Method for personalized advertising on communication device

• US 20090259529A1
• Filed: 04/11/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Che-Liang Chiu, Hsiao-Cheng Wei
• Original Assignee: Che-Liang Chiu, Hsiao-Cheng Wei
• Inventors: Chiu, Che-Liang, Pan, Jen-yi, Wei, Hsiao-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US12/081,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259529A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.260
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices

Abstract

The present invention discloses new communication device advertising methods for implementing the same. One method discloses by the present invention features downloading the personalized information while making a call; the method comprises the steps of: providing a request signal from the communication device to an information system after a dialing signal is generated on the communication device; generating personalized information, which is the combination of advertising data and value added information, by the information system according to said request signal and advertising data; playing the advertising data on the communication device; after the playing is finished, sending the dialing signal by the communication device to make a call; calculating bonus relating to the call; the user can also decide whether to play the value-added information or not after the call. Another method is pre-downloading the personalized information first and plays it without downloading it while making a call. The present invention also discloses a method for avoiding the dial fraud; the dial fraud means bonus earned by the user from the call exceeds communication fee of that call.

Claims

1. A communication device advertising method, comprising the steps of:

(1). Generating a dialing signal on a communication device, and then suspending transmission of said dialing signal;

(2) Performing a decision making process for choosing a process for generating personalized information;

(3) Generating said personalized information by matching a user'"'"'s tag and data relating to attribution of advertising data.

(4) Playing said personalized information on said communication device;

(5) Transmitting said dialing signal to telephony server for making a call; and

then

(6) Calculating bonus related to said call, after said call is finished.

2. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said personalized information includes advertising data and value added information.

3. The communication device advertising method of claim 2, wherein said value added information still displayed on the screen of said communication device after said personalized information is played.

4. The communication device advertising method of claim 2, wherein the user of said communication device decides to play said value added information or not.

5. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said choosing is implemented according to the following criteria:

(1) Reliability of network connectivity;

(2) Network traffic load;

(3) Timestamps of pre-downloaded personalized information stored in said communication device;

(4) How many times said pre-downloaded personalized information in said communication device is Played;

(5) The level of match between said pre-downloaded personalized information and criteria, wherein said

criteria include user'"'"'s preference and location.

6. The communication device advertising method of claim 5, the weight of said criterion is changed with the operation situation.

7. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said user'"'"'s tag is a user-defined tag.

8. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said user'"'"'s tag represent the preference of the user of said communication device.

9. The communication device advertising method of claim 8, wherein said user'"'"'s tag further includes user'"'"'s location or callee identity.

10. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein personalized information comprises text, image, audio, video, any displayable format, interactive media, or any combinations of them.

11. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said calculating bonus includes a process for avoiding dial fraud which means said bonus earned by the user from said call exceeds communication fee of said call.

12. The communication device advertising method of claim 11, wherein said bonus is discounted if said bonus earned by the user from said call exceeds communication fee of said call.

13. The communication device advertising method of claim 11, wherein said bonus is set to zero if said bonus earned by the user from said call exceeds communication fee of said call.

14. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said process is a stream line process comprising transmitting a request signal from said communication device to an information system, wherein said generating personalized information is implemented on said information system, and said user'"'"'s tag is generated according to said request signal.

15. The communication device advertising method of claim 14, wherein said request signal includes information relating to displayable format on said communication device.

16. The communication device advertising method of claim 14, wherein request signal includes information relating to preferred display duration.

17. The communication device advertising method of claim 14, wherein said request signal includes callee identity in said dialing signal.

18. The communication device advertising method of claim 17, wherein said callee identity is hashed before transmission while said callee identity isn'"'"'t empty.

19. The communication device advertising method of claim 1, wherein said process is a pre-downloaded process, wherein said generating personalized information is performed on said communication device, and said advertising data is stored in said communication device.

20. The communication device advertising method of claim 19, wherein said advertising data is deleted while the matching level between said advertising data and the user'"'"'s tag is below a certain level.

21. The communication device advertising method of claim 19, wherein said communication device actively send a request signal to a information system for performing said step of generating said personalized information and then said personalized information is sent back to said communication device and stored.