Advertisements over a network

• US 8,335,254 B1
• Filed: 10/23/2006
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NorthStar Systems LLC (Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lot 3 Acquisition Foundation LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Fernandez, Dennis S., Hu, Irene Y.
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TUNG T
• Application Number:
  US11/585,449
• Time in Patent Office: 2,248 Days
• Field of Search: 348143-150, 348155-170, 455/3.02, 455/456.5, 701/300, 701/211, 701/200, 701/208, 340/7.1, 375/240.16
• US Class Current: 375/240.16
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19608 Tracking movement of a target, e.g. by detecting an object predefined as a target, using target direction and or velocity to predict its new position
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19656 Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19691 Signalling events for better perception by user, e.g. indicating alarms by making display brighter, adding text, creating a sound
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

Integrated imaging and GPS network monitors remote object movement. Browser interface displays objects and detectors. Database stores object position movement. Cameras detect objects and generate image signal. Internet provides selectable connection between system controller and various cameras according to object positions.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

monitoring a consumer via a wireless network coupled to a detector network, wherein a detector in the detector network detects an attribute associated with the consumer;

extrapolating a predicted future location of the consumer based on last stored information associated with the consumer in order to obtain an observation range of the detector network into which the consumer is expected to be moving in the future; and

transmitting, in response to the attribute and the extrapolating the predicted future location, an unsolicited advertisement to the consumer, wherein the unsolicited advertisement is a future advertisement associated with a vendor associated with the observation range into which the consumer is expected to be moving in the future.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer is a health-care patient, and the unsolicited advertisement is transmitted to a cellular phone that comprises a signal port coupled to a medical instrument for monitoring the health-care patient, and wherein the attribute associated with the consumer is health data received from the medical instrument.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring comprises using at least one of a neural-based software or an adaptive learning software for visually recognizing the consumer based on data from at least one of a fixed imaging array or a mobile imaging array of at least one of detectors or sensors.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer is associated with a vehicle, and the unsolicited advertisement is transmitted to a cellular phone comprising a GPS receiver for generating a clock signal to synchronize at least one of a scheduled service or a scheduled repair of the vehicle at the vendor associated with the observation range.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the unsolicited advertisement comprises a software simulation of a drop-shipment of at least one of a product or a service.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining an actual movement vector of the consumer, wherein the extrapolating the predicted future location of the consumer is in response to the determining the actual movement vector.

7. A system comprising:

a detector network comprising a detector configured to detect an attribute associated with a consumer; and

a controller configured to extrapolate a predicted future location of the consumer based on last stored information associated with the consumer in order to obtain an observation range of the detector network into which the consumer is expected to be moving in the future;

wherein the controller is further configured to transact with the consumer by;

selecting an unsolicited future advertisement for at least one of a product or a service in response to the extrapolation of the predicted future location and the attribute associated with the consumer; and

transmitting the unsolicited future advertisement to a mobile device associated with the consumer.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

a plurality of fixed detectors associated with the detector network, wherein at least one of the plurality of fixed detectors is configured to observe the observation range; and

a plurality of mobile detectors associated with the detector network, wherein at least one of the plurality of mobile detectors is configured to detect the attribute associated with the consumer.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the unsolicited future advertisement is for at least one of a physician capable of treating the consumer or a medical product capable of treating the consumer.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the unsolicited future advertisement is associated with the at least one of the product or the service, and wherein the unsolicited future advertisement comprises at least one of delivery information, advertising information, educational information, pricing information, inventory information, sales information, distribution information, marketing information, text, graphics, voice information, or data information.

11. A mobile device comprising:

a sensor configured to sense an attribute associated with a consumer; and

a processor configured to control the mobile device to;

communicate with a controller to facilitate an extrapolation of a predicted future location of the consumer based on last stored information associated with the consumer in order to obtain an observation range into which the consumer is expected to be moving in the future; and

receive an unsolicited future advertisement for at least one of a product or a service associated with a vendor associated with the observation range into which the consumer is expected to be moving in the future, wherein the unsolicited future advertisement is in response to the extrapolation of the predicted future location and the attribute associated with the consumer.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein:

the attribute associated with the consumer is an attribute associated with an object that is associated with the consumer; and

the attribute is at least one of an object interest, an object characteristic, an object value, an object financial status, an object initial location, an object initial time, an object subsequent location, an object subsequent time, an object digital image, or object audio information.

13. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to communicate with a fixed detector that is configured to observe the observation range, and wherein the fixed detector is configured to be activated in response to the extrapolation of the predicted future location of the consumer in order to obtain the observation range.

14. The mobile device of claim 11, further comprising a GPS receiver for providing a location of the mobile device to the controller.

15. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the object is a vehicle in which the consumer is riding.

16. A controller, for use with a wireless network, to facilitate a commercial transaction between a seller and a buyer, wherein the controller is configured to:

extrapolate a predicted future location of the buyer based on last stored information associated with the buyer that is received from a detector communicatively coupled to the controller and configured to provide data associated with the buyer;

associate a location of the seller with the predicted future location of the buyer; and

communicate a future advertisement from the seller over the wireless network to the buyer in response to the predicted future location of the buyer and the data associated with the buyer.

17. The controller of claim 16, wherein:

the data associated with the buyer comprises at least one of demographic information, movement pattern information, preference information, consumption information, behavior information or geographic location information; and

the future advertisement is generated in response to the data associated with the buyer, wherein the future advertisement is associated with at least one of a product or a service offered by the seller.

18. The controller of claim 16, wherein the commercial transaction relates to electronic product delivery to the buyer of at least one of a book, a greeting card, a news report, artwork, or a music transmission.

19. The controller of claim 16, wherein:

the detector is configured to send image data to the controller; and

the predicted future location of the buyer is estimated at least in part in response to the image data.

20. The controller of claim 16, wherein:

the detector is configured to detect a radio frequency identification (RFID) device associated with the buyer; and

the predicted future location of the buyer is estimated at least in part in response to the detection of the RFID device.

21. The controller of claim 16, wherein the communication with the buyer is based on a combination of an actual proximity and a projected proximity of the buyer to the seller.