Method and system for alphanumeric indexing for advertising with cloud computing

• US 8,611,517 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blake Bookstaff
• Original Assignee: Blake Bookstaff
• Inventors: Bookstaff, Blake
• Primary Examiner(s): HONG, HARRY S
• Application Number:
  US13/832,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20130204717A1
• Time in Patent Office: 277 Days
• Field of Search: 379/201.01, 379/204.01, 379/211.03, 379/213.01, 370/352, 370/356
• US Class Current: 379/201.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/08 Metering calls to called party , i.e. B-party charged for the communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8083 involving reduced rates or discounts, e.g. time-of-day reductions or volume discounts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0184 involving reduced rates or discounts, e.g. time-of-day reductions, volume discounts, cell discounts, group billing, frequent calling destination(s) or user history list
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0192 Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising, e.g. calling cards with ads or connecting to special ads, free calling time by purchasing goods
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/62 Called party billing, e.g. reverse billing, freephone, collect call, 0800 or 0900
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages

Abstract

A method and system for automated intelligent advertising. Messages sent to an invalid alphanumeric identifier (e.g., e-mail address, text message address, social networking identifier, etc.) for a desired network service are returned including a notification that an attempt to connect to the desired network service has failed and also includes electronic advertising information that allows a network device to view and display a retrieved pre-determined advertisement or the dynamically generated advertisement and make a selection input to automatically connect to another network device associated with the retrieved pre-determined or dynamically advertisement to obtain additional electronic advertising information.

Claims

1. A method for automatically intelligent advertising, comprising:

receiving a message for a target alphanumeric identifier on a cloud advertising application on a cloud server network device with one or more processors from a target cloud application on a target network device with one or more processors via a cloud communications network, comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks;

wherein the target network device can contact the cloud server network device from anywhere on the cloud computing network and wherein the target alphanumeric identifier is used to connect the target network device to a desired network device anywhere on the cloud communications network;

determining on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device whether the received target alphanumeric identifier is valid and allows a connection to the desired network service, and if not,

retrieving on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device a pre-determined advertisement or dynamically generating an advertisement stored in a cloud storage object based on the received target alphanumeric identifier,

wherein the cloud storage object comprises a plurality of separate storage locations distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single storage object, and wherein the target cloud application on the target network device cannot determine which cloud server network devices on the one or more public, private, community or hybrid networks on the cloud communications network may have stored the cloud storage object or a portion thereof; and

sending a return message from the cloud advertisement application on the cloud server network device to the target cloud application on target network device via the cloud communications network, wherein the return message includes a notification that an attempt to connect to the desired network services has failed and also includes electronic advertising information that allows the target cloud application on the target network device to display the retrieved pre-determined advertisement or the dynamically generated advertisement and make a selection input to automatically connect to another network device associated with the retrieved pre-determined or dynamic advertisement to obtain additional electronic advertising information.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the target alphanumeric identifier include a telephone number, voice-over-Internet Protocol identifier, an Internet Protocol identifier, an instant message identifier, a text message identifier, an e-mail address identifier, a social network identifier, a social networking hash code, or a combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the target alphanumeric identifier initiates cable television advertising, satellite television advertising, Internet television advertising, search engine services advertising, social network advertising or a combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of sending a return message includes securely sending the return message with a pre-determined security or encryption method.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the pre-determined security or encryption method includes a Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP), Wireless-Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Robust Security Network (RSN), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Data Encryption Standard (DES), Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA), Message Digest-5 (MD-5), Electronic Code Book (ECB), Diffie and Hellman (DH), HyperText Transport Protocol Secure, (HTTPs), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), or a Transport Layer Security (TLS) security or encryption method.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud storage object includes one or more of a REpresentational State Transfer (REST) or Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) cloud storage objects, portions thereof, or a combination thereof.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein cloud advertising application with pre-determined and dynamically generated advertising offers the cloud computing Infrastructure as a cloud Service (IaaS), the cloud computing Platform, as a cloud Service (PaaS) or offers Specific cloud electronic content retrieval and storage services as a cloud Service (SaaS) including a cloud software service, wherein the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS include one or more of cloud electronic advertising indexing and retrieval services comprising networking, storage, server network device, virtualization, operating system, middleware, run-time, data or application services, or plural combinations thereof, on the cloud communications network.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud communications network includes on-demand electronic content retrieval and storage services, broadband network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured network services for cloud electronic advertising indexing and retrieval services.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the target network devices include desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, mobile phones, non-mobile phones, smart phones, Internet phones, Internet appliances, personal digital/data assistants (PDA), digital cameras, portable game consoles, non-portable game consoles, cable television (CATV) set-top boxes, satellite television boxes, or digital televisions including a high definition television (HDTV) or a three-dimensional (3D) television.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud server network device and the target network device include a wireless networking interface comprising a Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) wireless networking interface with 4^th generation (4G) wireless speeds for communicating with the cloud communications network.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the dynamically generated advertisements include electronic text, audio, video, graphical or multi-media advertisements generated based on a time, a date, a physical location of a specific target network device, a type of target network device, or payment by an advertiser.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the pre-determined advertisements include electronic text, audio, video, graphical or multi-media advertisements previously stored one or more cloud storage objects on the cloud computing network.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud server network devices and the target network device communicate with each other and other network devices with near field communications (NFC) or machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a selection input on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device via the cloud computing network from the target network device, wherein the selection input is a response to the return message sent by the cloud server network device; and

storing in the cloud storage object from the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device results from the selection input, wherein the results from the selection input are available to a plurality of other network devices owned by an owner of the target network device and also available to a plurality of logins owned by the owner of the target network device on a plurality of other server network devices at any time from anywhere on the cloud computing network, thereby providing a synchronization of selected and retrieved advertising information via the cloud computing network across all network devices and across all logins for the owner of the target network device.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the plurality of logins include electronic mail logins, electronic commerce logins and social networking logins.

2. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing one or more processors on a network device to execute the steps of:

receiving a message for a target alphanumeric identifier on a cloud advertising application on a cloud server network device with one or more processors from a target cloud application on a target network device with one or more processors via a cloud communications network, comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks;

wherein the target network device can contact the cloud server network device from anywhere on the cloud computing network and wherein the target alphanumeric identifier is used to connect the target network device to a desired network device anywhere on the cloud communications network;

determining on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device whether the received target alphanumeric identifier is valid and allows a connection to the desired network service, and if not,

retrieving on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device a pre-determined advertisement or dynamically generating an advertisement stored in a cloud storage object based on the received target alphanumeric identifier,

wherein the cloud storage object comprises a plurality of separate storage locations distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single storage object, and wherein the target cloud application on the target network device cannot determine which cloud server network devices on the one or more public, private, community or hybrid networks on the cloud communications network may have stored the cloud storage object or a portion thereof; and

sending a return message from the cloud advertisement application on the cloud server network device to the target cloud application on target network device via the cloud communications network, wherein the return message includes a notification that an attempt to connect to the desired network services has failed and also includes electronic advertising information that allows the target cloud application on the target network device to display the retrieved pre-determined advertisement or the dynamically generated advertisement and make a selection input to automatically connect to another network device associated with the retrieved pre-determined or dynamic advertisement to obtain additional electronic advertising information.

17. A system for automatically indexing alphanumeric identifiers with cloud computing, comprising in combination:

one or more network devices with one or more processors;

a non-transitory computer readable medium on the one or more network devices having stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing the one or more processors on the one or more network devices to be configured for;

for receiving a message for a target alphanumeric identifier on a cloud advertising application on a cloud server network device with one or more processors from a target cloud application on a target network device with one or more processors via a cloud communications network, comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks;

wherein the target network device can contact the cloud server network device from anywhere on the cloud computing network and wherein the target alphanumeric identifier is used to connect the target network device to a desired network device anywhere on the cloud communications network;

for determining on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device whether the received target alphanumeric identifier is valid and allows a connection to the desired network service, and if not,

for retrieving on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device a pre-determined advertisement or dynamically generating an advertisement stored in a cloud storage object based on the received target alphanumeric identifier,

wherein the cloud storage object comprises a plurality of separate storage locations distributed across the cloud communications network but functions as a single storage object, and wherein the target cloud application on the target network device cannot determine which cloud server network devices on the one or more public, private, community or hybrid networks on the cloud communications network may have stored the cloud storage object or a portion thereof;

for sending a return message from the cloud advertisement application on the cloud server network device to the target cloud application on target network device via the cloud communications network, wherein the return message includes a notification that an attempt to connect to the desired network services has failed and also includes electronic advertising information that allows the target cloud application on the target network device to display the retrieved pre-determined advertisement or the dynamically generated advertisement and make a selection input to automatically connect to another network device associated with the retrieved pre-determined or dynamic advertisement to obtain additional electronic advertising information; and

for receiving a selection input on the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device via the cloud computing network from the target network device, wherein the selection input is a response to the return message sent by the cloud server network device; and

for storing in the cloud storage object from the cloud advertising application on the cloud server network device results from the selection input, wherein the results from the selection input are available to a plurality of other network devices owned by an owner of the target network device and also available to a plurality of logins owned by the owner of the target network device on a plurality of other server network devices at any time from anywhere on the cloud computing network, thereby providing a synchronization of selected and retrieved advertising information via the cloud computing network across all network devices and across all logins for the owner of the target network device.