Systems and Methods of Providing Personalized Alerts

• US 20130110947A1
• Filed: 10/22/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matthew R. Merritt, Michael Boukadakis, Sai Ganesh
• Original Assignee: Matthew R. Merritt, Michael Boukadakis, Sai Ganesh
• Inventors: Boukadakis, Michael, Ganesh, Sai, Merritt, Matthew R.
• Application Number:
  US13/657,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20130110947A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1895 for short real-time information, e.g. alarms, notifications, alerts, updates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A computer-readable storage medium embodies instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive media content from one or more sources, where the media content including a first portion that is personalized for a user by a selected persona of a plurality of personas. The computer-readable storage medium further embodies instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to store the media content in a memory and send the media content as an electronic alert to a user device according to a user-defined schedule.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive media content from one or more sources, the media content including a first portion that is personalized for a user by a selected persona of a plurality of personas;

store the media content in a memory; and

send an electronic alert including the media content to a user device.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further including instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to send the electronic alert to the user device according to a user-defined schedule.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises at least one of audio data, video data, text data, and a static image.

4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises a second portion including an advertisement.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the electronic alert is sent to one of an application and a plugin executing on the user device.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

receive a first user input configured to schedule the electronic alert, the user input including schedule information including at least one of a date and a time;

receive a second user input configured to select the selected persona from the plurality of personas; and

store the schedule information and an identifier associated with the selected persona in the memory.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

notify the selected persona; and

provide an option for the selected persona to provide the portion personalized for the user.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the media content includes a user-selectable option accessible by the user to transmit an electronic response to the media content.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the user-selectable option includes at least one of a clickable link within an electronic message and a numeric operation for selection from a keypad in response to an audio alert.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

receive a response including at least one of audio data, video data, and text data; and

store the response in the memory.

11. A system comprising:

an interface configurable to couple to a network;

a processor coupled to the interface; and

a memory accessible to the processor, the memory configured to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

assemble media content including a first portion customized for a subscriber by a selected persona of a plurality of personas;

determine a scheduled event associated with the subscriber; and

transmit the media content through the network to a device associated with the subscriber according to the scheduled event.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the media content comprises at least one of audio data, video data, and text data.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the first portion is customized to the scheduled event.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a schedule database configured to store an electronic calendar associated with the subscriber; and

a graphical user interface (GUI) generator including a user-accessible calendar configured to allow the subscriber to define the scheduled event.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the scheduled event comprises a date and time scheduled by the subscriber and the media content is transmitted at the date and time.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the media content includes a user-selectable option accessible by the subscriber to provide a response to the media content.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the memory further comprises:

instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive the response and to store the response in a memory; and

wherein the response includes at least one of audio data, video data, and text data.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the memory further comprises advertising selection logic that, when executed, causes the processor to:

select an advertisement from a plurality of advertisements according to demographic information associated with the subscriber, data associated with the advertisement, and playback data associated with advertisements previously provided to the subscriber; and

wherein the media content includes the advertisement.

19. A method comprising:

receiving a first media content customized for a subscriber by a selected persona of a plurality of personas;

selecting an advertisement from a plurality of advertisements according to a plurality of selection rules;

combining the first media and the advertisement to produce media content; and

transmitting the media content to a subscriber device through a network according to a predetermined schedule.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving a first user input to schedule one or more alerts, each alert having a date and time, the one or more alerts defining the predetermined schedule; and

receiving at least one second user input to select the persona from a plurality of personas; and

wherein the first media content includes a first portion customized for the subscriber by the selected persona.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein receiving the first media content comprises:

sending an alert to the selected persona to prompt the selected persona to provide media content; and

receiving the first media content in response to sending the alert.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the media content includes a user-selectable option accessible by the subscriber to respond to the media content, the method further comprising:

receiving a second media content from the subscriber device in response to transmitting the media content; and

posting the second media content to a social network site.