Customized advertising methods for personal media services
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1. A personalized media service device for creating hardcopy media tailored to an individual consumer, comprising:
- a central processing unit;
a memory for communicating with said central processing unit for storing available media selections, advertisements and corresponding media data;
at least one communications port for communicating with said central processing unit for communicating with a remote device;
a printer device for communicating with said central processing unit for printing hardcopy media products from data received from said central processing unit;
an input device for communicating with said central processing unit for retrieving information from a user; and
a display device in for communicating with said central processing unit for displaying lists of available media selections and input options retrieved from said memory.
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Abstract
A personalized media service is provided wherein advertisers bid in real-time for advertisement space in a media on a demand product. A user selects a media request from a list of available media for printing as a hardcopy. Advertisements for the hardcopy are customized according to the users preferences. The media request may also be customized in accordance with specified user preference such that a content provider may provide the user with a tailored media experience.
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24 Claims
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1. A personalized media service device for creating hardcopy media tailored to an individual consumer, comprising:
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a central processing unit;
a memory for communicating with said central processing unit for storing available media selections, advertisements and corresponding media data;
at least one communications port for communicating with said central processing unit for communicating with a remote device;
a printer device for communicating with said central processing unit for printing hardcopy media products from data received from said central processing unit;
an input device for communicating with said central processing unit for retrieving information from a user; and
a display device in for communicating with said central processing unit for displaying lists of available media selections and input options retrieved from said memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of creating a media hardcopy customized to a user, comprising:
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inputting personal information by said user;
obtaining a media request from said user;
querying at least one advertising provider for at least one advertisement for said media request;
receiving at least one advertisement in electronic form from said at least one advertising provider;
receiving an electronic copy of said media request; and
merging said media request and at least one advertisement for said user. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21)
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19. A method of placing advertisements in media on demand, comprising:
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receiving advertisement information from a media creation service, said advertisement information including a number representing the number of advertisement spaces, a set of dimensions defining the size of each advertisement space, and a location for each advertisement space in the media;
determining a value for each advertisement space based upon the advertisement information;
submitting a bid for at least one advertisement space based upon the determined value of the advertisement space; and
submitting an electronic copy of an advertisement for said at least one advertisement space bid for a winning bid.
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22. A method of providing advertisements for media, comprising:
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providing at least one advertising provider, said advertising provider comprising a computer, at least one advertisement in electronic form for storage on said computer, at least one operational program for storage on said computer, and at least one communications port;
receiving a set of advertisement information from a service provider by way of said at least one communications port, said set of advertisement information including information about at least one advertisement space available in a media request;
receiving a set of user information from said service provider by way of said at least on communications port;
communicating said set of advertisement information and said set of user information to said operational program for determining a value for each of said at least one advertisement spaces available in said media request;
submitting at least one bid to said service provider for at least one of said advertisement spaces available in said media request for said determined value of said available advertisement space, each of said at least one bids unique to one of said at least one advertisements in electronic form; and
submitting said at least one advertisement in electronic form to said service provider for each winning bid. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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