Methods and systems for processing and displaying content

• US 8,554,630 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2010
• Issued: 10/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mediashift Acquisition, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Ad-Vantage Networks LLC
• Inventors: Grant, David, Grant, John W., Kuwadekar, Sanjeev
• Primary Examiner(s): Duran, Arthur
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER CONRAD
• Application Number:
  US12/728,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20100318426A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,299 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 705/14.73
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/01 Customer relationship services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0215 Including financial accounts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products

Abstract

Methods and systems are described for processing and display content. Web page data for a first web page is received from a remote system, wherein the web page is to be displayed on a terminal associated with a user. An automatic identification is performed of a first content in the first web page data. A user-defined profile is accessed. A second content is automatically selected based at least in part on the user profile. The first content is replaced with the second content so that if the first web page is displayed on the terminal associated with the user, the second content is displayed and the first content is not displayed.

Claims

1. A node, comprising:

a processor;

tangible, non-transitory memory configured to store a program that when executed by the processor is configured to perform operations, comprising;

receiving consent from a user of alteration of advertising content from a selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

receiving web page data for a first web page from a remote system, wherein the web page is to be displayed on a terminal associated with a user;

causing, at least in part, an automatic identification of a first content or a link to the first content in the first web page data, wherein the causing an automatic identification includes analyzing the first web page data to detect any specific technique or code that may be employed to make it difficult to identify advertising content to be altered in accordance with the user consent of alteration of advertising content from the selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

causing, at least in part, a user-defined profile associated with the user to be accessed, the profile including;

demographic information regarding the user;

or

an identification of an area of interest of the user;

or

both the demographic information regarding the user and the identification of the area of interest of the user;

causing, at least in part, a second content to be selected based at least in part on the user profile;

causing, at least in part, the first content or the link to the first content to be replaced with the second content or a link to the second content so that if the first web page is displayed on the terminal associated with the user, the second content is displayed and the first content is not displayed.

2. The node of claim 1, wherein automatic identification of the first content in the first web page data comprises:

identifying the link, the link including a uniform resource locator, in the first web page data to the first content.

3. The node of claim 1, the operations further comprising providing a control via which the user can cause the first content to be displayed instead of the second content.

4. The node of claim 1, the operations further comprising providing a control in association with the second content via which the user can cause the first content to be displayed.

5. The node of claim 1, wherein the replacement is performed by overlaying the first content with the second content.

6. The node of claim 1, wherein the replacement is performed by:

overlaying the first content with the second content;

if there is audio associated with the first content, muting the audio associated with the first content;

if there is active media or streaming visual media associated with the first content, inhibiting the playing of the active media or streaming visual media.

7. The node of claim 1, wherein the replacement is performed by:

removing the link to the first content; and

inserting a link to the second content.

8. The node of claim 1, wherein the replacement is performed by:

identifying a first content image;

removing the first content image; and

inserting the second content.

9. The node of claim 1, wherein the second content is selected based in part on an indication related to the size of the first content.

10. The node of claim 1, wherein the node is the user terminal.

11. The node of claim 1, wherein the node is a peer of the user terminal.

12. The node of claim 1, wherein the node is a proxy of the user terminal.

13. The node of claim 1, wherein the second content is received from a peer node.

14. The node of claim 1, wherein the second content is received from a proxy node.

15. The node of claim 1, wherein:

a first portion of the second content is received from a first peer node;

a second portion of the second content is received from a second peer node; and

the node is configured to combine the first portion and the second portion to form the second content.

16. The node of claim 1, the operations further comprising causing at least in part a deposit or credit to be made with respect to a user account at least partly in response to the second content replacing the first content.

17. The node of claim 1, wherein the web page is inhibited from being displayed on the terminal associated with the user.

18. The node of claim 1, wherein the first content is a first advertisement.

19. The node of claim 1, wherein the first content is a first advertisement and the second content is a second advertisement.

20. The node of claim 1, the operations further comprising receiving and storing the second content at the node prior to receiving the first content at the node.

21. A method comprising:

receiving consent from a user of alteration of advertising content from a selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

receiving at a computing device web page data for a first web page from a remote system, wherein the web page is to be displayed on a terminal associated with a user;

using the computing device, causing, at least in part, an automatic identification of a first content or a link to the first content in the first web page data, wherein the automatic identification includes analyzing the first web page data to detect any specific technique or code that may be employed to make it difficult to identify advertising content to be altered in accordance with the user consent of alteration of advertising content from the selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

using the computing device, causing, at least in part, a user-defined profile associated with the user to be accessed, the profile including;

demographic information regarding the user;

or

an identification of an area of interest of the user;

or

both the demographic information regarding the user and the identification of the area of interest of the user;

using the computing device, causing, at least in part, a second content to be automatically selected based at least in part on the user profile;

using the computing device, causing, at least in part, the first content or the link to the first content to be replaced with the second content or a link to the second content so that if the first web page is displayed on the terminal associated with the user, the second content is displayed and the first content is not displayed.

22. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein automatic identification of the first content in the first web page data comprises:

identifying the link, the link including a uniform resource locator, in the first web page data to the first content.

23. The method as defined in claim 21, the method further comprising providing a control via which the user can cause the first content to be displayed instead of the second content.

24. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the replacement is performed by overlaying the first content with the second content.

25. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the replacement is performed by:

overlaying the first content with the second content; and

if there is audio associated with the first content, muting the audio associated with the first content;

if there is active media or streaming visual media associated with the first content, inhibiting the playing of the active media or streaming visual media.

26. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the replacement is performed by:

removing the link to the first content; and

inserting a link to the second content.

27. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the replacement is performed by:

identifying a first content image;

removing the first content image; and

inserting the second content.

28. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the second content is selected based in part on an indication related to the size of the first content.

29. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the second content is received from a peer node or a proxy node.

30. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein:

a first portion of the second content is received from a first peer node;

a second portion of the second content is received from a second peer node; and

the method further comprising combining the first portion and the second portion to form the second content.

31. The method as defined in claim 21, the method further comprising causing at least in part a deposit or credit to be made with respect to a user account at least partly in response to the second content replacing the first content.

32. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the first content is a first advertisement.

33. The method as defined in claim 21, wherein the first content and the second content are advertisements.

34. The method as defined in claim 21, the method further comprising receiving and storing the second content prior to receiving the first content.

35. Tangible, non-transitory memory configured to store a program that when executed by a processor is configured to perform operations, comprising:

receiving consent from a user of alteration of advertising content from a selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

receiving web page data for a first web page from a remote system, wherein the web page is to be displayed on a terminal associated with a user;

causing, at least in part, an automatic identification of a first content or a link to the first content in the first web page data, wherein the causing an automatic identification includes analyzing the first web page data to detect any specific technique or code that may be employed to make it difficult to identify advertising content to be altered in accordance with the user consent of alteration of advertising content from the selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

causing, at least in part, a user-defined profile associated with the user to be accessed, the profile including;

demographic information regarding the user;

or

an identification of an area of interest of the user;

or

both the demographic information regarding the user and the identification of the area of interest of the user;

causing, at least in part, a second content to be automatically selected based at least in part on the user profile;

causing, at least in part, the first content or the link to the first content to be replaced with the second content or a link to the second content so that if the first web page is displayed on the terminal associated with the user, the second content is displayed and the first content is not displayed.

36. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein automatic identification of the first content in the first web page data comprises:

identifying the link, the link including a uniform resource locator, in the first web page data to the first content.

37. The media as defined in claim 35, the operations further comprising providing a control via which the user can cause the first content to be displayed instead of the second content.

38. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the replacement is performed by overlaying the first content with the second content.

39. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the replacement is performed by:

overlaying the first content with the second content; and

if there is audio associated with the first content, muting the audio associated with the first content;

if there is active media or streaming visual media associated with the first content, inhibiting the playing of the active media or streaming visual media.

40. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the replacement is performed by:

removing the link to the first content; and

inserting a link to the second content.

41. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the replacement is performed by:

identifying a first content image;

removing the first content image; and

inserting the second content.

42. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the second content is selected based in part on an indication related to the size of the first content.

43. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the second content is received from a peer node or a proxy node.

44. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein:

a first portion of the second content is received from a first peer node;

a second portion of the second content is received from a second peer node; and

the node is configured to combine the first portion and the second portion to form the second content.

45. The media as defined in claim 35, the operations further comprising causing at least in part a deposit or credit to be made with respect to a user account at least partly in response to the second content replacing the first content.

46. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the first content is a first advertisement.

47. The media as defined in claim 35, wherein the first content and the second content are advertisements.

48. A node, comprising:

a processor;

tangible, non-transitory memory configured to store a program that when executed by the processor is configured to perform operations, comprising;

receiving consent from a user of alteration of advertising content from a selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

receiving web page data for a first web page from a remote system, wherein the web page is to be displayed on a terminal associated with a user;

causing, at least in part, an automatic identification of a first advertisement or a link to the first advertisement in the first web page data, wherein the automatic identification includes analyzing the first web page data to detect any specific technique or code that may be employed to make it difficult to identify advertising content to be altered in accordance with the user consent of alteration of advertising content from the selected subset of one or more network reference content providers;

causing, at least in part, a user-defined profile associated with the user to be accessed, the profile including;

demographic information regarding the user;

or

an identification of an area of interest of the user;

or

both the demographic information regarding the user and the identification of the area of interest of the user;

causing, at least in part, a second advertisement to be selected based at least in part on the user profile;

causing, at least in part, the first advertisement or the link to the first advertisement to be replaced with the second advertisement or a link to the second advertisement so that if the first web page is displayed on the terminal associated with the user, the second advertisement is displayed and the first advertisement is not displayed.

49. The node of claim 48, wherein automatic identification of the first advertisement in the first web page data comprises:

identifying the link, the link including a uniform resource locator, in the first web page data to the first advertisement.

50. The node of claim 48, the operations further comprising providing a control via which the user can cause the first advertisement to be displayed instead of the second advertisement.

51. The node of claim 48, the operations further comprising providing a control in association with the second advertisement via which the user can cause the first advertisement to be displayed.

52. The node of claim 48, wherein the replacement is performed by overlaying the first advertisement with the second advertisement.

53. The node of claim 48, wherein the replacement is performed by:

overlaying the first advertisement with the second advertisement; and

if there is audio associated with the first advertisement, muting the audio associated with the first advertisement.

54. The node of claim 48, wherein the replacement is performed by:

removing the link to the first advertisement; and

inserting a link to the second advertisement.

55. The node of claim 48, wherein the replacement is performed by:

identifying a first advertisement image;

removing the first advertisement image; and

inserting the second advertisement.

56. The node of claim 48, wherein the second advertisement is selected based in part on an indication related to the size of the first advertisement.

57. The node of claim 48, wherein the node is the user terminal.

58. The node of claim 48, wherein the node is a peer of the user terminal.

59. The node of claim 48, wherein the node is a proxy of the user terminal.

60. The node of claim 48, wherein the second advertisement is received from a peer node.

61. The node of claim 48, wherein the second advertisement is received from a proxy node.

62. The node of claim 48, wherein:

a first portion of the second advertisement is received from a first peer node;

a second portion of the second advertisement is received from a second peer node; and

the node is configured to combine the first portion and the second portion to form the second advertisement.

63. The node of claim 48, the operations further comprising causing at least in part a deposit or credit to be made with respect to a user account at least partly in response to the second advertisement replacing the first advertisement.

64. The node of claim 48, wherein the web page is inhibited from being displayed on the terminal associated with the user.