Advertisement method, advertisement apparatus, advertisement receiver and recording medium

• US 7,337,456 B1
• Filed: 10/31/2000
• Issued: 02/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Nihei, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelley; Chris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ustaris; Joseph G
• Application Number:
  US09/699,554
• Time in Patent Office: 2,674 Days
• Field of Search: 725/34, 725/35, 725/32, 725/42, 725/131, 725/134, 725/139, 725/142, 725/151, 725/46, 705/14, 705/75, 348/563, 348/564, 348/588
• US Class Current: 725/35
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0264 based upon schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/51 of receiving stations

Abstract

An advertisement method considers the circumstances of individual users. This invention comprises a received advertisement database which stores advertisement data; a time obtaining section which obtains the present time; a preference obtaining section which obtains preferences of a user; a position obtaining section which obtains the present position of an advertisement receiver; an advertisement storage processor which sets selection standards for received time, user'"'"'s receive position, and preferences, selects advertisement data satisfying all the selection standards from the received advertisement data, and stores them in a received advertisement database; an advertisement extracting section which evaluates the time, position, and preferences of the advertisement data stored in the received advertisement database based on the reproduction time, the reproduction position of the user, and user'"'"'s preferences, and extracts advertisement data in order of the highest evaluations; and an advertisement presenting section which presented the extracted advertisement data to the user.

Claims

1. An advertisement method for presenting advertisement data, transmitted by using broadcasting, to users, the method comprising the steps of

at a reception end, setting selection standards for a receive time, a receive position and preference of the user, selecting advertisement data which satisfy said standards from the received advertisement data, and storing the selected advertisement data in a received advertisement data base;

and

at the reception end, assigning an evaluation value to the stored advertisement data based on a reproduction time, a reproduction position and preference of said user, extracting the advertisement data in the order of highest evaluation value, and presenting said extracted advertisement data to the user in the order of highest evaluation value;

wherein, in the case where said received advertisement data comprises data representing the period of the advertisement, in evaluating the time of said received advertisement data,

said received advertisement data is given a high evaluation value when said receive time is within said period and a low evaluation value when said receive time is outside said period.

2. An advertisement method for presenting advertisement data, transmitted by using broadcasting, to users, the method comprising the steps of

at a reception end, setting selection standards for a receive time, a receive position and preference of the user, selecting advertisement data which satisfy said standards from the received advertisement data, and storing the selected advertisement data in a received advertisement data base;

and

at the reception end, assigning an evaluation value to the stored advertisement data based on a reproduction time, a reproduction position and preference of said user, extracting the advertisement data in the order of highest evaluation value, and presenting said extracted advertisement data to the user in the order of highest evaluation value;

wherein, in the case where said received advertisement data comprises data representing the position of the location of the advertisement target, in evaluating the position of said advertisement data, the shorter the distance between said receive position and said location the higher the evaluation value, and vice versa.

3. An advertisement method for presenting advertisement data, transmitted by using broadcasting, to users, the method comprising the steps of:

at a reception end, setting selection standards for a receive time, a receive position and preference of the user, selecting advertisement data which satisfy said standards from the received advertisement data, and storing the selected advertisement data in a received advertisement data base;

at the reception end, assigning an evaluation value to the stored advertisement data based on a reproduction time, a reproduction position and preference of said user, extracting the advertisement data in the order of highest evaluation value, and presenting said extracted advertisement data to the user in the order of highest evaluation; and

storing key words which are of interest to said user and key words which are not of interest to said user;

in evaluating the preference of said advertisement data;

wherein the more key words which are of interest are contained in said advertisement data, the higher the assigned evaluation value, and the more key words which are not of interest are contained in said advertisement data, the lower the assigned evaluation value.

4. An advertisement method for presenting advertisement data, transmitted by using broadcasting, to users, the method comprising the steps of

at a reception end, setting selection standards for a receive time, a receive position and preference of the user, selecting advertisement data which satisfy said standards from the received advertisement data, and storing the selected advertisement data in a received advertisement data base;

and

at the reception end, assigning an evaluation value to the stored advertisement data based on a reproduction time, a reproduction position and preference of said user, extracting the advertisement data in the order of highest evaluation value, and presenting said extracted advertisement data to the user in the order of highest evaluation value;

wherein said evaluation value (e) is determined according to the following equation;

e=(x)(ep)+(y)(et)+(z)(eo), wherein

ep is based on a reproduction position, et is based on a reproduction time, eo is based on a preference of said user, and x, y, and z are numeric values.