SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENT SERVICE BY USING TEXT MESSAGES

• US 20110112907A1
• Filed: 06/23/2009
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jang Won Seo
• Original Assignee: Jang Won Seo
• Inventors: Seo, Jang Won
• Application Number:
  US13/003,763
• Publication Number:
  US 20110112907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.64
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing an advertisement service by using a text message, which provide advertisement content when a user uses a text message service. The method of the present invention comprises: When a text message is transmitted from a mobile terminal through a mobile communication network, an SMS server requesting an advertising system to transmit advertisement content, depending on whether or not there is a request for the reproduction of the advertisement content; the advertising system selecting the advertisement content and transmitting the advertisement content to the mobile terminal through the mobile communication terminal; the mobile terminal storing the advertisement content transmitted from the advertisement system; and if a transmission key is inputted for the transmission of the text message, the mobile terminal reproducing the advertisement content, which are stored during the transmission of the previous is text message, while transmitting the text message to the SMS server.

Claims

1. A system for providing an advertisement service by using text messages, comprising:

a SMS (Short Message Service) for checking whether or not there is an advertisement content reproduction request when a text message is transmitted from a mobile communication network and requesting the advertisement content when there is an advertisement content reproduction request;

an advertisement system for storing the advertisement content and reading and transmitting the advertisement content when there is an to advertisement content request from the SMS server; and

a mobile terminal for transmitting a text message to the SMS server via the mobile communication network when a text message transmission key is inputted and for storing the advertisement content transmitted from the advertisement system when the advertisement content is transmitted from the is advertisement system in the course of the text message transmission and for reproducing the advertisement content stored in the course of the previous text message transmission while the text message is being transmitted.

2. A system for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal divides a screen and displays the information which shows that the advertisement content and the text messages are being transmitted.

3. A system for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal displays a selection window for selecting whether or not the advertisement content is reproduced when a transmission key for the text message transmission is inputted, for thereby selecting whether or not the advertisement content is reproduced.

4. A system for providing an advertisement service by using text to messages according to claim 1, wherein said advertisement system is directed to transmitting by selecting the advertisement content depending on the personal information of the sender.

5. A system for providing an advertisement service by using text is messages according to claim 4, wherein said personal information of the sender is at least one of age, sex, occupation and regional information.

6. A system for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 1, wherein said advertisement content includes a motion image, a still image and text.

7. A method for providing an advertisement service by using text messages, comprising:

a step in which when a text message is transmitted from a mobile terminal via a mobile communication network, a SMS (Short Message Service) requests an advertisement content to an advertisement system depending on whether or not there is an advertisement content reproduction request, and the advertisement system selects the advertisement content;

a step in which the advertisement system transmits the advertisement content to the mobile terminal via the mobile communication network;

a step in which the mobile terminal stores the advertisement content transmitted from the advertisement system; and

a step in which when a transmission key is inputted for a text message transmission after the mobile terminal stores the advertisement content, the advertisement content stored while the previous text message is being transmitted is reproduced while the text message is being transmitted to the SMS server.

8. A method for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 7, wherein when a transmission key is inputted from the text message transmission, said mobile terminal displays a selection window for selecting whether or not the advertisement content is reproduced, for thereby selecting whether or not the advertisement content is reproduced.

9. A method for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 7, wherein said advertisement content is selected depending on a personal information of a sender and is sent.

10. A method for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 9, wherein said personal information of the sender is at least one of age, sex, occupation, favorite field and regional information.

11. A method for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 7, wherein said advertisement content includes a motion image, a still image and text.

12. A method for providing an advertisement service by using text messages according to claim 7, wherein said mobile terminal divides a screen for displaying an information which shows that the advertisement content and the text message are being sent and displays the same.