Specific Internet user target advertising replacement method and system
First Claim
1. A method for supplying ancillary information related to a request for a resource through a communications network comprising the steps of:
- receiving information comprising a request for said resource corresponding to a media object composed of at least one of video and audio information which is available through a communications from a resource requester;
referencing said request to determine availability of ancillary information related for request by analyzing said request, said referencing step is performed by parsing non-HTML metadata within said requested media object;
transmitting information representing said requested resource available from said communications network and said ancillary information to a requester of said resource request.
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Abstract
A system and apparatus for delivering ancillary information related to a resource request, such as advertisements, to a resource requester via a gateway device. The invention describes the components of the gateway device receiving a request from a resource requester (210) and the gateway device referencing the request for ancillary information (240), either internally or externally via a database. Additional elements to the invention include the gateway device receiving information representing the requested resource, from a resource provider, and ancillary information related to the resource (250), and the transmission by the gateway device of ancillary information and the resource to the resource requester (260).
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18 Claims
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1. A method for supplying ancillary information related to a request for a resource through a communications network comprising the steps of:
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receiving information comprising a request for said resource corresponding to a media object composed of at least one of video and audio information which is available through a communications from a resource requester; referencing said request to determine availability of ancillary information related for request by analyzing said request, said referencing step is performed by parsing non-HTML metadata within said requested media object; transmitting information representing said requested resource available from said communications network and said ancillary information to a requester of said resource request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus of a gateway device for supplying ancillary information related to a request for a resource through a communications network comprising:
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a means for receiving information for said gateway device in a local network comprising a request for said resource corresponding to a media object composed of at least one of video and audio information which is from a resource provider; a means for referencing said request to determine availability of ancillary information related for request by analyzing said request, said referencing is performed by parsing non-HTML metadata within said requested media object; a means for transmitting information representing said requested resource available from said communications network and said ancillary information to a requester of said resource request. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus for providing an advertisement related to a requested resource available through a communications network, wherein said apparatus as a gateway device facilitates communications between a resource requester and a resource provider, said apparatus comprising:
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a communications interface that receives a request for a resource available through said communications network, where said request is a uniform resource locator; a processor that parses said request for information within said uniform resource locator as to identify an attribute from said parsed information; and a storage device that comprises information for comparing said identified attributes to data representing advertisements related to said resource request, where said attribute from said uniform resource locator is the only information used for said comparison wherein said processor controls retrieval of said advertisements; and said a communications interface transmits data comprising said advertisements and said requested resource. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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