Apparatus and methods of selective collection and selective presentation of content

• US 7,706,740 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Issued: 04/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Brown, Jeffery N., Gellens, Randall Coleman, Bennett, Chris John, Wang, Jun, Walker, Gordon Kent, Collins, Bruce, Dondeti, Lakshminath Reddy, Jin, Haipeng, Maggenti, Mark, Lo, Charles N.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRINH, TAN H
• Application Number:
  US11/614,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20080090513A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 455/466, 455/3.01, 455/3.03, 455/418, 455/456.1, 455/454, 455/457, 455/414.1, 455/414.3, 455/412.1, 455/556.2, 455/3.06, 455/414.2, 705/14, 715/753, 707/104.1
• US Class Current: 455/3.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/13 Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side

Abstract

Disclosed are apparatus and methods operable to distribute targeted content. Additionally, disclosed are corresponding apparatus and methods operable to selectively choose and cache selected ones from among the distributed targeted content, and to further choose ones from among the cached content to present on a device. In some aspects, selective caching of content may be based upon a match between predetermined content attribute information and predetermined profile information. Further, in some aspects, an indicator is operable to trigger the selective inclusion of one or more of the cached content in a presentation of other content, which may be based on a match between a desired content attribute associated with the indicator and the respective predetermined content attribute information of the cached content.

Claims

1. A method of presenting content on a wireless device, comprising:

obtaining a secondary content indicator associated with a primary content, the secondary content indicator comprising a secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprising a secondary content parameter;

obtaining a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content;

obtaining a selection parameter associated with the wireless device;

storing selected secondary content from a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content based on a match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute;

identifying, with respect to the secondary content indicator, one of the selected secondary content based on a match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute; and

presenting via an output device, at the secondary content timing, the identified one of the selected secondary content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking a user interaction with the wireless device associated with the presenting of the identified one of the selected secondary content, and generating a tracking report based on a result of the tracking.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising tracking a consumption of the presentation of the identified one of the selected secondary content, and generating a consumption report based on a result of the tracking.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising applying a predetermined privacy rule to the result of the tracking to generate a non-private consumption report.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising removing data from the result of the tracking, wherein the removed data comprises information corresponding to predetermined private data, and wherein generating a consumption report further comprises generating, based on the result of the tracking without the removed data, a non-private consumption report.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a content filter identifier, and wherein identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises applying a content filter corresponding to the content filter identifier to the selected secondary content to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a content filter script identifier, and wherein identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises executing a content filter script, corresponding to the content filter script identifier, with respect to the selected secondary content to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a content filter script including rules for selecting secondary content, and wherein identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises executing the content filter script with respect to the selected secondary content to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a desired content identifier, wherein each secondary content attribute further comprises a secondary content identifier corresponding to the respective one of the plurality of secondary content, and wherein identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises matching the desired content identifier with a respective secondary content identifier of one of the selected secondary content.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a representation of a number of units of secondary content, wherein the identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises identifying a plurality of the selected secondary content based on a match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute of each of the plurality of selected secondary content, wherein the plurality of the selected secondary content correspond to the number of units of secondary content, and wherein presenting the identified one of the selected secondary content further comprises presenting the plurality of selected second content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a representation of an order of the number of units, and wherein presenting the plurality of selected second content further comprises presenting the plurality of selected second content according to the order.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein storing selected content further comprises matching a user content preference with a respective secondary content attribute to determine the match.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising monitoring user interaction events with the wireless device, and adjusting the user content preference based on applying a time weighting function to the monitored user interaction events.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein storing selected secondary content from a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content based on a match further comprises determining the match based on at least two of a user subscription, device state data, a device location, and a respective secondary content attribute.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein storing selected secondary content from a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content further comprises saving each of the selected secondary content in association with a predetermined one of a plurality of storage locations based on the respective secondary content attribute for the respective one of the selected secondary content.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying a predetermined content collection filter to the secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content to determine the match between the selection parameter and the secondary content attribute.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying a predetermined content collection filter to the secondary content attribute for each of the selected secondary content to determine the match between the between the secondary content parameter and the respective secondary content attribute.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

wherein obtaining a secondary content indicator associated with a primary content further comprises obtaining a plurality of secondary content indicators associated with the primary content, each of the plurality of secondary content indicators comprising a respective secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprising a respective plurality of secondary content parameters;

wherein obtaining a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content further comprises obtaining a plurality of secondary content attributes for each of the plurality of secondary content;

wherein storing selected secondary content further comprises storing a plurality of selected secondary content based on a match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute of each of the plurality of selected secondary content;

wherein identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises identifying a plurality of the selected secondary content based on a match between a portion of each respective plurality of secondary content parameters and a portion of each respective plurality of secondary content attributes; and

presenting via an output device, at each respective secondary content timing, one of the identified plurality of the selected secondary content.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising receiving a predetermined relative weighting for each of the plurality of secondary content parameters, and wherein identifying the plurality of the selected secondary content further comprises matching according to the respective predetermined relative weighting.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising receiving a predetermined relative order corresponding to each secondary content timing for each of the plurality of secondary content indicators, and wherein presenting one of the identified plurality of the selected secondary content is based on the respective relative order.

21. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining a primary content and an associated primary content attribute, wherein the secondary content parameter is related to the primary content attribute.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content further comprises receiving each secondary content attribute in the one-to-many transmission, and further comprising applying a content cache filter to the one-to-many transmission to determine the match between the selection parameter and the respective secondary content attribute.

23. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying a content cache filter to each obtained secondary content attribute, determining the match between the selection parameter and the respective secondary content attribute based on the applying of the content cache filter, identifying the selected secondary content from the plurality of secondary content based on the match, and accessing the one-to-many transmission to acquire the selected secondary content.

24. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining the primary content, and wherein presenting the identified one of the selected secondary content further comprises simultaneously presenting the identified one of the selected secondary content and the primary content in a presentation.

25. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining the primary content, and wherein presenting the identified one of the selected secondary content further comprises inserting the identified one of the selected secondary content within a predetermined space adjacent to a presentation of the primary content.

26. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining the primary content, and wherein presenting the identified one of the selected secondary content further comprises replacing a portion of a presentation of the primary content with the identified one of the selected secondary content.

27. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the actions of identifying one of the selected secondary content and presenting the identified one of the selected secondary content are performed on the wireless device.

28. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the actions of obtaining a secondary content indicator, obtaining a secondary content attribute, obtaining a selection parameter and storing selected secondary content are performed on the wireless device.

29. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying one of a plurality of users of the wireless device, and wherein obtaining the selection parameter further comprises obtaining one of a plurality of user information associated with the identified user.

30. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining the primary content, wherein the selection parameter comprises user preference data, and wherein obtaining the primary content further comprises selecting, at the wireless device, the primary content from a multicast transmission of a plurality of content, wherein each of the plurality of content comprises content metadata, wherein the selecting is based on a match between at least a portion of the user preference data and a respective one of the content metadata.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein obtaining a secondary content indicator and obtaining a secondary content attribute further comprise receiving, at the wireless device, the secondary content indicator and each secondary content attribute from the multicast transmission, and wherein identifying one of the selected secondary content further comprises analyzing, at the wireless device, at least one of the content metadata associated with at least one of the selected secondary content to determine the match between the secondary content parameter and the respective secondary content attribute.

32. The method of claim 31, further comprising receiving the primary content and the secondary content indicator in a separate channel of the multicast transmission.

33. The method of claim 31, further comprising receiving the primary content and the secondary content indicator in a single channel of the multicast transmission.

34. At least one processor configured to perform the actions of:

obtaining a secondary content indicator associated with the primary content, the secondary content indicator comprising a secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprising a secondary content parameter;

obtaining a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content;

obtaining a selection parameter associated with a user of a wireless device;

storing selected secondary content from a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content based on a match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute;

identifying, with respect to the secondary content indicator, one of the selected secondary content based on a match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute; and

presenting via an output device, at the secondary content timing, the identified one of the selected secondary content.

35. A computer-readable medium comprising:

a first set of codes for causing the computer to obtain a secondary content indicator associated with the primary content, the secondary content indicator comprising a secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprising a secondary content parameter;

a second set of codes for causing the computer to obtain a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content;

a third set of codes for causing the computer to obtain a selection parameter associated with a user of a wireless device;

a fourth set of codes for causing the computer to store selected secondary content from a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content based on a match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute;

a fifth set of codes for causing the computer to identify, with respect to the secondary content indicator, one of the selected secondary content based on a match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute; and

a sixth set of codes for causing the computer to present via an output device, at the secondary content timing, the identified one of the selected secondary content.

36. An apparatus for presenting content, comprising:

means for obtaining a secondary content indicator associated with the primary content, the secondary content indicator comprising a secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprising a secondary content parameter;

means for obtaining a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content;

means for obtaining a selection parameter associated with a user of the apparatus;

means for storing selected secondary content from a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content based on a match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute;

means for identifying, with respect to the secondary content indicator, one of the selected secondary content based on a match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute; and

means for presenting, at the secondary content timing, the identified one of the selected secondary content.

37. A device for presenting content, comprising:

a computer platform having a memory and a processor, wherein the memory comprises a selection parameter;

a user interface in communication with the computer platform;

a communications module in communication with the computer platform, wherein the communications module is operable to obtain a secondary content indicator associated with a primary content, the secondary content indicator comprising a secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprising a secondary content parameter, a secondary content attribute for each of a plurality of secondary content, and a one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content;

a content selector having selection logic operable to initiate storage in the memory of selected secondary content from the one-to-many transmission of the plurality of secondary content based on a first match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute, wherein the selection logic is further operable to identify, with respect to the secondary content indicator, one of the selected secondary content based on a second match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute; and

a media module having media management logic operable to initiate a presentation, at the secondary content timing, of the identified one of the selected secondary content on the user interface.

38. The device of claim 37, further comprising a tracking module having a first logic operable to collect information relating to a user interaction with the wireless device associated with the presentation of the identified one of the selected secondary content, and wherein the tracking module further comprises a second logic operable to generate a tracking report based on the collected information.

39. The device of claim 37, further comprising a tracking module having a consumption data collector comprising collection logic operable to collect consumption-related information corresponding to the presentation of the identified one of the selected secondary content, and wherein the tracking module further comprises reporter logic operable to generate a consumption report based on the collected consumption-related information.

40. The device of claim 39, wherein the tracking module further comprises a predetermined privacy rule, and wherein the reporter logic is further operable to apply the predetermined privacy rule to the collected consumption-related information and generate the consumption report comprising only non-private data.

41. The device of claim 39, wherein the tracking module further comprises a predetermined privacy rule defining predetermined private data, and wherein the reporter logic is further operable to remove data from the consumption report, wherein the removed data corresponds to the predetermined private data, and wherein the consumption report without the removed data comprises a non-private consumption report.

42. The device of claim 37, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a content filter identifier, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to apply a content filter corresponding to the content filter identifier to the selected secondary content to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content.

43. The device of claim 37, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a content filter script identifier, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to execute a content filter script, corresponding to the content filter script identifier, with respect to the selected secondary content to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content.

44. The device of claim 37, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a content filter script including rules for selecting secondary content, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to execute the content filter script with respect to the selected secondary content to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content.

45. The device of claim 37, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a desired content identifier, wherein each secondary content attribute further comprises a secondary content identifier corresponding to the respective one of the plurality of secondary content, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to match the desired content identifier with a respective secondary content identifier of one of the selected secondary content.

46. The device of claim 37, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a representation of a number of units of secondary content, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to identify a plurality of the selected secondary content based on a match between the secondary content parameter and a respective secondary content attribute of each of the plurality of selected secondary content, wherein the plurality of the selected secondary content correspond to the number of units of secondary content, and wherein the media management logic is further operable to initiate the presentation of the plurality of selected second content.

47. The device of claim 46, wherein the secondary content parameter further comprises a representation of an order of the number of units, and wherein the media management logic is further operable to initiate the presentation of the plurality of selected second content according to the order.

48. The device of claim 37, wherein the selection parameter comprises a user content preference, wherein the selection logic is further operable to match the user content preference with a respective secondary content attribute to determine the first match.

49. The device of claim 48, further comprising a tracking module having collection logic operable to monitor user interaction events on the wireless device, and further comprising a profile generator having generator logic operable to generate the user content preference, wherein the generator logic is further operable to adjust the user content preference based on applying a time weighting function to the monitored user interaction events.

50. The device of claim 37, wherein the selection logic is further operable to determine the first match based on at least two of a user subscription, device state data, a location and a respective secondary content attribute.

51. The device of claim 37, wherein the memory comprises a plurality of storage locations, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to initiate saving each of the selected secondary content in association with a predetermined one of the plurality of storage locations based on the respective secondary content attribute for the respective one of the selected secondary content.

52. The device of claim 37, wherein the memory further comprises a plurality of content filters, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to apply a predetermined one of the plurality of content filter to the secondary content attribute for at least one of a plurality of secondary content to determine the first match.

53. The device of claim 37, wherein the memory further comprises a plurality of content filters, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to apply a predetermined one of the plurality of content filter to the secondary content attribute for at least one of the selected secondary content to determine the second match.

54. The device of claim 37, further comprising:

wherein the secondary content indicator comprises one of a plurality of secondary content indicators associated with the primary content, wherein each of the plurality of secondary content indicators comprises a respective secondary content timing relative to the primary content and further comprises a respective plurality of secondary content parameters;

wherein the communications module is further operable to obtain the plurality of secondary content indicators associated with the primary content, and wherein the communications module is further operable to obtain the plurality of secondary content attributes for each of the plurality of secondary content;

wherein the content selector is further operable to initiate storage of a plurality of selected secondary content based on a third match between the selection parameter and a respective secondary content attribute of each of the plurality of selected secondary content, and wherein the content selector is further operable to identify a plurality of the selected secondary content based on a fourth match between a portion of each respective plurality of secondary content parameters and a portion of each respective plurality of secondary content attributes; and

wherein the media module is further operable to initiate a presentation of one of the identified plurality of the selected secondary content.

55. The device of claim 54, wherein the content selector is operable to receive a predetermined relative weighting for each of the plurality of secondary content parameters, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to determined the fourth match according to the respective predetermined relative weighting.

56. The device of claim 54, wherein the media module is operable to receive a predetermined relative order corresponding to each secondary content timing for each of the plurality of secondary content indicators, and wherein the media management logic is further operable to initiate the presentation based on the respective relative order.

57. The device of claim 37, wherein the content selector is operable to obtain a primary content and an associated primary content attribute, wherein the secondary content parameter is related to the primary content attribute.

58. The device of claim 37, further comprising a selection database comprising a plurality of content filters, wherein the communications module is further operable to receive each secondary content attribute and each of the plurality of secondary content from the one-to-many transmission, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to apply a selected one of the plurality of content filters to the one-to-many transmission to determine the first match.

59. The device of claim 58, wherein the selection logic is further operable to apply a second selected one of the plurality of content filters to the selected secondary content to determined the second match.

60. The device of claim 37, further comprising a selection database comprising a plurality of content filters, wherein the selection logic is further operable to apply a content cache filter, selected from the plurality of content filters, to each secondary content attribute to determine the identified one of the selected secondary content, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to access the one-to-many transmission to acquire the identified one of the selected secondary content.

61. The device of claim 37, wherein the communications module is further operable to received the primary content, and wherein the presentation comprises a simultaneous presentation of the identified one of the selected secondary content and the primary content.

62. The device of claim 37, wherein the communications module is further operable to received the primary content, and wherein the media management logic is operable to insert the identified one of the selected secondary content within a predetermined space adjacent to the primary content in the presentation.

63. The device of claim 37, wherein the communications module is further operable to received the primary content, and wherein the media management logic is operable to replace a portion of the primary content with the identified one of the selected secondary content in the presentation.

64. The device of claim 37, further comprising a selection database comprising a plurality of user information corresponding to a plurality of users of the device, and wherein the content selection logic further comprises a user detection algorithm operable to identify the selection parameter from the plurality of user information based on interactions of a given user with the device.

65. The device of claim 37, wherein the selection parameter comprises user preference data, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to select the primary content from a multicast transmission of a plurality of content, wherein each of the plurality of content comprises content metadata, and wherein the selection logic is operable to select the primary content based on a third match between at least a portion of the user preference data and a respective one of the content metadata.

66. The device of claim 65, wherein the one-to-many transmission comprises a multicast transmission of the secondary content indicator and the secondary content attribute, and wherein the selection logic is further operable to analyze at least one of the content metadata associated with at least one of the selected secondary content to determine the second match.

67. The device of claim 66, wherein the multicast transmission further comprises a separate channel for the primary content and the secondary content indicator.

68. The device of claim 66, wherein the multicast transmission further comprises a single channel for the primary content and the secondary content indicator.