTING, MANAGING AND DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENT ON SMART MOBILE PHONES - The invention is a system for directing, managing and displaying advertisements on mobile phones wherein an audio and/or video advertisement/message replaces available ringtones and notification tones through a system application which is downloaded on/installed on/transmitted to the mobile phone of the users, ensuring that phone of a user that receives a call/message plays/runs audio and/or video advertisements/messages without any intervention by the user, and the user turns his/her phone into a new channels thus earning money/credit/advantage for himself or for other third parties. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356620 | DISPATCH SYSTEM TO REMOTE DEVICES - A method and system for presenting promotional content to a user of a communication device involves receiving information from a communication device, where the information relates to the communication device, and identifying a result relating to the information that is capable of being presented in a plurality of formats on the communication device, and dynamically selecting a format for the result from among the plurality of formats, and presenting the result in the selected format for display by the communication device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363832 | RADIO FREQUENCY EVENT RESPONSE MARKETING SYSTEM - An interactive marketing system includes devices and methods that provide customers with real-time product information and supplemental specification materials, usage information, comparison information, and other product and service resources related to a product. A potential customer accesses an RFID-tagged item, and a reader detects the item and triggers video and audio displays with information regarding the identified product. Customers interact with the product and service materials to review product information, evaluate product reviews, and view and listen to lifestyle and demonstration videos. Customers can also access product information to configure the product in a variety of sizes, colors, styles, and the like. Brand owners can communicate product information, product reviews, and additional information regarding the product, its features, and its use directly to the customers in real-time. The system facilitates purchasing metrics, tracks and controls inventory, and provides product logistics. | 12-17-2015 |
20150379579 | SPONSORED DATA SYSTEM AND METHOD - A sponsored data system and method are disclosed. The system is configured to operate with a wireless mobile device running an app that receives sponsored data from a content provider server. The system includes an interface application or SDK configured to run on the wireless mobile device, the SDK being configured to determine availability of sponsored data. The system also includes a cloud platform configured to interface with the content provider server, the cloud platform being configured to generate a token with data usable to determine availability of sponsored data and transmit the token to the SDK. The system also includes a portal configured to create and store promotion packages that identifies at least a portion of the data associated with the app as sponsored data. | 12-31-2015 |
20160012487 | DEVICE SITUATIONAL CONTEXT-BASED CONTENT DISPLAY | 01-14-2016 |
20160012488 | Partner Marketing Based on an Expected Customer Visit | 01-14-2016 |
20160018987 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displays second content in another region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect an inclination of the information display device. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result of the detection unit. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019594 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Communication systems and methods support communication between multiple devices. In some embodiments, a method initiates a communication session between a first device and a second device via a server. The method identifies a first user associated with the first device and identifies a second user associated with the second device. An interaction history between the first user and the second user is accessed from the server and communicated to the first device for display on the first device. | 01-21-2016 |
20160027059 | SHOPPING SYSTEMS, USER INTERFACES AND METHODS - Shopping systems, user interfaces, and methods that provide a user a way to quickly and seamlessly shop and purchase from an advertisement at the moment of discovery of the product(s) within the advertisement. A user can use a mobile device to scan the advertisement using an application that resides on the mobile device. The advertisement is then recognized to determine recognized products appearing in the advertisement. A list of products from the recognized products is then displayed on the display screen of the mobile device to enable the user to shop and, if desired, purchase one or more of the products. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027060 | DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes control information to a terminal device. The control information causes the terminal device to execute a detection procedure of detecting a position where a moving operation to move first content being displayed by the terminal device has been performed, and a display procedure of superimposing and displaying second content on the first content, based on the position detected by the detection procedure. For example, the display procedure causes the terminal device to execute processing of displaying, as second content, advertising content that allows an access to a web page provided by an advertiser, when the advertising content is selected by a user of the terminal device. | 01-28-2016 |
20160035011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDOOR NAVIGATION AND INFORMATION PUSH USING LED LIGHTING DEVICES - The present disclosure provides an indoor navigation and information push system and method using LED lighting devices. The indoor navigation and information push system includes three LED lighting devices, each with a built-in Wi-Fi module and an information storage and navigation server configured to wirelessly communicate with LED lighting devices, store and transmit promotion data and product information. The information storage and navigation server and the LED lighting devices form an indoor wireless network. The indoor navigation and information push system further includes a user terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with the LED lighting devices and sends service requests to or receives data from the LED lighting devices. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042398 | INDOOR INFORMATION PUSH SYSTEM AND METHOD USING LED LIGHTING DEVICES - The present disclosure provides an information push system and method using LED lighting devices. The information push system includes an LED lighting device with a built-in Wi-Fi module; an information storage server configured to wirelessly communicate with the LED lighting device, and store and transmit advertisement and product information; and a user terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with the LED lighting device, send related service requests, or receive data. The information storage server and the LED lighting device form an indoor wireless network. When a user terminal connects to the indoor wireless network, the information storage server transmits the advertisement and product information to the user terminal via the indoor wireless network. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042399 | System and Methods for Providing Recommendations - A method provides personalized recommendations to a mobile device associated with a user. The method includes obtaining an event log from the one or more sensors embedded in the mobile device associated with the user. The event log is analyzed by a processor of the present invention to identify one or more attributes associated with the surroundings of the mobile device. A method selects one or more recommendations to be sent to the mobile device associated with the user. In additional embodiments, methods record the response received to the recommendations and using the recorded responses to further select more personalized recommendations. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042400 | Method of doing business using a cell phone device with locally stored multimedia advertising content - A method of doing business for the purpose of generating funds for a cell phone service provider by using a cell phone device with a locally stored multimedia content data bank. The present invention is a new business method of generating funds from registration fees and advertising revenue. In particular, the invention provides a system and method for generating revenue from classified advertisements using mobile and cellular phones by playing an advertisement stored in the cell phone to the user before placing the cell phone call. Advertisements may also be played at intervals during the phone call. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048860 | Optimizing and Distributing Discounts - Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for optimizing and distributing discounts are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may receive a request for a randomized discount. In response to receiving the request for the randomized discount, the computing device, may select a merchant from a hub that includes at least two merchants grouped based on geographical proximity of business locations of the at least two merchants. Subsequently, the computing device may determine a discount for the selected merchant. The computing device then may cause the determined discount for the selected merchant to be presented. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055537 | TECHNIQUES TO TARGET AND COMMUNICATE MOBILE OFFERS - Techniques to target and communicate mobile offers are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to techniques to target and communicate mobile offers using member information from a social-networking service. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a customer selection component, a channel selection component, and an offer customization component. The customer selection component may be operative to retrieve an offer from an offers store, the offer associated with offer selection criteria, and search a user information store to select a mobile user based on a match between the offer selection criteria and user information for the mobile user stored in the user information store. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063569 | OFFERS BASED ON PERSONAL METRICS - Systems and methods for presenting offers based on personal metrics are provided. A user uses a mobile device or a wearable device with sensors to measure various personal metrics. The user uses the device to track activity, sleep, vital signs, and any other personal metrics. A service provider receives the personal metric data and other personal metric information. The service provider receives offers, such as coupons and voucher deals, for products and/or services from merchants. The service provider then presents offers to the user based on personal metric information of the user and other information, such as sleep patterns, hours slept, activity levels, distance traveled, measured heart rates, time of day, and/or location. | 03-03-2016 |
20160071156 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE - It is described an information processing method. On a display screen of a terminal it is presented at least one piece of promotion information associated with an application when the application is running on the terminal. Upon detecting that one piece of the promotion information is selected, a payment platform which is in-built in the application is triggered to perform the following: requesting a server to determine whether a payment option corresponding to the selected piece of the promotion information shall be presented on a first page or a second page; jumping to the first page upon reception from the server of a first operation instruction of presenting the payment option corresponding to the selected piece of the promotion information on the first page; and presenting on the first page the payment option corresponding to the selected piece of the promotion information. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071163 | Associating Advertising Content with a Channel - The disclosure includes a system and method for identifying advertising content and providing a user of a mobile device with a channel related to the advertising content. A recognition application receives advertising content comprising a series of frames, identifies images corresponding to the frames within the advertising content, identifies a first set of feature points from a first image of the advertising content, determines whether the first set of feature points matches a second set of feature points stored in a database, and in response to determining that the first set of feature points fails to match the second set of feature points, identifies the first image as being unique, indexes the first image and the first set of feature points and associates the first image with a channel. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078485 | DETERMINING TARGETING INFORMATION BASED ON A PREDICTIVE TARGETING MODEL - A targeting system based on a predictive targeting model based on observed behavioral data including visit data, user profile and/or survey data, and geographic features associated with a geographic region. The predictive targeting model analyzes the observed behavioral data and the geographic features data to predict conversion rates for every cell in a square grid of predefined size on the geographic region. The conversion rate of a cell indicates a likelihood that any random user in that cell will perform a targeted behavior. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078486 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING MESSAGES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS - A telecommunications advertising means is disclosed. The telecommunication advertising means includes an advertisement database coupled to a processing means. The advertisement database stores subscriber specific or third party advertisements that are selectively associated with communications in a telecommunications network. The selective association is carried out by the processing means. In one embodiment, a router is coupled to the advertisement database. The router routes communications from source to destination within the telecommunications network. The router also routes advertisements that have been associated with the communications to the sources and destinations of the communications. A telecommunications system is also disclosed. The telecommunications system comprises a network subsystem, which includes a telecommunications advertising means. The telecommunications advertising means comprises an advertisement database and a processing means. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086227 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENT TO WIRELESS DEVICES AND SYNCHRONIZED DISPLAYS OF THE SAME - Systems and methods are provided for delivering media content to users while other actions are pending, including pending telephone call connections. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086228 | Method And System For Delivery Of Context-Specific Content To A Mobile Device, Triggered By Changes In The Mobile Device's Location - Systems and methods for associating and delivering context-aware content to mobile devices via a programmable trigger that is based upon changes in the mobile device's location. A user's mobile device can interact with trigger-based tracking devices (e.g., Bluetooth beacons, NFC, etc.) which provides location information to the user's mobile device, such location information being relative to the tracking device. Embodiments of the present disclosure also comprise a server that delivers targeted content (e.g., text, graphics, audio, video, etc.) to mobile devices when a user is at a certain geographical location. The content delivered is associated with a context of the user's location which is based in part on the location information received relative to the tracking device. In some embodiments, the content delivery does not require a separate mobile application for the content provider but can be embedded inside transit-related information of a mobile application of a transit agency. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086229 | DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY STAND - A digital advertisement display stand comprising a product display unit having multiple spaces for supporting, displaying, and advertising goods and services, at least one static display located on the product display unit, at least one live action monitor located on the product display unit with the live action monitor having a touch screen, a central processing unit located in the live action monitor, a memory storage unit connected to the central processing unit, and a long distance wireless data transmission device connected to the central processing unit and at least one offsite control center in wireless communication with the long distance wireless data transmission device of the live action monitor. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086231 | Method and software for rapidly connecting consumers with repair services - Internet website, communication means, databases, software matching engine, and business method that collectively allow a consumer to rapidly enlist the services of an appropriate repair resource, facilitated for fee by the Operator of the present invention. | 03-24-2016 |
20160093005 | Ordering System - Ordering system and method comprising a server connectable to a wireless access point and configured to transmit from the wireless access point a menu of products to a mobile device, process a communication from the mobile device received by the wireless access point, the communication including one or more products selected by a user, and generate an order instruction comprising the selected one or more products. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098701 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT - The system provides a method and apparatus for initiating and completing a financial transaction from within an app, application, interface, email, ad, or the like, including social media apps, with very few steps. The system is agnostic as to merchant or advertiser, and allows a user to establish a single account that can be used for quick purchases across multiple platforms and promotional streams. The system is not limited to mobile devices but may be used in any computing environment. In a case of first time use, the system streamlines the account creation process by scraping required account data of the user from available sources. Any missing information may be requested at the time of account creation, or, if not immediately required, may be deferred to a later time. Subsequent interactions and purchases will be accomplished within the app and can be done in just a few clicks. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098757 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS VIA A MOBILE DEVICE - A portable communication device and a method for providing announcements to the portable communication device during a setup time. The method includes receiving data associated with one or more announcements in a mobile device through a communication network, detecting initiation of a function operable on the mobile device, the function being associated with a setup time, and upon detection of the initiation, providing an announcement to a user of the mobile device during the setup time. In one aspect, the setup time is a time period between a first instant when the function is initiated and a second instant when the initiated function become operational. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098759 | System And Method For Enabling Efficient Digital Marketing On Portable Wireless Devices For Parties With Low Capabilities - A system and method are provided for managing digital marketing to a multiplicity of consumers by way of portable wireless digital devices. The system comprises a simplified human-device interface stored on the portable wireless digital devices. An instrumentation subsystem collects interaction and behavioral data from the simplified human-device interface. A campaign management subsystem permits digital marketing content to be made available and the display of content options to be defined to operate in a controlled way. An analytics subsystem processes the interaction and behavioral data in accordance with a knowledge the states of each of the consumers to permit controlling marketing content and promotions to the consumer. A display subsystem stored on the portable wireless digital device controls the display of marketing content and promotions at specific locations within the human-device interface. A reporting subsystem reports on the display, response, and financial performance of the marketing content and promotions. | 04-07-2016 |
20160104200 | USER DIRECTED INFORMATION COLLECTIONS - Systems and methods for creating and/or displaying a user information collection are described herein. The user information collections include relevant information for a user of one or more devices. More specifically, the relevant information in the user information collections can include user directed advertisements. User information collections improve a user's ability to accomplish tasks, save money, and/or get desired products and/or services as opposed to just viewing content. Additionally, the user information collections reduce or prevent unwanted data from being added to the user information collections improving the usability of the data in the user information collections and improving user interactions with the device. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104201 | WRAPPED PACKAGE OF CARDS INCLUDING NATIVE ADVERTISING - Wrap packages of cards that integrate content and native advertising. When a wrapped package is created, the cards are selectively authored to include media content, native advertisement(s) and application functionality, typically but not necessarily, supporting e-commerce. In addition, the cards are authored into one or more linear sequences. As a result, when the wrap is consumed, the user experiences is a revealing of the media content, with the advertisement(s) and functionality intertwined therein, as the cards are sequentially browsed, analogous to the turning of the pages of a book or magazine. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104202 | WRAP PACKAGE OF CARDS SUPPORTING TRANSACTIONAL ADVERTISING - Creating and delivering advertisements within wrapped packages of cards, which selectively include (i) media content, including advertisement(s) for item(s) available for purchase, (ii) application functionality and/or (iii) e-commerce related transactional services. By defining the sequence order in which the cards are navigated when consumed, wraps may deliver advertisements in the context of a “story” or “narrative”, which unfolds as the cards are sequentially browsed, similar to the turning of the pages of a book or magazine. Ads thus become more compelling. In addition, with built-in transactional functionality, advertised Item(s) can be immediately purchased without having to exit the wrap. | 04-14-2016 |
20160117660 | MOBILE WALLET DETECTION AT A CONTACTLESS POINT OF SALE TERMINAL - Technologies for mobile wallet detection include a mobile communication device implementing a mobile wallet and a point-of-sale terminal. During a transaction, the mobile communication device and the point-of-sale terminal initiate a near-field communication connection, and identification data indicating the type of the mobile wallet is transmitted to the point-of-sale terminal. The identification data may describe the mobile wallet and/or the mobile communication device. The point-of-sale terminal determines the type of the mobile wallet without relying on a third party such as a backend card processor. The point-of-sale terminal identifies offers for services or discounts that may be applied to the purchase transaction based on the type of the mobile wallet. The point-of-sale terminal may transmit the offers to the mobile communication device, which may allow the user to accept the offers. Offers may be determined by querying a third-party offering service. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117734 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADVERTISING APPS - The present invention relates to a method for advertising apps. The method may include the steps of providing a first part of a user interface on a first client for setting an app to be advertised, providing a second part of the user interface to display an app stream of the app, wherein the second part of the user interface is capable of being operated to generate an input event to the app, and transmitting a coordinate of the second part of the user interface. | 04-28-2016 |
20160117735 | METHOD, DIGITAL SIGNAGE SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISPLAYING MOBILE MEDIA CONTENT ASSOCIATED TO A DIGITAL SIGNAGE DISPLAY UNIT - A method implemented by a mobile device and a digital signage server for displaying mobile media content associated to a digital signage display unit on the mobile device. The mobile device received a unique identifier of the digital signage display unit, and transmits the unique identifier to the digital signage server. The mobile device receives a plurality of mobile media content items, corresponding to at least some of a plurality of digital signage contents currently displayed on the digital signage display unit, from the digital signage server. The mobile device displays the plurality of mobile media content items, receives a selection of one among the plurality of mobile media content items from a user, and transmits the selected mobile media content item to the digital signage server. The mobile device receives mobile media content corresponding to the selected mobile media content item, and displays the received mobile media content. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125474 | PREINSTALL PARTNER REVENUE SHARING - An example method includes providing an application and a partner attribution identifier to a partner device, the partner attribution identifier configured to identify a preinstall partner and configured to be stored on a user device before the user device is first sold to an end user, the application configured to assist in presenting an advertisement, selecting the advertisement for display on the user device, the advertisement being associated with an advertisement identifier, receiving the partner attribution identifier from the user device, associating the advertisement identifier with the partner attribution identifier, receiving advertisement revenue information associated with revenue related to the advertisement, the advertisement revenue information including the advertisement identifier, identifying the preinstall partner using the partner attribution identifier associated with the advertisement identifier, and allocating a share of the revenue to the preinstall partner. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132932 | Hyper-local content push and pay method for mobile devices - A method and system for providing hyper-local content push and a billing model is provided. The hyper-local content push (HYPER-LOCAL CONTENT PUSH) advertising system sends the user relevant content that have associated physical visit locations. The system provides relevant content (coupon and advertising) to the mobile devices of users through local hotspot(s) utilizing wireless networking technology (e.g. Wi-Fi), when the user is in the vicinity of or examining locations in the vicinity of a visit location. When the user comes into range of visit locations where the Wi-Fi hotspot(s) have been deployed, associated servers will push content to the user as they traverse the local Wi-Fi zone. The content includes coupons that can be requested by the user client that could include location relevant or on-location specials that are only available to the user by coming into the local hotspot Wi-Fi zone physically and in person. If the user subsequently requests the available coupon of the HYPER-LOCAL CONTENT PUSH system or follows the hyperlinks of provided advertisements, the system provides for billing an advertiser or seller under the assumption that but for the coupon or advertisement; the user would not have visited the visit location and or made a purchase. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132934 | Effective Mobile Marketing - Various embodiments of the present technology provide for systems and methods to automatically measure and tune campaigns to achieve the most effective campaigns (e.g., balancing the most desired outcomes against the least negative outcomes and opportunity cost of sending) without requiring intervention by the campaign sender. By using various embodiments of campaign message selection and/or send time selection optimization, the sender does not have to manage and manually tune a multitude of experiments. Some embodiments of the technology leverage real-time user profiles to help send relevant messages to the right person at the right time on the right device. This helps customers of the marketing system delight their users with relevant messages, while boosting their bottom line and the brand experience. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140615 | Systems, Devices and Methods for Displaying Digital Content on a Display - The present disclosure is related to systems, methods, and/or processor readable media for presenting advertisements and/or other digital content. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to systems and/or methods for presenting advertisement and/or other digital content on devices where advertisements and/or other digital content are displayed on the device on unlocking of the device and prior to, immediately following, or at a preset time after, the display of the homepage of the device. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140616 | Systems and Methods for Advertising - The present disclosure is related to systems, methods, and/or processor readable media for presenting advertisements and/or other content. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to systems and/or methods for presenting advertisement and/or other content on mobile devices where advertisements and/or other content are displayed on the mobile device on unlocking of the device. | 05-19-2016 |
20160148254 | DYNAMIC CONTENT INSERTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and computer program product for initializing an event timer. A first portion of a computer application is executed. After completion of the execution of the first portion of the computer application, it is determined if the event timer has reached a predetermined amount. If the event timer has reached the predetermined amount, a first advertisement is rendered. | 05-26-2016 |
20160155153 | DELIVERING WRAPPED PACKAGES IN RESPONSE TO THE SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS | 06-02-2016 |
20160162951 | Systems and Methods for Advertising - The present disclosure is related to systems, methods, and/or processor readable media for presenting advertisements and/or other content. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to systems and/or methods for presenting advertisement and/or other content on mobile devices where advertisements and/or other content are displayed on the mobile device on unlocking of the device. | 06-09-2016 |
20160171550 | MULTI-PLATFORM PROMOTIONS FOR MOBILE DEVICES | 06-16-2016 |
20160171551 | MULTI-PLATFORM PROMOTIONS FOR MOBILE DEVICES | 06-16-2016 |
20160171553 | SMARTPHONE OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC EVALUATION AND DIAGNOSTICS | 06-16-2016 |
20160171614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTERACTIVE CROWDFUNDING PLATFORM | 06-16-2016 |
20160180407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PROGRAMMATIC CREATION AND MODIFICATION OF ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS | 06-23-2016 |
20160196584 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONTEXT SENSITIVE OVERLAYS | 07-07-2016 |
20160196585 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROMOTION PLATFORM TO EXPOSE INFORMATION OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION | 07-07-2016 |
20160196586 | DYNAMIC ROUTING OF CUSTOMER TELEPHONE CONTACTS IN REAL TIME | 07-07-2016 |
20160203519 | PRESENTING CONTENT TO AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER PROMOTING INTERACTION WITH AN APPLICATION BASED ON INSTALLATION OF THE APPLICATION ON A CLIENT DEVICE | 07-14-2016 |
20160203520 | PROVIDING SPONSORED DATA TO A VEHICLE | 07-14-2016 |
20160203521 | INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT IMAGING MATCHING SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | 07-14-2016 |
20160203537 | INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF GOODS OR SERVICES | 07-14-2016 |
20160255482 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO FACILITATE DOWNLOADING MOBILE SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS INTO A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, WHICH SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS INCLUDE ADVERTISEMENTS THAT ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SOFTWARE APPLICATION AND ARE RE-TRANSMITTED TO OTHERS THROUGH USE OF THE PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 09-01-2016 |
20160379264 | INCENTIVE OFFER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments described herein disclose a mobile device for managing and saving incentive offers within an application executed by the mobile device. A location of the device may be detected. An incentive offer may be displayed on a touch-sensitive display based on the detected location. In response, the user may perform a directional touch input on the display. In one example, the directional touch input is a swipe gesture towards a direction (e.g., right). In response to the swipe gesture, the offer may be associated with the user's account information. A request to use a selected incentive offer is received. The display then displays the offer to be used. Thus, the user is presented with relevant offers based on the location, and may easily save offers of interest in a manner that is consistent with typical gestures used on the touch-sensitive display device of the mobile device. | 12-29-2016 |
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