Multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system and a method of providing user and advertisement related data

• US 8,719,093 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2011
• Issued: 05/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crytek IP Holding LLC
• Original Assignee: CryTek GmbH
• Inventors: Yerli, Cevat
• Primary Examiner(s): Weiss, John G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Scott C
• Application Number:
  US13/043,550
• Publication Number:
  US 20110225040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14.66
• US Class Current: 705/14.53
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history

Abstract

A system and method for presenting advertisements to a plurality of users is described, wherein the system comprises at least one display device for displaying advertisements to an audience of at least two users; a plurality of user input devices, at least one for each user, providing user input data to the system; and at least one computing device executing a software application controlled by the user input data for providing output to the display device to display the advertisement with at least one conjointly controlled advertising object, wherein the at least one computing device provides user and advertisement related data to a central data system, which are generated from data related to the advertising object and from the input data occurring in response to the display of the advertising object.

Claims

1. A multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system comprising:

at least one display device (D) having a size and/or position adapted to display one or more interactive advertisements to an audience of at least two users (P);

a plurality of user input devices (GP), at least one for each user (P), providing user input data (IN) to the computer-controlled advertisement presentation system;

at least one computing device (WS) executing a software application controlled by said user input data (IN) from the plurality of user input devices (GP) or by control input data (IN*) being generated thereof, said at least one computing device including hardware adapted to transmit output (OUT) to the at least one display device (D) to display at least one of the interactive advertisements with at least one advertising object (A) being displayed therein, wherein the at least one advertising object (A) is conjointly controlled by the audience of at least two users (P) utilizing the plurality of user input devices (GP), and wherein the audience of at least two users (P) influences a progress of the at least one of the interactive advertisements by providing the user input data (IN) at the plurality of input devices (GP);

wherein the least one computing device (WS) is adapted to generate user and advertisement related data (TDAT) from data related to the at least one advertising object (A) and from the input data (IN, IN*) provided in response to said display of the at least one advertising object (A), and to provide the user and advertisement related data (TDAT) to a central data system (CS).

2. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 1, wherein the system is a video, audio or multimedia presentation system, and wherein the at least one display device (D) comprises one or more of a video, audio or multimedia display device.

3. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 1, wherein the at least one single advertising object (A) includes at least one video animated element.

4. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device (WS) transmits the user and advertisement related data (TDAT) as telemetry data to said central data system (CS) via a network (NET).

5. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device (WS) comprises or is connected to a processing unit (PU) receiving and processing the user input data (IN) from the plurality of input devices (GP) to generate the control input data (IN*) adapted to conjointly control the at least one advertising object (A) being displayed.

6. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 1, wherein the system is a video gaming system and wherein the at least one computing device (WS) is realized by a game server executing a game software application.

7. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 1, wherein the processing unit (PU) processes the user input data (IN) received from the plurality of user input devices (GP) to generate the control input data (IN*) by at least one of the following operations:

filtering or compressing the user input data (IN), including matching the user input data (IN) against at least one pattern;

weighting the user input data (IN), including applying a weighting function to at least one of the user input data (IN);

adding meta data to the control input data (IN*), including meta data comprising information about the number of active user input devices (GP);

processing the user input data (IN) according to rules which are modifiable by said at least one computing device (WS) executing the software application.

8. The multi-user computer-controlled advertisement presentation system of claim 5, wherein the at least one computing device (WS) is realized as a single workstation and the processing unit (PU) is realized as an external part of said workstation.

9. A computer-implemented method of providing user and advertisement related data, the method (100) comprising the steps of:

displaying one or more interactive advertisements to an audience of at least two users on at least one display device;

receiving, within a computing device, user input data generated by a plurality of user input devices utilized by the at least two users of the audience;

executing, by the computing device, a software application controlled by said user input data from the plurality of user input devices;

providing, by the computing device, output to the at least one display device to present at least one of the interactive advertisements with at least one advertising object, wherein the at least one advertising object is conjointly controlled by the audience of at least two users utilizing the plurality of user input devices and wherein the audience of at least two users influences a progress of the at least one of the interactive advertisements by providing the user input data at the plurality of input devices;

generating, within the computing device, advertisement data based on data related to the at least one advertising object presented to the audience;

generating, within the computing device, user data by processing the user input data provided in response to said presentation of the at least one advertising object to the audience; and

providing, from the computing device, both the user and advertisement data to a central data system.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the advertisement data comprises data about advertised products and/or services related to the at least one advertising object.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, further comprising analyzing the user and advertisement data on the central data system by one or more of a market, product, service and/or or consumer research tool.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising analyzing the user and advertisement data on the central data system by one or more of a market, product, service or consumer research tool.