Device, system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing interactive advertising

• US 10,157,618 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2013
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: XappMedia, Inc.
• Original Assignee: XappMedia, Inc.
• Inventors: Higbie, Patrick B., Kelvie, John P., Myers, Michael M., Raines, Franklin D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Paras D
• Assistant Examiner(s): OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M
• Application Number:
  US13/875,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20140330559A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,056 Days
• Field of Search: 704235, 704246
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A method, device, system, and computer medium for providing interactive advertising are provided. For example, a device may request an advertisement from a remote server, receive the advertisement, receive a response from a user who is listening and/or watching the advertisement, and transmit the response to the server for further action. The user may input a response by speaking. A server may receive an advertisement request from the device, select an advertisement based on pre-defined one or more criteria, transmit the selected advertisement to the device for play, receive from the device a response to the selected advertisement, and then perform an action corresponding to the received response.

Claims

1. A communication device for providing interactive advertising, the device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory comprising computer instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to;

transmit a radio content-request to a first server connected to the device via a communication network;

receive radio content data from the first server, wherein the radio content data comprises a first advertising content and a second advertising content selected by a second server;

play the radio content comprising the first advertising content and the second advertising content selected by the second server;

activate speech interaction at the device according to interaction instruction received from the second server, wherein the interaction instruction instructs the device to activate the speech interaction at a first predefined time during play of the first advertising content and at a second predefined time during play of the second advertising content;

while speech interaction is activated, receive a user'"'"'s spoken command;

in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time, perform an action responding to the user'"'"'s spoken command according to first action information associated with the first advertising content and received from the second server; and

in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the second predefined time, perform an action responding to the user'"'"'s spoken command according to the second action information associated with the second advertising content and received from the second server, wherein the second action information is different from the first action information.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s spoken command is converted into a text, and the text is displayed on a display of the device.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the action performed in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time comprises automatically dialing a telephone number associated with the first advertising content.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the action performed in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time comprises installing an application associated with the first advertising content on the communication device.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the action performed in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time comprises launching a web browser with a website associated with the first advertising content.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the interaction instruction received from the second server causes the communication device to activate speech interaction for a first predetermined time period at the first predefined time and for a second predetermined time period at the second predefined time.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the interaction instruction received from the second server causes the communication device to play a message prompting a user to speak a predefined phrase immediately before the activation of speech interaction.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command comprises identifying one or more keywords in the user'"'"'s spoken command using a speech recognizer on the second server, the one or more keywords being associated with one or more actions to be performed by the communication device.

9. The device of claim 1, receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command comprises identifying one or more keywords in the user user'"'"'s spoken command using a speech recognizer on the communication device, the one or more keywords being associated with one or more actions to be performed by the communication device.

10. A method for providing interactive advertising integrated into radio content, the method comprising:

transmitting radio content from a first server to a communication device, wherein the radio content comprises a first advertising content and a second advertising content selected by a second server;

while the communication device plays the radio content including the first advertising content and the second advertising content, causing the communication device to activate speech interaction at the communication device according to interaction instruction received from the second server, wherein the interaction instruction instructs the communication device to activate the speech interaction at a first predefined time during play of the first advertising content and at a second predefined time during play of the second advertising content;

while speech interaction is activated, receiving a user'"'"'s spoken command;

in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during a first predetermined period of time after the first predefined time, causing the communication device to perform an action responding to the user'"'"'s spoken command according to first action information associated with the first advertising content and received from the second server; and

in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during a second predetermined period of time after the second predefined time, causing the communication device to perform an action responding to the user'"'"'s spoken command according to second action information associated with the second advertising content and received from the second server, wherein the second action information is different from the first action information.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first action information is received from the second server after transmitting the user'"'"'s spoken command to the second server.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the action performed in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time comprises dialing a telephone number associated with the first advertising content.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the action performed in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time comprises installing an application associated with the first advertising content on the communication device.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the action performed in response to receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command during the first predefined time comprises launching a web browser with a website associated with the first advertising content.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command comprises identifying one or more keywords in the user'"'"'s spoken command using a speech recognizer on the second server, the one or more keywords being associated with one or more actions to be performed by the communication device.

16. The method of claim 10, receiving the user'"'"'s spoken command comprises identifying one or more keywords in the user user'"'"'s spoken command using a speech recognizer on the communication device, the one or more keywords being associated with one or more actions to be performed by the communication device.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the interaction instruction received from the second server causes the communication device to activate speech interaction for a first predetermined time period at the first predefined time and for a second predetermined time period at the second predefined time.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the interaction instruction received from the second server causes the communication device to play a message prompting a user to speak a predefined phrase immediately before the activation of speech interaction.