Advertisement on demand service
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1. A method for distributing advertisements, comprising:
- initiating a telephone call from a telephone;
sending a request for an advertisement from the telephone, the request including a unique identifier associated with the advertisement and a telephone number associated with the telephone;
receiving the request at a network server;
processing the request at the network server including determining whether the telephone number is associated with a registered user; and
transmitting the advertisement from the network server to an account associated with the registered user if the server determines that the telephone number is associated with a registered user.
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Abstract
A method for distributing advertisements. The method comprises initiating a telephone call from a telephone and sending a request for an advertisement from the telephone, the request including a unique identifier associated with the advertisement and a telephone number associated with the telephone. The request is received at server for further processing. If the user is a registered user, then the ad is sent to the user'"'"'s personal computer. If the user is not registered, then further processing enables the user to be registered. The ad is thereafter sent to the user.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for distributing advertisements, comprising:
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initiating a telephone call from a telephone;
sending a request for an advertisement from the telephone, the request including a unique identifier associated with the advertisement and a telephone number associated with the telephone;
receiving the request at a network server;
processing the request at the network server including determining whether the telephone number is associated with a registered user; and
transmitting the advertisement from the network server to an account associated with the registered user if the server determines that the telephone number is associated with a registered user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for providing an ad-on-demand service, comprising:
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receiving an ad-on-demand request from a telephone at telephone switching system;
routing the ad-on-demand request from the telephone switching system to an integrated service control point;
transforming, at the integrated service control point, the ad-on-demand request into one or more data packets;
sending the one or more data packets to a server; and
processing, at the server, the one or data packets to determine whether an ad associated with the ad-on-demand request should be routed to a client computer associated with the telephone. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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