Peer-to-Peer Distribution of Advertising

• US 20130262208A1
• Filed: 11/30/2011
• Published: 10/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Rangarajan, Anand P., Lortz, Victor B., Kesavan, Vijay Sarathi, Rathi, Somya, Guo, Xingang
• Application Number:
  US13/992,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20130262208A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0261 based on user location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Advertising may be distributed over a location based peer-to-peer network. A first customer may send a received advertisement to other customers over a short range distribution system in some embodiments. An identifier of the first customer may be appended to the transmission. The identifier may be used to reward the first customer for the referral.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

distributing location based advertisements over a peer-to-peer network.

2. The method of claim 1 including transmitting said advertisements to consumers proximate to an advertiser.

3. The method of claim 1 including automatically causing a first consumer to transmit an advertisement to other consumers.

4. The method of claim 3 including appending an identifier to identify the first consumer that broadcasts the advertisement to another consumer.

5. The method of claim 4 including using the identifier to reward the first consumer.

6. The method of claim 5 including harvesting the identifier when the advertising is redeemed by another consumer.

7. The method of claim 1 including enabling location based advertising by using a WiFi transmission from said first consumer.

8. The method of claim 1 including distributing said advertising to an in-car computing device.

9. The method of claim 8 including filtering received advertising based on vehicle location.

10. The method of claim 1 including establishing an ad-hoc advertising distribution network.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executed by a computer to:

distribute location based advertisements over a peer-to-peer network.

12. The medium of claim 11 further storing instructions to transmit said advertisements to consumers proximate to an advertiser.

13. The medium of claim 11 further storing instructions to cause a first consumer to transmit the advertisement to another consumer.

14. The medium of claim 13 further storing instructions to append an identifier to identify the first consumer that broadcasts the advertisement to another consumer.

15. The medium of claim 14 further storing instructions to use the identifier to reward the first consumer.

16. The medium of claim 15 further storing instructions to harvest the identifier when the advertising is redeemed by another consumer.

17. The medium of claim 11 further storing instructions to enable location based advertising by using a WiFi transmission from said first consumer.

18. The medium of claim 11 further storing instructions to filter received advertising based on vehicle location.

19. The medium of claim 11 further storing instructions to establish an ad-hoc advertising distribution network.

20. An apparatus comprising:

a server to distribute location based advertisements over a peer-to-peer network; and

an antenna coupled to said server.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, said server to transmit said advertisements to consumers proximate to an advertiser.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, said server to automatically cause a first consumer to transmit an advertisement to another receiver.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, said server to append an identifier to identify the receiver that broadcasts the advertisement to another receiver.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, said server to use the identifier to issue a reward.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, said server to harvest the identifier when the advertising is redeemed by another consumer.

26. An apparatus comprising:

a transceiver to receive a wirelessly transmitted advertisement and to transmit said advertisement to another receiver; and

a processor to filter said advertisement based on a geographical limitation included with said advertisement and to append an identifier onto said advertisement when it is transmitted.

27. The apparatus of claim 26 wherein said apparatus is one of a cellular telephone, a computer, or an in-car computing device.

28. The apparatus of claim 26 wherein said transceiver to transmit a WiFi message.

29. The apparatus of claim 26 including a position sensor.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, said processor to use said position sensor to filter advertisements for geographical pertinence.