Message insertion system and method

• US 20040201629A1
• Filed: 02/06/2004
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zoesis, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Zoesis, Inc.
• Inventors: Wood, Stanton E., Weyhrauch, Peter W., Piselli, Paolo M., Loyall, A. Bryan, Bates, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US10/773,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20040201629A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/808
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/61 using advertising information
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/205 for detecting the geographical location of the game platform
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/305 for providing a graphical or textual hint to the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5506 using advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/65 for computing the condition of a game character
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8029 Fighting without shooting
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/807 Role playing or strategy games
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising

Abstract

In a data processing system executing a process for interacting with at least one user, the process for a period of time, during execution of the process, at a moment of likely intensity of the user'"'"'s interaction with the process, a message is displayed to the user.

In another aspect, in a mobile networked device, the location of the device is determined, a message is selected for display based on the location of the device and the message is displayed on the device.

In another aspect, in a mobile networked device, a message is selected for display based on previously stored information about the user of the device.

Claims

1-45. -45. (Cancelled).

46. A method for displaying messages in a mobile networked device comprising:

(a) determining the location of the device;

(b) selecting a message for display based on the location of the device; and

(c) displaying the message on the device.

47. The method of claim 46, wherein the message comprises an advertising message.

48. The method of claim 47, wherein the device comprises a mobile telephone.

49. The method of claim 47, wherein the device comprises a personal digital assistant.

50. The method of claim 47, wherein the advertising message comprises an advertisement for a business in the same location as the device.

51. The method of claim 47, further comprising determining the local time in the location of the device and selecting the message based on the local time.

52. A method for displaying a message on a mobile networked device comprising:

(a) selecting a message for display based on previously stored information about the user; and

(b) displaying the message on the device.

53-55. -55. (Cancelled).

56. A computer program product, tangibly stored on a computer-readable medium, for displaying messages in a mobile networked device, the product comprising instructions operable to cause a programmable processor to:

(a) determine the location of the device;

(b) select a message for display based on the location of the device; and

(c) display the message on the device.

57. A computer program product, tangibly stored on a computer-readable medium, for displaying messages in a mobile networked device, the product comprising instructions operable to cause a programmable processor to:

(a) select a message for display based on previously stored information about the user; and

(b) display the message on the device.

58-60. -60. (Cancelled).

61. A data processing system for displaying messages in a mobile networked device comprising:

(a) means for determining the location of the device;

(b) means for selecting a message for display based on the location of the device; and

(c) means for displaying the message on the device.

62. A data processing system for displaying messages in a mobile networked device comprising:

(a) means for selecting a message for display based on previously stored information about the user; and

(b) means for displaying the message on the device.