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| 20090240590 | Interactive And Adaptive Messaging Systems - The present invention provides a new interactive and adaptive messaging system and method adapted to allow effective communication and relationship between customers, owners of a confined predetermined area and advertisers. The system comprises at least one server adapted to receive content from the customers, the owners, the advertisers, and the predetermined area and to create relevant information and adapted to distribute the information to the customers. A part of the information is distributed when the customer is identified by the messaging system to enter the predetermined area and another part of the information is distributed to the customer according to content received by the server from the customer or the predetermined area. The customers are exposed to the information regularly as they are traveling within the predetermined area as well as at specific locations and times within the predetermined area. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090265244 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SURVEILLANCE AND TARGETED ADVERTISING - Methods and apparatus are shown for providing targeted media through video surveillance. One or more video streams are received at a computing system from one or more video cameras in a consumer environment. Content of at least one of the one or more video streams is analyzed at the computing system. Media content is selected in accordance with the analysis of the at least one of the one or more video streams. Media content is transmitted from the computing system to one or more monitors in the consumer environment. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090271271 | System and Method for Situational Location Proactive Search - Situational location dependent information is transmitted from a server data processing system to a receiving data processing system. The server data processing system communicates with the receiving data processing system in a manner by pushing content when appropriate. A candidate delivery event associated with a current positional attribute of the receiving data processing system is recognized and a situational location of the remote data processing system is determined. The candidate delivery event may be a location and/or direction change, device state change, or movement exceeding a movement tolerance. The situational location of the remote data processing system may be its location, direction, location and direction, proximity to a location, state change, or location and/or direction relative to a previous location and/or direction, or combinations thereof. A set of delivery content from a deliverable content database is transmitted from the server data processing system to the receiving data processing system according to the situational location of the receiving data processing system, and according to delivery constraints. The delivery content is configurable by authorized administrators on an instant activation basis for proactive delivery. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090307090 | System and Method for Inserting Advertisements in Voicemail - A method and system for inserting targeted advertisements into voicemail. User demographics, location of the user, and/or keywords within the voicemail may be used to target advertisements to customers, thus providing relevant advertisements within the voicemail to the customers. One embodiment includes receiving a voicemail for delivery to a recipient. One or more keywords received in the voicemail may be identified. An advertisement may be selected in response to the identification of one or more keywords. The selected advertisement may be sent with the voicemail. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307091 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR CONSUMERS AT A STORE USING PERSONAL MOBILE WIRELESS DEVICES AND RELATED METHODS - An information processing system is for determining information about consumers at a store where at least some of the consumers may carry personal mobile wireless devices, and each personal wireless mobile device may transmit signals for identifying the respective consumer. The system may include at least one RF receiver device arranged about the store for receiving communications from the personal mobile wireless devices, and a processor coupled to the at least one RF receiver device. The processor may be for generating consumer position data of the consumers during movement about the store based upon communications from the respective personal mobile wireless devices to the at least one RE receiver device, and associating the consumer position data with respective identities of the consumers. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090313124 | Street-Level Routing - A system and method for providing a street route to a user. A server communicates with a user and a routing engine. Database includes spherical photographic images, street vectors, and parcel coordinates. User gives start and end addresses and requests a route. Start and end addresses are sent to routing engine which responds with parsed start and end addresses and route therebetween. Exact start and end locations are calculated with reference to street vectors and parcel coordinates in the database. Spherical photographic images corresponding with calculated start and end locations, and display points calculated with reference to maneuver points provided by routing engine, are retrieved. Rectangular images are created corresponding with start and end locations and display points. Graphical navigation aids are superimposed on images. Optionally, advertising is inserted at appropriate points on images. A report is provided to the user. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090319374 | DISTRIBUTED AD-SELECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED AD SELECTION - Embodiments of a distributed ad-selection system and method for distributed ad selection are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an applications service provider sends a query to an advertising service provider for ads. The query includes ad-selection criteria and an indication to indicate whether broadening of the criteria is permitted. The ads are received and cached by the application service provider including associated relevancy information. Cached ads are selected by the applications service provider for distribution to mobile devices based on the relevancy information and based on applications operating on the mobile devices that are being serviced by the applications service provider. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100004995 | Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising - Techniques for identifying groups of features in an online geographic view of a real property and replacing and/or augmenting the groups of features with advertisement information are described. The techniques include providing a geographic view of a property within an online property management system, identifying a region of interest in the geographic view, analyzing the geographic view to locate one or more promotional features within the geographic view positioned upon a real property region, providing a user-selectable link associated with the region of interest in the geographic view, receiving a request for the region of interest in the geographic view via the user-selectable link, receiving data to alter at least one of the behavior or the appearance of the region of interest, storing the data in association with the geographic view, and updating the region of interest within the geographic view based upon the received data. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100010896 | System and Method to Deliver Advertisement Data - A method of delivering advertisement data includes receiving a communication from a mobile device at an advertisement data system and identifying an out-of-home venue based on contact information at which the communication is received. The method also includes sending a plurality of advertisement data options to the mobile device. The plurality of advertisement data options are associated with a plurality of advertisements presented at the out-of-home venue. The plurality of advertisements includes the contact information. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100010897 | Method, Apparatus and System for Calculating and Displaying an Influence Map Using Adjacencies between Discontinuous Geographies - A system for presenting on-line advertising for goods and services to a user. After determining a geographic location of interest the method runs a query for retrieving candidate advertisements based on geographic location of interest, an advertiser type, and values in an influence map. The influence map is constructed by overlaying geographic location data onto an XY grid of cells and dividing cells into sub-cells that approximate various political or natural boundaries or other devised degrees of separation. Influences from geographically defined locations are propagated iteratively to neighboring cells, thus providing a continuous metric for influence across discontinuous geographic boundaries. Having now a measure of influence of a particular geographic feature and a user's suggestion of desired goods and/or services, advertisements are presented to the user in form of an ordered list, or in a web page frame, or on a geographic- or influence-oriented map. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100010898 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, AND CLIENT OF THE SYSTEM - An advertisement data delivery system comprising at least one advertisement server and a client communicable with the advertisement server through a network, wherein the client transmits to one advertisement server a data delivery request requesting the advertisement server to deliver data to the client, and in response to the data delivery request, the advertisement server delivers to the client at least one of advertisement data according to which the client displays on its display portion an advertisement, and another address which is different from the address of the advertisement server to which the data delivery request has been transmitted, so that the other advertisement data can be delivered from the above-indicated another address to the client. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100010899 | SERVICE DISCOVERY METHODS - Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for service discovery. The method includes receiving a first service advertisement by a first device. The first service advertisement includes at least a service of a second device. Further, the method include updating a service directory of the first device to include the service of the second device, and transmitting a second service advertisement by the first device. The second service advertisement includes at least the service of the second device, and can be used by a third device to effect use of the service of the second device. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100023401 | Customer Experience Management System - A system and method for engaging a customer in an enhanced shopping experience. The customer provides customer information which is stored on a database. An identifying token (e.g. a card) is issued to the customer. This identifying token is detected (e.g. by an RFID sensor) when carried by the customer into a retailer's space. This causes at least a portion of the customer information to be accessible from the database to retail personnel while the customer is physically present in the retailer's space, thereby facilitating personal engagement by the retail personnel with the customer. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100030646 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION PREDICTIVE ADVERTISING - A system is described for providing location predictive advertising. The system may include a processor, a memory, and an interface. The memory may store an advertisement. The interface may communicate with an electronic device. The processor may determine a first geographic location of an electronic device which is travelling in a direction. The processor may identify a first geographic region which may encompass the first geographic location of the electronic device. The processor may determine a second geographic region which is located in the direction of travel of the electronic device. The processor may determine an advertisement associated with the second geographic region in accordance with the electronic device being located within the first geographic region. The processor may provide the advertisement to the electronic device. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100042502 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING, PROMOTING AND TRACKING VOUCHERS WITHIN A COMMUNITY - The system includes a communication source formed with a computer-accessible network having a software platform that supports a sale of a plurality of vouchers. A voucher creation system is in communication with the communication source. The voucher creation system allows at least one entity to create at least a first voucher of the plurality of vouchers for sale through the software platform by identifying terms of the first voucher. At least one potential buyer has sufficient access through the software platform to purchase the first voucher. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100049609 | GEOGRAPHICALLY TARGETED ADVERTISING - Methods and computer storage media for geographically targeting online advertisements. A search query is received from a searcher. A geographic location that is associated with the search query is identified and converted to a geographic identifier. A geographic tolerance associated with the search query is determined. An advertisement is matched to the search query based, in part, on the geographic identifier and the geographic tolerance of the search query. The matched advertisement is presented to the searcher. In some embodiments, the advertisement includes an associated geographic tolerance that is utilized for ranking the advertisement. In some embodiments, the direction of travel associated with the searcher is utilized, in part, to rank the advertisement. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100057571 | Information processing system, portable information terminal and its control method, information providing device and its control method, and program - A portable information terminal includes: a position detecting section that detects a position of the portable information terminal; a selecting section that selects a guidance target object for which voice guidance is to be provided, and detects a guidance target direction that is a direction in which the guidance target object exists with respect to a reference direction, on the basis of a direction in which the guidance target object exists with respect to the position of the portable information terminal; a voice synthesis section that generates a synthetic voice so that a guidance voice for the guidance target object selected by the selecting section is heard from the guidance target direction; and a voice output section that outputs the synthetic voice generated by the voice synthesis section. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100070368 | REGISTERING ADVERTISEMENTS ON AN ELECTRONIC MAP - Various methods and apparatus are described relating to registration and display of advertisements for display on an electronic map. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100070369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATING CONSUMERS IN A RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT - A method and system for providing assistance to a user within a store is disclosed. A communication event between a mobile device of the user and a store item is detected. A database which includes data indicative of a position of the store item within the store is accessed. Based on information from the database, a position of the user within the store is estimated and information, based at least on part of the estimated position, is provided to the user. The information may be provided to the use via the mobile device and may include promotional materials. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100076848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING MERCHANT ADVERTISEMENTS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system having a controller to present a merchant a graphical user interface (GUI) for entering advertisement information, receive from the merchant advertisement information, generate an advertisement GUI for presenting the received advertisement information, identify a plurality of users of the IPTV system that demographically correlate to the advertisement information, and direct the advertisement GUI to one or more set-top boxes of the identified plurality of users. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100082436 | SEARCH RESULTS FOR LOCAL VERSUS TRAVELER - A method is disclosed for serving user queries adaptively based on whether the query is submitted by a local user or a traveler, including receiving by a search engine a query from a communication device, the query including one or more search terms; detecting a type of keyword term by a context detector of the search engine that indicates a geographic context of the query; determining whether a user of the communication device is the local user or the traveler based on the geographic context; and delivering geographically-targeted search results by the search engine to the communication device based on determining that the user is either the traveler or the local user. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082437 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SERVER AND ITS MOBILE TERMINAL - An advertisement information providing server and its terminals are provided in which landmarks along a route and high advertisement effects are supplied to users. Map information is displayed on the display apparatus of a mobile terminal, a route to a destination and picture information existing along the route are displayed on the map, and advertisement information compatible with the picture information is displayed. Access information of the mobile terminal is displayed together with the advertisement information, and adjusted in accordance with running of the mobile terminal. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100094709 | INFORMATION RECEPTION DEVICE, INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE, AND ADVERTISEMENT VIEWING PROGRAM - An Information reception device | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100106602 | LOCATABLE SHOPPING CART AND METHODS FOR LOCATING THE SAME - A shopping cart that can be geographically located, methods for locating such carts, and a selection system for enabling a user to create a list of items on a portable computing device, to communicate with external devices to locate each of the items available on the list within a geographically limited area, to provide users with visual or aural cues as to the location of items on the list, to progress through the list of items as each item is selected or rejected, and providing discounts toward, information about, or alternatives to the available items on the list. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100114707 | REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTION OF TARGETED ADVERTISEMENT AND SPONSORED CONTENT - A method and system for serving advertisement or sponsored content is provided. The method employed by the system may include receiving information that describes the capabilities of an ad serving device, matching advertisement and/or sponsored content to the ad serving device, and serving the advertisement and/or sponsored content. Instructions may be communicated to an individual in possession of the ad serving device, instructing the individual on a time and place for serving the advertisement or sponsored content. Confirmation that the instructions have been followed may be communicated to the system. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100121716 | ACTIVITY-BASED TARGETED ADVERTISING - The system and methods described herein deliver activity-based targeted messages to a device. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121717 | Dynamic Consuming Information Navigation System And Method - A dynamic consuming information navigation system includes a computer information unit, an internet, a service platform and a PND. The computer information unit and the internet are provided for uploading information of a vendor, e.g. positioning coordinates and basic information, to the service platform, so as to set up a database of vendor information. The PND is adapted for transmitting present positioning coordinate information via a base station to the service platform. The service platform compares the present positioning coordinate information with the database of the vendor information, and then sends a list of the nearby vendors back to the PND. Thus, the PND provides the dynamic consuming information navigation. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100121718 | Dynamic Web Page Construction Based on Determination of Client Device Location - A method for serving a web page begins by storing a set of location-specific page elements. In response to a request for the web page from a client browser, a control routine parses the request to locate a geographic location data string identifying a location of the client browser that has made the request. The geographic location data string may be generated at the client browser in a number of different ways, e.g., by a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver coupled to the client computer. At the server, the web page is built dynamically using the geographic location data string to select a given one of the set of location-specific page elements and, preferably, an element having content associated with a physical location in proximity to the location of the client browser. The web page is then served in response to the request. In this way, targeted advertising or other page content is included in the web page as a function of the client browser location. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100131366 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED UPCOMING EVENT INFORMATION USING A CLIENT-SIDE WEB APPLICATION IMPLEMENTED ON A CLIENT DEVICE - A system and methods for providing location-based upcoming event information using a client-side web application implemented on a client device are described. The location-based upcoming event information may be provided to users of an online secondary ticket marketplace using a client-side web application implemented as desktop or mobile widget or within a web browser toolbar. The client-side web application may be configured to communicate with a network-based system that provides online marketplace and ticket fulfillment services and generate a query based upon the location of a user and other event criteria. The client-side web application may communicate the query to the network-based system and, in response, receive location-based upcoming event information which may be displayed to a user as a list and/or information on a map. The client-side web application may display an aggregate of ticket inventory available from multiple online marketplaces providing the user with multiple purchasing options. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100131367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SEARCH WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Methods and systems to search with a mobile device are described. The system receives a request, over a network, from a mobile device. The request includes search information to search a database and location information to identify the location of the mobile device. Next, the system generates search results based on the search information. The search results include a plurality of items. Next, the system arranges items in the search results based on the location of the mobile device. Finally, the system communicates a user interface, over the network, to the mobile device. The user interface includes the search results. The search results include the items. The arrangement of the items in the search results is based on the location of the mobile device. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100138300 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROMOTING PRODUCTS OR SERVICES - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to receive an acceptance from a user to opt into an advertisement program, receive from the user a plurality of calendar events associated with personal information of the user, share the plurality of calendar events with a plurality of advocates, receive from the plurality of advocates a corresponding plurality of advertisements, each advertisement indicating an association with one of the plurality of calendar events, and transmit to a communication device of the user the plurality of advertisements for updating the plurality of calendar events at the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138301 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OR ACCESSING DIGITAL CONTENT - A method of controlling digital content ( | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138302 | UE AND ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE SERVER FOR BIDIRECTIONAL PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT, AND BIDIRECTIONAL PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENT METHOD - A user equipment and an advertisement service server for a bidirectional personalized advertisement, and a bidirectional personalized advertisement method are provided. The UE receives user setting information and advertisement meta-information from the advertisement service server, stores the received user setting information and advertisement meta-information, searches for advertisement contents corresponding to the user setting information from the stored advertisement meta-information and selects the found advertisement contents when an advertisement event occurs, and displays the selected advertisement contents. Accordingly, the dependence of an online advertisement service on a particular media service can be prevented. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100185515 | ALLOCATION OF INTERNET ADVERTISING INVENTORY - A method and system for allocating inventory in an Internet environment is provided. A method employed by the system may include generating an inventory pool that represents a number of impressions deliverable to all users, then determining, from multiple past orders for booking impressions, a hierarchy of parameters utilized to target users and a number of impressions deliverable to users characterized by the parameters. The inventory pool may then be partitioned into multiple inventory pools according to the hierarchy, where each inventory pool represents a number of impressions deliverable to users characterized by parameters associated with the inventory pool. The hierarchy of pools may then be stored to a database. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185516 | ALLOCATION OF INTERNET ADVERTISING INVENTORY - A method and system for allocating inventory in an Internet environment is provided. A method employed by the system may include generating multiple top-tier inventory pools and bottom-tier inventory pools that represent impression inventory. Each top-tier pool may represent the combined number of impressions represented by one or more bottom-tier pools. Each top-tier and bottom-tier inventory pool may represent a number of impressions deliverable to users characterized by attributes. Top-tier and bottom-tier inventory pools may be stored to a database. An order for booking impression from the plurality of inventory pools may be received. The order may include parameters that define an audience and a number of impressions. The impressions order may be allocated from top-tier inventory pools when the impressions ordered are entirely represented by top-tier inventory pools. Otherwise the impressions are allocated from bottom-tier inventory pools. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185517 | USER INTERFACE FOR INTEREST-BASED TARGETED MARKETING - A user interface for targeted advertisement is provided, which comprises a plurality of interface components, wherein selected ones of the plurality of interface components are capable of: receiving a list of advertising targets; presenting a list of most representative entities for the list of advertising targets, wherein an entity is relatively more representative of an advertising target if the advertising target is relatively more uniquely and frequently associated with the entity; receiving a list of target entities selected from the list of most representative entities; and presenting an estimated advertising cost for the list of target entities. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185518 | INTEREST-BASED ACTIVITY MARKETING - A method for targeted advertisement is provided, for which one or more tags relating to an advertisement is/are accessed, one or more of the most representative activities for the tag(s) is/are determined, and the advertisement is targeted to the one or more most representative activities. In addition, for each of a plurality of tags, one or more of the most representative activities is/are determined based on term frequency-inverse document frequency, such that an activity is relatively more representative of a tag if the tag is more uniquely and/or frequently associated with the activity. The advertisement is delivered to participants of the activities, and optionally during a time interval relevant to the activities. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100185519 | System and method for presenting relevant contextual advertisements in microblogging services - This invention relates in general to microblogging services and more specifically to a system and method for providing relevant, contextual advertisements to users of such microblogging services. The system in this invention comprises of a user-device, a microblog server, and an advertisement server. Contextual cues that show the preferences and needs of the user are derived based on his own microblogs, the microblogs of other users who are following the user's microblogs and the microblogs of users whose microblogs the user is following. The ‘following’ and ‘followed by’ relationships in the microblogging system are also analyzed to extract the interests of the user at the current time. The trends and topics that are most popular among the microblogs in the whole microblogging system or those that are most popular in the specific geographical area where the user is located are also used to select the advertisements. The advertisements are prioritized to maximize the commercial value to the microblogging service and also based on the user's location. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100198690 | Event information tracking and communication tool - A central server system is provided which communicates with a plurality of communication devices known as RTLS tags which are usually worn by participants of an event, the event being normally contained to a facility. The RTLS tags communicate with a network located in the vicinity of the facility to determine the position of the RTLS tags in real time. The network communicates with and transfers information to and from a RTIMS server. Information about identities of the participants, the location of the participants and geographical maps of display booths and exhibitor signage at the event are stored on the RTIMS server in a datastore connected thereto. The datastore may be queried to provide participants information relevant for navigation, lead capture, participant surveys and participant traffic flow. Participant locations may be correlated to entity locations or other participants by the RTIMS system to provide location oriented services. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100198691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMERCE IN MEDIA PROGRAM RELATED MERCHANDISE - The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for delivering a media program and purchase opportunities related to the media program to user equipment. A media program and its related merchandise information can be located at a distribution facility. The distribution facility can tailor the purchase opportunities it provides to the user equipment based on the user equipment's equipment category. When user equipment receives purchase opportunities, the user equipment can select the opportunities based on which types of merchandise are supported by the user equipment. The user equipment and/or a distribution facility may be able to determine the location of the user equipment. When the distribution facility provides merchandise information for physical merchandise to the user equipment, the merchandise information can be selected to include physical merchandise that are available for purchase at stores that are, for example, near the location of the user equipment. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100205060 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE ROUTE GENERATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention describe systems and methods for automatically generating route(s) based on users' trip intent and conditions. A user enters his/her trip intent and conditions. A context-sensitive route generation system generates one or more routes based on information surrounding the user's trip intent, such as destination, time, means of transportation, purpose and identity(ies) of traveler(s), and conditions, such as user's limitations, needs, and preferences, for the user. Once the user chooses a route to follow, context-sensitive route generation system (CRGS) keeps track of user's movement and can modify the user's route when a need arises. The CRGS searches one or more networks and the system database(s) for profile and real-time (or instant) information for route generation, and continues to mine networks for information related to the trip to ensure the best route is recommended to the user. In one embodiment, profile and real-time information relevant to the trip is used in generating and modifying the route. In addition to generation, monitoring and updating route(s) for the user, the CRGS also can present advertisements of interest to the user for business and services along user's route. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100217672 | Positional Information Analysis Apparatus, Positional Information Analysis Method, and Positional Information Analysis System - A positional information analysis device includes: a position detecting unit that calculates positional information of a mobile station unit; a positional information storage unit that stores the positional information as a history for the mobile station unit; a state attribute calculating unit that calculate state attribute information which indicates a state of the mobile station unit from the history of the positional information of the mobile station unit each time the position of the mobile station unit is calculated; a meaning conversion rule storage unit that stores a first identifier given to a meaning of a movement of a mobile station unit and a rule which detects the meaning of the movement so as to associate the first identifier and the rule with each other; and a rule-positional information correlation calculating unit that determines whether the rule is matched and outputs the first identifier associated with the rule. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100223135 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM PROVIDING MOBILE DEVICE ADVERTISEMENTS BASED UPON ACTIVITY HISTORY AND RELATED METHODS - A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device and an advertising server cooperating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network. The advertising server may be for generating an activity history for the at least one wireless communications device including geographical positions at corresponding times of day, and selectively sending advertisements to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the activity history and a given time of day. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100235239 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC ADVERTISING AND CATEGORY DISTRIBUTION FOR ONLINE COMPUTER USERS - A system and method for providing automatic advertising and category distribution for online computer users is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes obtaining a listing for posting in a plurality of regions; generating a unique global ad identifier for the listing; processing the listing according to a set of pre-defined rules related to posting a listing in the plurality of regions, the processed listing being modified to produce a first version of the listing for posting in a first region and a different second version of the listing for posting in a second region; associating the global ad identifier with the first and second versions of the listing; and making the first version of the listing available for viewing by a first user in the first region and making the different second version of the listing available for viewing by a second user in the second region. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100241514 | AUTOMATED PROVISION OF USER FEEDBACK - A system described herein includes an information provider component that uses at least one information providing algorithm to transmit data for display on a display screen of a user, wherein the data corresponds to a geographic location. The system also includes a receiver component that receives an indication from a mobile device of the user that the user has travelled to the geographic location. The system further includes an updater component that causes the at least one information providing algorithm to be updated upon the receiver component receiving the indication. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100250366 | MERGE REAL-WORLD AND VIRTUAL MARKERS - Various entities might desire to leave markers at various locations in a mapping application for themselves and others. These markers can be provided by an entity physically located near the location associated with the marker and/or at a different location (e.g., entity is at a first location and the marker is associated with a second location). Further, different entities can provide markers associated with a similar geographic area. A user visiting the location (virtually or physically) can review the various markers left by others. In such a manner, the user visiting the location can have further details associated with the location. Different categories of markers can be combined and rendered to the user as a hybrid of markers. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250367 | RELEVANCY OF VIRTUAL MARKERS - Aspects relate to providing markers related to a mapping application, wherein the provided markers are selectively modified as a function of the relevancy of the markers to a person that has requested the markers. The relevancy is determined based on one or more indicators included in the marker. The indicators answer questions related to who, what, when, where, and why. Markers can be ranked based on the association between the person that requested the marker and the person that provided the marker. Further, a copy of an original marker can be modified to conform with the relevancy of the marker to the requestor. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MOBILE DEVICE ADVERTISING - The invention consists of a method of advertising on mobile devices, comprising the steps of: a) collecting registration information from a user, the registration information including demographic, geographic and chronological information about the user; b) creating an advertising block containing one or more advertisements based on the user's demographic and geographic information; c) sending the advertising block to a mobile device designated by the user, at times determined by the user's geographic and chronological information; d) tracking and recording viewing of advertisements in the advertising block by the user; and e) compensating the user based on the viewing records for the advertisements within the advertisement block. The invention further consists of a system for providing mobile device advertising according to the method. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100250369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING AND DISPLAYING TRAFFIC IMAGES - Software, at a networked central computer or at a wireless mobile user device, uses GPS coordinates of a mobile user device's current location to determine a polygon in which the GPS coordinates lie. Upon determining the polygon that surrounds the current location, the software can perform a task related to the polygon. Examples of tasks include: determining traffic camera images to display on the mobile user device based on the location, speed, and heading of the user device. The images can include advertisements that pertain to the general vicinity, or demographics of those typically in the vicinity, of the cameras' coverage area. Another task includes associating performance data from a vehicle, and stored in a table, for a given location with a corresponding polygon that surrounds the location; processing the data; and assigning a risk value to the polygon based on the corresponding performance data. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100268607 | System and method for direct marketing using electronic messaging to individuals within an interrogation zone - A system and method of direct marketing to individual(s) within an interrogation zone by the presentation of customize or personalize messages to the individual selected. A plurality of tags each associated with at least one individual include response capabilities which are monitored by a reader and/or associated processor facility capable of generating interrogation signaling into the interrogation zone for purposes of activating any of the plurality of tags present therein. Upon activation, each of the plurality of tags generates and transmits identification data back to the reader or processor facility, which includes an individual identifier corresponding to the individual associated with the tag. The individual identifier facilitates access to classification data of a corresponding individual, collectively stored on the processor facility or individually stored on each of the tags, wherein the classification data enables the processor facility to determine a hierarchy or selection order of the monitored individuals present within the interrogation zone and as a result the individual to which the marketing message will be directed. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100274669 | 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. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100280903 | DOMAIN CLASSIFICATION AND CONTENT DELIVERY - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for categorizing sender domains are provided. An advertisement platform includes targeting components, databases, mail servers, and client devices. Recipients interact with the client devices to receive electronic mail from the mail servers. The mail servers store records of sender domains where the recipient performed a specified action to a message having a sender domain. The mail server transmits a log of the sender domains, actions, and an anonymous identifier for the recipient to the targeting system. The targeting components extract the sender domains that are used by the advertisement platform to communicate to the database to retrieve advertisement categories that correspond to the sender domains. The advertisement categories are used by the advertisement platform to direct content, including advertisements, to the recipients via the anonymous identifier. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100280904 | Social marketing and networking tool with user matching and content broadcasting / receiving capabilities - A proximity based social marketing tool/device that is free from a physical location and can be used for matching users and broadcasting messages or data to all or selected users in the proximity. These users can be searched by scanning the selected proximity range and/or by defining various keyword criteria's. And it utilizes one or more or a combination of various short-range or long-range wireless communication technologies such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, NFC, TransferJet, Internet, and others. The X-Path device can locate and store user's location details in the X-path server, which can be retrieved and used by users to broadcast messages to a specific category of an audience. It also makes for a great Social networking tool and takes the concept of Social Networking from the Internet out to the real Physical World. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100287050 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALLY TARGETED SEARCH MESSAGES - A system and method for delivering peer to peer messaging on a demand basis is implemented. An originating user specifies a message and targeting information for the message. When a target user submits a request for information, a message is delivered to the target user. A message may include compensation for a target user. A message may include information regarding contacting an originator or a recipient of a message. A system and method enables a connection to be established between a user and a provider. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100293056 | Tile Space User Interface For Mobile Devices - The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Data and services available through the mobile device can be represented as a set of tiles maintained in a display space. The tiles provide a snapshot of the current state of content available through the mobile device without requiring any interaction by the user. The tiles and display space are customizable and can be dynamically updated to display content to a user. In addition, tiles can provide functionality, including simple tasks to a user without requiring the user to navigate away from the tile display space. Tiles can also provide quick access to start software applications. Tiles can be organized in the display space by the user or the tiles can be automatically grouped based upon associated metadata. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100306059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BANNER SERVICES - The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for submitting a banner from a computer system in communication with a client device at a hotspot. The method includes determining if a packet coming from a client device is one that is enabled to receive a banner, and sends a insert message to the client device if enabled to receive the banner. The method further includes associating an appropriate banner for display on the client device by a location of the client device, and sending a banner to the client device for display. The system includes an inspection means that determines if a packet coming from a client device is one that is enabled to receive a banner, and sends a insert message to the client device if enabled to receive the banner. The system further includes a banner lookup means that associates an appropriate banner for display on the client device by a location of the client device, and a banner send means that sends a banner to the client device for display. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100318424 | System for Correlating Physiological and Environmental Conditions - A system comprising a storage device configured to store temporal information, geographical information, physiological information, and environmental information associated with a user, and a server coupled to the storage device and configured to correlate at least some of the physiological information and at least some of the environmental information to obtain relationship information corresponding to a relationship between the physiological information and the environmental information over a time period. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100324994 | LOCATION BASED SERVICE FOR DIRECTING ADS TO SUBSCRIBERS - In one embodiment, a method of providing a location based service (LBS), comprises: (i) receiving location information over a period of time by one or more software programs from a plurality of wireless devices belonging to a plurality of subscribers; (ii) processing the location information to detect that respective subscribers tend to spend time at one or more locations with one or more other specific subscribers; (iii) storing data indicative of a tendency of each such subscriber to spend time with the subscriber's one or more other specific subscribers; (iv) detecting whether subscribers are present at locations with one or more specific subscribers identified in the stored data subsequent to performance of (ii) and (iii); and (v) comparing ad parameters against subscriber data, to select ads for communication to subscribers, wherein the comparing differentiates in selection of ads for communication to subscribers in response to (iv). | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100332326 | System And Methods For Positioning Information From A Plurality Of Users - The present invention provides a system and methods for integrating position information from a plurality of users to inform users of other user's positions, events of interest, and locations of interest. Similarly, the invention relates to techniques for using real-time location information and information gathered from social networks and other internet-worked information sources to alert people of other individuals, places, and events of interest in the vicinity. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110004523 | Method and Apparatus for Preferential Determination and Display of Points of Interest - A method and apparatus for preferential determination and display of points of interest are provided. The points of interest can be determined based on a variety of non-proximity based factors, including, but not limited to, time of day, temperature, etc. The automatically determined points of interest can then be displayed for a user on a display associated with a vehicle-based computing system. Advertisements may also be selected and displayed based on incoming signals, and points of interest associated with displayed advertisements may be displayed. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004524 | CONSUMER PRODUCTS - Computer based systems and methods allow designing (e.g., customization) of consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by users. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110010245 | LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for providing advertisements to users of mobile devices, includes the steps of: (a) providing a plurality of advertisements and geographic region information associated with each advertisement; (b) receiving from a mobile content provider a request for an advertisement to be delivered to a user of a mobile device along with non-standard data from which the location of the mobile device can be determined; (c) processing the non-standard data to determine the location of the mobile device; (d) identifying a subset of advertisements from the plurality of advertisements having geographic region information matching the location of the mobile device; (e) ranking the advertisements in the subset of advertisements in accordance with one or more parameters; and (f) selecting an advertisement from the ranked advertisements to be transmitted to the mobile content provider for delivery to the mobile device of the user. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110022467 | METHOD OF TARGETED MARKETING - A method of targeted marketing includes the step of establishing a targeted marketing geographic area for a business. The method further includes the step of determining the location of a subscriber customer. In addition the method includes the step of sending promotional material for the business to the subscriber customer when the subscriber customer is located in the geographic area for targeted marketing. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022468 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING TARGETED ADVERTISING AND INTUITIVE WAYFINDING - The present invention is a method for displaying messaging, wayfinding and advertising on interactive kiosks and digital wireless communication devices including handheld portable devices within a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) or through the Internet. The information is stored in databases connected to the Internet that include maps of shopping centers or malls, data regarding user profiles, product categories and product brands which provide users the ability to search the database and interact with the maps and point-of-purchase advertising. When proximity-based WLAN access is available, the data is merged with more data concerning the user's relative position within the network. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022469 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information distribution device includes: a distribution information management table in which area information at the time of distribution indicating areas in which mobile terminals are located when advertising information is distributed from an information distributing part to the mobile terminals is recorded for each of the mobile terminals to which the advertising information is distributed from the information distribution part; a distribution area evaluation part that calculates, for each of a plurality of areas forming the distribution area and based on the area information at the time of distribution, an area visit probability indicating, of users of the mobile terminals who have been in any of the plurality of area forming the distribution area when the advertising information is distributed from the information distribution part, a percentage of those who have visited a location indicated by the advertising information; and a distribution area updating part that updates distribution area information recorded in a distribution area management table such that the distribution area only includes, of the plurality of areas, those whose area visit probability is equal to or larger than a threshold value. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110035282 | Consumer Sensitive Electronic Billboards - A method and system for advertising on an electronic billboard is capable of adapting over time to advertising criteria associated with actual viewers of the billboard. Mobile device users in a vicinity of the billboard are identified. User profiles indicative of fixed network and/or wireless network usage for the mobile device users are analyzed for pertinent advertising criteria. The predominant advertising criteria may be used to select the billboard content. The content may also be obtained via an auction for the billboard display and/or the advertising criteria. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035283 | SPONSOR-BASED ADVERTISING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING EXTRACTED AFFECT - A sponsor-based advertising apparatus and method using an extracted affect is provided. The advertising apparatus may extract an affect from received data, and select an advertisement to be inserted based on the affect of the received data and whether a sponsor corresponding to a keyword. The advertising apparatus may select an advertisement based on location information as well as the affect and the sponsor. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035284 | LOCATION-AWARE CONTENT AND LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING WITH A MOBILE DEVICE - Many mobile devices such as smart phones can generate content ranging from text and audio, to images and videos that are taken with their cameras. These devices are also equipped with wireless radios and magnetometers that can be used to obtain position and orientation information. It is possible to allow the user of the mobile phone to add the position and orientation information of the mobile and date/time to the content that the mobile generates. Thus, emails, Short Message Service (SMS) messages, blog entries, audio recordings, and pictures/video that are generated with the mobile can be geotagged with the mobile's position and orientation, as well as the date and time. This information can then be used by a location-based contextual advertising server to provide more relevant on-line ads. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110040625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING ON A MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention is comprised of a computer system and software used to track and recall useful information related to a users presence relative to a geographical landmark. This invention may be used to recall personal contact information of individuals related to the geographical location. Additionally, the invention may be used to advertise features related to the location such as local stores, sales, specials or upcoming events. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110055014 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REGION-BASED MOBILE ADVERTISING - Disclosed is a method for providing a region-based mobile advertising service. Before an advertisement server delivers an advertisement to a terminal, a gateway receives the advertisement from the advertisement server. The gateway is a communication network between the advertisement server and the terminal. The gateway, then delivers the advertisement from the advertisement server when it is determined, based on the current position of the terminal, that the terminal is located in a region established for the provision of an advertising service. In contrast, when the terminal is not located in the established region, then the gateway asks the terminal whether or not to receive the advertisement. The gateway then sends or interrupts the advertisement according to a response from the terminal. When the terminal undergoes roaming, then the user is informed of an additional fee due to advertisement, so that the user can be provided with an opportunity to accept or reject the advertisement. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110060652 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SERVICE OF ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A CONSUMER BASED ON THE DETECTION OF ZONE EVENTS IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for the delivery of targeted advertising content to a consumer based on the detection of region and zone events in a retail environment. The retail environment is divided into a number of detection regions, with each detection region monitored by a region manager and containing one or more display devices. Each display device has an associated display zone in which a consumer is likely to be exposed to advertising content that is being presented on the display device. The region manager can detect the location of the marker within the detection region. When a marker enters a display zone, the region manager makes an HTTP request to a session manager to deliver relevant advertisements. The session manager responds with an HTTP response that delivers advertising content to the display device that is contained in the display zone. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110060653 | LOCATION-AWARE ADVERTISING TO PARKING LOCATION USERS - A payment system for parking locations communicates with a plurality of parking meters, each of which is associated with a predetermined geographic location corresponding to a parking location. The system receives user identifying information via a communication related to payment for a parking session at a parking location identified by the communication, and determines a user credit/debit card data for payment of the parking session based on the user identifying information. Data related to the parking session at the geographic location of the parking meter is stored in a database associated with a parking history of the user, and determines one or more advertisements to communicate to the user based on the geographic location of the parking meter and previously stored data related to the parking history of the user. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110066500 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCAL INFORMATION OVER A NETWORK - A method and system is provided where a first computer (e.g., a central server) collects information to be presented to one or more users. The information is organized into a plurality of first web-sites where each of these web-sites is addressable by a unique Universal Resource Locator (URL). A physical location is associated with each of the first web-sites. One of the first web-sites may be provided to a user as a user web-site. When the user or other individual seeks to access the user web-site, links to a plurality of the first web-sites are provided based on a relationship between the physical locations associated with the first web-sites and the physical location associated with the user web-site. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110082747 | MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING ENABLED BY BAR CODES - A method and system for employing barcodes in a social network is disclosed. The method includes extracting location information from a scanned barcode, transmitting the location information to a social network server, and receiving location information of other users in a social network based on the transmitted location information. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110082748 | BRAND LEVERAGED LOCATION BASED SERVICE - This specification describes a process comprising the steps of (a) determining attributes of products or services that would be desirable to a user considering that user's indication of trust in a brand, (b) determining the location of the user, (c) locating goods or services having the attributes and available for sale in proximity of the user and (d) advising the users of those goods and services. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110093339 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SERVICE OF ADVERTISING CONTENT TO A CONSUMER BASED ON THE DETECTION OF ZONE EVENTS IN A RETAIL ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for the delivery of targeted advertising content to a consumer based on the detection of region and zone events in a retail environment. The retail environment is divided into a number of detection regions, with each detection region monitored by a region manager and containing one or more display devices. Each display device has an associated display zone in which a consumer is likely to be exposed to advertising content that is being presented on the display device. The region manager can detect the location of the marker within the detection region. When a marker enters a display zone, the region manager makes an HTTP request to a session manager to deliver relevant advertisements. The session manager responds with an HTTP response that delivers advertising content to the display device that is contained in the display zone. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093340 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE TO VENUES WHERE PEOPLE PERFORM TRANSACTIONS - A system and method for providing a service to promoters, including venues and advertising sponsors, who wish to provide promotions. The service includes making promoter promotions accessible by the mobile phones of members associated with an organization. Typically a promotion and member are matched based on the member's geographical position, which may be reported by the member or determined automatically during a transaction, a promotion redemption, or by a position sensor in their mobile phone. A promotion and member are optionally matched by the member's traits and behaviors. In addition to accessing promotions, members have mobile access to real-time information about the venues, such as the demographics of venue attendees and media posted by attendees concerning venue characteristics. Using the system, venues can determine who is shopping nearby and can send promotions to their phones, and members can know before going which venues have promotions and their preferred attendee demographic. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093341 | Explanatory Advertising Systems and Methods - A computer-implemented system and method for generating and delivering to advertisement recipients explanations of why the advertisement recipient received the advertisement is described. The explanations may be generated basis advertisement recipient attributes that include physical location information and other monitored behaviors, as well as inferences of preferences of the advertisement recipient. The explanations may be interactively accessible and may be in natural language formats. Advertising fees may be based in part on advertisement recipient accesses or interactions with the explanation delivery function. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093342 | LOCATION-BASED FILTERING AND ADVERTISING ENHANCEMENTS FOR MERGED BROWSING OF NETWORK CONTENTS - Location-based filtering and advertising enhancements for merged browsing of network content are described herein. In various embodiments, a client device may obtain its geographic location and provide that location to a server for filtering by the server of network content fragment suggestions based at least in part on the location. The client device may then receive some or all of the filtered suggestions for utilization in merged browsing. In some embodiments, a server may further receive an indicator of content being browsed. In response, the server may determine network content fragment suggestions, and may also determine an additional suggestion or prioritize a suggestion based an advertiser's interest. The server may then provide the suggestions and/or prioritization to the client device. In various embodiments, the server may also provide the advertisement(s) for display in a user interface of the client device along with the (prioritized) suggestions. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110099070 | Method of Advertising - A system is provided for providing location-based coupons, promotions and advertisements to a mobile device. A mobile application is provided that identifies a consumer's location based on the consumer's use of location-tagging applications, typically a social media application such as Twitter. Promotions and coupons are provided to the mobile device that is relevant to the consumer's physical location. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110106623 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER - The present invention relates to a method for allowing consumers to search for a provider of a specific type of professional service, typically legal. A method configured according to an embodiment of the present invention may involve supplying a location indicator in which to locate a service provider; supplying an area of the specific type of service which the user is interested in; being supplied a list of service providers working in the area of the specific type of service which the user is interested in and in or near the location indicator; being supplied a list of flat rate or fee prices for the service providers on the list and being supplied a list of the status of the service providers' participation in a charitable program. This method may be utilized by a web based system. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106624 | SYSTEMS OF INFLUENCING SHOPPER'S PRODUCT SELECTION AT THE FIRST MOMENT OF TRUTH BASED UPON A SHOPPER'S LOCATION IN A RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT - Provided herein is a system or systems for influencing shoppers while they consider making purchasing decisions in a retail establishment. Specifically, the method identifies the first moment of truth and attempts to influence shoppers during a shopper's first moment of truth based on the shopper's location within the retail establishment. The method transmits an acceptable influential message and transmits the message through a communication network to a shopper tracking device, which is in close proximity to a shopper during a shopping trip throughout a retail establishment. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106625 | LOCATION-BASED FILTERING AND ADVERTISING ENHANCEMENTS FOR MERGED BROWSING OF NETWORK CONTENTS - Location-based filtering and advertising enhancements for merged browsing of network content are described herein. In various embodiments, a client device may obtain its geographic location and provide that location to a server for filtering by the server of network content fragment suggestions based at least in part on the location. The client device may then receive some or all of the filtered suggestions for utilization in merged browsing. In some embodiments, a server may further receive an indicator of content being browsed. In response, the server may determine network content fragment suggestions, and may also determine an additional suggestion or prioritize a suggestion based an advertiser's interest. The server may then provide the suggestions and/or prioritization to the client device. In various embodiments, the server may also provide the advertisement(s) for display in a user interface of the client device along with the (prioritized) suggestions. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110112904 | Providing a recommendation based on a dietary preference - A computer system that provides a recommendation to a user based at least on one or more previously specified dietary preferences of the user and a current location of a portable electronic device, which is associated with a user, is described. This recommendation may include information associated with a subset of the food items available for purchase at the current location that are consistent with the previously specified dietary preferences, such as food items that include or exclude a particular constituent ingredient(s) and/or that have an appropriate nutritional information value(s). Note that the previously specified one or more dietary preferences may have been previously provided or selected by the user. Furthermore, when shopping in a grocery store, the current location may be provided via the portable electronic device, such as a cellular telephone, which displays the recommendation. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110119133 | System and Method for Adding Advertisements to a Location-Based Advertising System - A location-based advertising system automatically analyzes messages posted on social networking systems or other publicly accessible or private computer systems for posting messages for viewing by others. The messages are analyzed to identify messages that contain offers, such as offers that may be construed as location-based offers. Information about the offers is extracted from the messages and placed in a database. The database may be used by a location-based advertising application to send advertisements to targeted users or to respond to user who are qualified according to their current or recent geographic location. Optionally or alternatively, merchants may send messages, such as e-mail messages or instant messages (IMs), to the system to notify the system of offers. These messages are also analyzed and information about their respective offers is extracted and placed in the database. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110119134 | System and Method for Providing a User Terminal with Supplemental Information to a Search Result - Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, a system, and a computer readable medium encoded with instructions for providing a user terminal with supplemental information to a search result. Illustrative embodiments of the present invention include receiving a search request from the user terminal. Once the search request is received, a set of search results is communicated to the user terminal. The set of search results includes search results that include information associated with at least a first business and a second business. These businesses are then notified of the search request using an electronic notification. Illustrative embodiments of the present invention also include receiving, from the first business, supplemental information associated with the first business that is responsive to the notification. The supplemental information is then communicated to the user terminal and at least the second business. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110137728 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND INFORMATION SERVICES DELIVERED VIA MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and system for entertainment and information services delivered via mobile telecommunication devices include a communication network, and a station communicatively linked to the communication network. The station includes an output and an interface. Also included is a head-end having at least one database configured to store programs including an audio content. The head-end receives a request from the station for a desired one of the programs, verifies the request, transmits a first portion of the desired program to the station, and records an association between the identification and the desired program. The head-end further suspends transmission of a second portion of the program based upon detection of an indication to suspend transmission. The head-end further transmits the second portion of the program based upon detection of an indication to resume transmission and stored bookmark data indicating the starting location in the program of the second portion. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137729 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND INFORMATION SERVICES DELIVERED VIA MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES - A method and system for entertainment and information services delivered via mobile telecommunication devices include a communication network, and a station communicatively linked to the communication network. The station includes an output and an interface. Also included is a head-end having at least one database configured to store programs including an audio content. The head-end receives a request from the station for a desired one of the programs, verifies the request, transmits a first portion of the desired program to the station, and records an association between the identification and the desired program. The head-end further suspends transmission of a second portion of the program based upon detection of an indication to suspend transmission. The head-end further transmits the second portion of the program based upon detection of an indication to resume transmission and stored bookmark data indicating the starting location in the program of the second portion. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137730 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF DETERMINING LOCATION-BASED MATCHES BETWEEN SEARCHERS AND PROVIDERS - The inventive subject matter is generally directed to matching a party with another party based on profiling of the parties, and optionally an industry category, for parameters that are relevant to making a match, hi certain embodiments, the inventive subject matter facilitates matches between searchers and service providers based on assignment of searchers and service providers to predefined Buyer Types or Service Provider Types based on questionnaires, surveys, and other input and feedback mechanisms. In a further aspect, the inventive subject matter is directed to a system for valuing and monetizing a set of leads to offer to a party. In some embodiments, the inventive subject matter is directed to mobile applications for matching searchers with providers based on awareness of the locations of the parties. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110137731 | ADVERTISING METHOD AND SYSTEM ADAPTIVE TO DATA BROADCAST - There is provided an advertising method comprising receiving a broadcast request signal from a video on demand (VOD) terminal to download data broadcast; receiving an advertisement request signal from a mobile communication terminal to download advertising broadcast including information on goods related to contents of the data broadcast; synchronizing the data broadcast with the advertising broadcast in such a way that an advertising broadcast scene corresponding to the data broadcast is displayed on the mobile communication terminal while replaying the data broadcast on the VOD terminal; sending the data broadcast to the VOD terminal; and sending the advertising broadcast to the mobile communication terminal. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110153426 | MOBILE DEVICE ADVERTISING - Implementations for mobile device advertising are disclosed. In at least one implementation, a method for a mobile device is disclosed that includes: obtaining a plurality of advertisement content items at a mobile device via a communication network; storing the plurality of advertisement content items at a storage device of the mobile device; selecting an advertisement content item from the plurality of advertisement content items stored at the storage device based, at least in part, on an advertisement selection parameter; and presenting the advertisement content item selected from the plurality of advertisement content items stored at the storage device via an output device of the mobile device. In at least some implementations, the advertisement selection parameter includes attributes of media content stored at the storage device of the mobile device or accessed by a user via the mobile device. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153427 | System and Method of Providing Advertisements to Vehicles - A system and method of providing advertisements to vehicles is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller adapted to communicate with a wireless access point and a database where the wireless access point is deployed in proximity to a target location and where the database stores format information associated with a type of media file supported by a media system of a vehicle, determine a location of a communication device that can communicate with a data network independently of the media system as the communication device travels in the vehicle, determine whether the communication device is within a target region, determine the type of media file supported by the vehicle media system using the database, transmit media content in the desired format via the wireless access point to the communication device for presentation on the media system when the communication device enters the target region, and cease transmission of the media content when the communication device leaves the target region. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161174 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA FILES - A system for locating, segmenting, annotating and retrieving multimedia files, provides a database of metadata ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110166936 | PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES IN TRANSIT ALERTING - Embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed for providing messages based on an identified ridership pattern of a user of a transit system. Embodiments can include receiving information associated with a plurality of transactions of the user of the transit system, and identifying a ridership pattern of the user of the transit system. A predicted time and duration that the user of the transit system will be at a predicted location can be determined based, at least in part, on the identified ridership pattern. A message can be formulated using this information, and the message can be sent to the user or other message subscriber. Messages can include a variety of information, including advertisements, transit status updates, and more. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110166937 | Media output with micro-impulse radar feedback of physiological response - A system and method for providing media and/or advertising content determines content and/or parameters responsive to physical and/or physiological information about a viewer detected by a micro-impulse radar (MIR). | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110166938 | Methods For Advertising - A web conversion method based on phone calls is disclosed. Some embodiments comprise distributing a multiplicity of ads across a multiplicity of online media channels, displaying a unique advertiser phone number on each ad for a limited time every time a prospect visits a webpage hosting the ad, determining that the prospect called the advertiser phone number within the limited time, determining that the geographical zone of the prospect at the time of the call encompasses the geographical location of the IP address at where the unique phone number is displayed, and charging an advertiser for the ad that displayed the advertiser phone number. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110173073 | Method and system for improving client server transmission over fading channel with wireless location and authentication technology via electromagnetic radiation - Wireless personal area network (Zigbee, Bluetooth, UWB) and wireless identification technologies (Near Field Communication (NFC), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)) are implemented in particular client server functions and communications. Connected with an Authentication Server, a wireless HUB authenticates user identification and provides the user with access to secure data communication with a wireless terminal such as a cellular phone or a PDA. A Location Server provides user locations via methods such as RSSI, TDOA, and GPS and sends location information to a Center Control Server and the Authentication Server. With location information, the Center Control Server initiates and optimizes secure information processes and coordinates the functions of servers and user terminals. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173074 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT MANAGING DEVICE, AND WIRELESS BASE STATION - An advertisement managing device selectively notifies advertisement-related data to one or more wireless stations on the basis of location information of the wireless stations. Each wireless station attaches the notified advertisement-related data to the contents received from a contents providing device and destined for a user equipment, and sends the resultant data to the user equipment. The wireless station counts the number of times of the attaching and notifies the result of the counting to the advertisement managing device. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173075 | Providing an Announcement About Transactions of a Target Merchant to a Consumer - 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 is formed 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. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110191185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING USERS FOR CONTENT DELIVERY - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for targeting users for content provision. In one method, the method receives at a server, one or more content objects and one or more ZIP+4 codes as targeting parameters for the one or more content objects. The method retrieves personal information of a plurality of users. The method then identifies one or more of the plurality of users located in geographic areas corresponding to the one or more ZIP+4 codes based, at least in part, on the personal information. Subsequently, the method targets a content object of the one or more content objects to the one or more of the plurality of users based on the identified geographic areas of the users and the ZIP+4 codes associated with corresponding ones of the one or more content objects. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191186 | Method of autonomously recommending charging event of electric vehicle based on multiple factors and displaying carbon footprint data and personalized advertising via the vehicle display - A method and system is provided in which a computer system within the Electrical Vehicle periodically connects to a remote database which recommends to the driver to start a charge event based on location and proximity to a charging station, discharge history, power capacity, power cost, time of day, and power generation means (e.g. solar vs. coal), as well as displaying vehicle carbon footprint data and dynamically delivered advertising. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110196743 | USER-DRIVEN DATA NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system is disclosed for messaging over a data network, such as the Internet and interactive TV, which allows every registered user to generate and update one or more user portfolio(s) containing information relative to Providers and/or individuals of which the user is willing to view their messages. The messages are displayed inside the space of the webpage where usually banners are shown. The system may provided benefits to the user upon displaying messages with commercial value to him. The disclosed messaging system allows an easy and effective communication path between providers and users any time publicly or privately in the banner area of a web site, which does not occupy additional space on the user's browser, and does not require the user to load another application besides his browser. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110196744 | SYSTEM FOR VERIFYING ACCESS BASED ON A DETERMINED GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A SUBSCRIBER OF A SERVICE PROVIDED VIA A COMPUTER NETWORK - A method of limiting presentation of rules based events includes receiving a request to view a rules based event at a computer. A first estimate of a first geographic location of the computer is obtained. The first estimate includes a first confidence determination. If the first confidence determination is less than a first established confidence level, a second estimate of the first geographic location of the computer is obtained. The second estimate includes a second confidence determination for comparison to a second established confidence level. The first estimate and the second estimate define a composite estimated geographic location of the computer. Information on a second geographic location of the rules based event is retrieved. The retrieved information is compared with the composite estimated geographic location of the computer. Access to the rules based event is provided based on access rules, the comparison, and the composite estimated geographic location. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110208589 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN ADVERTISEMENT ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A system and method are provided to access advertisements on a mobile device. One or more merchants are provided as entries on a contact list. When one or more new advertisements are available from the merchants, a new occurrence indicator is displayed on the contact list icon on the home screen of the mobile device. Upon the mobile device receiving an input to open the contact list application that is associated with the contact list icon, the mobile device will display the contact list including the merchants listed therein. A new advertisement indicator associated with certain of the merchants notifies the user which merchants have new advertisements. Upon the mobile device receiving an input associated with one of merchants, an advertising display is presented showing the advertisement originating from the selected one of the merchants. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110208590 | System and method for providing locally applicable internet content with secure action requests and item condition alerts - Optimized delivery of locally applicable Internet content to users. A cache of locally applicable Internet content is maintained in a local content server, based upon a monitoring of locations of users requesting Internet content. Requests for Internet content are received from user equipment through a wireless network base station, and served from the local content server, which is logically proximate to the wireless network base station. The caching of locally applicable Internet content may be maintained on a layered basis. Secure action request receipt and corresponding performance, and item condition alerts are also described. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110213663 | SERVICE INTELLIGENCE MODULE PROGRAM PRODUCT - A service intelligence module may be embodied as a system or as a method for configuring a processor. It comprises at least a metric definition, which is a computer executable rule for parsing a binary formatted log message for a metric type; and a measure factory, which configures a processor to publish attributes of a measure determined by a calculation or computation performed on a metric collected by a data collection agent. A service intelligence module further comprises an enrichment which joins two datastreams having a common dimension. Service intelligence modules may capture and analyze such domains as illustrated but not limited to: application analytics, carrier comparative quality and performance analytics, advertising audience segmentation analysis, and content copyright analytics. A computer executed method and program product comprising codes for reading recorded values from a metric package and generating measures, under control of a mobile service intelligence platform for display to a user of a domain specific analysis service. A combination of service intelligence modules may be selected and applied to a study. Each service intelligence module may have aspects for combining and organizing data along useful dimensions for analysis, and for reading pertinent metrics to transformation into measures in the form appropriate to a specific study. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110213664 | LOCAL ADVERTISING CONTENT ON AN INTERACTIVE HEAD-MOUNTED EYEPIECE - This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece including an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and displayed content. The displayed content includes a local advertisement, wherein the location of the eyepiece is determined by an integrated location sensor and wherein the local advertisement has a relevance to the location of the eyepiece. The head mounted eyepiece may also include an audio device and the displayed content may comprise local advertisements and audio. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110246304 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON POSITIONAL TRACKING OF MOBILE DEVICES AND FINANCIAL DATA - A method and system for providing targeted advertisements based on positional tracking of mobile devices and financial data whereby data associated with one or more participating businesses is obtained including, but not limited to, the business name and the business location. A mobile device associated with a consumer is associated with financial data associated with the consumer and the position of the mobile device associated with the consumer is tracked. A probability that the consumer will respond to an offer or advertisement for a particular participating business, and/or specific products and/or services associated with a particular participating business, is then determined for the consumer based, at least in part on the financial data associated with the consumer. The consumer's estimated arrival time at a defined point in the vicinity of the particular participating business is then calculated and the participating business is provided the opportunity to send the consumer one or more offers and/or information regarding the participating business in relative “real-time”. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246305 | ADVERTISING WEBSITE - The advertising website is a membership-based website that performs a comparative analysis of products and prices offered by retailers in a local community while permitting the user to shop online. The site provides this service at no cost to online shoppers. Moreover, the site provides critical and specific information to the user, such as where, when, how, and at what cost he or she may purchase the product “locally.” The membership base is made up of advertising agencies. The agencies pay a set fee, plus taxes, for twelve-month membership contracts. Under contract, the agencies are permitted to sell unlimited amounts of download space for a fixed and non-negotiable cost to as many retail store customers as desired. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110246306 | MOBILE LOCATION TRACKING INTEGRATED MERCHANT OFFER PROGRAM AND CUSTOMER SHOPPING - Embodiments of the invention include a merchant offer program application, which is downloaded onto a customer computer, and that works in connection with the customer's accounts at an institution. The merchant offer program application monitors the location of the customer over time and recognizes patterns in the routes the customer travels and locations that the customer frequently visits. The merchant offer program provides additional information to the customer, such as offers that are available for the product, the identity of other merchants that offer the product or a competing product, advertisements or offers regarding other ancillary products typically sold along with the product being considered, etc. based at least in part on the patterns recognized by the merchant offer program. The information sent to the customer can be based not only on the patterns identified, but on the customer's past purchase behavior, account balances, interests, merchant and/or institution relationships, etc. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110251897 | Online Shopping Circulars - There is provided a system and method for user interfaces to navigate online shopping circulars. There is provided a method comprising retrieving circular data, presenting the circular data arranged by sorting parameters, receiving a request to obtain a product, and initiating a transaction for the requested product with a retailer. The sorting parameters may include parameters such as retailer bids for enhanced visibility, thereby providing increased monetization opportunities. The sorting parameters may also include flexible preset or user defined filtering options, allowing users to enjoy an engaging and streamlined shopping experience. The online shopping circulars may be implemented as a module for online media content, such as a news site or an entertainment portal. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110258047 | INCORPORATING TIME AND SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN USER/ADVERTISER LOCATIONS INTO ADVERTISEMENT RELEVANCE - Methods and systems for determining advertisement relevance based on time and spatial relationships or reachable locations may include determining a set of advertisements, a set of destination locations corresponding to the advertisements, a starting location, a starting time, and a desired arrival time. A particular destination location may be identified as reachable if a projected arrival time occurs prior to or at the desired arrival time. Reachable destination locations may be distinguished from unreachable destination locations on a user interface by at least one of presenting reachability indicators, differentiating presentations or appearances of indications corresponding to reachable locations and/or of corresponding advertisements, ordering location indications and/or advertisements by reachability relevance, omitting unreachable destination locations and/or corresponding advertisements from being presented on the user interface, or other actions. Advertisement relevance based on time and spatial relationships may be based on user input, and may be applied to multiple, sequential destination locations. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110264528 | CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGH PROPOSED ACTIONS - Knowledge of a user's profile (contextual and behavioral) can be used to predict the likely current real-time needs of the user. Confirmation of that need can be achieved by suggesting a number of personalized status updates (based on known profile information) in a form suitable for posting to micro-blogging sites. From this list, the user selects the most appropriate one to submit to a micro-blog. In doing so, valuable profile information is confirmed which allows real-time contextual recommendations to be generated to meet the recently identified need of the user. In one aspect, these recommendations comprise revenue generating opportunities. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110270679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON MOVEMENT OF THE DEVICE - The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages, such as advertisements, to electronic devices. The method comprises: selecting an advertisement from a set of advertisements based on a state of movement of the device, where the state of movement is at least partly based on movement data of the device; and transmitting the advertisement to the device. After transmitting the advertisement to the device, the advertisement may be generated on the device. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270680 | DATA COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN SHORT-RANGE ENABLED WIRELESS DEVICES OVER NETWORKS AND PROXIMITY MARKETING TO SUCH DEVICES - A method for allowing short-ranged communication devices to communicate with each other using the Internet. Cell servers are provided in first and second zones linked to the Internet and adapted for transmitting voice and other digital data over the Internet such as using VoIP. The method includes registering users of short-range enabled devices, such as Bluetooth cell phones, with a communication system and storing a device identifier along with a user ID and password. A contact list is stored for each registered user. The method includes a registered user entering a cell serviced by a server, the server discovering the user's device, logging the user into the system based on the device identifier and an entered user ID and password, receiving a communication request to chat with one of the listed contacts, and establishing a communication session using time previously awarded to the user for receiving marketing content. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110270681 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING ON PARCEL PACKAGES - A method for displaying messages that are placed on packages being shipped to consumers in the form of labels that are targeted to specific consumers based on publicly available data or shopping behavior data. The method includes receiving information regarding one or more packages to be delivered to one or more recipients. The method also includes retrieving promotion data regarding one or more promotions targeted to the one or more recipients. One or more personalized promotion labels are generated from the promotion data. An identifier is assigned to each of the one or more personalized promotion labels corresponding to the one or more recipients, wherein a given identifier identifies a given one of the one or more packages on which to place a given personalized promotion label associated with the given identifier. The one or more personalized promotion labels are transmitted to one or more output devices for placement of the one or more personalized promotion labels on the one or more packages. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110276401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON CORRELATION OF DATA RELATING TO A USER OF THE DEVICE - The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages to an electronic device. The method comprises: analyzing data relating to the device to determine a correlation of data relating to a user of the device; selecting an advertisement from a set of advertisements based on the correlation of data; and transmitting the advertisement to the device. The correlation of data may be determined from analyzing movement data and at least one status indicator relating to the device. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276402 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE MERCHANDISING USING MULTIPATH CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATIONS - A system for interactive merchandising, comprising a server accessible via a data network to a mobile device and a graphical indicia displayed in a public location and associated with one or more nearby items, wherein, on receiving, at the server, a message from the mobile device comprising information based at least in part on the graphical indicia, the server determines a location of the mobile device and transmits information determined at least in part based on the graphical indicia and the location of the mobile device to the mobile device. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110282744 | NETWORK-BASED SYSTEM OF RELAYING CONTENTS FOR ADVERTISEMENT PRODUCTS AND ONLINE SHOPPING THE ADVERTISEMENT PRODUCTS AND METHOD THEREOF - A network-based system for relaying contents for advertisement products includes a plurality of display devices for advertisement configured to display the advertisement products and represent identifiers which distinguish the advertisement products, respectively, and one or more mobile terminals for requesting for the relay of a content for an advertisement product of interest via a network by using an identifier of the advertisement product. A management server management server recognizes which content is for the advertisement product of interest based on the identifier from the mobile terminal, and relays the recognized content to the mobile terminal via the network to thereby interwork with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal reproduces and searches for the content for the advertisement product relayed from the management server, and performs purchase of the advertisement product. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110288936 | Pre-Caching Location Based Advertising for Repeated Out Of Coverage Scenarios Based On Commuter or Regular Travel Patterns - A method of providing location-based advertising to a mobile device entails identifying a frequent path over which the device has repeatedly traveled, identifying an out-of-coverage portion of the frequent path, determining LBA for the out-of-coverage portion of the frequent path, and pre-caching on the mobile device the LBA for the out-of-coverage portion of the frequent path. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110295691 | RADIO RECEIVER BASED GREETING CARD SYSTEM - A method and system for providing location-based advertising and location-based greeting through a radio receiver based greeting is disclosed. The system for providing location-based advertising comprises a greeting card having at least one surface, a radio receiver coupled to the surface, an information module coupled to the radio receiver, and a power source coupled to at least one of the radio receiver and the information module. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110295692 | Method of Using Location Information for Advertising System Based on 3-Dimensional Shapes - A method of delivering an advertisement to an electronic communications device via an electronic communications network includes obtaining, via the electronic communications network, a location of an electronic communications device, the location of the device corresponding to a longitude, a latitude, and an altitude of the communications device, accessing a database of advertisements, each advertisement in the database having an associated three-dimensional geographic region, identifying at least one advertisement in the database such that the location of the electronic communications device is within the associated three-dimensional geographic region of the advertisement, and delivering the advertisement to the electronic communications device via the electronic communications network. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110302034 | System and Method for Associating a Geographical Location with an Internet Protocol Addresss - The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address. Generally, an IP address associated with each of a plurality of browser cookies is determined, where each of the plurality of browser cookies indicate a geographic location such as a home address or business address of a user. A geo tag is associated with each of the plurality of browser cookies and a subset of the plurality of browser cookies including browser cookies associated with a first IP address is identified. The subset of the plurality of browser cookies is clustered into a spatial cluster including browser cookies associated with geo tags located within a defined distance of a geo tag of at least one other browser cookie of the cluster. A geographic location associated with a geographic center of the cluster is then associated with the first IP address. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110307335 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110313859 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADVERTISER GEOTARGETING USING MAP COORDINATES - Techniques to provide geo-targeted advertising are described. A technique may include displaying a map to an advertiser at a first zoom level. The advertiser may stay at the first zoom level or change to a second zoom level. The advertiser may also create a user-defined area of the map. The advertiser may select an advertising campaign, and the advertising system may associate the selected advertising campaign with the user-defined area and the selected zoom level. The advertising system may then provide the selected advertising campaign for display in a mapping application operating on a client device when the user-defined area and the selected zoom level are viewed in the mapping application. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110313860 | METHODS FOR RENDERING ADVERTISEMENT MESSAGES BY THE USE OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method is disclosed for rendering advertisement messages to a user of a mobile device according to the user's commercial interests determined based upon contents of voice communication. A display screen of a mobile device is used to present an advertisement message during or after a voice communication. The contents of the voice communication are recorded and analyzed. According to one aspect of the present invention, the user's commercial interest is determined by ranking frequency of appearance of keywords. According to another aspect, the user's commercial interest is determined by ranking an increased rate of appearance of the keywords over a period of time. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110320278 | GLASSES-FREE 3D ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A glasses-free 3D advertising system and method wherein a number of wireless electronic digital 3D/2D video advertising players | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120005023 | Methods and System for Providing Local Targeted Information to Mobile Devices of Consumers - The present invention relates to methods and a system for providing at least one personal recommendation to a mobile device of a consumer, with regard to a predefined physical site, one of said method comprising: (a) providing a semantic network having a plurality of segmentation paths; (b) determining at least one segmentation path, within said plurality of segmentation paths, according to at least one predefined parameter, thereby giving rise to at least one relevant segmentation path, wherein each segmentation path is related to a predefined physical site and includes at least two interconnected nodes; (c) determining at least one personal recommendation according to said at least one relevant segmentation path; and (d) providing the at least one personal recommendation to a mobile device of the consumer. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120005024 | METHODS FOR SELECTING AND DISPLAYING ADVERTISING LINKS - A method for selecting one or more advertising links for incorporation into a web page of an affiliate website stored on an affiliate web server when the affiliate web server receives a request message from a browser of a computing device that requests the web page. In one implementation a control application running on an affiliate webserver facilitates the reception of the one or more advertising links and first information related to the one or more advertising links from one or more intermediary servers, the first information received from each of the one or more intermediary servers includes target geographic data for each of the advertising links and compensation information of each of the one or more intermediary servers payable to the content website upon the one or more advertising links being activated by the computing device. In one implementation the control application stores the one or more advertising links and the first information in a database and determines the geographic location of the computing device. In one implementation the control application then selects from among the one or more advertising links stored in the database one or more of the advertising links to be displayed on the web page, the one or more selected advertising links to be displayed on the web page being selected by a comparison of the target geographic data of the advertising links with the geographic location of the computing device and a comparison of the compensation information associated with each of the one or more advertising links. In one implementation, upon the control application inserting the selected one or more links into the web page it causes the web server to transmit to the browser of the computing device the web page together with the selected one or more links. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120010999 | PAPERLESS INTERNET BASED ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method for advertising. The system includes a website that is accessible over an electronic network. The website allows an administrator or advertiser to enter existing advertisements or new advertisements into a database. The advertiser enters information related to the advertiser and the advertisement into the database. The advertisements are presented to consumers through a website or an application on a mobile device. Advertisements are presented to the consumer based on various parameters such as geographic location in proximity to the consumer. In this manner, an advertiser can more easily provide real-time location-based advertising services to target local customers. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120036016 | VEHICULAR INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A mobile system and method of operation thereof, comprising a radio frequency system, adapted to derive information relating to a position within an environment, based on communications with at least one terrestrial or extraterrestrial transmitter, and remotely transmit to and receive radio frequency information-bearing communications; a memory adapted to store at least a vehicle itinerary or position-related information; a controller, receiving the derived information and controlling a communication of the information-bearing communications relating to at least the stored itinerary or position related information; and a user interface, having a functionality defined by the controller, adapted to interface a user for receipt or presentation of information relating at least one of the itinerary or position-related information and the communicated information. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120041822 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING METADATA - Systems and methods for processing metadata are described. An application makes available a social networking application with an application programming interface (API) configured to receive social data from a social networking site for a user. The application publisher system receives advertisement metadata from a first system and social data from a social networking site system. Based at least in part on the advertisement metadata and the social data, the application publisher system identifies a suitable advertisement and transmits a request for the identified advertisement to the first system, wherein the social data for the user is not transmitted to the first system, to thereby retain the privacy of the user. The identified advertisement is then electronically provided to the user. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120047018 | IMMEDIATE UPDATING OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) GENERATED AREA MAPS ON WIRELESS COMPUTER CONTROLLED DISPLAYS - Immediate changes and updates in a Global Positioning System (GPS) providing wireless communication display devices with displayed maps of a defined areas with traffic and objects of interest information are implemented through broadcasting short range RF information relative to an object from an object located within the defined area. When this broadcast information is received by the transceiver of any wireless display device within RF broadcast range, the receiving device obtains the position of the object from a GPS satellite based upon the information received by the wireless display device and the object and the information are displayed. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120059719 | ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An advertisement distribution server | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059720 | Method of Operating a Navigation System Using Images - A navigation system comprises a processor, a geographic database and a guidance application executable on the processor. The guidance application obtains data from the geographic database and obtains a photographic image. The guidance application overlays an advertisement route highlight on said photographic image. The advertisement route highlight graphically illustrates a path corresponding to a route and a direction of travel for the route. The advertisement route highlight includes a series of advertisement decals. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120059721 | PREDICTIVE GEO-TEMPORAL ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING - A method, system, and medium are provided for targeting advertisements to users of mobile devices based on geo-temporal models. Time-stamped location information is collected for a mobile device and a dynamic geo-temporal model is constructed and updated when new data is collected according to a sample design. Using the geo-temporal model, device location and instances of user interaction with the device can be predicted, and advertisements can be provided based on the predicted location. Advertisements can be cached on the mobile device for later presentation, and the sample design can be updated to improve efficiency and accuracy in the modeling system. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120066066 | REGIONAL LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING - In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of identifying a target region and an exclusion region of the target region, where the target region encompasses the exclusion region. A target user is identified within the target region and not within the exclusion region encompassed by the target region. A target advertisement is selected for the target user based on the target user being within the target region and not within the exclusion region encompassed by the target region. The target advertisement is sent to the target user. An exclusion user is identified within the exclusion region encompassed by the target region. An exclusion advertisement different from the target advertisement is selected for the exclusion user based on the exclusion user being with the exclusion region. The exclusion advertisement is sent to the exclusion user. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066067 | FRAGMENTED ADVERTISEMENTS FOR CO-LOCATED SOCIAL GROUPS - Systems and methods are disclosed for delivering a fragmented advertisement to a group of users identified as a group of participants for the fragmented advertisement. As used herein, a fragmented advertisement is an advertisement that includes two or more advertisement fragments each to be delivered to a different participant in a group of participants identified for the fragmented advertisement, where the two or more advertisement fragments encourage interaction between participants to achieve a predefined goal of the fragmented advertisement in order to obtain a corresponding advertisement benefit. For example, the predefined goal of a fragmented advertisement may be correctly answering a question (e.g., a trivia question), solving a puzzle, or the like. The advertisement benefit is preferably a coupon for a business, product, or service being advertised by the fragmented advertisement. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120072287 | USING LOCATION FOR DETERMINING RELEVANCE BETWEEN QUERIES AND ADVERTISEMENTS - Relevance of advertisements provided in response to a query is improved based on locations associated with the query and the advertisement. A confidence level can optionally be determined for associated locations. The associated locations can be used to calculate a geographic distance between a query location and an advertisement location. A relevance can be determined for the advertisements based in part on the calculated geographic distances. The associated locations can also be compared to determine stacking and barrier relationships between locations. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072288 | SELECTING AND PROCESSING OFFERS TO COMPLETE TASKS, RESEARCH PROGRAMS, AND CONSUMER REWARDS PROGRAMS BASED ON LOCATION - The present disclosure describes, among other things, a method. The method may include receiving a location associated with a user and a mobile device. The method may also include determining a research program for a vendor based at least in part on the location. The method may also include determining compensation for the user for participating in the research program. The method may also include sending information about the research program and the compensation to the mobile device. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120078722 | Remotely controlled water treatment system and a method of remotely controlling a water treatment system - A water treatment system, such as a water softener, is remotely operated and a method of remotely controlling a water treatment system. In a first embodiment, the water treatment system having a web server is delivered and installed on the users LAN. The user PC is redirected by a remote server to the water treatment system by use of the water treatment system MAC address, IP protocol address and user information. In this manner, the user is able to control the water treatment system and communicate with the remote server. In a second and third embodiment, the water treatment system and user PC communicate indirectly via the remote server. In the second embodiment, the water treatment system is provided with a wireless network interface to couple to the remote server. In the third embodiment, the water treatment system is provided with an internet interface. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120078723 | Method and Apparatus for Geographic-Based Communictions Service - A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile unit, it sends a signal to the network indicating the location of the mobile unit and the content information requested by the mobile unit. Based on the signal received from the access point, the network communicates with information providers connected to the network and provides data to the mobile unit through the access point corresponding to the location of the mobile unit. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084151 | Facilitation of user management of unsolicited server operations and extensions thereto - A trust architecture, including an intermediary for use therewith, which may be referred to as a Personal Privacy Stronghold (“PPS”), is disclosed which facilitates user management, including control, enablement, extension and augmentation, of unsolicited server operations, allowing the user to control such operations without compromising their ability to use other functionality. Such stateful operations may be used, for example, to monitor and track the user's Internet activities. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120089461 | METHOD FOR IMPROVED ADVERTISING ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A first embodiment includes a method for providing targeted promotional offers from an advertiser to an advertisee that includes receiving location information of a mobile device belonging to the advertisee, searching through a promotional offer database, selecting a promotional offer using the location information of the mobile device as a selection criterion, sending the promotional offer to the mobile device, receiving a redemption notification indicating that an advertisee has applied the promotional offer to a completed purchase transaction, and charging the advertiser a promotional offer fee after receiving the redemption notification. In a second embodiment, an advertising system is integrated with a payment system, such as the one disclosed in related U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/641,071, using credit cards, debit cards, gift credit, social credit, or any suitable payment method. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120095839 | INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENT ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed is a novel system and process to provide an interactive environment for advertisers utilizing physical advertisement structures to provide their advertisements to users. Users are able to receive advertisement information associated with the advertisements on these structures along with additional information associated with the advertisements. This is also beneficial for the advertisers because this static form of advertising now becomes dynamic and interactive. Advertisers are now able to provide more detailed information regarding their products, services, etc. than what is normally available via an advertisement structure such as a billboard. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120101901 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETING MESSAGES TO TRAVELERS - A computer-implemented method of targeting electronic messages to travelers, comprising performing processing associated with: utilizing geographic information comprising itinerary information, to determine where the travelers are currently and/or are projected to be during a given time period; creating a list of travelers which categorizes the geographic information and/or traveler information about the travelers on the list; electronically notifying a merchant with information related to the list and the current geographic information and/or current traveler information of the travelers on the list; receiving an electronic request from the merchant to transmit an electronic targeted message to some or all of the travelers on the list; and transmitting the electronic targeted message to some or all of the travelers on the list. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120109751 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING OFFERS TO A POPULATION OF USERS BASED ON RELEVANCY DETERMINATIONS - A system and method is provided to enable a merchant to specify an offer that is associated with at least one geographic location. A locality is determined for individual persons comprising a group of users. The locality of the individual persons used to make a determination as to whom the merchant's offer is relevant to. The offer is then electronically communicated to the one or more persons. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109752 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT TO A CONSUMER'S MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON THE CONSUMER'S PHYSICAL LOCATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA MEMBERSHIPS - Systems and methods for creation, management and delivery of targeted marketing campaigns to a consumer based on a consumer's social check-in activity as identified by a consumer on one or more location based social networks. In one embodiment, a campaign management system receives information relating to a consumer's social check-in activity from various (heterogeneous) location based social networks in a wide variety of formats, and further normalizes such disparate information received into a standardized format. According to an aspect, the system processes the normalized information in conjunction with pre-stored marketing campaigns created by marketers for purposes of identifying consumers who satisfy one or more conditions specific to the pre-stored marketing campaigns. Campaign-related information corresponding to the pre-stored marketing campaigns generally comprise various promotional offers, discounts, coupons, etc., which are delivered to the identified consumers, who initiate some kind of action thereby fulfilling the marketing campaign. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120109753 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS IN AN INTEGRATED VOICE NAVIGATION SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - The system and method described herein may provide advertisements in an integrated voice navigation services environment. In particular, one or more advertisements may be identified based on affinities among a current location associated with a navigation device and shared knowledge and information used to interpret natural language utterances that relate to a navigation context, wherein the one or more advertisements may then be presented via a multi-modal output. As such, the shared knowledge and the information relating to the navigation context may provide the system and method with dynamic awareness relating to context, available information sources, domain knowledge, and user behavior and preferences, among other things, which may be used to deliver targeted and contextually relevant advertisements in the integrated navigation services environment. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120116883 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN INCORPORATING TARGETED ADVERTISING INTO MULTIMEDIA CONTENT STREAMS - Some embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in distributing multimedia content. Some of these methods comprise: receiving a substantially live media stream comprising visual multimedia content and a playlist file that defines the playback of the visual multimedia content; identifying, within the media stream, a first advertisement content; identifying a source location identifier corresponding to a segment of the first advertisement content; identifying a replacement advertisement content; identifying a source location identifier corresponding to a segment of the replacement advertisement content; modifying the playlist file replacing the source location identifier corresponding to the segment of the first advertisement content with the source location identifier corresponding to the segment of the replacement advertisement content; and communicating, in substantially real time, the modified playlist file over the Internet to a remote CE device. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120116884 | USING LOCATION-SPECIFIC AD CREATIVES AND/OR AD LANDING PAGES IN AN AD SYSTEM - The usefulness, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are improved by allowing businesses to better target their ads to a responsive audience. For example, location information may be used in ad relevancy determination, and in attribute (e.g., position) arbitration. Such location information may be associated with price information, such as a maximum price bid, and/or with ad performance information. Ad performance information may be tracked on the basis of location information. The content of an ad creative, and/or of a landing page may be selected and/or modified using location information. Tools may be provided to enter and/or modify location information, such as location-dependent targeting information and price information. The location information used to target and/or score ads may be, include, or define an area. The area may be defined by at least one geographic reference point (e.g., defined by latitude and longitude coordinates) and perhaps additional information. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120123867 | Location Event Advertising - Information about physical places is gathered to develop quality scores for targeting advertisements to users of mobile devices sharing geographic location events with service providers. A scoring model incorporates selected attributes about places (e.g., created by a service provider vs. user-generated, category, keywords, census data providing population density by location, property values by area, popularity, special events, government vs. private area, whether place is associated with a brand, chain, or is independent) that have been gathered from multiple sources, verified, and normalized. Advertisements are targeted to users running mobile applications based on a location event shared with the service provider using the quality score for the place indicated in the location event in addition to other attributes of the place. In one embodiment, the system uses a machine learning algorithm to analyze conversion rates of targeted advertising to provide feedback to the scoring model. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120123868 | System and Method for Physical-World Based Dynamic Contactless Data Emulation in a Portable Communication Device - A system for dynamically adjusting the contactless data emulation used by a portable communication device based on its geo-location. The system determines a geo-location of the portable communication device by transmitting the current geo-location data using a most appropriate channel to a server; receiving data regarding payment systems potentially co-located with the portable communication device; and configuring a payment system in the portable communication device with the data formats and other contact-less point of sale data specific to payment system potentially co-located with the device. A method for dynamically adjusting the contactless data emulation used by a portable communication device based on its geo-location is also disclosed. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120123869 | Location Blocking Service from a Web Advertiser - Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a web advertiser) subscribing to the identity-blocking service. However, the service promoter may not send any identity information for the mobile subscriber to the third party. On the other hand, in the location-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the mobile subscriber's identity information to the third party, but not the current physical location of the mobile subscriber. Blocking of the mobile subscriber's identity or location information may be desirable for privacy reasons, to comply with a government regulation, or to implement a telecommunication service option selected by the mobile subscriber. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120130817 | Method for Delivery of Relevant Consumer Content Based on Consumer Journey Patterns - A method providing highly relevant offers based on an individual's historic journey patterns prior to a future journey in order to influence the individual's behavior during a journey or when the individual departs from or arrives at predetermined headquarters or locations that are discerned using location-based and/or timing-based technologies. Other information can be used to discern and/or enhance the individual's journey patterns. An individual's journey pattern information includes location, route, timing, and/or duration information about one or more journey cycles by an individual, for example, two or more, three or more, four or more, or five or more journey cycles of the individual. A single journey cycle can include a time window at the same or similar time periods, for example, at the same or similar time in a day, at the same or similar time in a week, month, and/or year. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120130818 | ADVERTISEMENT OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE, ADVERTISEMENT OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An advertisement output control device provided with an advertisement distribution unit ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120136724 | 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. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120143689 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH DESTINATION-CENTRIC ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of an advertisement delivery system includes: receiving an entry for a destination; identifying a category of interest for the destination; recognizing a travel context for reaching the destination; and generating a notification based on matching a delivery profile to the category of interest within the travel context for displaying on a device. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120143690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING A GEOGRAPHICALLY RESTRICTED IN-STORE PROMOTION TO A CONSUMER - A system and method for delivering a geographically restricted in-store promotion to a consumer includes storing in an offer database a plurality of offer data items for use in creating an in-store promotion and at least one participating store location. In response to receiving a request from a consumer device to present the in-store promotion, the server determines if the consumer device is within a predetermined geographic location of the participating store location without requesting additional information from a consumer operating the consumer device. If the consumer device is within the predetermined geographic location of the participating store location, the server dynamically generates the in-store promotion using at least one of the plurality of data items stored in the offer database. Once generated, the server transmits the in-store promotion to the consumer device. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120150650 | AUTOMATIC ADVERTISEMENT GENERATION BASED ON USER EXPRESSED MARKETING TERMS - Generation of an advertisement for one or more users based on user expression of a marketing term captured while viewing multimedia content is described. A marketing term is one or more words linked to a product or service. Marketing terms are downloaded to a computer system which is communicatively coupled to an audiovisual capture device to capture image and audio data of users viewing or interacting with multimedia content. The one or more users are identified via the capture data, and a count of the number of instances a marketing term is expressed is updated. The count is part of term context data such as demographic data from user profile data. The term context data is transmitted to a remote computer system for marketing analysis. An advertisement is selected for communication to a designated user based on the term context data. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150651 | ERGONOMIC MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE INCORPORATING ADAPTIVE PATTERN RECOGNITION BASED CONTROL SYSTEM - An adaptive interface, predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. An input is predicted, and the predictive mechanism may be is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein an input is matched to a media stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inferential programming of the device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest. Applications of the interface and system include a VCR, medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150652 | PROVIDING AN IMAGE OF AN ITEM TO ADVERTISE THE ITEM - A seller device executing a seller module captures an image of an item available for purchase and uploads the image to a host machine. The host machine receives the image of the item and provides the image and a seller address to a buyer device. The buyer device executing a buyer module presents the image and the seller address to a user. The seller address is usable to initiate a communication with the seller of the item. The host machine may provide the seller module to the seller device, and the host machine may provide the buyer module to the buyer device. The host machine may also communicate the image to an advertisement server configured to publish the image as a listing of the item. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150653 | System for Online Sales With Automatic Rebate and Coupon Redemption - An online sales/automatic rebate and coupon redemption system provides online customers automatic retrieval and redemption of all applicable rebates and coupons during purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system purchases from merchants using applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system makes it possible to automatically retrieve coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site. The system provides coupons to potential customers via email, based on customer profile, geographical information, etc. Manufacturers and merchants can update coupon value and content based on ongoing sales and volume of customer activity. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120158508 | MOBILE ADVERTISING INCLUDING LOCALIZED ADVERTISER BIDDING - Techniques are provided that include targeting a user of a portable electronic device with an interest-based and location-based advertisement, based at least in part on advertiser bidding. Techniques are provided in which a user is indicated as being at a particular location or within a particular geographic area. An advertisement, such as an electronic coupon or discount offer, may be selected for sending to the user based at least in part on advertiser bidding. The advertisement may relate at least in part to a store or business at the particular location or within the particular area. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158509 | Price Formation in Location-Based Advertising Networks - A method of providing a location-based advertisement is provided. The advertisement is provided to an electronic communications device, over a communications network, on behalf of an advertiser. The method includes calculating an adjusted price to be charged to the advertiser for the advertisement using at least a geographic location associated with the advertisement, a distance of the electronic communications device from the geographic location and optionally a bid price associated with the geographic location. The method also includes delivering the advertisement over the communications network to the electronic communications device. A system for providing such advertisements, as well as a computer-readable storage medium with instructions, in the form of software, to perform the method or implement the system are also provided. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120158510 | Targeted Service Delivery to Location and Event Specific Audiences - A method or system to display targeted message based on a location parameter is provided. The system and method utilize event information to create a more immersive experience for an Event Participant that is physically present at an event and as a result becomes more receptive to target marketing messages. Also provided is a new computer interfaces to create a more engaging experience when attending an event remotely and as a result be more receptive to target marketing messages. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166283 | Internet Web-Based Online Dispute Resolution System - An automated, anonymous, universally available, Internet-based online system to assist with dispute resolution for entities of all types, including individuals, business entities, religious entities, government entities, educational entities and any other types of entities that may be involved in a dispute. It provides dispute resolution assistance for disputes that may be either personal or public in nature, and for disputes over financial or non-financial issues. The system does not render verdicts or determine winners or losers: it suggests methods which may amicably lead to the resolution of disputes outside of the traditional means, systems and methods, which include mediation, arbitration, and the court system. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166284 | Pricing Relevant Notifications Provided to a User Based on Location and Social Information - A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120166285 | Defining and Verifying the Accuracy of Explicit Target Clusters in a Social Networking System - A cluster of users that share a common trait may be useful to a social networking system for various purposes, such as targeting advertising. Users of a social networking system are added to a cluster based on information about each user, which may include declared profile information, user history, and/or social information. The system initially adds users to a cluster based on a selected attribute and then verifies the accuracy of the cluster by sending a poll to a subset of the users in the cluster. The poll questions test whether the users are accurately in the cluster. The system may infer a specific life event, such as a recent engagement, from other information indicative of the life event, such as messages from a user's connections related to the engagement. The system then uses the poll to verify whether the inference is accurate. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120173339 | Tile Space User Interface For Mobile Devices - The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices. Data and services available through the mobile device can be represented as a set of tiles maintained in a display space. The tiles provide a snapshot of the current state of content available through the mobile device without requiring any interaction by the user. The tiles and display space are customizable and can be dynamically updated to display content to a user. In addition, tiles can provide functionality, including simple tasks to a user without requiring the user to navigate away from the tile display space. Tiles can also provide quick access to start software applications. Tiles can be organized in the display space by the user or the tiles can be automatically grouped based upon associated metadata. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120179547 | ADDED FEATURES OF HEM/HEG USING GPS TECHNOLOGY - A GPS-based energy management system for a home network is provided that includes a plurality of energy consuming devices. The system comprises a central controller operatively connected to each energy consuming device, and one or more GPS-enabled devices configured to communicate with the central controller. The central controller is programmed to modify the behavior of the energy consuming devices based on the location of at least one member of a home network. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179548 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED PROMOTIONS ON A USER INTERFACE OF A WIDGET BASED ON ITS CURRENT LOCATION - The present invention may be related to a system of providing location-based service and an LBS widget coupled with the system. The LBS widget may include a positioning module, a map module and an LBS promotion module. The positioning module may be configured to receive first coordinates. The map module may be configured to show a part of a map on a first user interface, wherein the part of the map may include a first location corresponding to the first coordinates. Moreover, the LBS promotion module may be configured to receive product information and second coordinates related to a promoted product page and mark a second location corresponding to the second coordinates on the part of the map. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179549 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING MESSAGES - Methods for providing distance-based delivery of advertising messages to users operating location-aware devices are described. A distance-based ad server receives ad content associated with a bounded distance from a geographic location, and also receives from each advertiser a payment, based on the distance from the physical geographic location, placement areas, and placement time interval for distributing the ad content to consumers located within the bounded area. The price charged for transmitting the ad is based on one of: a fixed pricing model that imposes the same price on all ads for a certain geographic reach and duration, a graduated pricing model that imposes a different price on ads depending on geographic reach or duration, and a bidding model that imposes a price based on an average price for a target area and bids received by a plurality of advertisers. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185333 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AN SMS-BASED INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC MARKETING OFFER SEARCH AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A method and system for providing an SMS-based interactive electronic marketing offer search and distribution system whereby a series of linked, refined, and evolving electronic marketing offer searches are performed in association with a thread of SMS text messages and automated SMS text message responses including search parameters and highlighted keywords to provide the user/consumer with a fully interactive electronic marketing offer search and distribution system using an SMS communication channel, and within the constraints of the SMS protocols. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185334 | LOCAL AD SERVING - In general, this specification relates to content presentation. The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, methods that include the actions of receiving a group of content items at a user device, the content items configured for presentation to a user in association with other content, each content item of the group of content items including metadata associated with the content item; identifying a request from an application of the user device to present a content item in association with particular content; selecting, using one or more processors, a content item from the group of content items using the metadata for the content items along with local targeting information; and presenting the selected content item. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120191543 | Generation and Viral Distribution of Geo-Location Specific Content on Mobile Handheld Display Devices Via the Internet and Social Media - Relevant dynamic interactive advertisements and alternate content are presented to users for viewing on wireless mobile handheld display devices (MHDDs) via mobile applications and browsers. Compiled location- and store-specific, customized dynamic and interactive advertisements are delivered as a mobile display advertisements or adsites to each user. The user receives a rolling advertisement with an adsite per side of the roller. Upon user interaction with any adsite, a compiled microsite of components of the adsite and dynamic components is displayed on the display screen for response and feedback by the user. The adsite is saved and shared as a link over the Internet and via social media. Any new user, receiving and activating the link, is connected to an ad serving unit and is provided with a user- and location-specific adsite. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120197722 | GROUP BUYING SEARCH - A group buying system includes a search engine operable to present group purchasing events to consumers. Consumers utilizing the search engine supply criteria relating to product descriptions, purchasing terms, offer features or the like. The search engine retrieves group purchasing events from one or more sellers in accordance with the supplied criteria. Furthermore, mechanisms are provided to enable the search engine to discover new offers posted by sellers on other systems. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197723 | USER-CUSTOMIZABLE SOCIAL GROUPING AND ADVERTISEMENT TARGETING TECHNIQUES - Methods and systems are providing that include joining a user to asocial group based at least in part on social grouping settings, and targeting the user with advertising based at least in part on at least one of the settings. Social grouping setting information may be obtained from the portable electronic device user. Available social groups may be detected, based at least in part on a detected location of the user. Based at least in part on at least one of the settings, it may be determined whether to join the user to a particular available social group. Furthermore, based at least in part on at least one of the social grouping settings, and/or other social grouping related aspects or parameters, information can be derived and used in selecting and serving highly relevant advertisements to the user. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197724 | Ad-Based Location Ranking for Geo-Social Networking System - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system receives data indicating a location of a user, generate and rank a list of places based on proximity to the user's location and existence of advertisement associated with one or more places, and present the ranked list of places to the user. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120197725 | ADAPTIVE INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS - An adaptive information presentation system. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a server apparatus with processor, network interface, and computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to receive a digital representation of speech input received from a user (such as at a location remote to the server), the speech input relating to an organization or entity which the user wishes to locate. Based at least in part on the digital representation, the program identifies a location associated with the organization or entity, and enables generation of a graphical or visual representation of the location in order to aid the user in finding the organization or entity. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120209714 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISING - An advertising provider may be obligated to ensure that its advertising directs users to the correct business entity (e.g., dealer or franchise). The advertising provider may maintain a datastructure comprising a plurality of “areas of responsibility” (AOR), each of which may be assigned to a respective dealer. When generating advertising content to be provided to a user, the advertising provider may access location-identifying information about the user. The location-identifying information may comprise a zip code, street address, or the like, which is sufficiently specific to allow the advertising provider to identify an AOR in the AOR datastructure. Accordingly, generalized location information, such as city, state, and/or country may not be sufficient. The location-identifying information may be used to identify the dealer that is assigned to the user. The advertising provider may access dealer-specific information, which may be used to generate dealer-targeted advertising for the user. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120209715 | INTERACTION WITH NETWORKED SCREEN CONTENT VIA MOTION SENSING DEVICE IN RETAIL SETTING - A computing device may be configured to allow a shopper to interact with one or more displays in a retail environment. A perception device may detect human actions in the retail environment and the shopper may be able to use human movements to navigate through retail data and have it displayed on the display device in the retail environment. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120221413 | INTELLIGENT PRESENTATION OF ADVERTISING WITH NAVIGATION - A wireless communication device ( | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221414 | VIDEO PHONE SYSTEM - A system allocates channel bandwidth based on the data received from a plurality of remote sources. A de-multiplexer/priority circuit separates two or more different data streams into their components parts. A stream modification driver modifies one or more characteristics of the data received from the de-multiplexer/priority circuit based on a priority assigned to the data by the de-multiplexer/priority circuit. The de-multiplexer/priority circuit determines the data transfer rates for each of the different data streams based on the assigned priority. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120226554 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA TO A PORTABLE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE BASED ON REAL-TIME SUBSCRIBER BEHAVIOR - Timely and relevant advertisements and/or data that are tailored to a subscriber based on real-time behavior information compared to historical behavior information derived from location histories of the subscriber and other subscribers, subscriber-defined preferences, etc. are served to the subscriber. Location history and real-time behavior information are compiled using location information derived from a variety of methods including GPS, associations between the subscriber's mobile communication device and network access points, and other location services. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120232993 | REAL-TIME VIDEO IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR PROVIDING DEEPENING CUSTOMER VALUE - System, method, and computer program product are provided for using real-time video analysis to provide deepening value offers for products or services to the user. Through the use of real-time vision object recognition objects, logos, artwork, products, locations, and other features that can be recognized in the real-time video stream can be matched to a directory associated with products a financial institution may be able to provide to the user at a discounted rate. Deepening value offers for product/services may be based on a financial institution's unique position with commercial partners. Commercial partners may be business, retailers, merchants, and/or manufacturers. In return for the deepening value offer, the financial institution may request the user deepen his/her relationship with the financial institution. This invention allows a user to receive an offer through his/her mobile device, in the form of a discount, at the point-of-sale for the same or similar product. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120232994 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISEMENT CONTENTS - A method and system for providing location-based advertisement contents based on objective reliability are provided. In the system, an advertisement server receives check-in counts accumulated as visitors visit a place and check in to the place, and stores them in a place check-in database (DB). The advertisement server extracts a check-in count of a corresponding place corresponding to a location of the advertisement contents from the place check-in DB when the advertisement consumer's mobile device requests advertisement contents and the check-in count from the advertisement server. The advertisement sever transfers the advertisement contents and the extracted check-in count to the advertisement consumer's mobile device. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120239499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING - In embodiments of the invention, as an inducement to a dealer/bailee entering into the financing agreement with a financing entity/bailor, the bailor may offer the use of embodiments of the invention to prepare targeted advertisements of the bailee's inventory for distribution to the bailee's customers. A first server coupled to a tag reader, is programmed to access terms of the agreement, to monitor the event signals received from the reader. A second server is coupled to the first server and is programmed to collect data based on the event signals received by the first server and to use the data to prepare targeted advertisements of the bailee's inventory, in accordance with the agreement. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239500 | USER IDENTIFICATION WITHIN A PHYSICAL MERCHANT LOCATION THROUGH THE USE OF A WIRELESS NETWORK - A method and system are described for determining a location of a consumer within a retail establishment, or other geographical proximity. The method and system use a portable computing device (“PCD”) such as, but not limited to, a mobile phone. The system and method may leverage existing infrastructure, such as wireless routers, to assist the PCD and a remote server in communication with the PCD to determine a location of a consumer in possession of the PCD within a retail location. The system may comprise a PCD running a geo-network discovery (“GND”) module, a server running a service set identifier (“SSID”) verification and rules (“V/R”) module, a telecommunications network, and a wireless router configured to broadcast a unique SSID. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239501 | TARGETED INCENTIVE ACTIONS BASED ON LOCATION AND INTENT - A method and a system offer an incentive to a user of a mobile device based on a geographic location of the mobile device and the intent of the user. A processor-implemented location identification module determines the geographic location of the mobile device of the user. A processor-implemented item identification module identifies an item specified by the user at the geographic location of the mobile device. A processor-implemented incentive module offers an incentive from at least one merchant within a predefined distance based on the identified item and the geographic location of the mobile device. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120239502 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246004 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER INTERACTION - Pursuant to some embodiments, methods, systems, apparatus, and computer program code for encouraging customer interaction are provided. In some embodiments, customer interaction may include receiving a request by a user operating a mobile device to provide feedback associated with an experience at a merchant. Device location data is identified associated with a current location of the mobile device. Merchant location data associated with a location of the merchant is identified, where the merchant location data includes information identifying a permitted review radius. A determination is made whether the current location of the mobile device is within the permitted review radius, and, if so, the user is permitted to provide feedback. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120246005 | Advertisement Systems and Methods for Notification Systems - Advertisement systems and methods are provided for use in connection with notification services or systems. One such method, among others that are disclosed, can be practiced by performing at least the following steps: (a) monitoring travel data associated with a mobile thing; (b) contacting a party based upon the travel data; (c) providing an advertisement to the party during the contact; and (d) charging a fee for or otherwise monetarily benefiting from providing the advertisement. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120253935 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING ALTERNATIVE SOCIO-SPATIAL STATES OF A USER - An approach is provided for presenting alternative socio-spatial states of a user. The approach involves determining location information associated with a user and other location information associated with one or more other users. The approach also involves determining social interest information associated with the user and other social interest information associated with the one or more other users. The approach further involves processing the location information, the other location information, the social interest information, the other social interest information or combination thereof to cause, at least in part, identification of one or more proposed encounters with respect to the user and the one or more other users. The approach additionally involves generating a presentation of the one or more proposed encounters to the user. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120253936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING COMMERCIAL INFORMATION TO LOCATION-AWARE DEVICES - A method of delivering advertisements to a location-aware device includes determining current time, date, and physical location of the location-aware device; determining user selected proximity limit; determining user selection data criteria regarding which advertisements the user desires; and filtering all available advertisements for subset information matching the current time, date, physical location, proximity limit, and selection criteria. The user can receive advertisements that the user desires to receive on the location-aware device. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120253937 | Real Time Media Selection and Creation of a Composite Multimedia File Used for Custom Advertising and Marketing - The present invention relates to a method for automatic conversion of an audio file in a first format to an advertising supported media file in a second format. The method includes the steps of: i) receiving a user selection of the audio file for downloading to an electronic device having a screen; ii) selecting from an advertisement database, advertisements that match a profile of the user; and iii) combining the audio file with selected advertisements to create the advertising supported media file in the second format that is suitable for playback on the electronic device on which the media file is to be downloaded. The advertising supported media file is arranged to playback the selected advertisements in parallel with playback of the requested audio file. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120253938 | ADVERTISING SYSTEM SUPPORTING USER INTERACTION WITH PROMOTION PORTAL - A system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption provides customers making online purchases to automatically retrieve and redeem all applicable rebates and coupons during an online purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system makes purchases from merchants or manufacturers using all applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system automatically retrieves coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site and to retrieve manufacturer's and merchant's coupons prior to an online purchasing activity for subsequent submission to an online merchant during a subsequent purchasing activity. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120259704 | TIME-SENSITIVE AND LOCATION-BASED COMMERCIAL OFFER SYSTEM - A method, system, apparatus and computer program to notify a user of a commercial offer that is time-sensitive and time-specific. The user can be notified of commercial offers associated with locations near the user's current or predicted location. The commercial offers are time-specific, for example, a commercial offer for breakfast that can only be used during morning hours. As such, the commercial offers can be provided to consumers that are commonly located in the area of the vendor offering the commercial offer at the time of day in which the commercial offer is most relevant. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120259705 | TIME-SENSITIVE AND LOCATION-BASED COMMERCIAL OFFER SYSTEM - A method, system, apparatus and computer program to notify a user of a commercial offer that is time-sensitive and time-specific. The user can be notified of commercial offers associated with locations near the user's current or predicted location. The commercial offers are time-specific, for example, a commercial offer for breakfast that can only be used during morning hours. As such, the commercial offers can be provided to consumers that are commonly located in the area of the vendor offering the commercial offer at the time of day in which the commercial offer is most relevant. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120265615 | CLICK TO CHAT IN ONLINE ADVERTISING - Techniques are provided for enabling chat in connection with online advertisements or sponsored search advertisements. Techniques are provided in which at least some sponsored search advertisements are associated with a displayed graphic, which graphic may visually suggest chat functionality. If the user selects or clicks on the graphic, without requiring opening of a Web page, a chat area may be provided, such as through the use of an instant messaging application. Using the chat area, the user may be immediately able to converse with the advertiser or an agent of the advertiser regarding a subject of the sponsored search advertisement. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120265616 | DYNAMIC ADVERTISING CONTENT SELECTION - Technologies are generally described for systems and methods effective to dynamically select advertising content. In an example, target sensory content and identification information can be received for a target advertising zone. The target sensory content and the identification information can be analyzed to determine features of the target advertising zone. Based on the features meeting conditions of a predefined function, a subset of advertizing content can be determined. In some embodiments, dynamically selecting advertising content can be performed on remote computing devices. Other embodiments can render the subset of advertising content for consumption in the target advertising zone. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120271717 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING LOCATION BASED PURCHASE INCENTIVES BASED ON PREDICTED ROUTE OF TRAVEL - Providing a purchase incentive to a mobile device based for example the user's location, predicted route of travel, and prior transactions. A tracking server computer determines a number of locations of a mobile device as it travels along a route and an associated timeframe when it is at each of the locations. The tracking server computer records the locations and associated timeframes in a location log and analyzes the location log to predict a subsequent location and associated timeframe that the mobile device will be at that location. The tracking server computer then determines a merchant proximate to the predicted subsequent location of the mobile device and generates a purchase incentive for use at the merchant and delivers the purchase incentive to the mobile device. In the alternative, the incentive may be generated by a merchant computer or the mobile device. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120271718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BACKGROUND ADVERTISEMENT OF VIRTUAL KEY INPUT DEVICE - Provided is a method for providing a background advertisement of a virtual key input device, which provides a background advertisement to a virtual key input device on an information communication terminal supporting a touch user interface (UTI). The method includes: generating a virtual key input unit; providing an advertisement contents skin as a background image of the virtual key input unit; and offering a reward in compensation for user's reading an advertisement. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120278172 | DELIVERING LOCATION-BASED OFFERS BASED ON CONSUMER CHARACTERISTICS - A dynamic incentive system is described herein that uses location data, customer demographics, and other information to make real-time targeted offers to consumers to encourage particular consumer behavior. In some embodiments, the dynamic incentive system attempts to reach consumers that are already at a location to perform some behavior. For example, a store in a mall may want to reach out to visitors to the mall to let them know about a particular sale or product for which the store has excess inventory. Upon detecting that a matching consumer is at the location, the system may present an offer to the consumer informing the consumer of the merchant's offer. Thus, the dynamic incentive system provides incentives to help merchants sell products and services by reaching more consumers and reaching them in new ways that are highly relevant to the consumers' current activities and location. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278173 | ADVERTISEMENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL - Architecture for finding and browsing advertisements presented to a user. In general, the user is able to save advertisements, distribute/share saved advertisements and/or advertisements in the user history, and distribute/share advertisements via existing communication modalities (e.g., email, SMS (short message service), social networks, messaging, etc.). The architecture provides a website the user can access to view the user history of advertisements, coupons, and offers that were presented to the user. Saved advertisements can be made available only for the duration of that particular campaign, beyond which the advertisements can be grayed out and purged with user consent. Additionally, all the advertisements can be published via one or more websites, store advertisements locally on a device, store advertisements in the cloud, and synchronize advertisements across different devices. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120290394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DIGITAL CONTENT - The present invention is of system for publishing digital content. The system includes a device for displaying digital content and a remote server that is in communication with the device. The remote server is configured for determining a geo-location of the device; and communicating digital data to the device according to a parameter relating to individuals being in proximity to a user operating the device. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290395 | METHOD AND COMPUTER MEDIUM FOR TRACKING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND TARGETING OFFERS - Mechanisms are provided to facilitate buying and selling products utilizing social pricing. Sellers initiate sale of a product with volume discounts for a limited time. In other words, the more people that buy a product, the lower the price for the group. Buyers have a real incentive to become prosumers that not only purchase a product but also promote purchase by others. A social pricing system brokers interaction between sellers and buyer groups, and provisions mechanisms to aid promotion of products by consumers utilizing social networks and other online activities. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120303456 | TARGETING DELIVERY DATA - A system for targeting delivery data is described. The system includes: a database accessor coupled with a local server, the database accessor configured for accessing a database coupled with the local server, wherein the database includes information associated with a set of premises, wherein each premises of the set of premises includes a domain coupled with a remote server and includes at least one device, wherein the at least one device includes a communication port that supports a first protocol corresponding to a second protocol, wherein the second protocol is supported by a device driver coupled with the domain; an information analyzer coupled with the database accessor, the information analyzer configured for analyzing the information; and a customized message sender coupled with the information analyzer, the customized message sender configured for sending a customized message to the set of premises. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120303457 | System and Method of Providing Advertisements to Vehicles - A communication device is removable and operable within a vehicle and is in communication with a data network as the communication device travels in the vehicle. Vehicle identification data is obtained from the communication device, and a type of media file supported by a media system of the vehicle is determined based upon the vehicle identification data. Media content is obtained in a format corresponding to the determined type of media file. When the communication device is within a desired range of a target location, the media content is transmitted to the communication device for presentation on the media system of the vehicle. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120310739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING ADVERTISING TO A DEVICE BASED ON INSTALLED APPLICATIONS - A system and method for targeting advertising to devices based on the applications installed on the device are provided. The system and method comprise retrieving data pertaining to the applications a user has installed on a device and assigning the applications weights based on their patterns of usage. The applications are categorized according to their genre and/or the time of day during which they are typically used, and each category is assigned a priority value based on the patterns of usage of the applications therein. An advertisement corresponding to the highest priority category is delivered to the device. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120310740 | Mechanism for Geographically-Aware Electronic Traveling Advertisements - A mechanism for geographically-aware electronic traveling advertisements is disclosed. A method of the invention includes displaying each of a plurality of advertisements on an electronic display of a mobile advertising unit in a general rotation and on a random basis, determining a current location of the mobile advertising unit from a Geographic Positioning System (GPS) unit and a current time from a clock, interrupting the general rotation to display a high priority advertisement if the current location of the mobile advertising unit is within a GPS waypoint range of the high-priority advertisement, interrupting the general rotation to display a high priority advertisement if the current time of the mobile advertising unit is within a time range of the high-priority advertisement, and recording statistics for each advertisement displayed on the electronic display in a log stored at the mobile advertising unit. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120310741 | Advertisement Verification - Methods, computing devices and systems may be provided for verifying and effectiveness of electronic coupons or electronic advertisements. A computing device, which may have navigation functions, may be located within a vehicle. The computing device may receive an electronic coupon or an electronic advertisement, which may be presented to a user via a display and may be sent to a nearby mobile device via a narrowband transmission. The computing device may determine whether a current location is proximate to a business associated with the presented electronic coupon or the electronic advertisement. The computing device may indicate to other computing devices within a system whether one or more separate or combined conditions are met with respect to the presented electronic coupon or the electronic advertisement. If the one or more conditions have been met, then a communication may be transmitted to a remote computing device executing an advertisement application. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120310742 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVERTISING ON SHIPPING CONTAINERS - Systems and methods for distributing advertising materials to recipients of shipping containers is disclosed. A driver of a shipping company places an advertisement on the shipping container during delivery. The advertisement is preferably placed on the address label for enhanced visibility and consumer interaction. Systems and methods for target marking to recipients may preferably be employed to further enhance consumer response. A processing controller may be employed to determine the profile of the recipient of a shipping container, and an advertisement may be selected. A processing controller may determine which advertisement would most likely to be of interest to the recipient of the shipping container. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120310743 | Using mobile devices to make secure and reliable payments for store or online purchases - Payment systems currently in vogue (credit/debit cards) use a form of identity applicable only to a specific payment network (card number). This prevents the aggregation of one's payment options, and exposes the sensitive account information to the relatively insecure parts (merchant locations) of the transaction chain. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120316963 | Method and System for Communicating Location of a Mobile Device for Hands-Free Payment - Certain aspects of a method and system for communicating location of a mobile device for hands-free payment may include a peer-to-peer ad-hoc network that comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a plurality of access points, and a plurality of point of sale (POS) devices. A first mobile device may determine its location coordinates and communicate them to a selected POS device via the peer to peer ad-hoc network. At least one of the plurality of mobile devices and/or the plurality of access points may be within a defined proximity of the selected POS device. In some instances, the first POS device may receive via one or more intermediate mobile devices in the peer-to-peer ad-hoc network, location coordinates and payment transaction information of a selected mobile device. At least one of the intermediate mobile devices may be within a defined proximity of the first POS device. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120316964 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND DISSEMINATING MOBILE DEVICE TAG DATA - A computer-implemented method for aggregating and disseminating tag data is provided. The method includes receiving a tag generated at a particular time from a particular mobile device. Data indicative of a particular location of the particular mobile device is received corresponding to the particular time. The tag is associated with the location indicative data of the particular mobile device. Data indicative of a location of one or more other mobile devices is received, and data indicative of the tag is transmitted to the one or more other mobile devices in response to the location indicative data of the one or more other mobile devices corresponding to the location indicative data of the particular mobile device. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120323689 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVERTISING AND MONETIZATION IN LOCATION BASED SPATIAL NETWORKS - A first request for a creation of a first social networking space is received. The first request comprises a first geospatial location and an identification of an advertisement, the advertisement being associated with an advertiser and a monetization fee. A social networking space is created based on the request. The social networking space comprises facilities for displaying the advertisement such that the advertisement is visible to users signed into the social networking space. A second request is received from a first user to sign into the first social networking space, such that the second request is transmitted from a mobile device associated with the first user. It is verified, using the computing device, that a current geospatial position of the mobile device is within the first geospatial location. In response to verifying the current geospatial position, the first user is signed into the first social networking space. A monetization event associated with the first social networking space is detected and the advertiser is charged, the monetization fee. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323690 | Systems and methods for monitoring, managing, and facilitating location- and/or other criteria-dependent targeted communications and/or transactions - A method for monitoring, managing, and facilitating location- and/or other criteria-dependent targeted communications and/or transactions includes: receiving signals and/or information that include or provide, or facilitate or initiate a process of providing access to, location information and one or more criteria, requirements, preferences, and/or other inputs pertaining to, or initiating or facilitating, one or more desired or requested communications and/or transactions, the information including, or being associated or established in association with, one or more identifiers at least one of which is mobile, floating, or transportable in relation to one or more of a machine, an apparatus, a device, an object, and a sentient entity with which the identifier is associated; and processing the signals and/or information to identify in association with at least one of the one or more identifiers one or more transactions, advertisements, messages, and/or communications that satisfy one or more criteria, requirements, and/or preferences. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120323691 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATION-BASED MARKETING FOR ATTRACTION ACCESS - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for enhanced marketing responsive to customer path data between attractions. A first device receives an identification of a location of a user and a first attraction selected for access by a user. A path analyzer of the device determines a travel path between the location of the user and the first attraction. The path analyzer identifies a second attraction within a predetermined distance from the travel path. The first device transmits, to a computing device of the user, an offer of access to the second attraction. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120330753 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130006772 | SYSTEM FOR PERSONAL EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING CONTENT DELIVERY - A system is provided for enabling personal editorial and advertising content delivery. The system has a publication server which receives information regarding interests of a user and selects editorial content in accordance with the information. The publication server also receives information regarding a locality and demographic of the user and selects advertising content in accordance with the information and the published editorial content. Further, the publication server publishes a personalised publication with the selected editorial and advertising content. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130006773 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROMOTIONS - In various embodiments, promotions are featured on mobile gaming devices. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130013411 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ACCESSING AND RECORDING MESSAGES AT COORDINATE WAY POINTS - A method and system for leaving and retrieving messages at specific coordinate way points within a commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) provider network are disclosed. Users carry or transport interface devices for communicating over the network and are able to record and view messages at specific coordinate locations while traveling in the network. The location of the device is calculated by the device or by the network while the device is powered on and within the physical boundaries of the network, or through a combination of both. Messages can be made available to network subscribers when their interface devices come within an area centered about a physical coordinate location. Personalized messages can also be left by subscribers at any coordinate point within the boundaries of the network. Access of information about an asset is facilitated when a technician comes within a physical proximity threshold relative to the asset. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130024285 | Assured comprehension advertising system - Methods and apparatus for providing messages ( | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130030916 | AFFILIATE INVESTIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Given an advertisement placed by a rogue affiliate that takes steps to hide its affiliate ID from affiliate investigators, the affiliate ID may be identified using a step-wise link follower to process the advertisement's target URIs. For each redirection step inclusively between the original target URI and the ultimate destination URI, the current URI is analyzed and requested according to either a trusted request method or a non-trusted request method depending on whether the resource to which the URI refers is known to be a trusted resource. The non-trusted request method is designed to thwart the rogue affiliate's efforts to identify an affiliate investigator as the source of the request. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130030917 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND USING A DIGITAL PASS - A system, method, and article of manufacture for generating a digital pass is disclosed. The method may comprise retrieving a plurality of identity attributes, and grouping a subset of identity attributes in the plurality of identity attributes to generate at least one digital pass. The method may further comprise grouping a subset of static identity attributes and a subset of dynamic identity attributes to generate a digital pass. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130030918 | System and Method for Providing Indications of Participating Advertisers to a Portable User Device - A method of providing indications of participating advertisers to a portable user device including detecting a plurality of participating advertisers in a vicinity of the portable user device; determining a relative proximity of the portable user device to each of the plurality of the participating advertisers; rendering an indication of the participating advertisers on the portable user device to convey the determined relative proximity of each of the plurality of the participating advertisers; detecting a change in the relative proximity of the participating advertisers; and changing the rendering of the participating advertisers on the portable user device to convey the detected change in the relative proximity of the participating advertisers. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130030919 | Targeting Listings Based on User-Supplied Profile and Interest Data - Technologies for targeting listings based on user-supplied profile and interest data are presented herein. In one aspect, user-supplied profile and interest data is received from a user. Targeted business listings are generated for the user based on the user-supplied profile and interest data. The targeted business listings are then provided to the user. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130036011 | Targeted Advertisement Content Presentation Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes a media content presentation system detecting a presentation of a media content instance by way of a primary media content access device, determining that a secondary media content access device is located within a detection zone associated with the primary media content access device during a time period associated with the presentation of the media content instance, selecting, in accordance with a course correction heuristic, advertisement content related to the media content instance and configured to target a user of the secondary media content access device, and presenting the advertisement content to the user by way of the secondary media content access device during the presentation of the media content instance by the primary media content access device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130036012 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICE SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method of managing location-based advertising in a location-based service system between a server side and client sides, said method comprising storing member accounts registered in the location-based service system in first database on the server side; storing advertisement files in second database on the server side; and selecting a first member account from the member accounts on the server side, distance between member coordinate corresponding with the selected first member account and advertisement coordinate corresponding with specified one of the advertisement files is smaller than or equal to first distance; transmitting at least one of the specified one of the advertisement files or link corresponding with the specified one of the advertisement files to a first client side corresponding with the selected first member account from the server side; and increasing value of points of the selected first member account by first amount on the server side. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130041753 | System and Method for Identifying a Path of a Billboard Audience Group and Providing Advertising Content Based on the Path - A plurality of mappings corresponding to respective points of interest is generated. Each mapping indicates at least one group detected at the corresponding point of interest and respective times when each respective group among the at least one group was detected at the corresponding point of interest. A standard representation corresponding to a set of one or more groups appearing in a selected one of the plurality of mappings is defined. A path associated with the standard representation is determined, based on the plurality of mappings, the path defining a second plurality of points of interest at which the standard representation was detected and time information indicating when the standard representation was detected at each respective point of interest within the second plurality of points of interest. A point of interest may comprise a location associated with a billboard. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130041754 | Integrated Gourmet Item Data Collection, Recommender and Vending System and Method - Items—including gourmet products—are evaluated and rated by participants in a controlled event, which can be coordinated by software locally or at a dedicated website. Event data, including item scores and participant scores can be shared with vendors, merchants and other commercial entities associated with the products. Promotional incentives from such entities for the products (and related products) can then be directly targeted and provided to participants and other members of the public. The participant's activities can also be collected and disseminated to affiliates/friends of the participants through social networking sites, personalized web pages, etc. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130046631 | PROVIDING OFFERS TO USERS DETERMINED TO BE TRAVELLING BASED ON POINT-OF-SALE TRANSACTION DATA - Methods, apparatus and computer-program products are described for providing travel-location merchant information, such as offers or the like, to users who are determined to be at a travel location based on Point-Of-Transaction (POT) data. Embodiments of the invention compare the location of the transaction as indicated by the POT data to the user's domicile location and if the transaction occurs a predetermined distance or greater from the domicile location, the user is determined to be at a travel location. Once the travel location is determined, travel location merchant information, such as offers or the like are identified and communicated to the user. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046632 | POINT OF SALE TRIGGERING OF OFFERS ALONG A PROJECTED TRAVEL ROUTE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, apparatus and computer program products are described herein for communicating offers to customers along a projected travel route after receiving an indication of a point of transaction event by collecting positioning information related to the customer, analyzing the positioning information to project the customer's likely route of travel, identifying one or more offers in which the customer may be interested, based in part on the customer's projected likely route of travel and communicating the offers to the customer. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046633 | DETERMINING MERCHANTS IN A TRAVEL LOCATION THAT ARE THE SAME OR SIMILAR TO MERCHANTS USED BY A USER AND PROVIDING MERCHANT INFORMATION TO THE USER - Methods, apparatus and computer-program products are described for determining that a user is at or will be at a travel location based on financial institution transaction data and identifying merchants at the travel location that are the same or similar to merchants previously used by the user. Once the same or similar merchants have been identified, information, such as merchant offers, associated with the same or similar merchants is communicated to the user via a chosen communication mechanism. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046634 | COMBINING OFFERS FROM MULTIPLE MERCHANTS BASED ON THE GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY OF THE MERCHANTS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing offers to purchase products or services to a user, the offers being for products of merchants located within geographic proximity to each other, to entice a user to visit that location. Offers may be received by a user throughout a day or when the user enters into a transaction. Once the user enters into a transaction at a merchant, the financial institution may receive data regarding that transaction. The data may provide the financial institution an indication as to the user's location and products the user is purchasing. The financial institution may then provide the user with offers to purchase other products. These offers may be for products similar to the products the user is currently purchasing. These offers, however, are within are for merchants within close geographic proximity to each other. These offers may entice users to enter other stores within a similar geographic location, such that the user may add to his/her shopping experience by frequenting merchants not typically frequented by that user. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130046635 | TRIGGERING OFFERS BASED ON DETECTED LOCATION OF A MOBILE POINT OF SALE DEVICE - In general terms, embodiments of the invention relate to methods and apparatuses for triggering the broadcast of offers based on the detected location of a mobile point-of-transaction device. For example, a method is provided that includes: (a) receiving transaction information associated with a financial transaction that occurred on a mobile point-of-transaction (“POT”) device; (b) determining, via a computing system, an entity associated with the mobile POT device; (c) determining a current geographic location of the mobile POT device; (d) determining a geographically targeted audience based at least partly on the current geographic location of the mobile POT device for use in transmitting information associated with the entity; and (e) transmitting information associated with the entity at a time triggered by the computing system. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130054367 | MOBILE DOOR BUSTER OFFER TRANSMISSION BASED ON HISTORICAL TRANSACTION DATA - A method communicates one or more offers to a customer by determining a distance between each of the plurality of users and one or more merchants, based at least in part on a first set of data, wherein the first set of data comprises information related to a plurality of users and a plurality of locations, each of the plurality of locations corresponding to one or more of the plurality of users. The method then correlates the distance between each of the users and the one or more merchants to one or more offers, wherein the offers are intended to entice one or more users to travel to one or more locations corresponding with the one or more merchants, collects a second set of data, wherein the second set of data comprises information related to historical transaction data corresponding to one or more of the plurality of users, determines to which of the plurality of users to make offers based at least in part on historical transaction data, and communicates one or more offers to the determined users based at least in part on the correlated distance between each of the users and the one or more merchants. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054368 | MOBILE DOOR BUSTER OFFER TRANSMISSION WITH VARYING OFFER VALUES - A method for communicating one or more offers to users determines a distance between each of the users and one or more merchants, based at least in part on a first set of data including information related to users and locations, each corresponding to one or more of the users, correlates the distance between each of the users and the merchants to one or more offers, wherein the offers are intended to entice one or more users to travel to one or more locations corresponding with the merchants, determines to which of the users to make offers, communicates the offers to the determined users based on the correlated distance between each of the users and the merchants, monitors acceptance rate of the offers, and communicates one or more modified offers to one or more users based on the monitored acceptance rate of the offers. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054369 | MOBILE DOOR BUSTER OFFER TRANSMISSION WITH MOBILE USER OFFER ACCEPTANCE OR REDEMPTION - A method for communicating one or more offers to one or more users determines a distance between each of the plurality of users and one or more merchants, based at least in part on a first set of data, wherein the first set of data comprises information related to a plurality of users and a plurality of locations, each of the plurality of locations corresponding to one or more of the plurality of users, correlates the distance between each of the users and the one or more merchants to one or more offers, wherein the offers are intended to entice one or more users to travel to one or more locations corresponding with the one or more merchants, determines to which of the plurality of users to make offers, communicates one or more offers to the determined users based at least in part on the correlated distance between each of the users and the one or more merchants, and receives, communicated from a mobile device of a user, acceptance or redemption of one or more of the offers. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130054370 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BASED ON LOCATION - A method and a system for communication between a seller and a potential buyer are provided. The method and the system comprises at least one server in communication with a wireless data network and a mobile wireless device in communication with the at least one server using the wireless data network. The system and the method for communication between the seller and the potential buyer facilitates searching based on a distance from the seller and simplifies a listing procedure of network based classified advertisements. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130060633 | PRIVACY-ENHANCED INTERNET ADVERTISING SYSTEM - The present invention is a system and method for managing the IP address space allocation of an ISP to reduce the probability that a subscriber's physical location can be discovered based on its IP address. In particular, the present invention is a system and method operable to detect and manage the IP address space allocation of an ISP that is taking part in an advertising system over a communications medium. The system and method of the present invention may incorporate or otherwise be operable to achieve any of the following: isolating individual member IP address statistics as part of an advertising system; finding individual and logical target groups that achieve a level of demand and popularity among the advertising system; and implementing embodiments of mechanisms to dynamically modify the IP address allocation of one or a plurality of such members within the ISP address allocation system. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060634 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING ADVERTISEMENTS - Methods and apparatus related to selecting advertisements for presentation based on, e.g., received signals from devices in the proximity to a user's communications device, are described. In various embodiments a mobile device monitors for signals, e.g., peer discovery or other signals, from other devices which transmit, e.g., broadcast, advertisement related information. In various embodiments a device receives advertising information from an advertising device, e.g., AdPoint. In the case of peer to peer signaling, the AdPoint may be in close proximity to the user device receiving the advertising information. Advertising information received from devices in proximity to the user device are used in selecting an advertisement for presentation. Distance from the user device to the AdPoint transmitting an advertisement or advertisement identifier, distance to a store to which an advertisement relates, and/or distance to a location to which an advertisement relates, are taken into consideration when selecting an advertisement for presentation. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND REDEEMING OFFERS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A location-based service is provided that may be integrated with venue systems, credit card processing systems, and/or loyalty systems for purposes of increasing the likelihood that offers will be accepted and sales of products and services will be made. Such a system according to various embodiments may leverage a social network of the user, and extend particular brand loyalties throughout the social network. That is, certain offers may be passed among users of the social network, permitting others to take advantage of offers thereby increasing the brand awareness and loyalty of particular venues. Further, according to certain embodiments, because an offer management and redemption system may be integrated with a location-based service, offers may be extended at or near the venue location. To this end, users may be provided one or more tools for accepting, purchasing and/or redeeming offers. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060636 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND REDEEMING OFFERS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A location-based service is provided that may be integrated with venue systems, credit card processing systems, and/or loyalty systems for purposes of increasing the likelihood that offers will be accepted and sales of products and services will be made. Such a system according to various embodiments may leverage a social network of the user, and extend particular brand loyalties throughout the social network. That is, certain offers may be passed among users of the social network, permitting others to take advantage of offers thereby increasing the brand awareness and loyalty of particular venues. Further, according to certain embodiments, because an offer management and redemption system may be integrated with a location-based service, offers may be extended at or near the venue location. To this end, users may be provided one or more tools for accepting, purchasing and/or redeeming offers. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060637 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND REDEEMING OFFERS WITH A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A location-based service is provided that may be integrated with venue systems, credit card processing systems, and/or loyalty systems for purposes of increasing the likelihood that offers will be accepted and sales of products and services will be made. Such a system according to various embodiments may leverage a social network of the user, and extend particular brand loyalties throughout the social network. That is, certain offers may be passed among users of the social network, permitting others to take advantage of offers thereby increasing the brand awareness and loyalty of particular venues. Further, according to certain embodiments, because an offer management and redemption system may be integrated with a location-based service, offers may be extended at or near the venue location. To this end, users may be provided one or more tools for accepting, purchasing and/or redeeming offers. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060638 | Methods and Systems for Providing Mobile Advertising Using Data Networks Based On Intelligence Data Associated with Internet-Connectable Devices - Computer systems and methods for providing mobile advertising using data networks based on intelligence data associated with Internet-connectable devices are provided. In some embodiments, the computer systems and methods may comprise determining an audience category associated with a user of an Internet-connectable device based on location and/or network events associated with the Internet-connectable device. In these embodiments, an audience value for the user of the Internet-connectable device may be determined based on at least the audience category associated with the user of the Internet-connectable device, wherein the audience value represents an audience segment comprising a subgroup of Internet-connectable device users defined based on at least one criterion. At least one advertisement may then be served to the Internet-connectable device, wherein the at least one advertisement is determined based on the audience value. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060639 | Methods and Systems for Providing Mobile Advertising Using Data Networks Based On Groupings Associated with Internet-Connectable Devices - Computer systems and methods for providing mobile advertising using data networks based on groupings associated with Internet-connectable devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, the computer systems and methods may comprise receiving and/or retrieving events; grouping the events into an events group; determining an audience value for a user of the Internet-connectable device based on the events group, wherein the audience value represents an audience segment comprising a subgroup of Internet-connectable device users defined based on at least one criterion; and transmitting an advertisement to the Internet-connectable device, wherein the advertisement is determined based on the audience value. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130060640 | Methods and Systems for Performing Proximity-Based Targeting of Advertisements to Internet-Connectable Devices and Utilizing Predicted Locations of Internet-Connectable Devices Using Data Networks - Computer systems and methods for performing proximity-based targeting of advertisements to Internet-connectable devices and utilizing predicted locations of Internet-connectable devices using data networks are provided. In some embodiments, the computer systems and methods comprise receiving from an Internet-connectable device at least one location event captured by the Internet-connectable device; determining a latest location of the Internet-connectable device based on the at least one location event; determining a proximity of the Internet-connectable device to a campaign location based on the latest location of the Internet-connectable device; and transmitting an advertisement to the Internet-connectable device based on the proximity of the Internet-connectable device to the campaign location. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130073392 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING OFFLINE PURCHASE INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO MULTIMEDIA ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive, at a time, an indication from a communication device that an item from a vendor-agnostic list has been located. The item having been previously added to a vendor-agnostic list in response to a user of the communication device perceiving an offline advertisement for the item, has been located. The code represents instructions to cause the processor to determine, based on a location indicator associated with the communication device, if the communication device is located within a range of a vendor substantially at the time. The code further represents instructions to cause the processor to store a relationship between an identifier associated with the offline advertisement and an identifier associated with the vendor if the communication device was located within the range of the vendor substantially at the time. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130073393 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A communications method and system and more particularly, to systems, methods and apparatuses for universal user-to-user communications. A communication system is described which uses a Universal Identification Number (UIN) that identifies each user on the system, encapsulating data that represent the user him or herself. Such data may include, the user's current physical geolocation on the globe; current status (busy, reachable, not reachable); current active endpoint to reach at and preferred method of reach; and an aggregation of all endpoints at which the user can be reached, and their geolocation. The described method and network system thereby can dynamically introduce, adapt, and communicate services (in essence personalize) to each user based on their current location and status. Thus, a user may communicate with another user efficiently without the need to know all of their endpoints or without the need to have multiple communication attempts on multiple devices. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130080255 | STEP DETECTION AND STEP LENGTH ESTIMATION - Step detection and step length estimation techniques include detecting salient points in sensor data of one or more sensors. A step frequency is estimated based on a time interval between the detected salient points. A step length of the step may then be computed based on a nonlinear combination of the estimated step frequency and a function of the sensor data, and/or a step model. Alternatively, the step length of the step may be computed based on a combination of a nonlinear function of the estimated step frequency and a (linear or nonlinear) function of the sensor data, and/or a step model. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080256 | TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION TO A USER THROUGH AN AGENT BASED ON THE LOCATION OF THE AGENT - Described is a telepresence system for providing information to a user through an agent based on the location of the agent, which is remote to a location of the user. The telepresence system is in signal communication with the Internet and a wireless communication network. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080257 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ACTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION INCENTIVES - An on-line computer activity is provided to users who generate points through participation. Promotional and incentive offers are displayed simultaneously with the activity to encourage participating users to select and enjoy the offers. Accumulated points may be applied to activate displayed offers to thereby allow participating users to be eligible for offers as sufficient points are accrued. Users are thereby filtered based on interest and willingness to participate. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130085858 | TARGETING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - In a social networking system, users may perform different types of actions with respect to objects (e.g., for a song, a user can buy, listen to, recommend, or like the song). Objects on the social networking system may include object properties (e.g., for a song, an artist, genre, and album are the song's object properties). Each type of action performed on a type of object may be aggregated in a different way. Actions may be performed on objects by users through the social networking system, a third-party application installed on the social networking system, and systems external to the social networking system. An advertiser may specify targeting criteria based on multiple different action types and aggregations of an action with respect to a particular object. Users may be categorized based on their interactions with objects having a common element. Ads may then be targeted to the categorized users. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130085859 | Targeting Advertisements Based on User Interactions - In a social networking system, users may perform different types of actions with respect to objects (e.g., for a song, a user can buy, listen to, recommend, or like the song). Objects on the social networking system may include object properties (e.g., for a song, an artist, genre, and album are the song's object properties). Each type of action performed on a type of object may be aggregated in a different way. Actions may be performed on objects by users through the social networking system, a third-party application installed on the social networking system, and systems external to the social networking system. An advertiser may specify targeting criteria based on multiple different action types and aggregations of an action with respect to a particular object. Users may be categorized based on their interactions with objects having a common element. Ads may then be targeted to the categorized users. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130085860 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DELIVER CONTEXT SENSITIVE DYNAMIC MOBILE ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems and methods for delivering context sensitive dynamic mobile advertisements are discussed. In an example, a method for delivering context sensitive dynamic mobile advertisements can include receiving user-related context data, generating an advertisement, transmitting the advertisement, updating a dynamic content portion of the advertisement, and transmitting at least the updated dynamic content portion. The advertisement is generated based at least in part on the user-related context data, and includes the dynamic content portion to display dynamic data related to the user-related context data. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130085861 | PERSISTENT LOCATION TRACKING ON MOBILE DEVICES AND LOCATION PROFILING - A mobile device may include a geopositioning receiver and an accelerometer, which may be engaged in an alternating manner depending on whether the mobile device is at rest or in motion. If the mobile device is in motion, the geopositioning receiver may remain engaged to provide a real-time location of the mobile device, which may be used to generate various location-triggered notifications and to control location-triggered applications. If the mobile device is at rest, the geopositioning receiver may be disengaged to reduce power usage and instead the accelerometer may be engaged to monitor whether the mobile device is put back in motion. If so, the geopositioning receiver may be reengaged. A sequence of locations where the mobile device came to rest may be stored to construct a location profile, which may allow closely targeted offers and advertisements to be generated based on the daily activity patterns of users. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130091015 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL VENDOR HAWKING USING DIRECTIONAL ADVERTISING - Techniques are provided for use in targeting potential customers that may be travelling near a vendor. A set of one or more potential customers travelling in a predetermined direction within a predetermined distance from a vendor's geographic location may be detected substantially in real time. The vendor may specify one or more criteria to target the potential customers. The set of potential customers may be reduced based at least in part on the one or more criteria to create a subset of potential customers. One or more advertisements may be transmitted to the subset of potential customers such that the advertisements may be viewed or displayed or played back on the vehicle's sound system and/or on the occupants' smartphones. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091016 | Method and System for Providing Location Targeted Advertisements - A system for providing an advertisement is disclosed. The system comprises a processor and an advertisement database. The advertisement database includes data representing at least one predefined restricted advertising area including a location of a predefined restricted advertising area. An advertising program executed on the processor is configured to obtain a position of a mobile device, determine whether the position of the mobile device is located within the predefined restricted advertising area, and block providing an advertisement message to the mobile device that is located within the restricted advertising area. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091017 | Method And System for User Connections and Advertising Using Geographic Index of Affinity - A system for managing a geographic index of affinity (GIA), defined as a distance a user is willing to find/connect with other users, specific to a particular shared interest. The GIA includes a degree of distance (Affinity) based on their geographic location and can be used in conjunction with free online Web services to deliver a steady and relevant pool of meaningful connections based on interest-specific GIAs. This provides an advantage of capitalizing on blind spots and shortfalls in current social networking platforms by building sites where users build communities of trust, and, in the process, make themselves open to relevant local advertising. As desired, user demographic databases are built that include specific interests, approximate location, age and gender of the users using the GIA. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091018 | METHOD, SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL-COMMERCE DEAL WITH ROUTE INFORMATION - Disclosed herein are a method, a server, and a computer readable recording medium for providing social-commerce deals with route information. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing social-commerce deals with route information executed by a social-commerce server, method including receiving route request information from a user terminal and calculating route information based on the received route request information, extracting recommendation social-commerce deal information based on the calculated route information, and providing the calculated route information and the extracted recommendation social-commerce deal information to the user terminal. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130097022 | COMMERCIALLY SUBSIDIZED MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES AND SERVICES - Mobile communication devices, such as mobile phones, may be capable of recommending to a user various providers of one or more solicited services, e.g., by identifying a user location and identifying providers near the user location that provide the services, and by initiating a call between the user and a selected provider. However, the equipment and service costs of such devices may be prohibitive, particularly for mid-range mobile communication devices that may appeal to cost-conscious users. The prohibitive costs may be diminished by redirecting part or all of the cost of providing the recommendation service from the providers, e.g., by charging the provider a service cost upon initiating a call from the user to the provider, or upon representing the provider in a provider database. In one such embodiment, all service costs may be borne by providers, providing to the user a free recommendation service via the mobile communication device. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130103501 | System to Generate and Set Up an Advertising Campaign Based on the Insertion of Advertising Messages within an Exchange of Messages, and Method to Operate Said System - A method includes receiving message data at a server from a first remote device. The message data is associated with a message to a second remote device and includes text. The method includes parsing the message data to identify information associated with an advertisement of an advertisement campaign. The advertisement includes advertisement text and a graphical image that corresponds to a pre-recorded audio message. The method includes generating an audio file based on the message data, the advertisement text, and the pre-recorded audio message, and sending the audio file from the server to the second remote device. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130117120 | SESSION MANAGER - A method may include receiving a request, from a user device, associated with accessing a multi-media asset/content, identifying a location associated with the user device and identifying a profile for a subscriber associated with the user device. The method may also include determining whether the multi-media asset/content is available, identifying, based on the location, a content distribution network or network device to deliver the first multi-media asset/content, and identifying, based on the profile, advertisements associated with the multi-media content or asset. The method may further include inserting the identified advertisements into the multi-media asset/content and providing, via the identified content distribution network or network device, the multi-media asset/content to the user device. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117121 | CONTENT DELIVERY USING SOCIAL AFFINE TARGETING - A content delivery system using social affine targeting may include a device that determines, based on presence information received from mobile devices, users in a vicinity of an electronic billboard. The device may further determine, based on user behavior information relating to the users, affinities of the users; and determine commonality of the affinities of the users. Still further, the device may select, based on the determined commonality of the affinities, one or more advertisements to present by the electronic billboard; and transmit the selected one or more advertisements to the electronic billboard. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117122 | Methods and Systems for Providing A Location-Based Legal Information and Imaging Service - A method, system, apparatus, and computer product is presented for a location-based legal information and advertising service. A user of this service is assumed to have a mobile data device whose location may be determined by geolocation technology or user input. Once a particular location of interest has been determined, the device can display a variety of categories or fields of law that a user may select from. Upon user selection, data regarding the user can be stored in a database and information based upon the user's selection of a category or field of law and particular locations, and can be further retrieved and displayed. Additionally, the method, system, apparatus, and computer product may retrieve and display an advertisement or an image based upon the user's selection of a category or field of law and particular location of interest. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117123 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130124322 | TARGETING INFORMATION TO A USER BASED ON VIEWED PROFILE PAGES - A social networking system maintains profile information about a subject user and about a viewing user. The viewing user requests a page of information about the subject user (e.g., a profile page) from the social networking system. The social networking system determines a set of interests or other information about the subject user based on the subject user's profile information. One or more ads are selected based at least in part on the set of determined interests or other information about the subject user. The profile page of the subject user is generated, where the profile page comprises profile information about the subject user along with the selected ads. The profile page of the subject user is then sent to the viewing user for display. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124323 | String Based Promotional System and Method Thereof - A system for associating a promotion with strings with the string being based upon a plurality of places and a relationship between two or more of those places. The strings represent an authentic user experience of a quality, character, and/or feel intended by the string author. The user experience can be further enhanced or guided through a narrative accompanying the string or places, written by the string author, that describes or invokes the quality, character or feel of the experience intended by the author. The promotions system promotes and suggests places, relationships, or strings that a user may want to experience based upon selections made by the user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130124324 | IDENTIFYING A SAME USER OF MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION DEVICES BASED ON USER ROUTES - 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 |
| 20130124325 | INTERNET BUSINESS TRANSACTION PROCESSOR - Targeted products are offered over a communications network. Product data for a plurality of products from a plurality of distributors for the products is received. Customer data from a plurality of customers comprising personal information about customers is received. Using the data, at least one user-specific product offering from the plurality of products is generated. Automated messages comprising the at least one user-specific product offering to the one or more customers are then sent. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130132202 | AWARDING ACHIEVEMENTS - Techniques are described for awarding achievements unlocked by a user across one or more computer games. Embodiments receive achievement information for a user. The achievement information specifies a first amount of achievement points earned by the user by unlocking achievements across one or more computer games. One or more external offers available for the user based on the received achievement information are then determined. Here, the one or more external offers are separate from the one or more computer games in which the achievements were unlocked. Embodiments then present the determined one or more external offers to the user. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130132203 | ADVERTISING SYSTEM COMBINED WITH SEARCH ENGINE SERVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - An advertising system combined with search engine services, comprising a client and a server, wherein the server comprises a server-side transceiver, receiving an emotion signal and a keyword from the client; a search engine, performing search functions according to the keyword and generating a search result; an emotion analyzer, analyzing the emotion signal and generating an emotion parameter of a user, wherein the emotion parameter represents an emotional status of the user; and an advertisement platform, searching for at least one recommended advertisement classified as the emotional status of the user according to the emotion parameter; and wherein the server-side transceiver further transmits the search result and the at least one recommended advertisement to the client through a network. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130138508 | Method and System for Media Content Delivery On a Display Device - A display device coupled with one or more electronic visual displays to present media content positioned in a vehicle for external viewing utilizing a transceiver communications element to deliver and receive information through communications networks while traveling in a vehicle. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138509 | DYNAMIC GEO DATABASE SOURCE SELECTION - Ad serving systems and methods integrate with a plurality, preferably all, geolocation providers/databases and enable an ad selection server to dynamically choose the right IP-to Geo provider for each ad being considered for selection. It also allows ad campaign managers to set up the ads with desired IP-to-Geo providers so that they are consistent with third party rich media creative delivery services. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130138510 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING ELECTRONIC SALES TRANSACTIONS THROUGH PUBLISHED CONTENT - In a method of providing purchasing opportunities linked to geographical locations, a user is provided a graphical user interface for a mobile electronic device comprising a representation of a published work, wherein the published work contains one or more references or representations of goods or services associated with the location of the mobile electronic device. Selectable links are provided within the representation of the published work directly to the one or more sources for obtaining the referenced goods or services. A selection of at least one of the selectable links is received. A sale or offer for sale of the selected one or more goods or services is facilitated. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130144722 | 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. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130166384 | LOCATION-BASED ENCODED DATA FOR FACILITATING TARGETED COMMUNICATIONS - A system and method to facilitate targeted campaign communications on mobile devices. Rather than rely on the GPS functionality of the mobile device, the method is able to determine the location of the mobile device by determining the location of the campaign media that is being scanned. Location information is embedded in encoded data, such as a 2D barcode or an RFID tag, to be placed the campaign media for this purpose. The campaign entity sends campaign data, including location data, to the campaign preparation servers of the barcode campaign service. The location data can be an address indicating where campaign entity plans to place their campaign media, or a location where campaign entity expects a recipient to receive the campaign media through the mail. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166385 | Event Location with Social Network Integration - An event location system identifies events of interest to a user. The system uses a filter and location associated with the user to search a database of events, thereby producing an event result set representing current events near the user's location that match the user's filter. The filter may include one or more criteria, such as criteria obtained from one or more social networking profiles of the user. The location may be identified automatically, such as by using a Global Positioning System (GPS) module. The system may automatically update the event result set over time and as the user's location changes so that the event result set is always up-to-date and reflects the user's current location. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130166386 | COMMUNITY-BASED MARKETING AND ADVERTISING APPLICATION - A community-based marketing and advertising service uses an application (“app”) that is configured to provide location-aware services to promote local businesses and show the character and/or history of the location to customers and visitors who use the app. The app may be implemented on diverse computing platforms as both web- and smartphone-based products having location-awareness capabilities provided, for example, by GPS (Global Positioning System) or mobile phone tracking technologies such as cell tower triangulation. The app is implemented in a manner to readily enable businesses to market and advertise using, for example, social networking constructs such as blogging and tweeting while simultaneously providing users with easy-to-use tools to plan a visit, navigate and receive directions in real time using maps displayed by the app, receive promotional offers such as coupons, and generate feedback for the benefit of other users while at or near a given location in the community. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130173389 | RETAIL SYSTEM WITH LOCATION-BASED CUSTOMIZATION - Described are retail systems including a device and one or more processors in communication with the device. The retail systems retrieve user information from the device, which may include location information, date, time, and or fitness data. The retail systems determine the location of the user or attendance of the user at an event based on the user information and transmit a list of specials based at least in part on the user location, event attendance, or fitness data to the device. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130173390 | DIGITAL CONCIERGE APPLICATION - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing digital concierge services through a portable electronic device. The digital concierge may be provided through an application installed on a portable electronic device that is configured to contact a concierge service, provide filtered and relevant offers including promotions and accountholder benefits, and provide ATM location services for users as they travel. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method comprising determining a location of a portable electronic device, receiving concierge data associated with the user, filtering, by a processor, a plurality of offers according to the location of the portable electronic device and the concierge data associated with the user, and presenting filtered offers to a user. Some embodiments may further filter the plurality of offers according to an issuer associated with the user of the portable electronic device. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179263 | CONTEXTUALLY LINKING PEOPLE TO STRATEGIC LOCATIONS - In a method for linking a person to a location, a computer determines that a device of a person is within a predetermined distance of a location, based on data received from the device. The computer identifies the at least one of the person and the device, determined to be within a predetermined distance of the location, based on the received data. The computer associates the at least one of the person and the device with the location. The computer generates a message based on the association. The computer communicates the message to the person. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179264 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND SENDING PROMOTIONAL OFFERS VIA TEXT MESSAGE - A method for electronically generating and providing promotional offers to a mobile device is provided. Consumer-initiated text messages are directed to a common code. Based on a natural language request from the consumer in the text message, promotional offers matching the consumer request from a group of promotional offers for a number of businesses are identified and sequentially sent in sets to the consumer. Promotional offers are provided based on the location of the consumer. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179265 | LOCATION-BASED PROMOTION DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for providing location-based promotions, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179266 | Location Blocking Service from a Web Advertiser - Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a web advertiser) subscribing to the identity-blocking service. However, the service promoter may not send any identity information for the mobile subscriber to the third party. On the other hand, in the location-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the mobile subscriber's identity information to the third party, but not the current physical location of the mobile subscriber. Blocking of the mobile subscriber's identity or location information may be desirable for privacy reasons, to comply with a government regulation, or to implement a telecommunication service option selected by the mobile subscriber. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130191215 | LOCATION-BASED APPLICATION POP UP - In one embodiment, a plurality of bids on a location are obtained, wherein each of the plurality of bids pertains to one of a plurality of applications. A pre-defined number of the plurality of applications are selected based, at least in part, upon the plurality of bids, such that a set of one or more of the plurality of applications is identified, wherein each of the plurality of bids pertains to an exclusive right for the set of one or more applications or one or more advertisements pertaining to the set of one or more applications to be provided to users present at the location. The set of one or more of the plurality of applications are associated with the location. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191216 | Method of Providing Incentives to Mobile Device Holders to Acquire Price and Location Information - Systems, apparatus and methods that give selling actors the abilities and means to acquire information from the environment in the proximity of mobile device holders and use this information to generate dynamic offers. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191217 | Dynamic Offers Subject To Mobile Device Holder Location - Systems, apparatus and methods that give selling actors the abilities and means to sell products and services by providing dynamic offers to buying actors subject to buying actors locations. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191218 | Means of Generating And Transmitting Dynamic Offers Subject To Mobile Device Holder Location - Systems, apparatus and means that give selling actors the abilities and means to sell products and services by generating and transmitting dynamic offers to buying actors subject to buying actors locations. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130198002 | METHOD AND PROCESS OF USING META-DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DIGITAL MEDIA TO ADVERTISE LOCAL INVENTORY BASED UPON VIEW GPS LOCATION - Retrieving information related to a plurality of viewable items in a dynamic digital event, the information including metadata, by displaying an indication on an end user device that one or more of the items are present within at least a portion of the dynamic digital event; identifying the location of the end user device; based on its location, identifying one or more merchants at or near the location of the end user device that offer at least one of the items, and displaying such information on the end user device. The system may determine whether a merchant may offer a special offer with respect the item. If no merchant offers the advertised item at or near the location, the system may select a merchant providing an item similar or substitutable for the advertised item. Object recognition may be employed, including using near real-time tagging. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130198003 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY TARGET IDENTIFYING APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY TARGET IDENTIFYING METHOD, ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention is to provide an advertisement delivery target identifying apparatus, an advertisement delivery apparatus, an advertisement delivery target identifying method, an advertisement delivery method, a program, and a recording medium that allow an advertisement effect to be increased by identifying an advertisement delivery target. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130204705 | TARGETED LOCAL DEALS FOR CONTENT SHARING SITES BASED ON LOCATION METADATA - Techniques are provided for capturing and annotating content with location information, and for serving the annotated content with advertisements selected based on the location where the content was captured. A request to display content may be received. The content may have previously been captured by a handheld portable device that includes a location determiner. The handheld portable device automatically annotated the content with metadata that indicates a location of where the content was captured, as determined by the location determiner. In response to the received request, an advertisement selected based at least on the indicated location is requested, and the requested content is provided to be displayed with the advertisement. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130204706 | TARGETING CONTENT TO USERS AT A DISTANCE FROM A LOCATION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing a content item. The method comprises receiving a request for a content item, identifying one or more content items responsive to the request, where at least one of the content items includes targeting criteria that is based at least in part on a location associated with the user. The method further comprises identifying a specified location associated with the one content item, identifying a current location of the user, and determining a distance from the current location to the specified location. The method further comprises determining when the distance satisfies the targeting criteria associated with the one content item and, when the distance satisfies the targeting criteria, including the one content item in an auction along with other content items, and providing winning results of the auction responsive to the request. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130211916 | AUTOMATIC REAL-TIME OPPORTUNITY-RELEVANT PROMOTIONS FOR AN AUTO BUYING ASSISTANT APPLICATION - Automatically receiving loan application promotions on a mobile device based on the mobile devices entering of a predetermined geographic area. The loan promotion application for the mobile device incorporates location-based promotion technology to provide financial institutions with the ability to deliver real-time opportunity-relevant loan promotions to potential borrowers based on the mobile device's physical presence at a point of sale. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130211917 | LOCAL AREA ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT - A local area advertising server limits distribution of advertisements to computing devices, preferably mobile computing devices, that are carried by people likely to be in close physical proximity to a store or location to which the advertisements pertain and likely to be currently engaged in activities relevant to the advertisements. Advertisements from a specific store can be delivered immediately through the Internet to people physically inside the store. Computing devices coupled to a local area network located in or near a store or other location are presumed to be physically in or very near the store or location. By associating advertisements with local area networks to which they pertain, only advertisements associated with the local area network to which the computing device is connected are sent to the computing device. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218679 | Method, System and Program Product for Providing Advertisement - A method, system and program product comprises registering a provider where the registration comprises an identity, an advertisement, a location for displaying the advertisement, and a time period for an advertising event. Funds are deposited into an account for the advertising event. At least one marketer is registered where the registration comprises an identity, an identity of at least one display and control device in possession of the marketer, a location for the display and control device, and an available time period for displaying advertisement. Notification of a match of a marketer to present advertisement content of a provider is received, in which the provider's advertisement is communicated to the marketer's display and control device. Tracking information for the display and control device determines a value of funds. The value of funds is transferred from the account for the advertising event to an account for the marketer. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218680 | LOCATION SENSITIVE ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY AND PRESENTATION - The delivery and presentation of context-specific content in a user-generated content application is disclosed. A first user-generated content object defined by a content element and an associated location element is received. The content-specific content is also received, and is contextually related to the first user-generated content object. The first user-generated content object is displayed in a first interface panel, and is transitioned to a display of a second interface panel with a transition graphic effect. The context-specific content is displayed in the second interface panel upon conclusion of the transition. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218681 | Methods, Devices and Systems for Targeting Content to the Users of Digital Devices - A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or individually. GPS position data and historical GPS position data can be exchanged between cell phones of buddies and instant buddies such as tow truck drivers via a buddy watch server. Emergency monitoring services can be set up with notifications to programmable individuals in case an individual does not respond. Positions and tracks can be displayed. TalkControl simplifies and automates the process of joining talk groups for walkie talkie services such as that provided by Nextel. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218682 | DIGITAL CONCIERGE APPLICATION - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing digital concierge services through a portable electronic device. The digital concierge may be provided through an application installed on a portable electronic device configured to contact a concierge service, provide filtered and relevant offers, and provide ATM location services for users as they travel. One embodiment is directed to a method comprising determining a location of a portable electronic device, receiving concierge data associated with the user, filtering a plurality of offers according to the location of the portable electronic device and the concierge data associated with the user, sorting the plurality of offers according to their offer data, and presenting the plurality of offers in a layered interactive stack of content that allows a user to recognize the type of offer content and a number of offers in the plurality of offers. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130218683 | Location Event Advertising - Information about physical places is gathered to develop quality scores for targeting advertisements to users of mobile devices sharing geographic location events with service providers. A scoring model incorporates selected attributes about places (e.g., created by a service provider vs. user-generated, category, keywords, census data providing population density by location, property values by area, popularity, special events, government vs. private area, whether place is associated with a brand, chain, or is independent) that have been gathered from multiple sources, verified, and normalized. Advertisements are targeted to users running mobile applications based on a location event shared with the service provider using the quality score for the place indicated in the location event in addition to other attributes of the place. In one embodiment, the system uses a machine learning algorithm to analyze conversion rates of targeted advertising to provide feedback to the scoring model. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130226703 | METHODS FOR USING PHYSICAL PRESENCE IDENTIFICATION FOR ADVERTISING WITHIN VIRTUAL SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS AND ON WEB PAGES - A method for selecting and displaying advertisements directed to an individual using a computer. An individual is provided with a non-transitory tangible storage medium with a unique identifier. The individual inputs the storage medium into a local computer. In response, the individual's profile data and current IP address is sent to an advertising server that selects and displays advertisements to the individual based on the profile data and physical location of the individual. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130226704 | Consumer Interaction Using Proximity Events - A system adapted to identify and react to proximity events is described. The system includes: a set of sensors, each sensor in the set adapted to transmit a wireless beacon signal, the beacon signal including a sensor ID associated with the sensor; at least one mobile device adapted to receive the wireless beacon signal from the sensor and provide a location of the mobile device; and a server adapted to receive the location of the mobile device and the sensor ID, generate instructions based at least partly on the received information, and send the instructions to the mobile device. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130232007 | MOBILE DEVICE CLUSTER ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY - Systems and computer program products provide advertisement delivery to a cluster of mobile devices with computer readable program code, when read by a processor, configured for identification 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 code is further configured for displaying an advertising message on each mobile device in the cluster. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130246179 | METHOD FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION - A method for managing and distributing multimedia content comprising storing multimedia content in a content management system, registering the multimedia content in the content management system, creating user-defined compilations of the multimedia content, assigning market-specific data to the compilations, generating portable application objects associated with the user-defined compilations and distributing the user-defined compilations to one or more client devices using the portable application objects, each client device hosting an operating environment that enables the multimedia content in the compilations to be rendered in the operating environment on each client device. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254034 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING TRAVEL SERVICES USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - This is directed to systems and methods for integrating travel services in a single application available to a portable electronic device. Using the single application, a user can access and control travel services before arriving at the initial location of travel, on arriving at the initial location of travel, during travel, and after travel. Such services can include, for example, reserving a travel itinerary, checking-in remotely for a reservation, providing airport information, providing for social networking, obtaining dining or entertainment during travel, controlling and requesting cabin services, providing arrival notifications to third parties, providing destination location information, and the like. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130262231 | TARGETED INCENTIVE ACTIONS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITHIN A GEOGRAPHIC LOCALE - Offering an incentive to users of a mobile device based on the number of devices within a geographic locale. The incentive may be one or more incentives that a merchant is willing to offer only if there are a given number of users within a geographic locale. The incentive may be combined with additional incentives determined in various ways. A location identification module may determine the geographic location of mobile devices. An item identification module may identify that a merchant may be willing to offer an incentive only if there are a given number of users within a geographic locale and may identify an item specified by one or more of the given number of users within the geographic locale. An incentive module may transmit an incentive from a merchant who may or may not be within the geographic locale. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130268365 | Method and System for Launching a Generic Marketing Campaign by Pooling Small Advertisers - A method of launching a generic, brand-neutral marketing campaign for a plurality of small advertisers comprises: causing a display of a brand-neutral marketing message on a plurality of client devices to respective viewers at the client devices, the brand-neutral marketing message including one or more generic terms characterizing products or services and a unique campaign attribute associated with the marketing campaign; receiving a response from at least one viewer that has watched the brand-neutral marketing message, the response including the unique campaign attribute and location information of a client device associated with the viewer; preparing a target-oriented marketing message based on the unique campaign attribute and the location information of the client device, the target-oriented marketing message including information about at least one small advertiser that participates in the marketing campaign; and causing a display of the target-oriented marketing message on the client device associated with the viewer. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130275218 | LOCATION-BASED WISH LIST - In one embodiment, the system obtains first information pertaining to one or more physical entities with respect to a user. The system creates or updates a profile pertaining to the user based, at least in part, upon the first information. The system provides second information to the user based, at least in part, upon the profile that has been created or updated. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275219 | SENDING TARGETED PRODUCT OFFERINGS BASED ON PERSONAL INFORMATION - Targeted products are offered over a communications network. Product data for a plurality of products from a plurality of distributors for the products is received. Customer data from a plurality of customers comprising personal information about customers is received. Using the data, at least one user-specific product offering from the plurality of products is generated. Automated messages comprising the at least one user-specific product offering to the one or more customers are then sent. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVERTISING - A method and system for advertising is disclosed, wherein an advertisement vendor is assigned an electronically defined geographic advertising area in which advertisement messages will be electronically delivered by the advertising system to mobile digital devices. The advertisement vendor creates an advertising campaign for an advertiser located in the electronically defined geographic advertising area and electronically associates an advertisement message with that advertising campaign. The advertisement message for that advertising campaign is electronically delivered from the advertising system to a mobile digital device when that mobile digital device is located in the electronically defined geographic advertising area and the advertising campaign satisfies the preferences of the user for receiving advertisement messages, including a distance between the mobile digital device and the location of the advertiser. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275221 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING TARGETED MARKETING CONTENT TO MOBILE DEVICE USERS BASED ON GEOLOCATION - The present disclosure relates generally to proximity-based advertising and marketing systems, and more particularly to methods and systems for the creation, syndication, and distribution of advertising and marketing content to consumer mobile devices based at least in part on a physical, geo-location or proximity of the mobile devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for creating predefined regions and associating mobile content items to such predefined regions. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275222 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO COMBINE TRANSACTION TERMINAL LOCATION DATA AND SOCIAL NETWORKING CHECK-IN - A system and method configured to provide enhanced services based on check-in information obtained in a social network system and transaction location information observed in a payment processing system. In one aspect, the transaction location may be used to validate, verify or authenticate the check-in location declared in the social network system. In another aspect, the transaction location can be used as a basis to automate a check-in in the social network system in accordance with a preference of a user. In a further aspect, the transaction location and the check-in location can be correlated to detect inaccurate data, correct the inaccurate data, and/or augment the data in a data warehouse about the locations of transaction terminals. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130282490 | System For Providing A Service To Venues Where People Perform Transactions - A system and method for providing a service to promoters, including venues and advertising sponsors, who wish to provide promotions. The service includes making promoter promotions accessible by the mobile phones of members associated with an organization. Typically a promotion and member are matched based on the member's geographical position, which may be reported by the member or determined automatically during a transaction, a promotion redemption, or by a position sensor in their mobile phone. A promotion and member are optionally matched by the member's traits and behaviors. In addition to accessing promotions, members have mobile access to real-time information about the venues, such as the demographics of venue attendees and media posted by attendees concerning venue characteristics. Using the system, venues can determine who is shopping nearby and can send promotions to their phones, and members can know before going which venues have promotions and their preferred attendee demographic. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130290103 | Affinity Relationship Based Ecommerce - Data characterizing an offer for sale of a good or service by a seller is received. The data specifies constraints of the offer. The constraints identify a plurality of groups of potential buyers to which the offer is to be conveyed and characterizes conditions specifying how the offer is to be conveyed to each group. At least one of the groups is determined based on an affinity relationship of the potential buyers in that group to the seller. The terms of the offer may vary between at least two of the plurality of groups based on the relationship. A plurality of formatted offers can be generated. Each formatted offer corresponds to a respective group and to an online marketplace. At least one of the formatted offers can be posted to a respective group according to the conditions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290104 | DATA DELIVERED TO TARGETED MOBILE DEVICE - A data management system for a mobile device includes a communications module storing content created by a user of the system for delivery to a customer. A database module is connected to the communications module, matching customer data with user data and an identified geographic location of the customer in three-dimensional space to calculate a target customer for content delivery. A streaming module is connected to the database module which serves the content to the target customer. A priority module is connected to the streaming module for prioritizing the delivery of content to the target customer. The priority module determines an appropriate schedule for the delivery of the content to the target customer. The streaming module sends a notification to the mobile device that the content is available. The priority module receives, and authenticates with the database module, a first authorization by the target customer to deliver the content. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130290105 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130297421 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF CUSTOMER INTERACTIONS TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE CUSTOMER DATA ARCHIVES - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for targeting offers to customers. Specifically, data relating to customers is gathered in order to generate a comprehensive customer data archive. The customer data archive may include transactional data and non-transactional data. Non-transactional data may include, for example, social media interactions, received input from a financial advisor, received input from the customer, customer-specific data such as age, family status, gender, etc. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297422 | RETAIL PROXIMITY MARKETING - Methods, systems and devices for presenting marketing information to a customer based on proximity to marketing areas. A wireless identity transmitter associated with the customer may periodically transmit wireless broadcast messages that include obscured identifiers. A proximity broadcast receiver within a retail store, such as near a product display or aisle, may receive and relay the broadcast messages to a server which may process the included information. Based on proximity information and other conditions, the server may transmit marketing information relevant to the customer and a proximate marketing area, such as coupons and offers. In an embodiment, the server may store data based on broadcast messages that may indicate foot traffic and other information valuable to merchants. The server may also transmit messages based on stored permissions that indicate whether the customer desires to receive marketing information and whether the server is authorized to provide the customer's identity to merchants. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297423 | REDEMPTION SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A redemption system for a mobile device includes a database module for determining a target customer. A streaming module is connected to the database module for serving content to the target customer. A priority module is connected to the streaming module for implementing a content delivery schedule. The streaming module serves first content data to the target customer. If the target customer affirmatively responds to the first content data, the priority module causes the system to send a redemption mechanism embedded in second content data to the target customer. The redemption mechanism enables the target customer to engage in a redemption activity using the mobile device. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130297424 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATE HAGGLING BEFORE PHYSICAL POINT-OF-SALE COMMERCE - In one example embodiment of a method for automating business negotiations, a vendor offers a product for sale at an original price. Subsequently, an automated haggling system receives a counteroffer to buy the product from a mobile device controlled by a shopper. The counteroffer proposes a second price for the product. In response to the counteroffer, the automated haggling system automatically determines whether the second price is acceptable. This determination may be based on data from a negotiation database with data identifying acceptable reduced prices. If the counteroffer proposes an acceptable price, the automated haggling system sends a message to the mobile device of the shopper to signify acceptance the counteroffer. In response to a determination that the shopper is purchasing the product at a point-of-sale (POS) station, the POS station automatically charges the shopper the negotiated price tier the product. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130311290 | Website based on user current location - This new invention will be implemented in a software system. It will be a new process that will improve user experience. This new invention allow user to find and open website based on user location. It will allow websites to serve the user based on their local needs. It will also eliminate the need of typing web address, searching site, scanning barcode etc. to open website if user is present at the location. This new invention will also provide easy information from the web about the famous places if the user is present at the location without even knowing the exact name of the location. Mobile Application will provide the user interface. Web Service will be used by Mobile Application to get the websites list by passing two parameters longitude and latitude. The Database data will be used by the Web Service to create the list. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130311291 | MOBILE MESSAGING ECOSYSTEM - CONTENT MESSAGE LAYER - 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 |
| 20130311292 | MOBILE MESSAGING ECOSYSTEM - ROLLOVER MESSAGE - 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 |
| 20130317910 | Systems and Methods for Contextual Recommendations and Predicting User Intent - Aspects of embodiments of the present invention pertain to a system and method for supplying targeted contextual recommendations, advertisements or commercial offers to mobile users based on their interest graph and spacio-temporal map of each user's mobile activities and behavioral patterns. A novel powerful likely intent score is computed based on leveraging both the interest graph and computing persona similarities based on psychographic analysis and spacio-temporal activity maps. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130317911 | Real-Time Advertisement Negotiation - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing advertisements to consumers when the consumers are proximate the physical location of the advertising merchant. Negotiation of prices/discounts can be facilitated. A user can be provided with an advertisement via a mobile device of the user while walking past a store. The advertisement can include a price/discount. The user can respond to the advertisement by proposing a price/discount that is more favorable to the user. This process can repeat indefinitely. If agreement is reached regarding the price/discount, then the user can enter the store and make the purchase. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130325613 | System and method for displaying geo-location based video advertisements with advertisements layered on top of video advertisements that incorporate an Add to Cart button or other button of the likes - A system and method for displaying geo-location based advertisement videos that contains advertisements with “Add to Cart” button or other button of the likes within an online video, allowing the viewer to add products and/or services to a shopping cart, displaying the shopping cart when the online video is done playing or when the viewer clicks on a checkout button, and allowing the viewer to pay for the products and services using his/her credit card or other payment methods. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325614 | Method and System of transferring a Promotion Information for Social-Local-Mobile Based Community - The present invention provides a method for transferring a promotion information for a community. The method includes setting a business region, which has a center and a radius. A landmark building is selected to be the center of the business region. Next, a store data is accessed from a store located in the business region. The store data includes a first GPS location of the store and an associated promotion information of the store. Then, a second GPS location from a wireless communication device is accessed. Finally, a promotion information is sent to the wireless communication device when the first GPS location is closed to the second GPS location. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325615 | INTELLIGENT INFORMATION INTERACTION SYSTEM - An intelligent information interaction system includes a data storage unit, a mobile terminal and at least one display object. Each display object is provided with or connected with a wireless transmission device therein, and the mobile terminal is provided with a wireless transmission unit therein. A unique identification is assigned for each display object, and data information displayed on the display object or data information relevant to the data information displayed on the display object, which corresponds to each identification, is stored in the data storage unit. The wireless transmission device regularly or constantly transmits a wireless signal containing the identification of the display object corresponding thereto, and the mobile terminal, after sensing the wireless signal via the wireless transmission unit thereof, acquires the identification, and acquires data information corresponding to the identification from the data storage unit in accordance with the identification. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130325616 | LOCATION-BASED AND CONTEXT-AWARE ADVERTISING PLATFORM - Techniques for serving location-based, context aware advertisements. A server receives location and contextual information associated with a user device and/or a user. One or more ads are selected from a database of ads for the user based on where the user device is located and activity of the user with the user device. Ads are then to the user device for display. The contextual information is based on user interactions with a user device. The user interactions include opening and closing applications, and input and output of the applications. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130332280 | Closed Communication Circles Based on Geography and Keyword - An embodiment of the disclosed technology is a method of creating a communication circle between hand-held wireless devices. Communication directed to a communication circle is sent to each other hand-held wireless device within the communication circle, the directed communication limited to communication originating from a wireless device and network node also in the communication circle. This is carried out by way of, a) receiving a keyword from at least two hand-held wireless devices, b) matching keywords received from the hand-held wireless devices; and c) determining geographic limitations for a said communication circle to be created, based on geographic limitations received from at least one hand-held wireless device and locations of the hand-held wireless devices corresponding to the matched keywords, d) creating the communication circle between the hand-held wireless devices based on the steps of receiving keywords, matching the keywords, and determining the geographic limitations. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332281 | INTERNET BUSINESS TRANSACTION PROCESSOR - Targeted products are offered over a communications network. Product data for a plurality of products from a plurality of distributors for the products is received. Customer data from a plurality of customers comprising personal information about customers is received. Using the data, at least one user-specific product offering from the plurality of products is generated. Automated messages comprising the at least one user-specific product offering to the one or more customers are then sent. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332282 | System for the Acquisition of Local Goods and Services - A system for the acquisition of local goods and services is presented. The system is an Internet website that advertises and promotes local commerce. The website includes functionalities and features that allow local organizations, such as businesses, charities, and non-profit organizations to manage their web presence. The organizations can issue coupons, display information, and communicate directly with other organizations. The system can be offered as software as a service and can act as a portal to the local business community that is hosted by a hosting organization. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130346204 | In-Store Guidance Systems and Methods - The present invention is directed to providing a map of a retail store to guide a customer in the retail store. A map can be displayed in a user interface on a customer's computing device such as a smart phone. The customer can provide input to the user interface that requests assistance in locating one or more products in the store. The user interface can update the map to provide the requested assistance. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATIONAL MESSAGING - Positional communication systems and methods include receiving a definition of a first geographic area including a first commercial location by a computer system and storing the first geographic area in a memory. The location of a mobile device in the possession of a customer is determined, and if the mobile device is determined to be at a location within the first geographic area, an incentive message for the customer to leave the location and go to a second commercial location is sent to the mobile device. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130346206 | MEDIA TARGETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A media targeting system and method uses visual pattern recognition techniques in association with consumer transactions as the basis for building a targeting database, which is then later used for automated consumer identification and targeted advertising purposes. The invention solves the problem of generating a large scale, robust media targeting database without relying on active or passive participation by consumers. Also disclosed are other demographics estimation systems and methods which facilitate less expensive media targeting capabilities which can be used in conjunction with the more robust transaction associated method disclosed. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140006162 | PROFILE CONSTRUCTION BASED ON ASSERTED INTEREST AND ACTUAL PARTICIPATION IN ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006163 | CONTEXT BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140012675 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Determining Targeted Content to Provide in Response to a Missed Communication - Targeted content is provided to at least one communication device responsive to a notification of a missed communication. Responsive to a notification of the missed communication, a selection of one of a plurality of different pricing options is received for a return communication. Targeted content is provided, in addition to content of the return communication, based on the selected pricing option. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140019246 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATION BASED CONDITIONAL OFFERS - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises sending an end user apparatus a conditional business offer and restricting the possibility of acceptance of said conditional business offer via said end user apparatus to at least said end user apparatus being located within a predefined geographical area (acceptance area). In one embodiment of the invention, said conditional business offer is an auction offer. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019247 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A mobile device includes a display, a microphone, and a controller all within an enclosure sized and shaped such that the enclosure is readily transported on a person of a user of the mobile device. The microphone is configured to receive an audio signal from an audio signal source. The controller is coupled to the microphone and the display, and configured to, based at least on information included in the audio signal, determine a delay between a transmission of the audio signal from the audio signal source to receipt of the audio signal by the microphone. The controller is further configured to, based at least on the delay, determine a geographical location of the mobile device. The controller is also configured to, based on the geographical location of the mobile device, display geographical information to the display indicative of the geographical location. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019248 | System and Method for Location Based Dynamic Redirection of Advertiser Affiliate Links for Online Advertising - A system and method is provided for dynamically managing advertiser affiliate links for online marketing. A global redirect server accepts a visitor's web browser request for a product or non-product webpage associated with an affiliate network advertiser URL, and returns a corresponding product or non-product webpage to the visitor that is corrected for the visitor's geographic region if such a webpage exists, or returns the originally requested webpage if it does not. The server determines the visitor's geographic region based upon request metadata, and can generate a corrected webpage that affords analytic and commission tracking even if no corresponding affiliate network exists in the determined geographic region. The server includes a database for locating products within the determined geographic region that are comparable to the product of the product webpage request, in the event that the exact product is not available in the geographic region. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019249 | Method and System for Providing Network Based Target Advertising and Encapsulation - A telecommunication system implements a method for providing a targeted on-line advertisement to a user accessing a content provider node of the system. An ad is requested from a user node. A content provider is identified at a right of first refusal ad service based on the ad request. At least one demographic corresponding to the user node is determined. Whether an ad corresponds to the determined demographic is determined. A default ad service is determined based on the content provider. The ad request is passed to a default ad service. Retrieved content is processed. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019250 | 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. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140019251 | Providing Promotion Information to a Device Based on Location - A method includes receiving, at a network device, data indicating a geographic location associated with a mobile communication device. The method also includes selecting promotion information based on the geographic location associated with the mobile communication device. The method further includes transmitting the promotion information to the mobile communication device. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140025498 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT - The invention relates to methods of provision of content, more particularly for provision of content for patrons of business premises. Especially, the invention is related to a method for providing content at a premises, including at least the steps of preparing content for a computer device, installing content in a plurality of computer devices, transferring the plurality of computer devices to an operator at the premises, preparing updated content for the leased computer devices, and arranging the updated content to be installed on the leased computer devices. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140025499 | REACTIVE SIGNAGE - According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a reactive display system comprising a display channel, data storage coupled to the display and configured to store pre-determined and reactive messages, a sensor configured to monitor at least one variable of an area within which the system is located, and a controller coupled to the sensor, data storage and the display, wherein the controller is configured to operate data storage and the display channel to display at least one pre-determined message in a first mode of operation, and wherein the controller is further configured to operate data storage and the display channel to display at least one reactive message in a second mode of operation in response to an indication from the sensor that the at least one variable has changed. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140032323 | System is described for providing targeted business messages (announcement, promotion, etc.) to potential customers near the business location - A system is described for providing targeted business messages (announcement, promotion, etc.) to potential customers near the business location | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032324 | Telepresence system for providing information to a user through an agent based on the location of the agent - Described is a telepresence system for providing information to a user through an agent based on the location of the agent, which is remote to a location of the user. The telepresence system is in signal communication with the Internet and a wireless communication network. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING ITEMS WITHIN A LOCATION-BASED SERVICE - A mobile application is provided that provides promoted items within a location-based service. Advertisers or other providers are permitted to have messages displayed within the mobile interface of a user within a list (or other user-interface type) of recommendations for venues. In one implementation, one or more venues may be scored based on a number of parameters (e.g., whether the user had been to the venue previously, whether their “friends” have been at the venue, whether they have unlocked “specials” or other types at this venue previously, their nearness or proximity to the venue, time of day, etc.) and if the venue has to been determined to be displayed within a list of venues, that special may be “promoted” to the top of the list that is displayed to the user. In this way, advertisers or other providers can signal location-based users of important items located proximate to the user's location. An interface may be provided to the advertiser or other provider to define a special or other message that is to be “promoted” to a top of the displayed list. In one embodiment, a promoted special is limited to being displayed in a list of a particular search category in which it was ranked. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140032326 | LOCATION RETARGETING SYSTEM FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING - A system for retargeting customers is based on a mobile device query initiated by a user, and includes a query module configured to receive a query with geographical information from the mobile device and determine geographical identifiers of the mobile device. An indexed database stores an aggregated plurality of customers having a geographical identifier proximate to the determined geographical area, and a processor selects an advertiser located proximate to the determined geographical area. A performance feedback module is configured to assign an effectiveness rating to one or more advertisements provided by the selected advertiser based on marketing attributes of the aggregated plurality of customers. An advertisement recommendation module then recommends one or more advertisements provided by the selected advertiser based on the assigned effectiveness rating, and the aggregated plurality of customers are retargeted by transmitting the recommended advertisements to one or more customers of the aggregated plurality of customers. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040030 | MOBILE PAGE MANAGEMENT FOR MERCHANTS LEVERAGING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A mobile application enables an administrator of a page in a social networking system to manage the page from a mobile device, separate from a mobile application used to consume content on the social networking system. The administrator application may be used to post content on the page, add fans to the page, delete content posted by fans of the page, generate deals, manage advertising campaigns, and access real-time metrics and insights for the page. The administrator application may also enable a user to manage multiple pages that the user has been designated as an administrator. Loyalty programs may also be designed and implemented in real-time using the administrator application, enabling business owners to customize rewards for users generating check-in events at the place of business. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040031 | METHOD OF ADVERTISING TO A TARGETED BUYER - A method of advertising to a targeted consumer, via an application based consumer profiling algorithm which determines the interests of a consumer in a particular geographical position then queues relevant pre-loaded advertisements on an out-of-home (OOH) medium. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040032 | 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. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040033 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION ENABLED SHOPPING CART CORRALS - Certain embodiments disclose a corral and enclosure defined by three members having an opening configured to hold one or more shopping carts and display one or more advertisements, with two substantially parallel walls of equal or different lengths and advertisement panels affixed on the walls, such that they can be staggered. The staggered arrangement of the at least two panels facilitates better visibility and allows the simultaneous viewing of at least two panels. The panel(s) may also include a near field communication component that is configured to execute a promotional function associated with an advertisement that is displayed by the corral. The promotional function may cause promotional content to be transferred to the mobile device. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040034 | System and Method for Targeting Advertisements or Other Information Using User Geographical Information - A request for information items may include content information associated with one or more electronic messages and geographical information associated with the requesting user. A set of information items is identified based on the user geographical information and the message content of the one or more electronic messages. In some embodiments, at least one of the information items is identified based on both the user geographical information and the message content. In some embodiments, if the user geographical information is different from the user's default geographical information, at least one of the information items is identified based on the user geographical information, but not the message content. A subset of the identified information items may be selected in accordance with a scoring or ranking function. The selected information items are transferred to the requesting client and displayed concurrently with (e.g., next to) the electronic messages. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140052534 | Electronic Advertising Targeting Multiple Individuals - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method involves identifying a plurality of individuals located within view of an electronic advertising display. The individuals are users of a social-networking system, and the social-networking system includes a graph that includes two or more nodes and edges connecting the nodes. For each user there is at least one node in the graph corresponding to the user. After the individuals are identified, one or more attributes of each of one or more of the individuals is determined from data associated with nodes in the graph corresponding to the individuals or data associated with edges connected to nodes corresponding to the individuals. The attributes are then provided for selection of an advertisement for presentation on the electronic advertising display to the individuals. The selection of the advertisement is based at least in part on one or more of the attributes. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052535 | WIRED/WIRELESS INTERNET IP SHARING DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK ACCESS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT USING THE SAME - A wired/wireless Internet IP sharing device for controlling network access and a method of providing an advertisement using the same are disclosed. The method of providing the advertisement using the Internet internet protocol (IP) sharing device for controlling network access of a terminal may include providing an advertisement comprising at least one of coupon information, discount information, and product information associated with a location in which the internet IP sharing device is installed to the terminal when a network access request is received from the terminal, and allowing the terminal to access a network when the advertisement is run on the terminal, wherein the allowing includes allowing the terminal to access the network unconditionally when at least one action of a user of the terminal among clicking the advertisement, reproducing a video included in the advertisement, and executing a page viewer of the advertisement is recognized. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140052536 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSOLICITED CONTENT DISPLAY DURING LATENCY ON MOBILE DEVICES - A system and methods are disclosed whereby a mobile device is provided by one or more servers with unsolicited content. The mobile device stores the unsolicited material e.g. an ordered set of advertisements. A latency delay detector detects an imminent delay for the mobile device that then displays unsolicited items during the latency delay. Display is in screen whitespace and/or wallpaper areas, one item at a time in sequence, each for a predetermined period. Displayed items are purged after display and a user elects whether of not to receive unsolicited material. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140058841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INTENT-BASED PROXIMITY MARKETING - An approach for providing intent-based proximity marketing is described. A user is detected to be within proximity of a location. Purchase intent information of the user is determined in response to the detection. The purchase intent information is associated with the location. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140058842 | Location Blocking Service from a Web Advertiser - Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service promoter, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a web advertiser) subscribing to the identity-blocking service. However, the service promoter may not send any identity information for the mobile subscriber to the third party. On the other hand, in the location-blocking service, the service promoter may disclose the mobile subscriber's identity information to the third party, but not the current physical location of the mobile subscriber. Blocking of the mobile subscriber's identity or location information may be desirable for privacy reasons, to comply with a government regulation, or to implement a telecommunication service option selected by the mobile subscriber. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140067540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING FUEL PRICES AND FUEL PROVIDERS - A method of presenting fuel prices and corresponding fuel providers in a geographical area of interest to a user of a mobile computing device is provided. A mobile application is provided. A first set of fuel pricing information stored in a repository, information about a first location, and a subset of fuel pricing information are processed. The subset of fuel pricing information corresponds to a second set of fuel prices offered within an area proximal to the first location. The subset of fuel pricing information is categorized according to price, identifying each of the second set as corresponding to one of two or more price categories. Indication of fuel prices corresponding to the first price category is caused. Indication of locations corresponding to the first price category is caused. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140067541 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - A method and a device for displaying information are provided. The method includes obtaining, by a movement path obtaining unit, information of a movement path of the terminal, receiving, by a short-range wireless communication unit, through a short-range wireless communication, position information of a server providing advertisement information, transmitting, by an information transmitting unit, to the server, information requesting advertisement, receiving, by an information receiving unit, from the server, advertisement information in response to the request, and displaying, by an advertisement displaying unit, on the terminal the received advertisement information on the basis of the obtained information on the movement path of the terminal. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140074610 | GENERATING A POINT OF INTEREST PROFILE BASED ON THIRD-PARTY SOCIAL COMMENTS - Methods, systems and devices for generating a point of interest profile of a target user. Aspects include querying a web site for at least one social comment associated with a point of interest visited by the target user. The at least one social comment may be posted to the web site by at least one third-party not affiliated with the point of interest. The at least one social comment may be parsed for at least one keyword contained therein. Also, the at least one keyword may be correlated to an attribute characterizing visitors of the point of interest. A point of interest profile associating the attribute with the target user may additionally be generated. Further, the determined attribute may be associated with at least one third-party and the point of interest. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING, INSTALLING, AND TRACKING SIDE FAIRINGS ON TRAILERS - Disclosed are various embodiments of custom side fairing covers and methods for using such covers. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140074612 | System and Method for Targeting Information Items Based on Popularities of the Information Items - Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for selecting information items in connection with electronic messages. A request is obtained for a conversation from a user. The conversation including a plurality of electronic messages. A response to the request for the conversation is made. The request includes selecting an electronic message from the plurality of electronic messages in the conversation. Also, a plurality of information items is selected for a group of users including the user based on information identifying a communication channel, through which the group of users communicate with the computing system. The plurality of information items is associated with a keyword included in the electronic message. The plurality of information items and the conversation are then formatted for provision to the user. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140081760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TO PRESENT ONE OR MORE USERS OF A LOCATION-BASED GROUPING - An approach is provided for determining content data to present to one or more users of a location-based grouping. A group content platform determines at least one location-based grouping of one or more users that have at least one common profile characteristic. The group content platform then determines one or more attributes of the at least one location-based grouping. The group content platform then processes the at least one common profile characteristic, the one or more attributes, or a combination thereof to determine content data to present to at least a subset of the one or more users. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081761 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME SOCIAL GIFTING - Disclosed are methods and systems for sending targeted and contextual promotional offers on behalf of a merchant by receiving location information for a particular venue by a storage/processing module, gathering contextual information, mapping merchant requirements to the location information, and sending the promotional offers to users, the contextual information provided by portable communication devices, and the mapping based on a predefined criteria and a subset of users whose requirements are mapped on the predefined criteria. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081762 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140081763 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY FOCUSED NETWORK ADVERTISING - A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140089091 | Intelligent Advertising System - Disclosed herein are devices for delivering targeted messages to users in conjunction with data about a given user's planned activities. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089092 | Client-Based Deal Filtering and Display - Various implementations relate to a system that provides a collection of deals to a mobile application on a client device. The mobile application then filters the deals based on relevance using a user profile within the client device, and displays the deals to a user. The display of the deals may be governed by the relevance of the respective deals as determined by matching of the deals with the user profile within the client device. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089093 | Contextual Communication Management System and Method - A contextual communication management system/method that coordinates the dissemination of information to/from a mobile communication device (MCD) and the associated mobile communication user (MCU) is disclosed. The system/method allows the state context of a given MCD and its MCU to be used to direct communications with the MCD based on a wide variety of state parameters including but not limited to current geospatial location, geospatial path, path chronology, third party geo-temporal leaseholds, etc. In some preferred embodiments this contextual communication permits targeted advertising to be “pushed” to a MCD in response to a function of the real-time geospatial location and current/past known states of the MCU. A Leasehold Management Coordinator (LMC) permits targeted bi-directional third-party interactions with the MCD based on advertising “leases” of virtual MCD geo-space/time and associated MCU state/context pools. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140089094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMERCE IN MEDIA PROGRAM RELATED MERCHANDISE - The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for delivering a media program and purchase opportunities related to the media program to user equipment. A media program and its related merchandise information can be located at a distribution facility. The distribution facility can tailor the purchase opportunities it provides to the user equipment based on the user equipment's equipment category. When user equipment receives purchase opportunities, the user equipment can select the opportunities based on which types of merchandise are supported by the user equipment. The user equipment and/or a distribution facility may be able to determine the location of the user equipment. When the distribution facility provides merchandise information for physical merchandise to the user equipment, the merchandise information can be selected to include physical merchandise that are available for purchase at stores that are, for example, near the location of the user equipment. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140095313 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR SECURELY COLLECTING, SAFEGUARDING, AND DISSEMINATING ELECTRONICALLY STORED INFORMATION - Applicant has created methods, systems, and computer readable media for securely collecting, safeguarding, and disseminating electronically stored information to facilitate an account owner's management of her personal, private, business, and legal documents. The method for safeguarding can include a double authentication process that only grants exclusive access to an account owner's encrypted information through the use of a uniquely generated security key. The method for collecting information can include a real-time encryption process to permit an account holder to securely upload and store electronic media in category-based compartmentalized locations. Further, the method can include a process for generating category-based advertisements through an integrated marketing platform with geo-fencing capabilities to facilitate the account owner's selection of a variety of services related to the stored information. Finally, the method for disseminating information can include authenticating a request to disseminate the stored information to one or more trustees. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140095314 | TIME POST SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING - A system and method allows anyone to advertise using the language and attributes of a standard time clock. The present invention allows anyone to visit a website, purchase a fixed length of time (typically from 15 seconds to 6 minutes) to represent duration of one period of display of an advertisement, and specify frequency of periods of display of the advertisement within allowed parameters. The system and method maintains freshness of advertisements by limiting one particular advertisement to be displayed no more than once per period. The date or dates of display may also be specified. The pricing structure of the present invention charges a fixed price based on the specified duration of the advertisement. The limitations also level the playing field preventing large entities from monopolizing the entire duration for advertisements. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140100959 | LOCATION-BASED DIRECTED ADVERTISING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS - Location-based directed advertisement systems, according to particular embodiments, direct merchant-created advertisements to users when those advertisements meet the user's shopping preferences. The user's shopping preferences may include, for example, preferences to receive advertisements for particular items or classes of items, preferences to receive advertisements from particular stores or types of stores, and preferences to receive advertisements for items that are geographically close to the user's location. In particular embodiments, merchants can limit the recipients of the merchant's created advertisements to particular groups of users such as users of a certain age, gender, or occupation. In various embodiments, merchants can view consumer demand data in order to tailor offers to maximize profits, potential unit sales, etc. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140100960 | System and Method for Programmatically Creating Local Business Advertisements Suitable for Display on Mobile Devices and Applications Thereof - A system and method is provided for programmatically creating advertisements effective and suitable for display on a small display screen of a mobile device. The system comprises means for programmatically acquiring advertisement data of a local business, which may include acquiring the advertisement data through accessing a third party data aggregator using open APIs thereof. The system further comprises means for receiving real-time location information of the mobile device. The system further comprises means for programmatically creating a banner ad based on the acquired advertisement data and the received real-time location information of the mobile device. The system may further means for programmatically creating a display ad. The created banner ad or display ad displays information identifying or promoting the local business as well as information indicating location of the local business relative to the real-time location information of the mobile device. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140108148 | CONSUMER PRODUCTS - Computer based systems and methods allow designing (e.g., customization) of consumer products, such as articles of footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, etc., by users. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140122238 | COUPON OFFER PERSONALIZATION - A method for coupon offer personalization includes receiving information related to a location and a search criterion for coupon offers, and outputting coupon offers for selection based on the location and the search criterion. The method includes evaluating a selection history of coupon offers selected by a user from the output coupon offers. The method further includes determining if the selected coupon offers are a predetermined distance apart, and determining if a number of the selected coupon offers exceeds a predetermined threshold. If the selected coupon offers are the predetermined distance apart and if the number of the selected coupon offers exceeds the predetermined threshold, the method includes designating a location of the selected coupon offers as a location of interest to the user. The method further includes determining additional coupon offers in proximity to the location of interest to the user. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140122239 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TARGETING MESSAGES TO TRAVELERS - A computer-implemented method of targeting electronic messages to travelers, comprising performing processing associated with: utilizing geographic information comprising itinerary information, to determine where the travelers are currently and/or are projected to be during a given time period; creating a list of travelers which categorizes the geographic information and/or traveler information about the travelers on the list; electronically notifying a merchant with information related to the list and the current geographic information and/or current traveler information of the travelers on the list; receiving an electronic request from the merchant to transmit an electronic targeted message to some or all of the travelers on the list; and transmitting the electronic targeted message to some or all of the travelers on the list. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129334 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING CONSUMER ACTIVITY AREAS BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND MOBILE DATA - A system and method for modeling consumer activity based on social media and mobile activity data is provided. The location of a consumer and time at which the consumer is present at such location can be obtained using social media and mobile activity data. This data can be analyzed to identify areas frequented by a consumer, and those areas can be classified into different groups based on, for example, the time of the day, the day of week, and other information that can be obtained from the social media and mobile activity data. The resulting analysis can provide an estimated home area and work area, and other insights into the consumer (e.g., where the consumer travels). This consumer activity can be used by a business to provide relevant, targeted advertising to potential customers based on the models obtained from the social media and mobile activity data. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129335 | PRESENTING A REVIEW BASED ON A USER PURPOSE - A review of a venue may be presented based on a purpose (e.g., a user purpose) by a system (e.g., a suitably programmed machine). In particular, the system may identify a purpose of a user (e.g., a first user purpose) for being within a city. The system may access a review of a venue that is located within the city. The review may indicate an opinion of the user with respect to the venue. The system may determine that the purpose of the user matches the purpose of another user (e.g., a second user purpose) for being within the city. Hence, the system may present the review of the venue to the other user, based on the two users having the same purpose for being within the city. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129336 | Targeted Advertising in Conjunction with Consumer Detection - Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for displaying an advertisement to one or more consumers in proximity to advertising space. The presence of the consumer(s) in proximity to the advertising space can be detected and information associated with the consumer(s) can be received or retrieved. Transaction information can then be transmitted to an auction environment where advertisers can evaluate the transaction information and make determinations as to whether to bid for the advertising space and how much to bid for the advertising space. The winning bidder in the auction may then select and/or transmit an advertisement for display at the advertising space that is tailored to the consumer. In this manner, an advertisement directed at an individual, a group, or a portion of a group may be displayed at the advertising space during a time in which the individual, group, or portion of the group can view the advertisement. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129337 | PROXIMITY-BASED OFFERS FULLY CONTAINED WITHIN AN EMBEDDED AD UNIT - Computer systems, storage media encoded with software, and methods comprising a first processing device configured to generate and deliver an ad unit for at least one good or service offered at a physical retail outlet, the ad unit delivered to an application executing on a second processing device, the ad unit providing: a display of one or more outlets, the outlets offering the at least one good or service, the outlets located within a first threshold distance from the second processing device; directions from the location of the second processing device to a selected outlet; and at least one proximity-based offer, the offer triggered by presence of the second processing device within a second threshold distance from the selected outlet; provided that the display of one or more outlets, the directions, and the at least one proximity based-offer are provided within the application executing on the second processing device. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140129338 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION-BASED, INTERACTIVE CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM - A location based wireless consumer interactive system is disclosed. The system includes a first gateway device stationed at a first location which includes a first antenna configured to generate a first wireless zone covering a preassigned area proximal to the first location. The first gateway device includes a first network interface coupled to the first antenna which is configured to communicate with a client device that is connected to the first wireless zone. The first gateway device includes a first memory configured to store a first content profile received from a server device via the first network interface, wherein the first memory stores executable programming instructions to process preloaded consumer content of the first content profile. The first gateway device includes a first processor configured to generate a first interactive content site containing the consumer content on the client device. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136327 | METHOD FOR USING SMART PHONE FOR TARGETING POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS - An electronic for-sale sign mobile based application is disclosed. The mobile application provides a platform for dynamic linking between users configured with the application to perform mobile commerce. The technology utilizes Global Positioning System tracking and stored cloud databases of available merchandise and services for connecting sellers and potential buyers. The invention is meant for targeted audience and is highly convenient, considering the application requires the use of a mobile device such as a smart phone. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136328 | IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NEIGHBORING USERS SURROUNDING A SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - A system and methods for providing users with timely information including a geographic location, a description and information related to the marketing of goods associated with the news story are disclosed. A contact database is searched to select users whose geographic locations indicate a proximity to the geographic location of the news story. The information about the news story is generated to the selected users. An interface is created enabling an interested user to form an immediate communication in the form of an online interview with a neighboring user surrounding the specific geographic location of the news story. A contact information including an email address, an instant message identification and a telephonic contact number of users is generated. Other users can to access the contact information of the user when the user makes a submission in order to permit immediate communication between the other user and the submitter user. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140143057 | ADVERTISING BASED ON USER TRENDS IN AN ONLINE SYSTEM - An online system, such as a social networking system, may determine user trends and identify actions to be taken by users that may help optimize revenue for an advertiser. A social networking system may generate offers for an advertiser based on the user trends, user characteristics, and claims about users where the offers include actions determined by the social networking system that users may take to help optimize revenue for advertiser. Venues may also sell ad space, ad inventory, and real-time customer data to advertisers through a social networking system. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143058 | SPONSORING VENUES FOR TARGETING A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - An advertiser “buys” a venue by controlling something in the environment of a venue, e.g., playing music in a bar, changing the channel of a TV, changing drink specials, changing coupons in a store, or subsidizing transport to the venue (e.g., cab fare). The advertiser then advertises to people in the venue, where the ad is based on the thing that was controlled (e.g., an ad for the album for the song that was played in the bar). The ad may be served to users of a social networking system currently located at the venue through a user interface on the social networking system, a display screen at the venue, a mobile ad network, or another ad distribution mechanism. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143059 | PROCESS, METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING CONSUMERS TO IMPPROVE SALES, KNOWLEDGE AND ENGAGEMENT - A system for accessing consumers before, during and after purchase decisions includes a plurality of electronic devices carried by consumers. The plurality of electronic devices include location/position technology. The system also includes a back-end system, and a front-end interface system communicating with an existing wireless network. The front-end interface system communicates with the plurality of electronic devices carried by consumers for the display of data and potential in-store interaction between the consumer and a product and service company or a retailer. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143060 | Interactive Advertising Using Proximity Events - A proximity sensor adapted to collect consumer location information is described. The proximity sensor includes: a detection module adapted to detect a user device within a threshold distance of the proximity sensor; a receiver adapted to collect data regarding the user device; and a communication interface adapted to allow the proximity sensor to send the collected data to a remote server. An advertising system includes: an advertising medium adapted to provide interactive advertising content to users via a multimedia output; a proximity sensor adapted to detect and communicate with user devices that pass within a threshold distance of the advertising medium; and a remote server adapted to communicate with the proximity sensor and to provide advertising content to the advertising medium. An interactive advertising device includes: a proximity sensor; and a display element adapted to display an advertising content element from among a set of advertising content elements. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143061 | GARAGE SALES IN A GEO-SPATIAL SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are a method and a system of an automatic publication of garage sale broadcast data on a set of user profiles having associated verified addresses in a threshold radial distance from a set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data. The garage sale broadcast data is radially distributed to data processing systems associated with users and their profiles around an epicenter (defined at the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data) to all subscribed user profiles in a circular geo-fenced area (defined by the threshold distance from the set of geospatial coordinates associated with the garage sale broadcast data) through the radial algorithm of a neighborhood broadcasting system that measures a distance away of each address associated with each user profile from the current geospatial location at the epicenter. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140149218 | PROMOTIONAL ITEM DELIVERIES BASED ON PLANNED/FUTURE TRAVELING - An approach for managing electronic promotional item(s) is presented. A plurality of subscriptions is submitted to at least one software service on behalf of a user. The submitted subscriptions are associated with respective geographical locations within a threshold distance from a travel route of a trip to a destination. The electronic promotional item(s) associated with respective geographical location(s) within the threshold distance are received from the at least one software service. The received electronic promotional item(s) are determined to be in effect between start and end dates of the trip. Based on the received electronic promotional item(s) being in effect between the start and end dates, at least a portion of the received electronic promotional item(s) is presented. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149219 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON GEO-LOCATION - Described herein are a system and method for delivering content to a mobile computing device, where the content is selected for presentation to a member of a social network service based on the current geo-location of the member (device) and one or more associations and/or relationships between entities represented in a social graph of the social network service. A particular embodiment includes providing, by use of a data processor, a user interface to notify a member of a social network service of his or her proximity to another entity that is represented in the social graph of the social network service. In some embodiments, in response to determining that a member is in geographical proximity of a company that has a presence in the social graph of the social network service, a job recommendation/matching engine may cause information to be presented relating to a job listing posted to a job listing service by an authorized representative of the company. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140149220 | PLAY INFORMATION ESTABLISHING AND PLAYING SYSTEM, AND METHOD THEREOF - A play information establishing and playing system, and a method thereof are provided. When an information establishing client sends coordinate information and play information to a server to establish a play information in the server, and a information query client sends queried coordinate information to the server, the corresponding play information is queried according to the queried coordinate information, and is provided to the information query client to play the play information, so as to achieve the technical efficacy of providing a corresponding play information according to different coordinate information. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140156410 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT AWARE GEOFENCES - Systems and methods for delivering transport aware publications to users in a network-based environment are discussed. In an example, a method for delivering transport aware advertisements can include receiving user-related location data, determining if a user is inside a transport time defined geofence, generating an advertisement, transmitting the advertisement, and optionally updating the advertisement. The transport time defined geofence may be specified by an advertiser to be directed to a set of users who are capable of traveling to a point of interest, such as a retail location, in the specified time period. The advertisement may be updated and include a dynamic content portion of the advertisement, and at least the updated dynamic content portion may be transmitted to the user. The advertisement is generated based at least in part on the user-related location data and transport data. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156411 | Methods and Systems for Dynamically Providing Content - Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically providing content to a user. The disclosed embodiments include generating a recommendation matrix based on event data received from a client. In certain embodiments, the client may be configured to generate event data associated with the client or a user associated with the client. The disclosed embodiments may also include generating an offer score matrix based on the recommendation matrix and the event data. In certain aspects, the offer score matrix may include score values associated with a set of offers to be provided to the user. The disclosed embodiments may identify a first offer from the set of offers based on the score values for the offers and provide an identification of the first offer. The disclosed embodiments may also receive content associated with the first offer for display on the client. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140156412 | RATING PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS BASED ON INGREDIENTS - Techniques for scanning products and providing information about those products are provided. In one technique, ingredient names in a digital image are recognized, the ingredients are analyzed for their respective toxicity ratings, and one or more ingredient names in the digital image are highlighted to show which ingredients are considered safe or unsafe. In another technique, an overall rating for a product is calculating solely based on information about ingredients found in the product and that overall rating is displayed on a computing device. In another technique, a user provides input that indicates one or more products that the user has scanned or allegedly purchased or used. Other users are allowed to view those products if, for example, the user gives his/her permission. In another technique, geographic information of a mobile device is used to identify a product that may be relevant to a user of the mobile device. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164119 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GEOCODING AUTHORIZATIONS AND FINANCIAL TRANSACTION MESSAGES FOR LOCATION-BASED SERVICES - A method for identifying a geographic location of a financial transaction includes: storing, in a merchant database, a plurality of merchant data entries, wherein each merchant data entry includes at least a merchant identifier and a geographic location; receiving, by a receiving device, an authorization request for a financial transaction, wherein the authorization request includes at least a plurality of data elements containing transaction information; identifying, by a processing device, a first data element in the plurality of data elements including a merchant identification; identifying, in the merchant database, a specific merchant data entry, wherein the merchant identifier of the specific merchant data entry corresponds to the merchant identification; transmitting, by a transmitting device, a reply to the authorization request; and transmitting, by the transmitting device, the geographic location included in the specific merchant data entry. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164120 | COUPON DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to various exemplary embodiments, a redemption location associated with each of one or more coupons is determined, and a current location of a mobile device of a user is determined. Thereafter, for each of the coupons, a distance between the redemption location of the respective coupon and the current location of the mobile device of the user is calculated. The coupons are then displayed, via a user interface in the mobile device, in a visual arrangement that illustrates the proximity of the user to the redemption locations associated with each of the coupons. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164121 | COUPON DISPLAY SYSTEM - According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic message including a coupon is detected in an electronic message inbox associated with a user. A redemption location associated with the coupon is determined. Thereafter, a notification is displayed via a user interface in a mobile device associated with the user, when the mobile device is located within a predetermined distance of the redemption location. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164122 | Smart Device Location in Retail Environments - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying the location of a customer within a retail environment using a smart device carried by the customer. One or more transponders can be located in the retail environment and can communicate with the smart device to determine the location of the smart device. Once the location of the smart device is determined, customized content can be displayed to the customer carrying the smart device. The customized content can be related to a product that is displayed in proximity of the location of the smart device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164123 | User Interface for Accessing Information About a Retail Store - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a conversational user interface (CUI) which interacts audibly with a customer of a retail location. The CUI can ask questions to or respond to questions from the customer, provide audible information regarding products or services available within the retail location, or otherwise assist the customer as the customer shops at the retail location. The CUI can be provided on virtually any device capable of outputting audio content including portable devices such as mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, gaming devices, and stationary devices such as televisions, monitors, or other display devices. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164124 | LOCATION BASED ROUTER - A location based router system comprises a router in communication with an ad hoc network of devices, including at least one mobile device. The router directs packets from the network to associated agents. The router receives queries from requesting clients, such as the mobile device, and provides location to the requesting client. Additionally, depending on preferences of the client, it also routes market packets for location based services back to the mobile device dependent on its location. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164125 | System and Methods for Geographically-Driven Downstream Distribution of Mobile Content - Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a system and methods for distributing targeted content to users of mobile devices such as smartphones and other hand-held devices based on the user's geo-location and other user-specific parameters. Generally, the distribution of content may be regulated by numerous indicators including the user's distance from a stationary media location, moving media channels displaying exterior facing signage, or digital billboards that display messaging with the use of digital screens. Further, aspects of the present disclosure allow users to engage with content and receive additional, supplemental content on their mobile device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164126 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCT DELIVERY - A networked system implements a method of delivering product to a user and including promotional products on a delivery entity for delivery to potential customers within a determined target area of the user delivery location. A server receives a purchase delivery request from a user at a user location. At least one promotional product is determined for inclusion on a delivery entity associated with the user delivery request. A target area is determined based on the user location. Notifications of the promotional product are sent to potential customers within the determined target area, allowing the potential customers to request the promotional product. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164127 | INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DELIVERY METHOD - An information delivery device includes an advertisement information transmitting unit, an input information receiving unit, a terminal position determining unit, an advertisement information database, a correlation determining unit, and an information delivering unit. The advertisement information transmitting unit transmits advertisement information to an advertisement providing device. The input information receiving unit receives input information. The terminal position determining unit determines whether a position of the terminal is within a predetermined region. The advertisement information database stores the advertisement information, predetermined key information, and delivery information in association with one another. The correlation determining unit determines whether a correlation between the input information and the key information is within a predetermined permissible range. The information delivering unit delivers the delivery information associated with the advertisement information to the terminal only when the position of the terminal is within the predetermined region and the correlation is within the permissible range. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164128 | INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DELIVERY METHOD - An information delivery device is provided. Advertisement information, key information, delivery information, and priority information are stored. One piece of advertisement information is transmitted to an advertisement providing device based on priority information. Input information input to a terminal is received. It is determined whether a position of the terminal is within a predetermined region, and whether a correlation between the input information and the key information corresponding to the one piece of advertisement information is within a predetermined permissible range. Based on the result of determination, delivery information corresponding to the one piece of advertisement information is delivered to the terminal. Transmission of relevant information related to the delivery information is detected. The priority information corresponding to the one piece of advertisement information is generated based on at least one of delivery of the delivery information and transmission of the relevant information. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164129 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED MESSAGES - A system uses GPS or other location determining features and existing cellular services, along with a centrally available computer program. A vendor/advertiser can discover nearby consumers; the vendor/advertiser can publish a business communication such as promotion so that the consumer can discover the business announcements; the vendor/advertiser can send a one-on-one message to the consumer detailing the business announcement and call for action; and the consumer can obtain from the vendor/advertiser any clarifications, questions, feedback etc. regarding product/promotion. Individual users can use the system to identify and send messages to other individuals based on location. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164130 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT DATA OR OTHER CONTENT - A method includes providing advertisement data to a mobile device, receiving an input associated with the mobile device based oh the advertisement data, and providing a credit based on the input. The input may be based on at least one of a location of the mobile device, a messaging communication initiated using the mobile device, an entry in an information management application, and a transaction executed using the mobile device. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140172570 | MOBILE AND AUGMENTED-REALITY ADVERTISEMENTS USING DEVICE IMAGING - Mobile advertisements often involve advertisements related to the user's detected location. However, additional relevant advertisement opportunities may be identified by also identifying an image captured by the camera of the mobile device (e.g., the user may take a photo of a product under consideration, or may gaze at the product while wearing a gaze-tracking device). Advertisements relating to the product and the user's location may then be presented for a related product sold by the same store, or a lower-priced offer for the same product from a nearby competing store. Advertisements may be presented via augmented reality (e.g., integrating the advertisement with the image of the environment presented to the user), and/or compared with the cost of interrupting an inferred activity of the user. Additionally, image evaluation may be applied when the user is near an advertisement opportunity in order to conserve the resources of the mobile device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172571 | SELECTING CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON GEOPOSITIONING SAMPLES - Apparatus and method for identifying a geographical route along which a network accessible device is repetitively moved. In accordance with some embodiments, a sequence of geopositioning samples from a network accessible device is received, the samples indicative of different geographical locations of the device over a time interval. A geographical route is identified along which the device was repetitively moved from the sequence of samples. A content item is selected for an entity having a physical location proximate the geographical route. The content item is displayed on a display associated with a user of the network accessible device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172572 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods and systems relating to providing a recommendation on a client device are described. In some embodiments, data from a sensor included in the client device is received. The sensor is configured to obtain data corresponding to a location and a direction of the client device. User movement information is determined based on the data from the sensor. A recommendation is identified based on the user movement information. The recommendation is sent to the client device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172573 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLANNING AND ALLOCATING LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING - A system and method for advertisers to run multiple advertisement campaigns across several locations without having to configure each campaign on a per location basis is provided. The system may determine and assign budget, target radius, duration, pricing, times of day, etc., for each ad campaign and each location. These settings are not only configured at the time of initial setup, but may also be changed dynamically to adjust for actual results and to account for time-dependent variables. In being changed dynamically, the settings may be changed periodically or aperiodically (e.g., based on events or thresholds being crossed). The setup and updates of the budget, target radius, duration pricing, times of day, etc., may be performed using an optimization algorithm, in one embodiment, based on historical information and current campaign performance, respectively. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172574 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION DEVICE, INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information transmission device stores attribute information of each product to be provided to a user. The information transmission device acquires positional information of the user from a communication device owned by the user. The information transmission device specifies the user's situation using at least the acquired positional information of the user. The information transmission device specifies the product having the user's specified situation as the attribute information. The information transmission device transmits the specified product to the communication device. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140172575 | Object Information Derived From Object Images - Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140180819 | OFFER PLACEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR TARGETED MARKETING OFFER DELIVERY SYSTEM - A system and methods for an offer placement system for delivering targeted marketing offers to consumers during a session with an online (web-based) Internet portal, such as an online banking portal of a financial institution. A component receives advertising campaign data from an advertiser including a plurality of targeted marketing offers for delivery to consumers in response to a particular condition (e.g. an offer-triggering event), and stores the campaign data in a database. A component determines the occurrence of an offer-triggering event caused by a consumer during an online session with the online portal, for example, viewing a list of banking transactions. A component identifies a predetermined targeted marketing offer stored in the database that corresponds to the offer-triggering event. A component delivers information corresponding to the targeted marketing offer to the consumer during the online session with the portal. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140180820 | SELECTING INFORMATIVE PRESENTATIONS BASED ON NAVIGATION CUES AND USER INTENT - Promotional or informational materials are selected for presentation to mobile device users based at least in part on knowledge about where those users intend to go. If a user performs a points-of-interest search that evinces a particular intent, then the mobile device can select informational materials that are associated with that particular intent, and then display those informational materials. The informational materials selected can be limited to those that are mapped to a point of interest that the searching user selected from a list of points of interest that are relevant to the user's specified intent. Additionally or alternatively, the mobile device might display only the informational materials that are mapped to a particular point of interest in response to detecting that the user has entered within a specified proximity of that particular point of interest, as determined through a global positioning system of the user's mobile device. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140180821 | MEDIA SERVICES WITH ACCESS CONTROL - Systems and methods are describe wherein a service provider provides media services that can include, but are not limited to, telephone, radio, interactive and television services. A user residence and/or a user receiving device are designated as a primary location or device for receiving the services of the service provider. An authorization center authenticates a request to provide the service(s) at one or more secondary location/device. The verification process can include, but is not limited to, password(s), Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and biometric identifiers such as voice, retina, finger print and DNA. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140188614 | Mobile billboard smartphone app messaging system - A mobile billboard messaging icon displays messages related to a user's preferences from an advertiser on the display of a user's devices, such as Smartphone or tablet, having Internet connectivity, location technology, and logic means for determining when the user device is in a given vicinity of the advertiser's location. The coordinate location of the device is used to identify advertiser's locations within a preselected distance that correlate with user's preferences. Where a correlation is found, at least one message from the advertiser is displayed on the Smartphone or tablet device. The message is triggered when the device enters within the given radii from the advertiser. When triggered, the messaging icon provides relevant real-time promotions, deals and coupons for purchase of goods and services of the advertisers or sponsors related to the user preferences. The mobile billboard displays target messages based on both the user's specific preferences and the user's geographical real-time location. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188615 | Mobile billboard structure and platform for smartphone APP messaging system interface - A mobile billboard messaging app and non-transitory computer readable electronic storage medium method includes a computer database electronically storing merchant/advertiser and user information in communication with a software application running in a mobile device of the user, the mobile device having location identifying technology, a display screen and Internet connectivity capability. The system displays messages logically related to a user's preferences from an advertiser on the display of a user's devices when the user device is in a given location radius when correlated with user's preferences. Where a correlation is found, at least one message from the advertiser is displayed. The message is triggered when the device enters within the given radii from the advertiser. When triggered, the messaging app provides relevant real-time promotions, deals and coupons related to the user preferences. The mobile billboard displays target messages based on both the user's preferences and the user's geographical real-time location. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188616 | Mobile billboard structure and platform method for smartphone app messaging system interface - A method provides a mobile billboard messaging app and non-transitory computer readable electronic storage medium. The method includes a computer database electronically storing merchant/advertiser and user information in communication with a software application running in a mobile device of the user. The mobile device has GPS technology, a display screen and Internet connectivity. The method displays on the user's device messages from an advertiser that are logically related to user preferences when the user device is in a given location radius. Where a correlation is found, at least one message from the advertiser is displayed. The message is triggered when the device enters within the given radii from the advertiser. When triggered, the messaging app provides relevant real-time promotions, deals and coupons related to the user preferences. The mobile billboard displays target messages based on both the user's preferences and the user's geographical real-time location. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC CONSUMER OFFERS - An approach for providing consumption behavior modification is described. Location information associated with a mobile device is received as part of a consumption behavior modification service. An applicable behavior modification grid tile is identified based on the location information, wherein the behavior modification grid tile is among a plurality of modification grid tiles mapping to a behavior continuum space. One of a plurality of offers designated for the identified grid is selected. An incentive message specifying a behavior modification inducement incentive is generated for transmission to the mobile device. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140188618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE IN RELATION TO A DIRECTORY AND DELIVERING A TARGETED MESSAGE - A system and method for connecting a user to an entity in relation to one or more directories comprising one or more databases, said databases comprising one or more contact information of one or more entities replaced by one or more intermediate contact information provided by an intermediate system, said intermediate system receiving the contact of the user made to the intermediate contact, delivering a targeted message to the user before routing the user to the entity. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140195349 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING TARGETED ADVERTISING AND INTUITIVE WAYFINDING - The present invention is a method for displaying messaging, wayfinding and advertising on interactive kiosks and digital wireless communication devices including handheld portable devices within a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) or through the Internet. The information is stored in databases connected to the Internet that include maps of shopping centers or malls, data regarding user profiles, product categories and product brands which provide users the ability to search the database and interact with the maps and point-of-purchase advertising. When proximity-based WLAN access is available, the data is merged with more data concerning the user's relative position within the network. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195350 | WHITE PAGE AND YELLOW PAGE DIRECTORIES IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus and system of white page and yellow page directories in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes geocoding an address data associated with a listing of a directory on a map and publishing an inventory of a user associated with the listing to market to other users and residents a threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing. The method may include generating a set of coupons of a business associated with the listing as the inventory, and providing the set of coupons to the other users and residents the threshold distance away from the address data associated with the listing. The method may also include adjusting the threshold distance away based on a request of the user associated with the listing. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140195351 | KIOSK NETWORK SYSTEM - A platform is provided having a network of interactive kiosks with multiple local services running on each individual kiosk. The kiosk network provides users or interested viewers with relevant information, as well as the ability to react to such information in a relevant manner. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140201000 | REAL TIME MECHANISM FOR LOCATION BASED MESSAGING USING WIRELESS NETWORKS - In an example embodiment disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising an interface and mobile billboard logic that is coupled with the interface and operable to communicate with an associated device via the interface. The mobile billboard logic obtains location data for the associated device. The mobile billboard logic determines whether a predetermined trigger condition has been met. The mobile billboard logic selectively sends data representative of an advertisement to the associated device to be displayed on a web page being requested by the associated device based on the location of the associated device and whether the predetermined condition has been met. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201001 | DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS - Among other things, information is maintained that associates competitors with respective territories for which the competitors have rights that are to be exclusive relative to other competitors for items associated with the territories. A user can enter, through a user interface, an expression of interest that can be associated with one of the territories. In response to the expression of interest, a user is automatically enabled to interact with the competitor that has the exclusive right to the territory, without automatically enabling the user to interact with a competitor that does not have the exclusive right. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201002 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING - The present invention is generally directed toward a method for providing an advertisement to user equipment. The method includes providing and transmitting an advertisement message and caller ID data including sender identification information to user equipment having a display. The advertisement message and caller ID data are received by the user equipment and displayed on the display. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM(S) WITH DATA - Provided is a system and method for targeting one or more receiving data processing systems with data by aiming a sending data processing system at the receiving data processing system(s) and performing a shoot action. Aiming information is transmitted from the sending data processing system to the receiving data processing system(s) to facilitate determining whether or not the one or more receiving data processing systems was targeted by the sending data processing system, for example, to subsequently pull data, push data, or interact. Aiming information may include location information, directional and posture information, distance information, target size, and/or other shooting data to further qualify the shoot action. Permissions and configurations can govern data pulled or pushed. Wave forms which are not controllably aimed by nature can be accurately aimed. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140207575 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE NETWORK USING MOBILE DEVICES - A mobile software development kit (“SDK”) executes on a mobile device that interfaces with a commerce network. The mobile SDK includes an interface to a host application on the commerce network, and an interface to a merchant application executing on the mobile device. The mobile SDK receives from the host application a check-in of the mobile device to a merchant, and an availability of new user objects, and provides the check-in and new user objects to the merchant application. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140214543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING TARGETED/PERSONALIZED ADS OR MESSAGES - A method of controlling an electronic sign is provided. Identification information is received from a plurality of mobile devices approaching an electronic sign. Using the identification information, user profiles corresponding to the plurality of mobile devices are retrieved. Information from the user profiles is then aggregated. An advertisement or message to display to the plurality of mobile devices is then identified based on the aggregated information. The advertisement or message is then caused to be displayed on the electronic sign. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140222569 | COMMUNICATING A TARGETED MESSAGE TO A WIRELESS DEVICE BASED ON LOCATION AND TWO USER PROFILES - A method for tracking patronage of a customer in at least one casino property is described. The method comprises monitoring a wireless handset that determines the location of the customer. The method then proceeds to generate a user profile that comprises user preferences and monitored betting activity associated with the customer and accumulated points stored in a customer account according to a monetary value of the monitored betting activity. Complementary goods or services are determined based on the accumulated points associated with the customer account. A message is sent to the wireless handset associated with the complementary goods or services that is consistent with the user preferences. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222570 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product For Probabilistically Derived Predictive Location Based Targeted Promotion - An exemplary system, method, and/or computer program product may programmatically by computer processor(s) combine various exemplary data elements to create an analyzed and calculated predictive device location, categorized by time of day for one or more devices. The exemplary method may take in as input(s) exemplary passive data that results from geolocated communication events such as wireless voice calls, data sessions and/or wireless communications tower or network hotspot information. The inputs, according to an embodiment may be combined and enriched with exemplary Latitude/Longitude reference data to provide a location history for an exemplary device. Based on analysis of frequented locations and time periods, the detailed location history information for a device may be probability weighted (e.g., scored) to predict where the device will be, at a given future time, based on the given device's detailed location history, and exemplary time of day, e.g., morning, afternoon, night, etc. The information may be used to create targeted campaigns based on an predicted device location. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222571 | DIRECTING COMMUNICATIONS TO SEMANTIC BUNDLES OF LOCATIONS - A system and a computer-implemented method of serving online content items using a semantic description of a feature that is common to a plurality of online content locations are provided. The method includes assigning one or more identifications based on the semantic descriptions to each of the plurality of online content locations using one or more features associated with a respective one of the online content locations, receiving a selection of one or more of the assigned identifications and a physical location of the associated online content locations, determining at least one of a physical location of an online content recipient, and an intended location of the online content recipient, and transmitting an online content item to the online content recipient when the online content recipient is within a specified distance from any of the selected online content locations. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222572 | SERVER OFFERING SERVICE TARGETING USER AND SERVICE OFFERING METHOD THEREOF - A server for offering a service targeting a user and a service offering method thereof, the method including: collecting data from a plurality of user devices; determining a unit zone partitioned from a service zone based on geographic information; adjusting the unit zone based on the amount of data collectable according to the determined unit zones; performing modeling to parse the data collected according to the adjusted unit zones; and offering a service targeting a user of the unit zone, based on results from the modeling. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCRYPTING LOCATION BROADCASTS - The present disclosure provides a system and method for providing a user with supplemental content based on the user's preferences and location. The disclosure provides a computer program that allows users to discover and organize content from a platform that is accessible from a mobile device or computer. Additionally, the disclosure provides a system for determining a user's location while indoors. The system can associate the user's location with specific content or items in a store and provide the user with supplemental content related to those items. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222574 | PRESENCE DETECTION USING BLUETOOTH AND HYBRID-MODE TRANSMITTERS - Presence detection using Bluetooth and hybrid-mode transmitters is disclosed. In some embodiments, a transmitter is configured to broadcast a secure identifier comprising a venue identifier using Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) and/or an ultrasonic audio channel. The secure identifier broadcast by the transmitter is captured by a handset and decoded to infer presence of the handset at a venue identified by the venue identifier. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222575 | PRESENTING COMMERCIAL OFFERS TO MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES BASED ON ACTIVITY OF MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE USERS - A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222576 | Interactive Personalized E-Experience System and Method for Visual Voice Mail - In-person shopping at brick-and-mortar locations can be facilitated using visual voicemail systems. A user device can be detected upon entry or proximity to a retail location and a greeting visual voicemail message can be transmitted to the user device. User data may be integrated into the greeting message. The greeting message can also include options for a user to activate that allow the integration of the virtual and physical shopping experience. Options can include requests for sales associate help, product information or location, associated service plans or accessories, etc. Multiple remote resources can be coordinated to service a user's requests via a visual voicemail system while the user is shopping in the retail location. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140222577 | CAMPAIGN IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus, and system of a campaign in a geo-spatial environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes populating each profile of a geo-spatial social network with an address data, forming a group in support of a campaign in the geo-spatial network when a particular user creates the group in support of the campaign and automatically communicating media to a physical location of a member of the group based on the address data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial network. The method may also include automatically creating the group based on a public data associated with each profile of the geo-spatial social network even prior to certain users associated with each profile registering geo-spatial social network by applying the public data to the each profile. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140236724 | MESSAGING SERVICE FOR LOCATION-AWARE MOBILE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ADVERTISEMENTS WITH A MOBILE DEVICE TRIGGERED BY TAGGED USER-GENERATED MESSAGES - In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving a text message from a mobile device. The text message includes a tag entered into the text portion of the message. The tag includes a term assigned to a server-side process. A location of the mobile device is obtained. The server-side process is determined based on the tag and the location of the mobile device. The server-side process is implemented. An instruction to a user of the mobile device is composed. The instruction is formatted into a text message format. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236725 | Systems and Methods for Presenting and Delivering Content - Systems and methods are provided for presenting information about discrete geographical areas and the use of such information by content providers to facilitate delivery of targeted or geographically relevant content to information playback devices located in one or more particular discrete geographical areas. Data (e.g., contextual, behavioral, predictive, trending, geo-consumer patterns) can be collected and associated with relevant virtual cells within a grid. A portal can be provided to enable content provider to search the cells based on customized campaigns to identify trends, interest, patterns and opportunities. Such information can facilitate informed geo-targeting decisions and consumer understandings for business of all sizes and sectors in order to deliver more relevant content to information playback devices within selected cells according to customized settings configured by the content provider. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236726 | TRANSFERENCE OF DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A PRODUCT AND/OR PRODUCT PACKAGE - A proximity-based device within a product and/or a product package sends data associated with the product and/or the product package to a mobile device based upon the mobile device being within a proximity to the proximity-based device. Another proximity-based receiver within a mobile device receives data associated with a product and/or a product package from a proximity-based transmitter within the product and/or the product package based upon the proximity-based receiver being within a proximity to the proximity-based transmitter. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236727 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, a storage unit, and a notification unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a wireless terminal that enters communication areas of the wireless LAN communication units installed in different. The determination unit determines a movement route of a user of the wireless terminal on the basis of the information on the wireless terminal acquired by the acquisition unit. The storage unit stores the information on the movement route determined by the determination unit as a movement route history. The notification unit notifies the user of the wireless terminal that has entered the communication area of the wireless LAN communication unit of predetermined information on the basis of the movement route history stored in the storage unit. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236728 | INTERACTIVE SERVICE AND ADVERTISING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for providing interactive services and adaptive advertising in a retail environment such as a shopping mall are provided. One or more systems and a data network are used to provide services which in turn are used to collect information about users and user's preferences at a site area to adapt digital multimedia advertising content at that site. User's preferences at a site area are compiled from selections made by users on systems with fixed or mobile terminals located at the site and which provide services to the users relating to the site area. The selections are used to automatically adjust digital multimedia advertisement at the site and at specific systems with displays at the site which are in the proximity or viewable range of the user or along an approximate path that the user may take at the site. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140236729 | System and Method for Real-Time Location-Based Advertisement Insertion into Online Content - There is provided a media content server for inserting a location-based advertisement into an online media content. The media content server comprises a memory including an online media content for online access; a processor configured to receive a request from a client for the online media content; determine an IP address of the client based on the request; map the IP address to a local advertisement server serving an area corresponding to the IP address; request a local advertisement from the local advertisement server; provide the local advertisement to the client; and provide the online media content from the memory to the client. The online media content has a first and second sequential segments, and the local advertisement may be provided to the client after the first segment is provided and before the second segment is provided. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140244392 | Graphical Recognition Inventory Management and Marketing System - A graphical recognition inventory management and marketing system is disclosed. An image comprising a plurality of product elements is captured. Graphical recognition is utilized to detect, isolate, and identify each element by comparing characteristics of the element with element data stored in a database. When a match is found, the detected and isolated element data is stored with the matched database entry. Additional element data obtained during the graphical recognition process is added to element data stored in the database to expand the database entry. The current location of a user device is detected and product element data is displayed along with a map indicating the physical location of the product element and a route to the product element from the user's current location. A user can also capture an image and have product data and a map to the product displayed. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244393 | FALL-BACK TO SAVED LOCATION WHERE USER LOCATION IS UNKNOWN - Presentation of a saved offer with a redemption location closest to a user's location. The user reviews and selects an offer, creating an offer instance. The user's current location at the time the offer instance is created is identified. The user's current location and the offer instance are saved by a user device. The user accesses the offer instance using an application resident on the user device. If the device cannot identify the user's current location or the application is not integrated with the device's location system, the user's last known location is identified by retrieving the location saved with the offer instance. Alternatively, the user device will determine the most recent saved location, or most relevant last known location. The user's last known location is retrieved and the nearest redemption locations are displayed with the offer. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244394 | Mixed-mode interaction - A user of a wireless device, such as a mobile phone, can make purchases or obtain information via a network, such as the Internet, using both voice and non-verbal methods. Users can submit voice queries and receive non-verbal replies, submit non-verbal queries and receive voice replies, or perform similar operations that many the voice and data capabilities of modern mobile communication devices. The user may provide notification criteria indicating under what conditions a notification should be sent to the user's wireless device. When purchasing opportunities matching the selected notification criteria become available, the user is notified. The user can respond to the notification, and immediately take advantage of the purchasing opportunity if he so desires. Mixed-mode interactions can also be used by sellers to more advantageously control the marketing of distressed, time sensitive, or other merchandise/services. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244395 | FOOTWEAR PRODUCTS INCLUDING DATA TRANSMISSION CAPABILITIES - Footwear systems include an article of footwear and a data transmission system engaged with the article of footwear. The transmission system transmits data to a remote system, such as a display system, another data transmission system, a processing system, etc. Such footwear systems further may include activation systems for activating the transmission and/or display systems. The transmitted data may be used for various purposes, such as: (a) identifying a user of the article of footwear; (b) activating targeted advertising or product information; (c) confirming the user's presence at a specific location and/or at a specific time; (d) determining start, finish, and/or intermediate split times for specific user; (e) confirming athletic equipment usage; (f) providing data for a game or reward program; (g) registering the user for an event or competition; or the like. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140244396 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH LOCATION-BASED SUPPLEMENTAL INCENTIVE NOTIFICATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a notification of an initial offer; identifying a consumer's vacillation to the initial offer; and generating a second notification of the supplemental incentive offer based on the consumer's vacillation for displaying on a device. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140249924 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING INTELLIGENT ELECTRONIC BANNERS BASED ON USER INFORMATION - A method and system for generating electronic advertisements, such as banner ads, based on user profile information, location information and proximity preferences are disclosed. An online promotion service may receive profile information, location information and other information from a user. The user may also define a proximity preference which may include a range of distance the user is willing to travel to redeem one or more promotions. A service or product provider or other authorized entity may define a proximity preference which may include a target range of advertisement exposure. The online promotion service may present advertisements for incentives and other promotions based on user profile information as well as proximity preference information where the proximity preference is defined by the user, the provider, or both. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140257987 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A PERSONALIZED CONTENT DISSEMINATION PLATFORM - The disclosure provides a method and corresponding system for personalizing and disbursing content material in an automated fashion based on differing characteristics or profiles of the recipients. The system includes a database of potential recipients with key characteristics such as location data, revenue, product ownership, customer status, tenure with the company/organization, payment status, credit rating, whether they have recently responded to other material, and the like. Dissemination media include email communications, collaterals, brochures, textual materials, image and video information, and any similar media, where the contents of the communication material is customized based on the key characteristics profiles of the recipients and driven by a set of business rules that can be adapted to fit various scenarios. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140279002 | ENHANCEMENT OF USER AFFINITY EXPERIENCE BASED ON OFFERS RELATED TO A GEOGRAPHIC AREA - Systems, methods, and computer program products enhance the affinity experience for affinity account holders by providing offers related to the user's geographic location. In the various systems, location data is received from a mobile device of the user that is in communication with the system, a geographic area of the mobile device is identified based on the location data, at least a portion of the geographic area associated with an affinity object associated with a financial vehicle of the user is determined, and one or more offers associated with the affinity object is identified based on the geographic area. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279003 | ENHANCEMENT OF USER AFFINITY EXPERIENCE BASED ON MESSAGING RELATED TO A GEOGRAPHIC AREA - Systems, methods, and computer program products enhance the affinity experience for affinity account holders by providing topic notifications related to the user's geographic location. In the various systems, location data is received from a mobile device of the user that is in communication with the system, a geographic area of the mobile device is identified based on the location data, at least a portion of the geographic area associated with an affinity object associated with a financial vehicle of the user is determined, and one or more topics associated with the affinity object is identified based on the geographic area. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279004 | SEPARATING OFFERS ASSOCIATED WITH ONE ACCOUNT BASED ON GEOLOCATION OF ACCOUNT USERS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for micro-targeting an offer based on geolocation information. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: determine a first user is accessing an account, wherein the account is associated with a first user and a second user, wherein the account is presented on a user interface; and in response to determining the first user is accessing the account, transmit a first offer to the first user based on geolocation information associated with the first user, wherein the first offer is presented on the user interface, and wherein the first offer enables the first user to receive a discount or a rebate on a transaction associated with the first offer. The apparatus may also be configured to transmit, in real-time, offers to the first user based on at least one of real-time or historical geolocation information associated with the first user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279005 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING AN OFFER BASED ON AN ACCOUNT BALANCE AND LOCATION OF A CONSUMER - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for presenting an offer to a consumer based on account balance information and consumer location information. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) receive geographic location information associated with the mobile computing device of the consumer; (b) receive information associated with the credit account of the consumer, wherein the consumer is a holder of the credit account; (c) determine whether the balance value of the credit account has an existing balance value greater than zero; and (d) present, via the mobile computing device of the consumer, the offer to the consumer based at least in part on determining that the geographic location of the mobile device of the consumer is proximate to or coincident with a location of the merchant and determining that the existing balance value of the credit account associated with the merchant is greater than zero. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279006 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AN OFFER BASED ON AN ACCOUNT BALANCE AND LOCATION OF A CONSUMER - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for determining an offer based on a balance value of a credit account a location of a consumer having the credit account. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) receive geographic location information associated with a mobile computing device of the consumer; (b) receive information associated with the credit account of the consumer, wherein the consumer is a holder of the credit account; (c) determine a balance value of the credit account of the consumer; and (d) determine an offer to present to the consumer based at least partially on the balance value of the credit account and a determined location of the consumer. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279007 | METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED CONTEXT-AWARE, AND PRIVACY PRESERVING REAL-TIME BROKERAGE FOR ADVERTISING - A real-time and privacy-preserving method for delivering personalized information to a user within a specific geographical location is provided. The method comprises the steps of: storing information specific to a user in a database maintained by a centralized brokerage service; transmitting a user initiated request to the centralized brokerage service to provide a listing of products and services offered by retailers or third parties located in the approximate current geographical vicinity of the user; utilizing the stored information of the user to generate a personalized listing of products and services offered within the approximate current geographical vicinity of the user; and sending the generated personalized listing to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279008 | PROVIDING AN OFFER BASED ON ENROLLING A DEBIT ACCOUNT INTO A MERCHANT-SPECIFIC ACCOUNT - Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing an offer to a user based on linking a financial account to a merchant-specific account. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) determining whether a user is a holder of an existing merchant-specific account; (b) prompting the user to link a debit account to the existing merchant-specific account based at least partially on determining that the user is the holder of the existing merchant-specific account; (c) receiving debit account information for linking the existing merchant-specific account to the debit account of the user; and (d) providing the offer to the user based on successfully linking the debit account to the merchant-specific account. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279009 | SELF-SERVICE INTERCEPT ON OR OFF PREMISE - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transmitting an offer to a user associated with an account. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: determine, based on geolocation information associated with a mobile device associated with the user, whether the mobile device is within a predetermined distance of a reference location; in response to determining the mobile device is within the predetermined distance of the reference location, transmit an offer to the mobile device, wherein the offer is associated with a product or a service, and wherein the offer has been previously communicated to the user; and provide an option for the user to accept the offer via the mobile device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279010 | USING A FEDERATED NETWORK OF RETAILERS TO PROVIDE MESSAGES TO NETWORK CUSTOMERS ASSOCIATED WITH CATEGORIES OF MERCHANTS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for communicating messages to one or more customers associated with a federated network of retailers. Embodiments determine that one or more customers associated with the federated network of retailers are in proximity to a retailer physical location associated with a retailer that is a member of the federated network of retailers; create one or more messages based on the determination that the one or more customers are in proximity to the retailer physical location; and initiate communication of the one or more messages to the one or more customers. In some embodiments, determining comprises recognizing a mobile device is associated with a customer of at least one retailer that is a member of the federated network of retailers. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279011 | GENERATING PROMOTIONS FOR A SERVICE USING A MAP INTERFACE - A method for generating promotions for a service is provided. One or more processors provide, on a display of a computing device, a user interface to enable a promoter to create a promotion for a service. The user interface provides a plurality of parameters for the promotion. The promoter is enabled to configure at least one of the plurality of parameters for the promotion. A map interface is provided, on the display, to enable the promoter to identify a geographic region in which the promotion can be used by one or more customers. The promoter can identify the geographic region by creating a boundary using three or more location points selected on the map interface. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279012 | TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS FOR TRAVEL REGION DEMOGRAPHICS - For an advertisement opportunity near a travel region, advertisements may be selected that are targeted to individuals who are likely to view the advertisement. However, travel patterns among individuals sharing particular traits may exist that facilitate targeted advertising, but may be non-intuitive and therefore difficult to predict, and other techniques, such as population surveys, may be costly and inaccurate. Presented herein are techniques for automatically evaluating travel patterns by tracking the routes of particular individuals, and inferring demographics for such individuals based on the locations of their routes (e.g., an individual whose route frequently includes a residence may be presumed to share the population demographics of the residential neighborhood). Extrapolating such individual demographics may enable inference of shared demographics at particular advertisement opportunities (e.g., among travelers who frequently travel on a particular road at a particular time of day) and the selection of advertisements more closely targeting such individuals. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279013 | ONLINE AND OFFLINE ECOMMERCE CONNECTIONS - Product information from local searches can be furnished based on user actions with respect to an eCommerce system. Information about user actions with respect to a product on the eCommerce system can be retrieved from the eCommerce system. A user intent to purchase the product may be determined based on the information about user actions. The product may then be matched to a product on a local search service. A local search on the matched product may then be performed on the local service, to locate one or more stores local to a user's current location that have the matched product in stock. The results from the local search may be displayed to a user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279014 | PUSH NOTIFICATIONS FOR LOCATION-BASED CONTENT DELIVERY - Certain embodiments herein may be directed to push notifications for location-based content delivery. Many merchants use coupon printers to print post-purchase coupons. The systems and methods described herein are directed to generating incentives, such as coupons or loyalty points which may be based at least in part on purchases, the current location of the user in proximity to items or stores, and associating the incentives to a user profile associated with the user. The incentives may then later be retrieved by a point of sale (POS) system of a merchant and then applied to any future purchase transactions the customer may desire. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279015 | SHELF-LEVEL MARKETING AND POINT OF SALES ENRICHMENT - A user's mobile device is located to within a few feet of a specific location in a store or other business. From the user's profile, it is determined whether the user may be interested in a particular product sold in the store. A message is sent to the user's mobile device to lead the user to a position directly in front of the product on the shelf. The message may also include a coupon or other promotional material. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279016 | BEHAVIORAL TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD IN SUPPORT OF HIGH-ENGAGEMENT COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods provide targeted communications for each of a plurality of respective recipients. A database includes user information, customer information, template information, content feed information and advertising information. A template instruction is processed to select a template for generating the targeted communication, which is customized with at least some of the content feed. The targeted communication is scheduled for delivery, and at least some advertising information is selected to be included, as a function of geo-location information associated with at least one of the plurality of recipients. At least some advertising information is processed to format the advertising information with the targeted communication based at least on at least one instruction received from the registered user. The targeted communication is generated and transmitted to each of the plurality of recipients. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279017 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION OF TARGETED ADVERTISING BETWEEN MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Disclosed are a method and system for distribution of targeted advertising between mobile communication devices. An endorsement 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 endorsement programs for the qualified subscriber are 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. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279018 | Exclusive Delivery Of Content Within Geographic Areas - Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289047 | SELECTIVE BANNER AD DISPLAY - When a user launches a service provider app on a user device, but before authentication, the user may be presented with an ad or offer, which is dependent on and relevant to the user. The service provider determines which ad to present to the user based on factors such as time of day, time of year, location of user, speed of travel of user, user purchase history, user favorites, saved offers, size of merchant, user actions from previous ads, expiration dates of saved offers, etc. Once an ad is determined, the ad is presented to the user on the user device. In one embodiment, the ad is displayed when the user launches an app of the service provider or accesses the service provider site, such as through a mobile browser. the user does not have to launch an app or access a site for an ad to be displayed. After viewing the ad, the user can accept an offer from the ad or otherwise make a purchase based on the ad, such as by logging into the user account (e.g., entering a password or PIN) and making a payment. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289048 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING BANNERS HAVING DIRECT LINK TO USER PROFILE INFORMATION - A method and system for generating electronic advertisement, such as banner ads, based on user profile information and other information are disclosed. An online promotion service may receive profile information, location information and other information from a user. The user may also define a proximity preference which may include a range of distance the user is willing to travel to redeem one or more promotions. A service or product provider or other authorized entity may define a proximity preference which may include a target range of advertisement exposure. The online promotion service may present advertisements for incentives and other promotions based on user profile information as well as proximity preference information where the proximity preference is defined by the user, the provider, or both. The user may activate a user identifier displayed on the advertisement which provides a direct link to user profile information to enable the user to easily and quickly modify and update user profile information. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289049 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR THE DISPLAY OF ADVERTISEMENTS - Communication system for displaying advertisements, characterized in that it comprises a cascade geolocation system. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140297415 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS, DYNAMIC, ADAPTIVE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON A CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING PERSONAL REGION OF INTEREST - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to flexible, user-adapted, continuous searching, on behalf of a particular user, for points of interest relevant to the user's current location within a specifically computed personal region of interest. In a general case, the personal region of interest is computed as a function of the user's level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest. The level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest may, in turn, be based on two or more of the user's location, the current date and time, a history of the user's interaction with the POI-searching system, including user-initiated searches and user selections from displayed search results, a user profile developed for, and continuously updated on behalf of, the user, and a current context for the search, as specified by a search query or by other context-specifying means. The personal region of interest generally defines an abstract area, volume, or hypervolume within which method and system embodiments of the present invention search for points of interest. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140297416 | INTERNET SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING CLIENT-TRAVELERS WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY-ASSOCIATED DATA - A multi-dimensional information repository has a plurality of stored data structures; and one or more tags associated with individual ones of the plurality of data structures. The data structures are tagged according to locations and defined regions relative to the surface of the Earth, and a data retrieval system retrieves information from the data structures according to location data accompanying requests for data. In some cases data structures are also tagged relative to time in addition to location and defined regions, and both tags are used in retrieving data structures. An Internet-connected subscription server system using the data repository has a communication module for receiving data requests accompanied by location data and a code set for managing retrieval of information from the data repository in response to the data requests. The system, receiving a data request, uses the location data accompanying the request to determine location in individual ones of pre-defined regions, and uses the pre-defined region information to access data structures and retrieve information related to the pre-defined regions for transmission in response to the data requests. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304075 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMITTING LIVE COUPONS - Systems and methods are disclosed for presenting live coupons to a consumer. In embodiments, a method includes receiving profile information associated with a consumer, receiving a live coupon associated with the item sold by the retail store, determining that the consumer is at the location of the item associated with the live coupon by comparing the location of the item with the location of the consumer, and transmitting the live coupon to the consumer responsive to the determination that the consumer is at the location of the item. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304076 | VARIABLE REWARD OFFERS BASED ON TRAVEL ROUTE - Generally, this disclosure describes variable reward offers based on travel route. Techniques may include mapping a travel route from a first location to a second location using a mobile device, the mobile device configured to display at least a portion of the travel route; requesting an interest profile from a user, the interest profile comprising a place of interest and a deviation distance; and receiving a reward offer related to the interest profile and the travel route by the mobile device, the reward offer configured to cause the user to deviate a deviation distance from the travel route to redeem the reward. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140310102 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SYNTHESIZING ADVERTISING CONTENTS TO IMAGE OF POINT OF INTEREST AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device for synthesizing advertising contents to an image of a Point of Interest (POI) and a method thereof are provided. The method includes displaying an image of a POI to which at least one contents are synthesized, sensing a motion input to the displayed image of the POI, and displaying the image of the POI that has been changed according to the sensed motion. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140316895 | MOBILE ADVERTISING SYSTEM - In a cellular telephone system, an ad server is used to monitor activities of a cell phone. When a call is made from the cell phone to third party, an ad is presented on the cell phone to its user while the voice channel is established. The ad is selected based on a profile of the user or his geographical location. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316896 | DECISIONING SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING AND DELIVERING OPTIMIZATION, LAYOUT, AND OTHER STORE INSIGHTS FROM LOCATION DATA - The present disclosure provides a system, method and computer readable medium that enables the delivery of data to retail stores and their affiliates. In addition, the present disclosure augments existing data gathering solutions. One embodiment of the present disclosure is capable of tracking client movement within a store, and presenting the client with targeted advertisements. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316897 | LOCATION BASED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM - Systems and methods presented herein provide for location based communications. An internet server provides the location based communications to a plurality of user devices. An interface of the server communicatively couples to the user devices through the internet. The server also includes a processor that processes location information received through the interface from a first of the user devices, identifies a set of the plurality of user devices located in a vicinity of the first user device, configures a hub for the first user device that includes the set of user devices, links the hub to an application interface of the first user device, and provides a communication platform between the set of user devices and the first user device based on the hub. The communication platform links each of the user devices in the hub to provide textual communications between the users in the hub. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140316898 | OBSERVATION PLATFORM FOR PERFORMING STRUCTURED COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems are disclosed for sending information in an observation platform. A determination is made, at an observation platform, that a first communication device associated with a first user is located in an environment. A determination is made, at the observation platform, that the first communication device is located in proximity to a second communication device associated with a second user. Speech information is sent to the first communication device for the first user to use in communicating with the second user. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140324589 | Quick Response Code System - A communications method for directing users to a set of traveller services associated with a first localised geographical area, said method comprising:
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| 20140324590 | LOCATION GUIDING TERMINAL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a terminal device for providing location guidance, the terminal device including a wireless communication unit configured to detect at least one wireless repeater around the terminal device over a short-range communication, a control unit configured to acquire a vertical location of the terminal device based on identification information of the detected wireless repeater, a display unit configured to display the acquired vertical location, and a sensor unit configured to acquire motion information of the terminal device, in which the control unit outputs variation information regarding the displayed vertical location based on the acquired motion information. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324591 | SELECTIVELY AUTHENTICATING A GROUP OF DEVICES AS BEING IN A SHARED ENVIRONMENT BASED ON LOCALLY CAPTURED AMBIENT SOUND - In an embodiment, two or more local wireless peer-to-peer connected user equipments (UEs) capture local ambient sound, and report information associated with the captured local ambient sound to an authentication device. The authentication device compares the reported information to determine a degree of environmental similarity for the UEs, and selectively authenticates the UEs as being in a shared environment based on the determined degree of environmental similarity. A given UE among the two or more UEs selects a target UE for performing a given action based on whether the authentication device authenticates the UEs as being in the shared environment. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324592 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA FILES - A system for locating, segmenting, annotating and retrieving multimedia files, provides a database of metadata ( | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140324593 | Mobile Messaging and Data Tracking Platform - The invention provides methods, systems, and modules for sending messages to message-recipients based on targeting parameters and optional location data. Examplary embodiments of the invention are configured to operate in a geographic area defined by a collective such as a shopping mall comprising a plurality of tenants, wherein the message-senders include the tenants and a representative of the collective. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140337136 | AD SCHEDULING - An advertisement scheduling machine may be configured to facilitate scheduling of one or more advertisements. As configured, the advertisement scheduling machine may cause presentation of a graphical user interface that displays multiple timeslots available for scheduling advertisements. The advertisement scheduling machine detects that an advertisement has been selected from multiple advertisements available for scheduling, and the selected advertisement may be unscheduled in any of the displayed timeslots. The advertisement scheduling machine accesses a scheduling rule associated with the selected advertisement and determines that the selected advertisement is schedulable in only a portion of the displayed timeslots and not a remainder of them, in accordance with the scheduling rule. The advertisement scheduling machine then causes the graphical user interface to indicate that the selected advertisement is schedulable in only the portion of the timeslots but not in the remainder. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140344057 | INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING - Systems and methods for providing content for a client device. The methods can include: receiving a content request from a computing device; determining that the computing device is a non-mobile television client; identifying at least a portion of an internet protocol (IP) address associated with the content request; determining a geographic area corresponding to the IP address; obtaining, by a computer processor, demographic information associated with the geographic area; and providing, by the computer processor, relevant content for the non-mobile television client based on the demographic information. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED MARKETING AUTOMATION - A computerized system and method provides for managing and using marketing assets across an enterprise. A network interface may communicate with a first client machine associated with a first user having a first language and a second client machine associated with a second user having s second language. An electronic data storage may store a marketing asset in a marketing asset language. A processor may cause a graphical user interface to be displayed on the first client machine in the first language and the marketing asset to be displayed with respect to the graphical user interface only when the marketing asset language corresponds to the first language, and cause the graphical user interface to be displayed on the second client machine in the second language and the marketing asset to be displayed with respect to the graphical user interface only when the marketing asset language corresponds to the second language. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MOBILE DEVICE - The present invention provides a mobile device including: a power receiver for wirelessly coupling with a power transmitter to receive power wirelessly from the power transmitter; and a function that automatically initiates upon the power receiver wirelessly coupling with the power transmitter. Also provided is a transmitter apparatus including a power transmitter for wirelessly coupling with a power receiver in a mobile device to provide power wirelessly to the power receiver, wherein, upon the power receiver wirelessly coupling with the power transmitter, data is transferred between the power transmitter and the power receiver and a function of the mobile device automatically initiates. The mobile device and transmitter apparatus together form a system for operating the mobile device. Methods and computer-readable media storing executable application programs associated with the system arc also provided. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140351052 | Contextual Product Recommendation Engine - Disclosed is a computer system that produces contextually relevant, customized and predictive product recommendations by combining a novel layered user interface and a server system implementing data mapping of one or more external product databases. The combining of these software of hardware components improves the quality and relevancy of product recommendations specifically when a user knows what they are interested in but not the products needed to accomplish these interests as well as when a user has more than one interest and wants product recommendations that take into account these multiple interests. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351053 | Method and system for providing targeted marketing and services in an SDARS network - A targeted area audio distribution system for Satellite Digital Audio Radio Services Receivers (“SDARS”) provides specific content to listeners based on location. A service provider can facilitate delivery of local content using a telematics device installed in the listener's vehicle. The telematics device uses a content database indexed on an identifier formed from coordinates of a desired geographical area to target particular content for users in a targeted area as small as a few blocks. In addition, interstate drivers can receive location specific advertisements for exits that they may be approaching. Digital audio content can be queued up for insertion into the audio stream based on specific locations. The identifier can also be used to report vehicle performance information from a plurality of vehicles to facilitate providing real-time traffic conditions for many traffic corridors. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140358685 | Method and System for Providing Sign Data and Sign History - Methods and systems include determining that a device is proximate to a sign, providing sign identification information associated with the sign, and providing a sign history. A request for sign data associated with the sign identification information may be received, and sign data may be provided. Determining that a sign is proximate to a device may be based on a signal from the sign and/or the device. Additionally, a location of a device may be received and it may be determined that the device is proximate to a sign based on determining a location of the sign and determining that the difference in the location of the device and the location of the sign is less than a given threshold. A request for sign data associated with the sign may be sent. In response, sign data may be received, stored, and displayed. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140365305 | PROVIDING GEOSPATIAL-TEMPORAL NEXT-BEST-ACTION DECISIONS - Embodiments herein provide geospatial-temporal next-best-action decisions. Specifically, a predictive modeling tool is configured to receive, from a user, a first instance of unstructured data, the unstructured data containing an indicator of a transacting opportunity, and generate a profile for the user by combining the unstructured data with structured data, the profile including personality characteristics and identifying information of the user. The profile is used to identify the user as a producer of a second instance of unstructured data by comparing the personality characteristics and identifying information of the user to the second instance of unstructured data. A commercial offer is then generated based on information from the profile of the user and at least one of the first instance of unstructured data or the second instance of unstructured data, and the offer is communicated to the user when the user is located within a predetermined proximity to a retailer. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365306 | USER INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, USER INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A user information providing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a database, an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a output unit. The database stores pieces of user information of a business operator. The acquiring unit acquires, as entry information, information of a place corresponding to the business operator and information of a wireless terminal which has entered the place. The extracting unit extracts a piece of user information of the business operator corresponding to the place which the wireless terminal has entered from the database, based on the entry information acquired. The output unit outputs the extracted piece of user information. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365307 | TRANSMITTING LISTINGS BASED ON DETECTED LOCATION - Systems and methods for facilitating location-aware listing publication are discussed. A listing can include an item location corresponding to an item described in the listing. The listing may be received on a central server from a device operated by a first user. A geofence can be generated around the item location corresponding to the item described in the listing. The geofence surrounding the item location can be monitored for a second user. A second user can be detected within the geographical area enclosed by the geofence. In response to detecting the second user, a determination can be made as to whether the second user has indicated an interest in the item described in the listing. In response to the determination, the listing can be transmitted to a second device operated by the second user to notify the second user of the published listing. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140379476 | METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention provides a method of outputting location specific data to a user interface of a mobile device, the method comprising: obtaining data representing one or more activity patterns associated with the mobile device; selecting a location specific data portion from one or more location specific data portions responsive to a determination that the data representing one or more of the one or more activity patterns meet one or more relevance criteria associated with the said location specific data portion; and outputting to the user interface data from the selected location specific data portion or data associated with the selected location specific data portion. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWD BASED CONTENT DELIVERY - A system and method for crowd based content delivery. A crowd of users may be associated with an electronic billboard. A profile may be generated for the crowd. A digital content item may be selected based on the crowd profile. The digital content item may be presented by the electronic billboard. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379478 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING AN INTERACTIVE MEDIA KIOSK NETWORK - An interactive media recording and broadcasting system includes an interactive digital media recording and broadcasting kiosk for interacting, recording and broadcasting media, a web server for storing and serving data, an advertising platform, and a social media network website. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379479 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVISION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ADVERTISEMENT PROVISION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an advertisement provision management apparatus including an information acquisition unit and a content selection unit. The information acquisition unit acquires, from a portable terminal that is present in the vicinity of a digital signage terminal installed at any location, identification information of the portable terminal and use information of the portable terminal. The content selection unit selects content to be displayed on the portable terminal identified by the identification information, on the basis of content-relating information stored while being associated with content displayed on the digital signage terminal and the use information acquired from the portable terminal. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20140379480 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR INTERACTIVE MARKETING WITH ATTRIBUTION USING PROXIMITY SENSORS - Embodiments of the present disclosure is directed to systems, methods and devices for interactive marketing with attribution using proximity sensors. Embodiments include interactive marketing displays coupled to an interactive marketing display controller, that provide marketing information to a shopper and allow the shopper to interact with it such that the interactive marketing display controller records interaction data with the shopper and a timestamp of interaction. Further, embodiments include data sensors that are in proximity to an interactive marketing displays such that the data sensor senses a shopper's mobile device, acquires a device identifier of the mobile device, and records a timestamp of when the mobile device is sensed. Additional embodiments include an interactive marketing display provider's server to combine the interaction data and the device identifier of the mobile device and provides the combined interaction data and device identifier to the retail server for attribution. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150019339 | DELIVERY OF COMMERCIAL INFORMATION - The invention relates to an apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: configure an apparatus capable to device-to-device communications to operate as a local proximity services advertising agent device, and/or configure a proximity services advertising source device to operate as a local proximity services advertising agent device or associate the proximity services advertising source device with an existing local proximity services advertising agent device, and provide commercial information to the local proximity services advertising agent device for local delivery. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150025972 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An advertisement delivery system includes a first transmission part configured to transmit to a plurality of devices advertisement information representing an advertisement displayed on the devices; a reception part configured to receive, from the devices which have received the advertisement information, execution information representing that the respective devices have executed a predetermined operation; a first identification part configured to identify two or more of the devices in which the execution information received from the devices meets a first condition; and a second identification part configured to identify more than a predetermined number of the devices from the two or more of the devices identified by the first identification part such that all of the devices identified by the second identification part are located in a circular area with a predetermined radius. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150025973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION BASED CONTENT CORRELATION - A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example, data is received from a client device that includes current geographical position data identifying a geographical position of the client device. A vendor having a geographical location within a specified distance of the geographical position of the client device is identified. An offer from the vendor within the distance of the client device is returned to the client device. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150025974 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION BASED CONTENT CORRELATION - A method and a system to correlate location and content. For example, data is received from a client device that includes current geographical position data identifying a geographical position of the client device. A vendor having a geographical location within a specified distance of the geographical position of the client device is identified. An offer from the vendor within the distance of the client device is returned to the client device. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150032542 | LOCATION-VARIABLE CONTEXTUAL CONTACTS - A method for updating location-dependent contact information entails, at a first location, storing first location-dependent contact information for a first service-providing entity as a contact in an address book in a memory of the mobile device, determining a current location of the mobile device, and in response to determining that the current location has changed from the first location to a second location, automatically updating the address book by replacing the first location-dependent contact information in the address book with second location-dependent contact information for a second entity equivalent to the first entity. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032543 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING MERCHANTS - A computer system for recommending a merchant to a candidate consumer is provided. The computer system includes a memory device for storing data and a processor. The processor is programmed to collect transaction information for transactions between a plurality of payment cardholders and a plurality of merchants over a predetermined time period where the transaction information includes a merchant identifier associated with each transaction, generate a list of cardholders based on the transaction information where the cardholder list includes an inferred residential zip code associated with each cardholder, determine a number of unique cardholders for each inferred residential zip code associated with each merchant identifier based on the transaction information and the cardholder inferred residential zip codes, calculate a local popularity score for each merchant based on the number of unique cardholders and cardholder inferred residential zip codes, and generate a list of merchants based on the local popularity score. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032544 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR NOTIFYING DESTINATION BASED ON VELOCITY - A terminal performs a coupon notification service method. In the method, in response to a request for a notification service for a coupon, the terminal defines a notification range by measuring a distance from a current location of the terminal to a destination for using the coupon. When the terminal is located within the notification range, the terminal obtains an estimated time of arrival at the destination on the basis of the current location of the terminal and a current velocity of the terminal. Then the terminal displays the estimated time of arrival on a map to perform the notification service for the coupon. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150032545 | ADVERTISEMENT PROVIDING METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - A method, apparatus, system and computer storage medium for providing an advertisement based on a geographical location are provided according to the present disclosure. The method includes: receiving an advertisement publishing request transmitted from a first user terminal, obtaining geographical location information of the first user terminal, storing the geographical location information of the first user terminal and advertisement information of the first user terminal carried in the advertisement publishing request; receiving a surrounding information searching request transmitted from a second user terminal, obtaining geographical location information of the second user terminal, searching for one or more first user terminals locating around the second user terminal according to the geographical location information of the second user terminal, providing advertisement information of the one or more first user terminals searched out to the second user terminal. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150039436 | Method and system for targeted information dissemination - A targeted information dissemination system includes a database, a player, a control device and a plurality of detecting devices. The player, control device and at least one detecting device may be disposed on a public area. If a portable device of a consumer has been detected by the at least one detecting device in the public area, media contents according to preference of the consumer may be played on the player. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150051975 | GEOLOCATION CONVERSIONS BASED ON PRODUCT OR SERVICE AVAILABILITY - Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to using position information to provide advertisements. More specifically, wireless network access point data may be used to identify the position of a mobile device in an indoor space, which, in turn, may be used to identify products within the vicinity of the identified position. Based on the identified products, a server may send advertisements of the same or related products available at other locations to the mobile device. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150051976 | Mobile Device Detection and Identification - Systems, methods and computer-readable media for detecting a mobile device and identifying a user of the device are provided. A wireless signature or other unique identifier of a device may be detected. User information for the device may be obtained from a secondary source independent of the mobile device. Once a user is identified, user information may be retrieved and the user identity and user information may be associated with a mobile device. When the mobile device is then detected at a later time (e.g., after the information has been associated with the device), one or more offers may be generated based on the associated information and/or the location of the device at the time it is detected. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150051977 | CREDIT PREAUTHORIZATION ON USER DEVICE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - There is provided systems and method for credit preauthorization on user device detection. The methods include receiving merchant information and user information, wherein the user information is received after a user device corresponding to the user information is determined to be in a geographic area corresponding to the merchant information, determining a credit preauthorization amount based on the user information, and transmitting the credit preauthorization amount to a merchant device corresponding to the merchant information. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150058123 | CONTEXTUALLY AWARE INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for contextually aware interactive advertisements are provided. In example embodiments, an advertisement indication that indicates a presentation of an advertisement to a user is received. The advertisement corresponding to the advertisement indication is identified. At least one item listing is determined based, at least in part, on the advertisement. Real-time contextual data corresponding to the advertisement indication is received. The real-time contextual data corresponds to a physical context of the presentation of the advertisement. Accessing contextual conditions associated with the advertisement. Determining satisfaction of the contextual conditions based on the real-time contextual data. Based on the determined satisfaction of the contextual conditions, presentation of the at least one item listing is caused to the user. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING, UTILIZING AND MANAGING GEOGRAPHICAL SPECIFIC DEALS - A computer implemented system for generating and managing geographical specific deals comprising a deal information module that obtains information on deals from a plurality of merchants, an inventory and deal splitting module that splits each inventory comprising a plurality of products to be sold into a plurality of deals; and each deal comprising the plurality of products to be sold into a plurality of sub deals that are made available at different sub intervals of the pre defined time interval, a sub deal selection and notification module that selects a sub deal from a deal based on the location information of the shopper, and notifies the sub deal to the shopper; and a transaction identifier generation module that generates the transaction identifier for the sub deal based on a selection of the sub deal, and notifies the transaction identifier to the shopper with a validity period for the transaction identifier. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE FOR HANDS-FREE PAYMENT - Certain aspects of a method and system for communicating location of a mobile device for hands-free payment may include a peer-to-peer ad-hoc network that comprises a plurality of mobile devices, a plurality of access points, and a plurality of point of sale (POS) devices. A first mobile device may determine its location coordinates and communicate them to a selected POS device via the peer to peer ad-hoc network. At least one of the plurality of mobile devices and/or the plurality of access points may be within a defined proximity of the selected POS device. In some instances, the first POS device may receive via one or more intermediate mobile devices in the peer-to-peer ad-hoc network, location coordinates and payment transaction information of a selected mobile device. At least one of the intermediate mobile devices may be within a defined proximity of the first POS device. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150066648 | RECOMMENDATION OF MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS BASED ON GEOLOCATION AND VENUE - Content items, such as e-books, audio files, video files, etc., may be recommended to a user based on the user's presence at a geolocation or venue. Geolocation is the geospatial location of the user, while a venue is a designated area for an activity, such as a concert hall, aircraft, waiting room, etc. The recommendations may be of content items relating to the geolocation or venue, or they may be content items being accessed by others who are, or have been, in approximately the same geolocation or venue. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150073906 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING LOCATION-BASED TARGETED ADS SERVED ON A MOBLE DEVICE - A method for distributing an optimized offer to a mobile communication device includes: storing a plurality of offer data entries, each offer data entry including offer data and an offer location; storing a consumer profile, the consumer profile including historical geographic location data of a mobile communication device associated with the related consumer; receiving a geographic location of the associated mobile communication device; identifying at least one inferred future geographic location for the associated mobile communication device based on the received geographic location and the historical geographic location data; identifying at least one offer data entry where the included offer location corresponds to one of the identified at least one inferred future geographic location; and transmitting the offer data included in the identified at least one offer data entry to the associated mobile communication device. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150073907 | Wearable Intelligent Vision Device Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The WEARABLE INTELLIGENT VISION DEVICE APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“WIVD”) transform mobile device location coordinate information transmissions, real-time reality visual capturing, mixed gesture capturing, bio-sensor data via WIVD components into real-time behavior-sensitive product purchase related information, shopping purchase transaction notifications, and electronic receipts. In one implementation, the WIVD may provide a personal device in the form of a pair of eyeglasses, wherein the wearer of the eyeglasses may obtain various augmented reality views. The WIVD determines a user prior behavior pattern from the accessed user profile, and obtains user real-time in-store behavior data from the user mobile device. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150073908 | METHOD FOR BROADCASTING CONTENT ON A PLURALITY OF COMMUNICATION CHANNELS - A system for broadcasting content is provided. A piece of dynamic and interactive advertising content is broadcasted on a plurality of communication channels. The broadcasting of the piece of content linked to the same advertiser on the communication channels are synchronized in a given time range and in a given geographical location. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150073909 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Creation, Optimization, Targeting, and Delivery of Real-Time Advertising - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for real-time creation of advertising based, in part, on a user's viewing of content. The disclosed systems and methods further relate to the optimization and targeting of advertising to consumers. Furthermore, the systems and methods relate to businesses automatically bidding for generated advertising content. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150073910 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON NAVIGATION-RELATED PREFERENCES - Advertisements may be provided based on navigation-related preferences. In certain implementations, a current location associated with a user may be obtained. One or more navigation-related preferences associated with the user may be obtained. An advertisement may be determined based on the current location and the navigation-related preferences. The advertisement may be provided for presentation to the user. In some implementations, a directional proximity of the user to a location associated with the advertisement may be determined. The advertisement may be determined (or selected for the user) based on the directional proximity and the navigation-related preferences. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150081443 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVERTISING - An advertisement sharing system transmits by a processor an advertisement to a first user device based on a criterion for transmitting the advertisement. A request is received from the first user device to share the advertisement with a second user device. A reference to the advertisement and/or advertisement is transmitted to the second user device. A request is received from the second user device to retrieve the advertisement related to the reference to the advertisement and/or advertisement. Whether or not to transmit the advertisement to the second user device is determined based on the request from the second user device and the criterion for transmitting the advertisement. The advertisement is transmitted to the second user device based on the determination. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081444 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081445 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GEOLOCATION OF A NETWORK USER - A database correlating the geographic locations of users of a network to the network address through which the users access the network is maintained and used to infer the geographic location of other users of the network that access the website through the same IP addresses. An Internet website operator may generate such a database from home or business address information self-reported by users of the website. If a plurality of users that access a website through the same IP address have self-reported information as to their geographic location to a website operator, that information collectively provides information as to the likely geographic location and the geographic diversity of other users that access the network through that IP address. Accordingly, such information is used to infer the extent to which a given IP address is likely to correlate to any particular geographic area and the particular area. Additionally, a website operator that has information indicative of the veracity of the self-reported location information may use that information to rate the likelihood that the self-reported location information for a given user is truthful and then use that rating to provide an even more accurate rating of the likelihood that an inferred location of a user is in a given location. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150081446 | ANONYMOUS DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION - Methods and systems for anonymous digital identification are disclosed and may include detecting the presence of a first communication device associated with a first set of content that is distinguishable from an identifier associated with the first communication device, detecting the presence of a second communication device associated with a second set of content that is distinguishable from an identifier associated with the second communication device, and in response to a determination that the devices are geographically proximate to one another, providing matched content to at least one of the first and second devices. The matched content may be based at least in part on the first set of content, the second set of content, and a shared or complementary interest associated with the first and second devices. The interest may have been previously expressed by a user of the first or second devices. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150088652 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING LOCATION-RELEVANT COMMUNICATION - Various methods are described for tracking the location of a customer possessing a mobile device and facilitating location-relevant communication between the mobile device and an establishment device. One example method may comprise detecting the presence of the customer within a first distance of an establishment. The method may further comprise receiving establishment information from the establishment entity for displaying to the customer to entice a visit to the establishment. Additionally, the method may comprise detecting the presence of the customer within a second distance of a location point within the establishment. Another example method may further comprise determining location information relevant to the location point; and providing for display of the location information to the customer. Similar and related methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are also provided. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088653 | MARKETING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A demographic-based marketing system and related method of providing services, education, and tracking results for client business owners using a web-hosted remote server accessible by client computing devices. The system requests information from the clients and accesses multiple national databases to determine relevant customer demographic information which would direct the clients how to best advertise their products to increase local foot traffic to a physical retail location. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150088654 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GEOLOCATION OF A NETWORK USER - A database correlating the geographic locations of users of a network to the network address through which the users access the network is maintained and used to infer the geographic location of other users of the network that access the website through the same IP addresses. An Internet website operator may generate such a database from home or business address information self-reported by users of the website. If a plurality of users that access a website through the same IP address have self-reported information as to their geographic location to a website operator, that information collectively provides information as to the likely geographic location and the geographic diversity of other users that access the network through that IP address. Accordingly, such information is used to infer the extent to which a given IP address is likely to correlate to any particular geographic area and the particular area. Additionally, a website operator that has information indicative of the veracity of the self-reported location information may use that information to rate the likelihood that the self-reported location information for a given user is truthful and then use that rating to provide an even more accurate rating of the likelihood that an inferred location of a user is in a given location. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150095155 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE LOCATION DETECTION - Disclosed is a system, method, and computer readable medium for collaboratively detecting location. A computing device detects a client device in communication with the computing device. The computing device requests, from the client device, a location of the client device and receives this location. The computing device performs the detecting, requesting, and receiving steps for each of a plurality of client devices, where the performing occurs for a predetermined number of client devices. The computing device then determines its location from the received locations of the predetermined number of client devices. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095156 | SERVICING SUBSCRIBER VEHICLES - At a server, a notification that a subscriber vehicle has an appointment with a dealership is received. A geo-fence is set up around the dealership. At the server, it is recognized that the subscriber vehicle has entered the geo-fence. Subscriber vehicle identifying data is received at the server, and in-vehicle infotainment capabilities of the subscriber vehicle are identified at the server by interrogation of a database in connection with the server. From the server, a message is transmitted to the subscriber vehicle that is tailored to the in-vehicle infotainment capabilities. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095157 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEFINING TARGETED GEOGRAPHIC ZONES FOR DELIVERING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Systems and methods are disclosed for online distribution of content. The method may include, receiving a request to publish content on the electronic device relating to a target location. The request may include at least one threshold travel parameter to the target location. The method also may include identifying one or more perimeter locations at the at least one threshold travel parameter and generating a zone extending from the one or more locations to the target location and including one or more routes. In addition, the method may include receiving an indication that the electronic device has entered the zone, transmitting content to the user's electronic device relating to the target location. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095158 | SECURITY FOR MOBILE SYSTEM - An automated system and method provides proactive and anticipatory services for the user or users of system based upon temporal, geographical, contextual, user preferences, availability, past activities, usage pattern, proximity to other users, programs or events or combinations of the above, enabling distribution of variable content and advertising in stationary as well as mobile devices. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SYSTEM-INITIATED DIALOG BASED ON PRIOR USER INTERACTIONS - In certain implementations, a system-initiated dialog with a user may be provided based on prior user interactions. In an implementation, context information determined based on one or more prior interactions of the user with the system may be obtained. A dialog-initiation opportunity may be detected based on the context information. A natural language dialog with the user may be initiated based on the dialog-initiation opportunity. In an implementation, the one or more prior interactions of the user may comprise one or more prior conversations between the user and the system. At least one of the one or more prior conversations may, for example, comprise a natural language utterance of the user and a natural language response of the system to the natural language utterance. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150100426 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS TO ASSOCIATE DATA SOURCES WITH MOBILE DEVICES - Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to data delivery. More specifically, some embodiments of the present technology relate to systems and methods for using spatial and temporal analysis to associate data sources with mobile devices. The delivery of data to support a wide variety of services for and about mobile devices that are based on data stored in corporate, commercial, and government databases which is not currently linked to individual mobile devices. Some embodiments allow advertisers to better target their ads to relevant target audience with greater accuracy. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150106204 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING A VEHICLE WITH FUEL PURCHASING OPTIONS - In an example of a method for providing a vehicle with fuel purchasing options, vehicle data and a request for a fuel price is received at a server from a vehicle communications platform disposed in the vehicle. The vehicle data includes a vehicle identifier and a current location of the vehicle. A plurality of fuel retailers within a preset deviation around the current location of the vehicle are identified, where the preset deviation is associated with a distance that is drivable by the vehicle based on a current fuel level of the vehicle. Offers from the plurality of fuel retailers are determined based on a respective travel time to each of the fuel retailers and an amount of fuel needed by the vehicle. The offers are valid for a set period of time. The offers are transmitted to the vehicle communications platform. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106205 | GENERATING AN OFFER SHEET BASED ON OFFLINE CONTENT - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium for providing an offer sheet to a user. A method includes: receiving an image from a user and additional information about the image; evaluating the image to identify content included in the image including using optical character recognition to identify text included in the image and object recognition techniques to identify objects included in the image; identifying location information including one or more of location of where the image was captured, location associated with the content included in the image or a current location of the user; identifying a plurality of eligible offers based on the identified content, the location information, the additional information, and a profile associated with the user; generating an offer sheet that includes the plurality of offers and a representation of the received image; and providing the offer sheet to the user. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106206 | DETERMINING LOCATIONS OF INTEREST BASED ON USER VISITS - Techniques are described for determining locations of interest based on user visits. In some situations, the techniques include obtaining information about actual locations of users at various times, and automatically analyzing the information to determine particular locations in a geographic area that are of interest, such as for frequent destinations visited by users. After determining a particular location of interest, it may be represented by generating a corresponding location model to describe the geographic subarea or other location point(s) covered by the determined location of interest, and one or more points of interest (e.g., businesses, parks, schools, landmarks, etc.) may be identified that are located at or otherwise correspond to the determined location of interest. In addition, a determined location of interest may be further used in various ways, including to identify later user visits to that location (e.g., to a point of interest identified for the location). | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150112808 | DETERMINING RELEVANT BUSINESS LOCATIONS BASED ON TRAVEL DISTANCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A request for content is received from a user device. A content item is identified for delivery to the user device responsive to the request. A location of the user device is determined. A threshold distance is determined that a user is likely willing to travel when visiting a physical location associated with the content item or content sponsor. A bounding region associated with the location of the user device is identified. Location extensions are identified that are associated with the content item. A determination is made when one of the location extensions is included in the bounding region and when a distance between the location extension and a current location of the user is less than the determined threshold distance. The content item is augmented with the one location extension. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150112809 | Confirmation of a Device at a Geographic Location - Technology is described for confirming that a device is at a geographic location. An identifier is associating with a geographic location. An audio signal is received containing the identifier at a mobile computing device in the geographic location. The identifier is validated via the mobile computing device to verify that the mobile computing device is at the geographic location. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150120453 | REAL-TIME LOCAL OFFER TARGETING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for delivering an offer to a mobile device associated with a potential customer. During operation, the system receives data indicating that a potential customer is at or entering a targeted area or is on a vehicle associated with one or more businesses providing offers. The system then determines, with the received data, whether the potential customer has a moment of receptivity, wherein the moment of receptivity is a period of time during which the potential customer is likely to be receptive to receiving an offer. Responsive to determining that the potential customer has a moment of receptivity for receiving an offer, the system selects an offer from one or more available offers, and sends the selected offer to the potential customer. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120454 | PRODUCT INFORMATION BY CONSUMER MOVEMENT - A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving, at a processing device of a commerce server, a series of position signals from a mobile electronic computing device possessed by a consumer. The method also includes the step of storing, in a product database, information about each of a plurality of products offered for sale. The method also includes the step of accessing, with the processing device, a location database to correlate each of the series of position signals with one or more particular physical locations from among a plurality of possible physical locations. The method also includes the step of storing, in a consumer movement database, the consumer's movements as defined by the one or more particular physical locations visited by the consumer. The method also includes the step of correlating, with the processing device, each of the one of the particular physical locations visited by the consumer with at least one of the plurality of products. The method also includes the step of selecting, with the processing device, a product promotion associated with the at least one of the plurality of products from the product database. The method also includes the step of transmitting, with the processing device, the product promotion to the mobile electronic computing device. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120455 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DELIVERING ELECTRONIC CONTENT TO USERS IN POPULATION BASED GEOGRAPHIC ZONES - Systems and methods are disclosed for electronic distribution of electronic content. The method may include receiving, from an advertiser or content provider, a request to transmit electronic content to a plurality of electronic devices of a desired subset of individuals. The electronic content may relate to a target location affiliated with the advertiser or content provider. The method also may include retrieving population density data for the target location and surrounding area, and correlating the subset of individuals with the population density. In addition, the method also may identifying a geographical zone extending from the target location to a perimeter location. The zone may have a size based on the population density correlated with the subset of individuals. The method my further include receiving an indication that the electronic device of a user has entered the geographical zone, and transmitting electronic content to the electronic device of the user. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120456 | Product Information by Consumer Movement - A computer-implemented method is disclosed herein. The method includes the step of receiving, at a processing device of a commerce server, a series of position signals from a mobile electronic computing device possessed by a consumer. The method also includes the step of storing, in a product database, information about each of a plurality of products offered for sale. The method also includes the step of accessing, with the processing device, a location database to correlate each of the series of position signals with one or more particular physical locations from among a plurality of possible physical locations. The method also includes the step of storing, in a consumer movement database, the consumer's movements as defined by the one or more particular physical locations visited by the consumer. The method also includes the step of correlating, with the processing device, each of the one of the particular physical locations visited by the consumer with at least one of the plurality of products. The method also includes the step of selecting, with the processing device, a product promotion associated with the at least one of the plurality of products from the product database. The method also includes the step of transmitting, with the processing device, the product promotion to the mobile electronic computing device. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150120457 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE EMBEDDED IN A PACKAGE OF A CONSUMER PRODUCT - A system and a method for controlling an electronic device embedded in a package of a consumer product are disclosed. In one aspect, the consumer product packaging includes a bottle for a beverage, a memory, a receiver and a circuit. The memory stores an action to be performed in response to an input. The receiver receives the input indicative of movement of the bottle. The circuit retrieves the action stored in memory upon receipt of the input and command an electronic communication module to perform the action at a particular time or in a particular sequence. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150127460 | TARGETED ADVERTISING BASED ON PHYSICAL TRAITS AND ANTICIPATED TRAJECTORY - A computer-implemented method includes selecting a targeted advertisement based on at least one physical trait of an intended recipient and determining an anticipated trajectory of the intended recipient from a first location based on an observation of the intended recipient at the first location. The method further includes presenting the targeted advertisement for the intended recipient at a second location selected based on the anticipated trajectory. Presenting the targeted advertisement for the intended recipient at the second location can include identifying an advertisement presentation device that is, or will be, available along the anticipated trajectory of the intended recipient, the advertisement presentation device serving the second location, determining an estimated arrival time of the intended recipient at the second location based on the anticipated trajectory, and queuing the targeted advertisement for presentation by the advertisement presentation device based on the estimated arrival time. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150134453 | System for Providing Information Relating to Points of Interest in Proximity to a Location - A system for providing information relating to points of interest located in proximity to where a photo was taken having a server for receiving device location and heading information from a device used to take a photo, the server configured to process the device location and heading information to search for points of interest within a predetermined range of the device location and heading, to collect information relating to the points of interest within the predetermined range of the device location and heading, and to communicate the collected information relating to the points of interest to the device used to take the photo. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150134454 | Vehicle Parking Event Initiated Promotional Material System - A vehicle parking event initiated promotional material system for providing promotional material to a mobile device initiated by a vehicle parking event. The vehicle parking event initiated promotional material system generally includes a user entering a parking identifier into an application on their mobile device, wherein the parking identifier is associated with a particular parking zone, parking spot or combination of both. The parking identifier is communicated to a server that determines if there are any promotional materials (e.g. advertisements) available for the parking identifier. If one or more promotional materials are identified by the server, the server then compares the promotional materials to the user's preferences to determine if a promotional material is within the user's preferences. Once an acceptable promotional material is identified by the server, the server communicates the promotional material to the application on the mobile device and the promotional material is then displayed to the user on the display screen of the mobile device. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150142571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD OF USERS REVIEWING ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and machine-implemented method for displaying an advertisement in a supplemental display area comprising a first supplemental content display region and a second supplemental content display region for concurrent display with a primary content display area on a user device, including identifying the first supplemental content display region and the second supplemental content display region, obtaining an advertisement information, transmitting the advertisement information for display in the first supplemental content display region, obtaining a non-advertisement information, transmitting the non-advertisement information for display in the second supplemental content display region. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142572 | SERVING CONTENT BASED ON ONLINE REGISTRATION AND OFFLINE MESSAGES - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for serving content based on online registration and offline messages. One example method includes registering online an entity with a content management system, the registering including storing a location associated with the entity, receiving offline from the entity a message that indicates information for use in a sponsored content item, determining that a user is in proximity to the location, and serving a sponsored content item to the user based on information from the registering, the sponsored content item including information from the message. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142573 | Systems and methods for storing pictures on a cloud platform and printing the pictures from different locations - The present invention discloses systems and methods for storing pictures on a cloud platform and printing the pictures from different locations. The system may include a first network device to upload a plurality of image files to a private space on a cloud platform, the cloud platform selectively assigning a unique access code to a set of image files or a single image file within the plurality of image files, and a second network device, which is different from the first network device. The second network device may include a transmitter to communicate with the cloud platform electronically so as to access related image files utilizing the unique access code, wherein the set of image files or the single image file within the plurality of image files may have a respective privacy setting. When the privacy setting is set to open, a user may enter the unique access code at the second network device to access the related image file, and when the privacy setting is set to private, the user may not access the related image file by entering the unique access code at the second network device, even when the unique access code entered is correct. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150142574 | Exclusive Delivery Of Content Within Geographic Areas - Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150149285 | TARGETING MEDIA DELIVERY TO A MOBILE AUDIENCE - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including determining a representative trajectory of a number of mobile devices relative to a media presentation device, such as a digital billboard. An audience of the number of mobile devices is identified and user characteristics are obtained of the audience. A representative interest of the audience is determined from the user characteristics of the audience, and a media content item is selected according to the representative interest and the representative trajectory. The media content item is presented at the media presentation device to expose the audience to the media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149286 | MOBILE PROVIDER ADVERTISING AND SCHEDULING PLATFORM - Systems and methods for matching consumers with providers are provided. A method includes obtaining scheduling information and provider information associated with providers, the scheduling information comprising availability information and location information associated with each of the providers for different time blocks, and the provider information including goods or services information associated with each of the providers. The method also includes receiving a query associated with a consumer specifying a good or service to be provided to the consumer and a requested location for the providing. The method also includes generating, based on the scheduling information, a response to the query. The response can include an identification of providers available to provide the good or the service at the location and times each of the identified providers is available to provide the good or the service at the location. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149287 | RESPONDING TO AN ADVERTISEMENT USING A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A technique for selecting and presenting advertisement information is disclosed. The technique includes, in part, receiving a first set of data from a portable computing device. The first set of data corresponding to measurements performed by one or more sensors. The technique further includes, in part, determining a location of a portable computing device based at least on the first set of data, selecting a first set of output elements from a second set of data in accordance with the determined location and a third set of data of interest to a user, and sending at least one of the one or more elements to the portable computing device. The technique further includes presenting at least one of the one or more elements to a user of the portable computing device. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149288 | CONTEXTUAL BASED INFORMATION AGGREGATION SYSTEM - A system automatically and continuously finds and aggregates the most relevant and current information about the people and things that a user cares about. The information gathering is based on current context (e.g., where the user is, what the user is doing, what the user is saying/typing, etc.). The result of the context based information gathering is presented ubiquitously on user interfaces of any of the various physical devices operated by the user. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150294361 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFERING MERCHANT SERVICES AND INFORMATION THROUGH A COMMON INTERFACE - Methods and systems for providing services and information for multiple business entities through a single application that provides a convenient and common interface are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for providing information and services to a user device may include receiving, by an interactive business card server of a service provider, information from each of a plurality of business entities via an application programming interface, receiving information associated with a user device from a service provider application installed on the user device and registered with the service provider, determining that the user device is in geographic proximity of one of the plurality of business entities based on the information received, and sending an interactive business card including at least some of the information associated with the one of the plurality of business entities in a format that can be displayed by the service provider application. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150294362 | Systems and Methods for Managing Account Information - Systems and methods for managing account information can be provided by embodiments of the disclosure. In one embodiment, a consumer device may determine location information associated with the consumer device. The consumer device may determine, based at least in part on the location information, that the consumer device is located within a predetermined proximity to a merchant store location of a merchant. The consumer device may cause to send, a request to access the merchant device associated with the merchant. The consumer device may identify information associated with the merchant. The consumer device may determine, based at least in part on the account information, one or more consumer preferences associated with the merchant. The consumer device may access the merchant device based at least in part on the one or more consumer preferences. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150302479 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DELIVERING LOCALIZED ADDITIONAL DATA - A localized additional data delivery method and system for delivering an advertisement data to a portable electronic device located in a related zone are introduced. The system includes a plurality of wireless network base stations for delivering to a nearby zone at least a beacon signal carrying a service setting ID (SSID) accessible to the portable electronic device entering the zone. The portable electronic device gets connected wirelessly to a related one of the wireless network base stations through the beacon signal and receives a webpage data, wherein the SSID is a text code carrying the advertisement data and presented in different languages and is displayed on the portable electronic device. The consumers acquire data directly rather than surf the Internet to search for data in a time-consuming manner. The consumers go physical shopping as easily as online shopping via e-billboards, e-locators, and online promotion data providers. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150302480 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS AND GEOLOCATION INFORMATION TO AN OPERATOR OF A VEHICLE - A system is disclosed for inserting stored advertising content into broadcast content being played over an audio system. The system may have a smartphone in wireless communication with the audio system which runs an application relating to a specific broadcast station that is broadcasting the broadcast content. The audio system may have a processing system for detecting breaks in program content that forms part of the broadcast content. The audio system may further be configured to obtain predetermined advertisements and to play back the predetermined advertisements over the audio system during each break in the program content, in place of advertisements contained in the broadcast content. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150310490 | MOBILE COUPON DISCOUNTS AND VALUATION BASED ON PROBABILITY OF A GEOFENCE COLLISION - To provide mobile device coupons and discounts, a mobile device couponing system is provided to generate and send coupons to mobile devices based on a probability that the mobile device is within a defined region. The value of the coupons can be inversely proportional to the probability that the mobile device is within the defined region. The probabilities can be precomputed by calculating the probability that each cell in grid in or around the defined region is in the defined region using a set of standardized location resolutions. When location information is received from the mobile device, the probability that the mobile device is within the defined region can be retrieved based on the closest cell that matches the location indicated in the location information and the standardized location resolution closest to the location resolution indicated by the mobile device. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150310492 | Preference based anonymous mobile push targeted advertising based on time and proximity - A mobile marketing system for targeted advertising based on anonymous user input of preferences. The Zatify System utilizes technology that delivers mobile promotions based on location, timing and preferences. Users create a profile without the need to disclose any personal or identifying information; the profile is then used by marketing partners for targeted advertising. The Zatify program is installed on a user's smartphone and tracks the user's current location with the built in GPS of the device, enabling for the delivery of location aware targeted advertisements. Marketing partners creating promotions or ads enter criteria (which must be met) along with specific distance from the actual business location and the time of day—all specified criteria must be met in order for the user to receive the promotion. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150317681 | MERCHANT CUSTOMER SHARING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for sharing customer traffic between merchants include a system provider device that may establish an alliance between a first merchant at a first merchant location and a second merchant at a second merchant location. The system provider device detects events associated with the first merchant that satisfy one or more merchant activity rules. The system provider may also determine an availability of the second merchant to service one or more customers. Thereafter, the system provider device refers at least one customer at the first merchant location to the second merchant at the second merchant location. In addition, the system provider device may receive bids from a plurality of allied merchants for the referral of the at least one customer, may credit a first merchant account based on a transaction with a referred customer at the second merchant location, and may recognize opportunities for merchant alliances. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150317683 | Navigation-Based Advertisement Targeting - A method for providing information to a user comprises receiving, by a user device, data about a route to be taken by the user, and receiving, by the user device, a selection of a type of information from the user. The method further comprises retrieving, by the user device, information from a database based on the data about the route and the selected type of information, and presenting, by the user device, the retrieved information to the user. Moreover, machine-readable media and mobile user devices are described. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150317692 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EXTRACTING USER PROFILES AND HABITS BASED ON SPEECH RECOGNITION AND CALLING HISTORY FOR TELEPHONE SYSTEM ADVERTISING - A system, method and computer program product for providing targeted messages to a person using telephony services by generating user profile information from telephony data and using the user profile information to retrieve targeted messages. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150324850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDING VIRTUAL CUSTOMER-PERSONALIZED CONTENT IN A RETAIL COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for automatically providing virtual customer-personalized content in a retail commerce environment, the method and system enabling a customer to receive a physical transaction-related article including at least computer-readable transaction-derived data which may or may not relate to a transaction of the customer in the retail commerce environment, at least part of the computer-readable transaction-derived data on the physical transaction-related article being scannable, by the customer and automatically employing the at least part of the computer-readable transaction-derived data to automatically provide virtual customer-personalized content corresponding to at least part of the at least part of the computer-readable transaction-derived data. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150324851 | Location Based Marketing System and Method - A system and method for providing marketing and advertising information utilizes hyper-location to determine what types of or the content of relevant information to display to one or more end users. In various embodiments, the hyper-location is determined from or transmitted by beacons that communicate with portable electronic devices carried by the end users. The hyper-location information may be specific geographic locations of the beacons and or end users or may be specific locations relative to other locations, such as a position within a store or venue. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150326516 | Enabling Participation in an Online Community using Visual Machine-Readable Symbols - A facility for coordinating an online discussion is described. The facility receives an indication that a user has captured a machine-readable symbol encoding an identifier that identifies a particular online discussion. In response, the facility incorporates into an online forum that hosts this online discussion an indication that this user captured a symbol encoding an identifier that identifies this online discussion. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150332328 | ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT - Technologies are generally described for an advertisement management scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of an electronic device may include counting a number of users proximate to the electronic device; adjusting at least one attribute associated with an advertisement based at least in part on the counted number of users; and providing the users with the advertisement for which the at least one attribute has been adjusted. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150332329 | System and Method for Marketing Mobile Advertising Supplies - The present disclosure provides a mobile advertising platform in which mobile user locations and other information are translated into indications of mobile user intent to approach certain businesses, and advertisers can fill mobile advertising requests or choose to price their bids for mobile supplies based on such indications. In certain embodiments, pre-defined places associated with business/brand names are created, and mobile advertising requests are processed to determine if the associated with mobile devices have triggered any of these pre-defined places. If a mobile advertising request is determined to have triggered one or more of the pre-defined places, it is annotated with the triggered place(s), and advertisements are selected based on the triggered places and other factors. The annotated requests with the triggered places can also be commodities in a location market place, which are auctioned to the mobile advertisers, who can place their bids on the triggered places. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150332330 | ADVERTISING AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE OCCUPANTS - A method and system of providing advertising to a moving target vehicle. At least one sensor device coupled to a moving advertising vehicle detecting a parameter associated with the moving target vehicle. The detected parameter is received by a global positioning system (GPS) device. Advertising content data pertaining to a topic associated with identification data is obtained. The topic was determined from matching identification data associated with the detected parameter to advertising correlation data. The identification data was determined from matching the detected parameter to data in a personal database. Vehicle data is determined by the at least one sensor device and/or the GPS device in the advertising vehicle. Display of the advertising content data is initiated on a display device in the advertising vehicle to display the advertising content data to the target vehicle according to at least one display parameter that is based on the vehicle data. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150332334 | PERSONALIZED GROUP COUPONS AND OFFERS WITH USER EXPERIENCE - A user experience (UX) that enables viewing and identification of other people in the user network of friends, that received a group coupon, and the participation status of the friends. The UX enables the user to chat with the people in the user's network of friends about a specific coupon that was received, enables the creation of a group of friends and the adding of another friend with high density friendship of shared common interests and/or location based on specific offer content, enables granularity on a sub-group of friends based on joint interests, the controlled exposure to the user that received the group coupon offer, the identity of other users in his group that got this coupon offer, controlled exposure to the user that received the group coupon offer, the identity of other users in his group that committed to buy the coupon, and if the group will redeem the coupon. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150332343 | BEHAVIORAL TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD IN SUPPORT OF HIGH-ENGAGEMENT COMMUNICATIONS - A processor accesses information representing activity of a plurality of respective users of each of a plurality of Internet web sites and a time associated with the activity. Further, a processor accesses geo-location information representing at least a location of a respective device operated by each of the plurality of respective users. The electronic activity information is processed to determine a respective interest of each of the respective users. A respective targeted communication is generated for each by: calculating a decay value representing a decline of the determined interests of the respective users; weighting the respective determined interests of the users to represent the decline; and selecting content for inclusion in the targeted communication for each of respective users. Further the generated respective targeted communication is transmitted, by a processor, to each respective one of the plurality of users via a communication device over a data-communication network. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334070 | Send2Mobile Cloud System - The present invention is a cloud-based remote Platform as a Service (PaaS) system, which utilizes a short message service (SMS), multi-media message service (MMS) and enhanced messaging service (EMS) based platforms to create an interactive communication and a reverse marketing system, providing merchants, retailers and/or sellers the means to rapidly and effectively communicate with their respective customers or customer base. By embedding the present invention onto each product page of the merchant or retailer's website, the merchant and/or retailer is providing its respective customers with the ability to directly communicate with the merchant and/or retailer, in nearly real time. At the same time, since the present invention resides in a cloud-based remote PaaS server environment, the customer has a secure log-in to their own personal portal page within this cloud-based system, which can be accessed through log-in on either the cloud-based website or the cloud-based mobile application. The customer can store a plurality of product pages previously designated by the customer and forwarded by the customer to their individual designated portal, allowing the customer to easily view, share and/or purchase those products previously stored within their portal or to communicate directly with the merchant or retailer with questions, comments or counter-offers concerning the individual products chosen. The present invention also employs the Global Positioning System (GPS) locator service, which communicates with the customer's mobile device, through JAVA coding and uses tracking algorithms to alert the customer, via SMS, MMS or EMS alerts, of the location of participating merchants and/or retailers and a plurality of shopping events and product specific information. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150339717 | IDENTIFYING CONTENT ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH A MAPPING INTERFACE - Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for generating a textual representation of points of interest (POIs) in a geographic area. The system may be configured to identify a plurality of points of interest (POIs) in a geographic area displayed in a mapping interface, calculate a rank score for each POI of the plurality of POIs in the geographic area based on POI information for each POI, generate a textual representation of the mapping interface based on the rank scores for the plurality of POIs, and submit the textual representation of the geographic area to an advertisement generator, wherein the advertisement generator is configured to select at least one advertisement associated with the geographic area to present to a user. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339719 | INTERACTIVE CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND APPARATUS WITH GLOBAL REACH CAPABILITY - In a method for providing a content service to a recipient ( | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETING USERS FOR CONTENT DELIVERY - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for targeting users for content provision. In one method, the method receives at a server, one or more content objects and one or more ZIP+4 codes as targeting parameters for the one or more content objects. The method retrieves personal information of a plurality of users. The method then identifies one or more of the plurality of users located in geographic areas corresponding to the one or more ZIP+4 codes based, at least in part, on the personal information. Subsequently, the method targets a content object of the one or more content objects to the one or more of the plurality of users based on the identified geographic areas of the users and the ZIP+4 codes associated with corresponding ones of the one or more content objects. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339724 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING LOCALIZED APPLICATIONS - Methods of wireless communication and wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are described. A WTRU includes a processor. The processor determines a location of the WTRU and whether an application is available to the WTRU based on the determined location of the WTRU. On a condition that the application is determined to be available to the WTRU based on the determined location of the WTRU, the processor initiates a registration to an application service hosting the application. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339726 | ADVERTISING FOR SENSOR-ENABLED CLOTHING - A system, computer program product, and method for advertising that include coupling a body-worn sensor device associated with an article of clothing to a receiver, and retrieving data from the sensor device. The retrieved data includes one or more measures indicating a state of wear of the article of clothing. The method further includes generating an advertisement based on the retrieved data. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341450 | DEVICE SELECTION - A technique for wireless communication is provided. According to an example embodiment, the technique comprises transmitting, from an apparatus for wireless communication, one or more outbound messages that comprise information regarding the apparatus, receiving, in the apparatus, one or more inbound messages addressing the apparatus, the one or more inbound messages comprising information facilitating connection establishment between the apparatus and a source of said one or more inbound messages, and determining, in the apparatus, whether said one or more inbound messages indicate said source to be in close proximity and accepting a connection request from said source in response to determining the source to be in close proximity. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150341794 | SECURE RELAY OF DISCOVERY INFORMATION IN WIRELESS NETWORKS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication, and more specifically to advertising discovery information, relaying discovery information, and to the secure relay of discovery information in wireless networks. Various frame structures are provided for such transmitting and relaying of discovery information. According to certain aspects of the present disclosure, security is provided for relaying discovery information. According to certain aspects of the present disclosure, compensation may be provided to a device that relays discovery information (e.g., when the relaying results in a transaction). | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150348110 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING MEDIA POINTS TO INFLUENCE CONTENT DELIVERY - Method for influencing content delivery to a mobile device used by a user includes: receiving a request for content delivery from the mobile device, over a computer network; obtaining a location of the mobile device; identifying one or more media points in proximity to the obtained location of the mobile device; obtaining type, location and display size of the identified one or more media points, from one or more databases; determining a strength of an exposure of the user to said identified one or more media points, based on the type, location and display size of the identified one or more media points and the location of the mobile device; selecting a relevant supplemental content for delivery to the mobile device, based on said determined strength of an exposure of the user to said identified one or more media points; and delivering said selected relevant supplemental content and the requested content to the mobile device over the computer network. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150348114 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS - An information providing apparatus is a device which displays information on a signage device and controls the signage device, and includes an interface and a control unit. The interface transmits data of a management screen for updating one or a plurality of contents displayed on the signage device, to a first terminal device. Further, the interface receives update data of content which is input by using the management screen and data about an update timing from the first terminal device. The control unit updates existing data displayed on the signage device to update data, according to the data about the update timing. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150348122 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PURCHASING OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON LOCATION-SPECIFIC BIOMETRIC DATA - Methods and systems are disclosed for a media guidance application that performs one or more media guidance application operations based on the biometric state of a user. For example, the media guidance application can present customize media content and/or perform customize media guidance application operations that are targeted to a user based on both the current biometric state of the user and the current location of the user. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150348214 | MESSAGING SERVICE FOR GEOFENCE-BASED AUTOMATIC TIME CLOCKING - In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes creating a virtual perimeter around a geographic region. The geographic region within the virtual perimeter is assigned a job-site number. A location of a user's mobile device is tracked. It is determined when a user enters the geographic region defined by the virtual perimeter. The time that the user is in the geographic region is recorded. The time the user is in the virtual perimeter can be assigned to a time sheet of the user as an employee of a company. It can be detected that the user has left the geographic region. The recording of the time that the user is in the geographic region can be ceased. The excused period to be outside the geographic region can be automatically determined from information in the user's mobile device calendar or in a list of assignments associated with the user. The geographic region can be a physical work site. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150356604 | MEDIA CONTENT PROVISION - Technologies are generally described for a media content provision scheme. In some examples, a method to provide audience-centric content may include identifying a targeted user from among one or more users proximate to an electronic device based, at least in part, on information regarding previous media selections by each of the one or more users; and providing the one or more users with media content directed to the targeted user. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356605 | METHODS FOR COMMERCIALIZING INNOVATIONS - Innovation information is received pertaining to at least one benefit that an innovation would offer an international market. This innovation information is then matched to at least one country, at least one market, and at least one business that satisfy cultural, political, and economic factors. Stakeholders are identified having shared characteristics with the innovation based on the countries, markets, and businesses that have been matched to the innovation information. Activities and resources are that are required to commercialize the innovation are identified and then distributed among the stakeholders. A feasibility report and a business plan are developed that detail the technical, marketing, and business attributes of commercializing the innovation so that the stakeholders can decide if they should commercialize of the innovation. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356607 | DYNAMIC CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM OFFERING BENEFITS - A system and method is provided with a main software system for benefit givers' and takers' subscription, user authentication, benefit entry and modification, a completely distributed software and hardware system where each component is located at a benefit giver's (company) premises for detecting users' location, local benefit generation in communications with the main software system and benefit redemption, and a client application designed for mobile handsets in communications with the distributed software component for a user to receive benefits and redeem them at the location of the benefit generating company. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356608 | SELECTING ADVERTISEMENT CONTENT FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USERS BASED ON TYPES OF LOCATION DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE USERS - A social networking system determines whether an advertisement (“ad”) request is eligible for presentation to a user based on a physical location associated with the user and targeting criteria included in the ad request. Physical locations associated with the user are each associated with a location type, and the ad request's targeting criteria specifies a physical location and minimum measures of ad quality associated with various location types. If a physical location associated with the user satisfies the physical location specified by the targeting criteria, the social networking system identifies a minimum measure of ad quality associated with a location type of the physical location associated with the user by the targeting criteria. A measure of the user's affinity for advertisement content included in the ad request is determined and used along with the identified minimum measure of ad quality to determine if the user satisfies the targeting criteria. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356609 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information distribution system includes a distribution server and a mobile terminal The distribution server includes: a distribution area information storage unit that stores advertisement information having a display area and a distribution region of the advertisement information that is larger than the display area of the advertisement information in association with each other; and a distribution advertisement determination unit that receives the present location information of the mobile terminal and distributes the advertisement information corresponding to the present location information to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes: a present location positioning unit that performs positioning of the present location information and transmits the present location information; and an advertisement display determination unit that determines whether to display the distributed advertisement information based on the display area and the present location information that the present location positioning unit has performed positioning after receiving the advertisement information. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356610 | Realtime Realworld and Online Activity Correlation and Inventory Management Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The Realtime Realworld and Online Activity Correlation and Inventory Management Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“RROACIM”) transforms offer determining request, traffic analyzing request, video data and Beacon data inputs via RROACIM components into applicable offer and traffic metrics outputs. A consumer device identifier may be obtained from a beacon receiver and consumer preference information may be retrieved. An approximate consumer and consumer device position may be determined. The RROACIM may obtain realtime video feed targeted at the approximate consumer and consumer device position, generate frame models of consumers in that targeted position, and determine which frame is of the target consumer. The RROACIM may correlate movements of the frame model with the consumer and consumer device and determine intentionality of the consumer. The RROACIM may generate inquiries for the consumer and generate shelf tag update messages to be displayed to the consumer. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356611 | PURCHASING ACTIVITY PROMOTION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - The purpose of the present invention is to provide greater motivation for promoting the purchasing activity of a user. Provided is a purchasing activity promotion device comprising the following: a posted information transmission request receiving unit that receives, from a terminal device, a posted information transmission request that includes a user ID identifying a user; a posted information acquisition unit that acquires posted information that is associated with location information and relates to products or a services posted by another user having a specific relationship with the user of such user ID; and a posted information provision data transmission control unit that generates and transmits to the terminal device posted information provision data, which includes the posted information acquired by the posted information acquisition unit and the user ID of the user who posted such posted information. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358766 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING AND REFINING MESSAGE NOTIFICATION TIMING - Systems and methods are provided for determining release weights for geographic locations and specific times for selected users, and optimizing the timing of message notifications for a mobile device based on those release weights. The release weights may be determined based 1) generalized factors, 2) factors individualized for a particular mobile device user, and/or 3) real-time factors. These release weights are calculated to represent a user's likeliness to launch a client application from a message notification at a given time and geographic location. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150363827 | SELECTING CONTENT FOR PRESENTATION TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER BASED ON WHETHER THE USER IS TRAVELING - A social networking system maintains a home location associated with a user and determines a current location associated with the user. By comparing the home location to the current location, the social networking system determines whether the user is traveling. For example, if the current location is greater than a threshold distance from the home location, the social networking system determines that the user is traveling. When selecting content for presentation to the user, the social networking system accounts for whether the user is traveling. For example, advertisement requests including targeting criteria that a user is traveling are selected as eligible for presentation to a user determined to be traveling. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363828 | TRAFFIC ADAPTIVE DIGITAL BILLBOARD CONTROL SYSTEM - A digital billboard control system and a method of controlling a digital billboard with real-time displays are each provided with a traffic monitoring module for monitoring traffic within a predetermined area adjacent each digital billboard in real-time, a network interface for communicating with a remote terminal, and a data processing controller operably interfaced with the real-time display, the traffic monitoring module and the networking interface. The controller receives real-time traffic data from the traffic monitoring module, and determines at least one traffic pattern adjacent the or each digital billboard from the received data. The controller outputs media content data to the real-time display according to a comparison between the determined traffic pattern and at least one predetermined context criteria, and communicates the determined traffic pattern and data representative of the media content data to the remote terminal in real-time for feedback about media data consumption by adjacent traffic. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150363834 | ELECTRONIC PLATFORM SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TARGETED SOCIAL NETWORK - An electronic platform system for a targeted social network that is coupled to a data mining engine, comprises a store platform that displays selected electronic stores from a plurality of electronic stores, wherein the selected electronic stores is selected by the data mining engine according to the user and a user group of the user, and a payment platform that enables the user to purchase goods directly from the store platform. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150371269 | PROVIDING CONTENT BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DATA - Methods, system, and apparatus, including computer programs are encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content based on geographic location data. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request from a website for a map segment corresponding to a particular location. Keywords are extracted from the website as targeting criteria for the particular location. The targeting criteria is associated with the particular location. A subsequent request for advertising content associated with the particular location is received. One or more advertising content items are selected based on the targeting criteria. The selected advertising content items are provided responsive to the subsequent request. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371270 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EVALUATING THE DISPLAY OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT TO INDIVIDUALS IN GEOGRAPHIC ZONE HAVING INNER BOUNDARY - Systems and methods are disclosed for electronic distribution of electronic content. The method includes retrieving data indicating transmission of electronic content to a plurality of electronic devices within a geographical zone extending between an inner boundary extending around a target location and an outer boundary extending around the target location; receiving data indicating presence of one of the plurality of electronic devices in a target geographical zone, the target geographical zone being located within the inner boundary; determining a time difference between transmission of the electronic content to the one of the plurality of electronic devices and the one of the plurality of electronic devices' presence in the target geographical zone; and determining an electronic device conversion occurred when the time difference is less than a threshold period of time associated with the electronic content. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371271 | DETOUR BASED CONTENT SELECTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, for detour based content selection. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a data processing apparatus, location data for a plurality of users, the location data describing, for each user, locations of a user device of the user; determining, from the location data, route data for the plurality of users, the route data describing, for each user, a route traveled by the user; determining, by the data processing apparatus, for at least one or more of the users, a detour from the route traveled by the user to a retail location of the offeror; determining, by the data processing apparatus, for each of the at least one or more of the users, whether the user is eligible for an offer of the offeror based on the detour; and for each user eligible for an offer, enabling the offeror to provide an offer to the user. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371272 | CONNECTED/AFFILIATED HOUSEHOLD TARGETING - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to utilize household connections. A device is associated with a primary household. The primary household is connected with one or more additional households. Within a primary household profile, identification information (for the one or more additional households that are connected to the primary household) are stored. Media content based on data associated with the primary and connected households is then targeted. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371273 | LOCATION BASED ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM USING WI-FI - A location based advertisement system is described. The system for providing location based advertisement services includes (i) a wireless device having a processor, a memory and one or more transceivers, the wireless device configured to send a query request to one or more access points (APs) explicitly specifying support for location based advertisement (LBA), (ii) one or more APs, each enabled to advertise LBA support, and configured to communicate with one or more wireless devices and one or more servers, and (iii) one or more servers providing LBA services, the one or more servers configured to communicate with the one or more APs. The system may further include a LBA access controller for connecting the one or more servers. LBA access controller, in some embodiments, may be a wireless or a wired router for routing LBA information data packets between server(s) and AP(s). | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150371274 | Location Based, Content Targeted Online Advertising - An online advertisement is targeted to a publication medium (e.g., a website) based on a location of a user visiting the website, the content of the website and/or a location associated with the website content. Static and/or dynamic maps can be presented with the targeted advertisements on the website. The targeted advertisements can include a click-to-call link and/or other features for allowing a user to interact with and explore the targeted advertisement. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150379574 | Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer-Readable Media for Boosting Ad Scores Based on Location Proximity and/or Social Affinity - Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for serving annotations are disclosed. When a contact of a user recommends an ad, the score of the ad may be boosted in an ad auction. The amount of boosting depends on location proximity and/or contact affinity. For location proximity, the closer the geographic location of the recommendation to the user, the greater the boost to the ad score. For contact affinity, the greater the affinity between the user and contact, the greater the boost to the ad score. Affinity may be measured by a weight value, which is determined by, for example, the frequency of calls, text, or views of the contact's information by the user. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381689 | Methods, Systems and Devices for Spoiler Alert and Prevention Using Networking Framework - Methods, systems and devices are provided for blocking spoiler content from being presented by a content presenting device to a user of a mobile computing device. The content presenting device and the mobile computing device may communicate using a networking framework. One or more spoiler alert events received by the content presenting device via the communication networking framework from the mobile computing device include information associated with content that has not been viewed by a user of the mobile computing device. The information associated with the content that has not been viewed is compared with the content to be presented. It may be determined whether the content to be presented by the content presenting device includes the spoiler content, and, if so, the presentation of the spoiler content by the content presenting device is restricted. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160005077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING ACCESS TO DIGITAL CONTENT BASED ON GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS VISITED BY MOBILE DEVICE USERS - Systems and methods are provided for enabling access to digital content based on geographic locations visited by mobile device users. One method includes receiving a promotion associated with premium digital content, access information, and one or more locations in which the premium digital content is accessible. The premium digital content includes restricted access content and the premium digital content is associated with open access content, determining one or more geo-fences based on the one or more locations, transmitting at least part of the promotion to one or more mobile devices, receiving a geographic location of the one or more mobile devices, determining whether the geographic location of the one or more mobile devices is within at least one of the one or more geo-fences, and transmitting, when the geographic location of the one or more mobile devices is determined to be within the one or more geo-fences, access information for the premium digital content to the one or more mobile devices within the one or more geo-fences. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160005080 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING LOCATION-BASED COMMUNICATIONS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing targeted location-based communications. An exemplary apparatus is configured to receive an encoded signal, decode the encoded signal such that embedded data is retrieved, send the embedded data a remote server; and receive a message based at least partially on sending the embedded data. Another exemplary apparatus is configured to provide the encoded signal by receiving data input, receiving a host signal, embedding the data input within the host signal such that an encoded signal is generated, and transmitting the encoded signal. A third exemplary apparatus is configured to provide the targeted communications by storing one or more messages associated with an entity, receiving data, selecting at least one of the one or more messages based at least partially on the data received, and sending the at least one of the one or more messages selected. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160007150 | Communication of Mobile Device Locations - Method, apparatus, and system for communicating location of a mobile device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of communicating location of a mobile device includes determining information, at the mobile device, from a radio frequency tag associated with an object, generating a location request in accordance with the determined information, comprising processing the information from the radio frequency tag to determine encoded data and generating a SET initiated location request in accordance with the encoded data, and communicating location information in response to the location request generated. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160012484 | Providing Targeted Advertising Using Local Positioning Technology | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160012490 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING PROMOTIONAL OFFERS | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160012491 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF A GIFT-GIVING SERVICE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160019592 | System and Method for Estimating Mobile Device Locations - A method of delivering location-based information comprises receiving a request including a location indicator from a packet-based network and translating the location indicator into a probabilistic representation of one or more possible locations of a mobile user based on historical data collected from mobile devices. By generating the probabilistic user location representation, the method can be used to deal with the inherent uncertainty in user location data, particularly in a mobile world. In some embodiments, this is done by using validation, context analysis, creation of consistent groups, and probability allocation procedures. Location-based document retrieval can be enabled using the probabilistic user location representation. In certain embodiments, IP regions for respective IP addresses are derived from ad requests made over a certain period of time, and the IP regions are used to translate location indicators of subsequent ad requests into probabilistic representations of possible locations of mobile users. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160027055 | COMBINING ATTRIBUTES FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Combining attributes from multiple sources is disclosed. Location data of a mobile device is received. The location data is mapped to a location boundary of a defined location. It is determined that a user profile is associated with the defined location based at least in part on the mapping and one or more location-based rules. The user profile is updated to include third-party data associated with the defined location. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160034961 | DELIVERING GEO-CONTEXT INFORMATION TO A MOBILE DEVICE BASED ON PREDICTED MOBILE DEVICE LOCATIONS - A server communicates with a mobile device to deliver a mobile application to the mobile device. Software instructions of the mobile application are executed on the mobile device. Then, responsive to operations of the software instructions on the mobile device, the mobile device sends messages comprising location data such as GPS data or other location point attributes. The server receives the location data describing the location of the mobile device and performs logic and computations to determine predicted location points, which are in turn used to determine predicted regions or areas surrounding the predicted location points. The server selects geo-specific notifications (e.g., advertisements, coupons, etc.) based at least in part on the predicted region, and transmits the geo-specific notifications electronically through the network to the mobile device. The notifications are determined based on geo-specific predictions, geo-specific rules, geo-specific triggers, geo-specific user data, geo-specific promotional data, and/or geo-specific context data. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034962 | Customized Content Delivery Based On Geographic Area - Methods and systems are disclosed for providing customized content to users based on their location. In one embodiment, for each of one or more content providers, a customized content delivery function receives information from the content provider defining a number of geographic shapes selecting corresponding geographic areas. Preferably, each of the geographic shapes overlaps at least one other of the geographic shapes and is assigned an importance level. For each geographic shape, the content provider defines one or more tags for the geographic shape and assigns a weight to each of the one or more tags. Thereafter, when a request is received from a requestor, one or more content items are selected for delivery to the requestor based on the geographic shapes, the tags and corresponding weights for the geographic shapes, and the location of the requestor. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034963 | Advertising Product, and a System and Method for Implementing the Advertising Product - A method. The method is implemented at least in part by a computing device. The method includes receiving, at the computing device, an offer to procure a paid placement advertisement in an advertising campaign, wherein the advertising campaign comprises a free inclusive portion and a paid placement portion. The method also includes evaluating the offer, wherein the evaluating is performed by the computing device. The method further includes allocating available paid placement advertisements based on the evaluated offer, wherein the allocating is performed by the computing device. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160034965 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING AND DISPLAYING AT LEAST ONE PECULIAR MULTIMEDIA CONTENT FILE TO ONE OR MORE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT - An internet multimedia content file system for providing a business enterprise an automatic login system of the user of the business enterprise internet, collecting data on the users and transmitting to users appropriate multimedia content files soliciting the purchase of a product or service at the appropriate moment via the user wireless communication equipment. The business enterprise mentioned is in particular the consumer product industry and any other industries that supply products and/or services, for example a store, a department store chain, a restaurant, a beauty center. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160042395 | ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION DEVICE, CLIENT TERMINAL ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION PRESENTING METHOD - An advertisement information distribution device | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160048876 | CATEGORIZING GEOGRAPHIC AREAS BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - A system for categorizing geographic areas may include one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may receive a plurality of geographic locations each having been associated with one of a plurality of categories based at least in part on a plurality of user interactions. The one or more processors may associate a geographic area that encompasses the plurality of geographic locations with a category of the plurality of categories that has a highest commonality across the plurality of geographic locations. The one or more processors may receive an advertisement request that comprises an indication of one of the plurality of geographic locations that is encompassed by the geographic area, and provide an advertisement that is selected based at least in part on the category of the plurality of categories associated with the geographic area that encompasses the plurality of geographic locations. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160048878 | Electronic tags for micro-proximity location, detection and services - Designs of a tag are described. Relevant parameters of the tag can be selected and determined via a device (e.g., a mobile device) running the client module in a predefined mode. Not only is the transmission power controlled to a small amount for detection of a nearby device, but the tag also operates periodically (e.g., every 2 or 10 seconds) to preserve the power driving it. The tag generates a transmission signal in compliance with a wireless technology standard so that the transmission signal can be received by a commonly-used device (e.g., a smartphone). In addition, for simplicity, the tag is not designed as a transceiver but operates as a transmitter only. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160055535 | DIGITAL SIGN NETWORK - A marketing system is disclosed which includes a digital sign network which includes clusters of two or more signs are connected to a common digital network wherein each cluster is deployed in a single locale selected to serve a common marketing objective or to focus on a selected target group and wherein the signs in each cluster are fed the same digital content in real time in combination with coordinated advertisements accessible on mobile communication devices. For example, a cluster of signs may be located around a sports field and display the same content regarding future sports events at the field. In one embodiment of the invention, the signs are solar powered with a back-up from the utility power grid. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160055536 | PROVIDING OFFERS FOR PURCHASE BASED ON REAL-TIME USER DATA - A device may obtain near real-time user data. The near real-time user data may be transmitted by an active application of a user device, and may include information identifying a current geographical location of a user of the user device and information identifying the user. The device may identify offers, for goods or services, relating to the near real-time user data. The device may transmit information regarding a particular offer, of the offers, to the active application to cause the active application to display the information regarding the particular offer. The information regarding the particular offer may be displayed via an interface, of the active application, being used by the user. The interface may provide financial information of the user for purchasing the offer. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160055538 | WIRELESS BEACONS FOR REPORTING OF APPLICATIONS IN THE FOREGROUND OF A USER DEVICE INTERFACE - There are provided systems and methods for wireless beacons for reporting of applications in the foreground of a user device interface. A user may bring a user device to a merchant location and utilize the user device while shopping at the merchant location, for example, to do comparative shopping and read item reviews. The merchant location may include wireless beacons at or nearby an area where items the user is viewing are sold. The beacon may provide communication services with the user devices for the user. Using the beacon, the merchant or a service provider may receive information about the applications executing in the foreground of a user device. Thus, if the user is utilizing a browser or marketplace application to perform some price matching, additional incentives may be provided to the user so the merchant retains the user as a customer. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160063559 | Method and Apparatus for Mobile Link to Advertising Content - A method and apparatus for accessing advertising content from a mobile device provides for establishing a link to a content server using location coordinates from a GPS receiver in the mobile device and a brief, simple code, for example composed of only two alpha and/or numeric characters displayed in a billboard advertisement and associated with the content server. Entering the code enables a link to the content server to obtain additional content for download to the mobile device. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160063562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT DATA TO A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A mobile computing device includes a processor, a display coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store user-specific data, and a location-determining circuit configured to determine the location of the portable electronic device. The processor is configured to provide advertisement data on the display based upon the location of the portable electronic device and the user-specific data. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160071155 | SMART RETAIL SPACE - A cloud server system determines a selection of an item from a number of items within a retail space based on a user preference profile. The selection is determined by matching the user preference profile to one or more items located at the retail space. The cloud server system publishes the selection to a computer via a publisher socket. The computer receives the selection published by the cloud system via a subscriber socket. The computer is subscribed to listen for a message with topic an identifier of the retail space. A microcontroller outputs the selection to at least one electronic component upon receiving string data representing the selection from the computer. The at least one electronic component acts on the retail space in accordance with the determined selection. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160078427 | CREDIT PREAUTHORIZATION ON USER DEVICE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - There is provided systems and method for credit preauthorization on user device detection. The methods include receiving merchant information and user information, wherein the user information is received after a user device corresponding to the user information is determined to be in a geographic area corresponding to the merchant information, determining a credit preauthorization amount based on the user information, and transmitting the credit preauthorization amount to a merchant device corresponding to the merchant information. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160078484 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENCE DETECTION - Various presence detection techniques are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises a signal generator configured to generate a signal that includes a plurality of selected frequencies that are selected from among a set of candidate frequencies, wherein inclusion or exclusion of each candidate frequency in the signal encodes a bit of information and wherein the encoded information comprises a store identifier that identifies a retail store; and a transmitter configured to transmit the signal within the retail store; wherein presence of a device in the retail store is determined in response to reception of the signal at the device and extraction of the store identifier from the received signal by decoding the received signal. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160078487 | LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING IN A MOBILE BROADBAND NETWORK - A method and system for distributing advertising content in an advertising network, the advertising network comprising an advertising management system configured to manage advertising content; and a mobile broadband infrastructure comprising a plurality of base stations configured to provide communicatively coupling of mobile devices to the internet, the communicatively coupling at least partly being established as a mobile broadband connection; said mobile broadband infrastructure being communicatively coupled to said advertising management system; said advertising management system being configured to select and distribute advertising content to said mobile devices in accordance with advertising rules; and wherein said advertising rules provides for distributing said advertising content to mobile devices according to at least one of a location of the mobile devices or a location of the base stations. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160086226 | EXTRACTION APPARATUS, EXTRACTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An extraction apparatus for extracting a suitable item of advertisement content as a distribution target. The extraction apparatus according to the present application includes a calculation unit and an extraction unit. The calculation unit calculates a weight of each item of content in each time zone, based on an evaluation value of each item of content in each time zone. The extraction unit extracts an item of content to be distributed in an arbitrary time zone from the items of content, based on the weight in each time zone calculated by the calculation unit. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160092924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO MOBILE DEVICES - At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature systems and methods for delivering content to a mobile device. In one embodiment, the system receives location information of the mobile device and determines a response duration. The system selects a content piece to deliver to the mobile device based on information regarding content comparisons or experimental units. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTIVE MONETIZATION OF PRODUCT MARKETING IN SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS VIA AUDIO MONITORING - According to a preferred aspect of the instant invention, there is provided a system for effective monetization of product marketing in software applications by monitoring audio content preferably on mobile devices. A developer of applications for mobile devices is provided with the ability to integrate the system into the application. The audio content is analyzed, recognized and send to a server, on which data associated with the current product marketing campaign and related to the detected data is selected and send to the application, on which the data is automatically integrated into a plurality of different product marketing capabilities for example the provision of a quiz, or of advertisement graphics requesting interaction from the consumer. The data from that interaction is send back to the server wherein it is further processed and analyzed. Additionally the consumer receives a defined value providing an incentive to participate. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092927 | ONLINE RESOURCE SERVING TO A TRAVELING USER - Methods and systems for serving at least one online resource item to a user based on a state of the user are provided. A host computing device in communication with a memory receives data representing a record of movements of a user device. A user device profile associates locations of the user device with points in time, and with a state of a user. Following receipt of a resource request from the user device, a state of the user is determined. After at least one candidate online resource item responsive to the resource request are received, at least one online resource item relevant to the state of the user is identified and served to the user device. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092928 | 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, based on the location of a mobile device, an advertisement is provided for a service associated with the location of the mobile device, wherein the advertisement includes a map of a path from the location of the mobile device to a location of a service provider of the service associated with the location of the mobile device. If a user is interested in the service that is offered in the advertisement, they can initiate a purchase procedure. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160098545 | Location and Date/Time Constrained Content Windowing - The present invention is in the technical field of content windowing. Specifically, the present invention provides a content creator the ability to make content available at one or more particular locations and for one or more defined periods of time. A marketplace is further provided for content creators to make available content to be licensed by content licensors for providing content at one or more particular locations and for one or more defined periods of time. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160098758 | 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 announcement is an audio recording, and 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 |
| 20160110768 | LOCATION-BASED FILTERING AND ADVERTISING ENHANCEMENTS FOR MERGED BROWSING OF NETWORK CONTENTS - Location-based filtering and advertising enhancements for merged browsing of network content are described herein. In various embodiments, a client device may obtain its geographic location and provide that location to a server for filtering by the server of network content fragment suggestions based at least in part on the location. The client device may then receive some or all of the filtered suggestions for utilization in merged browsing. In some embodiments, a server may further receive an indicator of content being browsed. In response, the server may determine network content fragment suggestions, and may also determine an additional suggestion or prioritize a suggestion based an advertiser's interest. The server may then provide the suggestions and/or prioritization to the client device. In various embodiments, the server may also provide the advertisement(s) for display in a user interface of the client device along with the (prioritized) suggestions. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160110769 | Systems and Methods for Observing the Movements of Passengers on Conveying Devices - According to the embodiments of the invention, methods and apparatuses are used for observing the movements of passengers on transport conveyors and presenting advertisements thereon. Steps on an escalator or other conveyer employ touch screens and/or detectors which determine the brand & style of a shoe placed on the step. An image-forming module projects advertisements and other media content onto a transparent glass surface that is viewable by the passengers. The media content is selectively displayed based on the brand and/or style of passengers' shoes. Passengers may interact with the media content via the touch screen by carrying out gestures with their feet. Passenger interest in certain ads is detectable and may be used for consumer research purposes. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160119340 | MEDIA SERVICES WITH ACCESS CONTROL - Systems and methods are describe wherein a service provider provides media services that can include, but are not limited to, telephone, radio, interactive and television services. A user residence and/or a user receiving device are designated as a primary location or device for receiving the services of the service provider. An authorization center authenticates a request to provide the service(s) at one or more secondary location/device. The verification process can include, but is not limited to, password(s), Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and biometric identifiers such as voice, retina, finger print and DNA. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160125466 | System and Method for Interactive Advertising - A system and method for interactive advertising at venues. The system includes a communications device for interactive advertising at a venue, such as a retail shopping mall or other location. The device includes a computer system installed within said communications device, and at least one interactive electronic display in electrical communication with and controlled by the computer system. A sensor in electrical communication with the computer system detects when a person is proximal to the communications device and identifies at least one characteristic of the person, and the computer system causes the interactive electronic display to display an advertisement to the person which is targeted to the at least one characteristic. A user interface displayed on the interactive electronic display allows the person to interact with the advertisement by touching the interactive electronic display. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125467 | CLASSIFYING USER INTENT BASED ON LOCATION INFORMATION ELECTRONICALLY COMMUNICATED FROM A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, system, and computer program product for classifying user intent based on spatial information relayed via a mobile device. Embodiments commence upon receiving a location beacon identification value originating from a location beacon, which location beacon identification value is then relayed to the server from the mobile device. The server determines a set of one or more rules based at least in part on the location beacon identification value, and then transmits at least a portion of a set of one or more rules to the mobile device, (e.g., using a mobile device carrier's infrastructure). The rules comprise triggers, and when a trigger fires, user categorization is determined and user intent is predicted. The user categorization and/or predicted user intent is used to select an advertising message. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125469 | SELECTION OF A GROUP OF CONTENT ITEMS FOR PRESENTATION TO AN ONLINE SYSTEM USER BASED ON CONTENT ITEM CHARACTERISTICS AND USER ATTRIBUTES - An online system presents content items to a user. Each content item is associated with one or more characteristics, such as a geographic location. To simplify user interaction, the online system identifies content items each having a characteristic having at least a threshold measure of similarity to an attribute of the user and generates a content unit including the content items. The content unit includes a display area presenting a content item and is configured to present an alternative content item if an interaction with the content unit is detected. Content items included in the content unit may include advertisements and stories describing actions associated with additional users of the online system. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160132928 | SALES ASSISTANCE BASED ON PURCHASING PREDICTION - The method includes receiving a location of a client device and one or more items of interest to a user of the client device. The method further includes determining that the location of the client device is within a threshold distance of an item of the one or more items of interest. The method further includes generating a communication with the user of the client device. The method further includes receiving a response from the user of the client device. The method further includes determining if the received response indicates an intent to purchase the item. In one embodiment, the method further includes identifying a sales representative to assist the user of the client device, responsive to determining that the received response indicates an intent to purchase the item. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160132929 | ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM, AND ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING DEVICE - A candidate region setting unit sets a candidate region, which is a candidate for a target region in real space to be associated with an electronic advertisement, based on position information that indicates the position of a user terminal and that is obtained by the user terminal. A target region setting unit sets a partial region of the candidate region as the target region to be associated with the electronic advertisement. An association information registering unit registers, in an association information storage unit, association information that indicates an association between the electronic advertisement and the region set by the target region setting unit. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160132930 | Mobile Device Proximity Determination - The present invention is a method and system of locating mobile devices and building a database of the mobile device locations through the interaction of mobile devices with one or more proximity activation systems. The method and system uses beacon proximity activity to refine the location of a beacon and the relative position of one or more mobile devices to the beacon through a trilateration or multiple activation point distance calculation. As mobile devices come within a pre-determined proximity to a beacon, applications installed on the mobile devices supply a location and identity of the mobile device at the time of activation. The system and method may assign personas to the mobile device. The system and method uses numerous activations to refine and report the physical location of the beacon. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160132933 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Content is to be provided at an appropriate time. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160140617 | MOBILE INFORMATION AND ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a mobile information and advertising system ( | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160148266 | CONSUMER INTERACTION FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL SIGNAGE - Ways to provide media content are described. Advertising displays ( | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160148268 | Exclusive Delivery of Content Within Geographic Areas - Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160148270 | Campaign Management Systems for Creating and Managing Beacon Based Campaigns - Techniques and systems for beacon based campaign creation and management are disclosed. A disclosed technique includes providing a graphical user interface to create a campaign zone for a location, create campaign messages for the campaign zone, prioritize the campaign messages, and produce campaign message priority information; generating campaign information based on the campaign messages and the campaign message priority information; and providing the campaign information to mobile devices. The graphical user interface can be configured to specify for a campaign message a beacon identifier associated with a beacon device that is within a vicinity of the location, and to specify for the campaign message an action for a mobile device to perform in response to receiving a beacon message containing the beacon identifier from the beacon device. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160155150 | CREATING AN ANNOTATION FOR A SIGNAGE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160155151 | ADVERTISEMENT SYSTEM, AND ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING DEVICE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160162950 | ADVERTISEMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM, STORE TERMINAL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An advertisement delivery system of the present invention includes a store terminal, a management device connected to the store terminal via a communication network, and a mobile terminal connected to the management device via the communication network. The store terminal transmits a delivery instruction to the management device in response to an operation giving an instruction to deliver advertisement data. When the delivery instruction transmitted from the store terminal is received, the management device push-delivers the advertisement data of the store that has given the delivery instruction to the mobile terminal. Then, when the advertisement data of the store push-delivered from the management device is received, the mobile terminal judges whether or not the distance from the store to its current position is within a predetermined range, and outputs the advertisement data on a condition that the distance is within the predetermined range. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160171545 | GEO-FENCED MARKETPLACE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160171547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISING | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160171548 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR PLACEMENT IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ELEMENTS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160180391 | DISPLAYING MERCHANDISE WITH AVATARS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160180393 | RETARGETING CONSUMERS IN A PHYSICAL REALM | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160180394 | INLINE EXPANSION OF MAPS IN CONTENT ITEMS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160180404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND TRACKING CUSTOMER INTERACTION | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160183051 | GEOFENCING MESSAGING SYSTEM | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160189227 | TARGETED ADVERTISING USING A CROSSWALK NETWORK AND WIRELESS PROXIMITY - A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for identifying a user device, predicting a path corresponding to the user device, and delivering targeted content to the user device, through the use of a novel crosswalk network. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189228 | Predicting Locations and Movements of Users Based on Historical Locations for Users of an Online System - An online system receives location information from a plurality of user devices used by users of the online system. The location information identifies a plurality of different locations at which each of the user devices was located. From the location information, a plurality of chains of locations visited by each of a plurality of users are extracted. The online system generates one or more location pairs based on the chain of locations, where each location pair includes a first location and a second location to which there is a high probability a user will travel if the user is located at the first location. The location pairs are used for a variety of applications, such as for advertising to users based on locations and for providing insights into the movements of users. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189229 | Systems and Methods for Targeting Advertising to Prepaid Card Accounts - Systems and methods for targeting advertising in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for targeting advertising includes obtaining financial transaction data using an account servicing server system, wherein the financial transaction data comprises location data, retailer identification data, and metadata describing reload activity for a prepaid card and the reload activity comprises metadata describing the amount of money deposited in an account associated with the prepaid card, generating targeting data based on the location data, retailer identification data, and the reload activity using the account servicing server system, obtaining advertising data based on the generated targeting data using the account servicing server system, wherein the advertising data comprises at least one offer for a product provided by the retailer identified by the retailer identification data, and providing the advertising data using the account servicing server system. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189230 | Systems and Methods for Targeting Advertising to Prepaid Card Accounts based on Historical Transaction Data - Systems and methods for targeting advertising based on historical transaction data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for targeting advertising includes obtaining financial transaction data, wherein the financial transaction data includes location data, retailer identification data, and metadata describing reload activity, obtaining historical transaction data, wherein the historical transaction data includes product metadata describing products previously purchased using the prepaid card and retailer metadata describing the retailers from which the products were purchased, generating targeting data based on the location data, retailer identification data, the reload activity, and the historical transaction data, obtaining advertising data based on the generated targeting data, wherein the advertising data includes at least one offer for a product corresponding to a product identified in the historical transaction data, and providing the advertising data. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189231 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR DISPLAYING ADVERTISEMENT UPON ACTIVATION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - Disclosed is a method for providing an advertisement on a display of a mobile communication terminal, the method including: receiving an user input when the mobile communication terminal is capable of communication while the display of the mobile communication terminal is being off; and activating the display upon receiving the user input. The activated display provides an advertisement, an unlock interface, and an additional input interface thereon. The unlock interface is capable of receiving an additional user input whereby unlocks the mobile communication terminal upon receiving the additional user input thereof, and the additional input interface is capable of receiving an additional user input whereby the display displays an additional information related to the advertisement upon receiving the additional user input thereof. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189232 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING MEDIA CONTENT AND ADVERTISEMENTS ACROSS CONNECTED PLATFORMS, INCLUDING TARGETING TO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND DEVICES - Described herein are techniques for streaming digital media content, such as music, video, or television content. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for delivery of media content and advertisement or other sponsor-directed content across a connected media environment. Playback can selectively follow a user from one location to another location, or from one media device to another media device, either maintaining a same session or switching sessions depending on the user's location, media device used, and user activity. Playback of advertisement or other sponsor-directed content can be synchronized between different areas of the connected media environment, or between different media devices, for example between a secondary device such as an audio speaker in a particular room, which is being controlled by a primary device such as a smartphone in another room. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160196582 | SUBSCRIBER LOCATION AUDIENCE INSIGHTS FOR ENTERPRISE NETWORKS | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160196583 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE VOICE CONNECTIONS VIA LOCAL TELEPHONE NUMBERS | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160203211 | GEOLOCATION DATA ANALYTICS ON MULTI-GROUP POPULATIONS OF USER COMPUTING DEVICES | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160203522 | PEER-TO-PEER GEOTARGETING CONTENT WITH AD-HOC MESH NETWORKS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160203524 | APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER INFORMATION, METHOD FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER INFORMATION, SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER INFORMATION AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING A COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160253706 | CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160253709 | ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT FORECASTING USING TARGETED MESSAGES | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160253735 | Closed-Loop Dynamic Content Display System Utilizing Shopper Proximity and Shopper Context Generated in Response to Wireless Data Triggers | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160379261 | TARGETED CONTENT USING A DIGITAL SIGN - Disclosed herein is a computer system for rendering targeted content on a digital sign. The computer system includes a display screen and a camera. The computer system also includes a video analytics module to receive video images from the camera and generate audience metrics based on the video images. The audience metrics include eye gaze information that identifies an area of the display screen being viewed by a person. The computer system also includes a content management module to identify a content selection to be rendered by the digital sign based on the audience metrics. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160379262 | SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING PUSH MESSAGE BASED ON USER LOCATION, USER EQUIPMENT AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING COMPUTER PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - Provided are a service system and a service method for transmitting a push message based on a user location, user equipment and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer program recorded thereon, and more particularly, a service system and a service method for transmitting a push message based on a user location, which determine the user location through WiFi information sensed by user equipment, determine a store visited by a user to correspond to the user location, and support the push message transmitted to correspond to the relevant store so as to be exposed only to the user positioned at the relevant store, and user equipment and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium recorded thereon. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160379263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DELIVERING ADVERTISING OVER NETWORKS - A method of online advertising in a communications network in which an advertiser's teaser ad is presented to an end user using a network connected device on a publisher's site or channel, but only when a channel associated with the advertiser's teaser ad is live. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20180025384 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MIXED REALITY INTERACTION WITH A COMMERCIAL OFFERING | 01-25-2018 |
| 20190147491 | CUSTOMIZED LOYALTY NOTIFICATIONS | 05-16-2019 |
