Advertiser Supported Bandwidth Platform

• US 20140220927A1
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aquto Corp. (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Aquto Corp. (Mavenir Group Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Girard, Nicolas, Riley, Yusun Kim
• Granted Patent: US 10,097,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/405
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1467 involving prepayment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1475 the splitting involving a third party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/09 Third party charged communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8083 involving reduced rates or discounts, e.g. time-of-day reductions or volume discounts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0192 Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising, e.g. calling cards with ads or connecting to special ads, free calling time by purchasing goods
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

Among other things, a content item is received that is associated with an offer for wireless network credit. The wireless network credit is redeemable for free or discounted data usage of one or more metered wireless networks. In response to a selection input, the content item is presented to a user. Data is transmitted reflecting the presentation of the content item to a remote server to cause the remote server to add the mobile broadband credit to an account.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving a content item associated with an offer for wireless network credit, where the wireless network credit is redeemable for free or discounted data usage of one or more metered wireless networks;

in response to a selection input, presenting the content item to a user; and

transmitting data reflecting the presentation of the content item to a remote server to cause to the remote server to add the mobile broadband credit to an account.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting data to a remote server to cause the redemption of wireless network credit in the account by a wireless network operator server.

3. The method of claim 2, in which the wireless network credit is redeemed for at least one of the group consisting of a discount on the fee for an existing wireless network data plan, an access to a pay-per-view event, an access to a subscription event, an upgrade of a wireless network data plan.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting data to a remote server to cause the transfer of wireless network credit from the account to a second account associated with a different user.

8. The method of claim 7, in which the transfer of wireless network credit is facilitated by a social network.

9. The method of claim 1, in which the content item includes a registration form and the wireless mobile credit offer is contingent on completion of a registration transaction.

10. The method of claim 1, in which in which the content item includes a review or comment form and the wireless mobile credit offer is contingent on submission of a comment or review.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring usage of a wireless network data plan.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

upon detecting that the usage of the wireless network data plan has exceeded a threshold, automatically transmitting data to a remote server to cause the redemption of wireless network credit in the account by a wireless network operator server.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

upon detecting that the usage of the wireless network data plan has exceeded a threshold, presenting an alert message that suggests the redemption of wireless network credit in the wireless network data plan.

14. The method of claim 1, in which the content item is received over a metered wireless network and the data usage required to receive the content item is free.

18. The method of claim 1, in which presenting the content item includes transmitting data specifying the content item over a network to a remote device running a browser that will display the content item remote device.

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19. A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processing devices, the method comprising:

receiving data specifying several content items from one or more remote servers, where each content item is associated with an offer for wireless network credit and where the wireless network credit is redeemable for free or discounted data usage of one or more metered wireless networks;

selecting one or more of the offers for presentation to a user; and

transmitting data reflecting the one or more selected offers to a first user device.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

determining a conversion rate for converting a bid associated with one of the several content items to an offer for wireless network credit.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving data reflecting the presentation of a content item from the first user device; and

adding the mobile broadband credit of the offer associated with the content item to an account.

22. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

receiving data reflecting the presentation of a second content item from a second user device; and

adding the mobile broadband credit of an offer associated with the second content item to the account.

29. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving contextual data about the user from a wireless network provider that provides the user with a wireless network data plan.

30. The method of claim 29, in which the selection of offers for presentation to the user is based on the contextual data about the user.

31. The method of claim 19, in which the one or more of the offers are selected based in part on campaign parameters received from one of the remote servers.

32. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

receiving parameters defining a redemption policy for a mobile network operator, including a limitation on the amount of credit that can be redeemed in a mobile data plan provided by the mobile network operator.

33. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

verifying that the first user device is eligible to redeem wireless network credit.

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