Display based marketing message control system and method

• US 5,812,647 A
• Filed: 06/14/1993
• Issued: 09/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Innovatia, Inc.
• Original Assignee: New North Media, Inc.
• Inventors: Doiron, Danny J., Pond, Gerald L., Keevill, Christopher G., Beaumont, Robert M., Pomeroy, Trenton A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US08/076,648
• Time in Patent Office: 1,926 Days
• Field of Search: 379/90-93, 379/96-98, 379/88, 379/67, 379/111, 379/112, 379/113, 379/142, 348/12-14
• US Class Current: 379/111
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/08 specially adapted for optional reception of entertainment or informative matter

Abstract

A marketing system for use in a public switched telephone system having stored program controlled switches connected to customer premise equipment having an Analog Display Service Interface, comprises a storage device for storing predetermined information respecting each of customer premise equipment, a device for assembling and managing messages including creating a message to be delivered to one or more of the customer premise equipment, linking each message with one or more of the customer premise equipment, scheduling the delivery of the messages at a predetermined time, and measuring the response of each customer premise equipment to messages delivered thereto.

Claims

1. A marketing system for use in a public switched telephone system having stored program controlled switches connected to customer premise equipment having an Analog Display Service Interface, said system comprising:

means for storing predetermined information respecting each said customer premise equipment;

means for assembling and managing messages including;

means for creating and storing a message to be delivered;

means for selecting one or more of such customer premise equipment to which said message is to be delivered;

means for linking each said message with said one or more of said customer premise equipment;

means for scheduling the delivery of said messages at a predetermined time;

means for detecting called line and calling line identification to identify any telephone call sent from each customer premise equipment in response to each message delivered thereto;

means for storing the called line and calling line identification thereby storing the response of each customer premise equipment to each message delivered thereto; and

means for generating response measurement statistics for each message based upon the one or more customer premise equipment to which said message is delivered and the customer premise equipment from which a response to said message is made.

2. A marketing system as defined in claim 1 further comprising means responsive to the called and calling line identification to deliver to the identified customer premise equipment further information regarding a particular message.

3. A system for use in a public switched telephone system having stored program controlled switches connected to screen based devices having an Analog Display Service Interface, said system comprising:

means for storing predetermined attributes of the user or users of each said screen based devices and being responsive to a predetermined input to output screen based devices identification data of all screen based devices which meet specified attributes;

means for assembling and delivering messages including;

means for creating, editing and storing messages;

means for scheduling said messages for delivery at a predetermined time;

means responsive to a predetermined input from a user of said screen based device to cause messages previously delivered to said customer premise equipment to be redelivered;

means associated with each message delivery circuit of stored program controlled switches for continuously monitoring messages to be delivered, translating messages to be delivered into a predetermined format required by the screen based device, communicating with the stored program controlled switches to establish connections through the stored program controlled switches to said screen based devices, sensing busy lines and rescheduling when said message communication lines are busy;

means responsive to predetermined inputs by a user of said screen based devices providing additional information about a particular message or cause said screen based device to generate a call to the source of a particular message or to an information source such as a voice mail box, an interactive voice response (IVR) system, or an interactive system that follows SR-NWT-002495² ;

means responsive to one of said calls for transmitting called line and calling line identification information from the stored program controlled switch associated with said screen based devices to the System in a manner compliant with TR-TSY-000032³ ; and

means for receiving and storing said called line and calling line identification information; and

means for selectively accessing and actuating said receiving and storing means to retrieve said called line and calling line identification information.

4. A process for non-intrusively delivering informational, promotional and advertisement messages over a public telephone network to unattended screen based devices, comprising the steps of:

creating a message to be delivered;

storing said message;

selecting one or more of said screen based devices to which said message is to be delivered;

scheduling said message for delivery at a predetermined time;

delivering said message at said predetermined time;

detecting called line and calling line identification to identify any telephone call sent from each screen based device in response to said message delivered thereto;

storing the called line and calling line identification thereby storing the response of each screen based device to said message delivered thereto; and

generating response measurement statistics for said message based upon each screen based device to which said message is delivered and the screen based device from which a response to said message is made.

5. A process as defined in claim 4, said step of creating a message including the step of incorporating into said message scripts operable to program programmable keys on said devices.

6. A process as defined in claim 5, said scripts including auto dialling scripts which cause a screen based device to call through the public telephone network to the message sponsor for additional verbal information.

7. A process as defined in claim 5, said scripts including auto dialling scripts which cause a screen based device to call through the public telephone network to an interactive voice system and/or an interactive screen based text system and/or interactive video system for additional information.