ELECTRONIC MARKETING ON A COMPUTING DEVICE DURING SELECT TIME WINDOWS

• US 20080077784A1
• Filed: 09/21/2006
• Published: 03/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gerri's Marketing & Advertising Concepts LLC
• Original Assignee: Gerri's Marketing & Advertising Concepts LLC
• Inventors: Graham, George Washington, Robinson, Geraldine, Clark, Donald Lawrence
• Application Number:
  US11/533,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20080077784A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An apparatus and method that can be used for marketing and advertising during the system check of a computer, which is one of the busiest periods that the computer or computer type device has, which occurs just before the computer or computer type device initializes its operating system and after power up. The methodology is to run various forms of advertisements/commercials while the computer or computer type device is busy. The present method calls for the advertisements/commercials to run during the time window when the system check is normally displayed at a very rapid pace, and prior to the operating system attempting to engage and run the computing device. While the system check is occurring the present invention calls for advertisements/commercials to run in the foreground covering, if not all, a portion of the monitor screen.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a system BIOS including an information media file and display code executable at power up of the computing device where when said display code is executed at power up said display code functions to display the information media file on a monitor of the computing device in the foreground for user viewing during a BIOS/POST system time window and said display code further functions to cease displaying the information media file just prior initiating an OS of the computing device.

2. The computing device as recited in claim 1, where,

said system BIOS includes download code executable in the background during normal operation of the OS of the computing device where when said download code is executed in the background said download code controls the computing device to access a multimedia server remotely located with respect to the computing device and communicably linked to the computing device over a network and said download code controls the computing device to download information media files residing on the multimedia server.

3. The computing device as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

an API including executable download code that is executable in the background during normal operation of the computing device where when said download code is executed the API controls the computing device to access a multimedia server remotely located with respect to the computing device over a network and said download code controls the computing device to download the information media file residing on the multimedia server.

4. A method for electronically marketing an information media file comprising the steps of:

providing a system BIOS including an information media file and display code executable at power up of the computing device where when said display code is executed at power up, said display code functions to display the information media file on a monitor of the computing device in the foreground for user viewing during a BIOS/POST system time window and said display code further functions to cease displaying the information media file just prior initiating an OS of the computing device; and

executing the display code and displaying the information media file on the monitor.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

providing a system BIOS including download code executable in the background during normal operation of the OS of the computing device where when said download code is executed in the background said download code controls the computing device to access a multimedia server remotely located with respect to the computing device and communicably linked to the computing device over a network and said download code controls the computing device to download information media files residing on the multimedia server; and

executing the download code and downloading the information media file from a multimedia server.

6. The method as recited in claim 4, further comprising the step of:

providing an API including executable download code that is executable in the background during normal operation of the computing device where when said download code is executed the API controls the computing device to access a multimedia server remotely located with respect to the computing device over a network and said download code controls the computing device to download the information media file residing on the multimedia server; and

executing said download code and downloading the information media file.

7. A computing device comprising:

an API integral with an OS having executable access code and display code that is executable at power up of the computing device where when said API access code is executed at power up, an information media file stored in an inactive storage location of a peripheral device is accessed by the API and when said display code is executed the information media file is displayed just prior to initiating the OS of the computing device.

8. The computing device of claim 7, where,

said API includes executable download code that is executable in the background during normal operation of the computing device where when said download code is executed the API controls the computing device to access a multimedia server remotely located with respect to the computing device over a network and said download code controls the computing device to download the information media file residing on the multimedia server.

9. A method for electronically marketing an information file comprising the steps of:

providing an API having executable access code and display code that is executable at power up of the computing device where when said API access code is executed at power up an information media file stored in an inactive storage location of a peripheral device is accessed by the API and when said display code is executed the information media file is displayed just prior to initiating the OS of the computing device; and

executing said access and said display code.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, further comprising the steps of:

providing an API including executable download code that is executable in the background during normal operation of the computing device where when said download code is executed the API controls the computing device to access a multimedia server remotely located with respect to the computing device over a network and said download code controls the computing device to download the information media file residing on the multimedia server; and

executing said download code and downloading the information media file.