System for creating separate data serving spaces for each mobile carrier in a plurality of mobile carriers

• US 8,660,896 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2007
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Arvind, Umezu, Kenta, Walker, Sean P., Brayshaw, Ian B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Myhre, James W
• Application Number:
  US11/830,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20070270130A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,402 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.54
• US Class Current: 705/14.54
• 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 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/668 Internet protocol [IP] address subnets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages

Abstract

A system is described for creating a separate data serving space for each mobile carrier in a plurality of mobile carriers. The system may include a processor, a memory and an interface. The memory may store a keyword, a plurality of mobile data items corresponding to the keyword and a plurality of mobile carriers, and a search request. The interface may communicate with a user through a mobile device. The processor may be operatively connected to the interface and the memory and may store the plurality of mobile data items in the memory. The processor may receive a mobile search request from a user via the interface, and may determine the mobile carrier in communication with the interface. The processor may then retrieve the mobile data item corresponding to the keyword and the determined mobile carrier and may serve the retrieved mobile data item to the user.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

memory to store a plurality of carrier listings, each respective carrier listing of the plurality of carrier listings being provided by a respective advertiser having an account on the system, each respective carrier listing including

data identifying a mobile carrier network of a plurality of mobile carrier networks on which the respective carrier listing may be served to a user, each mobile carrier network of the plurality of mobile carrier networks providing data communication with a web browser of mobile devices in wireless communication with a data processing device of the each mobile carrier network, and

a keyword to be matched with a search request received from a web browser of a mobile device in wireless communication with the identified mobile carrier network,

so that a respective mobile advertising marketplace is established for each respective mobile network operator;

an interface operative to communicate with respective mobile carrier networks of the plurality of mobile carrier networks including respective mobile devices in wireless communication with the respective mobile carrier networks;

a processor in data communication with the memory and the interface, the processor operative to

receive through the interface a keyword search request;

identify a source of the received search request;

if the received search request originated from a source other than a mobile device, process the received search request as a world wide web-originated request;

if the received search request originated from a browser of an originating mobile device, identify a mobile carrier network of the plurality of mobile carrier networks with which the originating mobile device is in wireless communication and identify a mobile advertising marketplace established for the identified mobile carrier network;

using the identity of the identified mobile carrier network and identity of the mobile advertising marketplace, select one or more carrier listings which include data identifying the identified mobile carrier network; and

serve the selected one or more carrier listings to the identified mobile carrier network for communication to the web browser of the originating mobile device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is further operative to format the selected one or more carrier listings for display by the web browser of the mobile device to enable advertisers to advertise on search traffic to the system from mobile carrier networks independent of whether the advertiser supports a page for display on the mobile carrier network.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the processor is operative to format the selected one or more carrier listings using data defining technology supported by the mobile device.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the processor is operative to select a number of carrier listings using data defining size of a display screen of the originating mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein each respective carrier listing comprises advertising creative and wherein the processor is further operative to format the selected one or more carrier listings for display by a display device of the originating mobile device, the processor adjusting the advertising creative of the selected one or more carrier listing when the display device of the originating mobile device has limited capability for displaying advertising creative.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is operative to identify an internet protocol (IP) address of the originating mobile device to identify the source of the received search request.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is operative to provide account summary view data to a data processing device of an advertiser for creation by the advertiser of separate data serving spaces for each mobile carrier network when the advertiser data processing device interacts with the system.

8. A method for an internet advertising service provider, the method comprising:

at a server of the internet advertising service provider,

receiving search requests from a plurality of mobile carrier networks, each particular search request originating with a limited-capability web browser of an originating mobile device in wireless communication via Internet protocol with a respective mobile carrier network of the plurality of mobile carrier networks, the particular search request including data identifying the respective mobile carrier network;

in response to the received particular search request, providing search results to the identified mobile carrier network for communication to the originating mobile device, including

selecting a plurality of search listings as the search results from a database of search listings using the data identifying the identified mobile carrier network,

storing in the database of search listings data defining the plurality of search listings, each respective search listing originating with a respective advertiser seeking to provide the respective search listing only to a mobile device operating on a specified mobile carrier network of the plurality of mobile carrier networks exclusive of other mobile carrier networks of the plurality of mobile networks, the data for a respective search listing including data defining a search keyword to be matched with the search request and a carrier identifier field to identify the specified mobile carrier network of the plurality of mobile carrier networks to which the respective listing may be served to so that the advertiser can tailor provision of search listings of the advertiser to particular mobile carrier networks of the plurality of mobile carrier networks;

formatting the search results using the carrier identifier field and information about capability of the limited-capability web browser of the originating mobile device so that the advertiser does not have to accommodate the capability of the limited-capability web browser in search listings of the advertiser and so that the search results appear properly on the limited-capability browser; and

serving the formatted search results to the identified mobile carrier network for communication to the originating mobile device.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein receiving search requests comprises receiving data defining the internet protocol address of the identified mobile carrier network.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein receiving search requests comprises receiving data defining the carrier identifier of the identified mobile carrier network.

11. The method claim 8 further comprising storing as the carrier identifier field a data prefix appended to the data defining the search keyword.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising separating the data prefix from the data defining the search keyword with a predefined keyword separator to identification location in a character string where the data prefix ends and the data defining the search keyword begins.