Advertisements for mobile communications devices via pre-positioned advertisement components

• US 8,787,884 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2007
• Issued: 07/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Aaron, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez, Amancio
• Application Number:
  US11/627,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20080182588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,735 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 455/414.1
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Mobile communications devices output advertisements such as by visually displaying them in accordance with an advertisement recipe. The advertisement recipe specifies advertisement components to include in the constructed advertisement and a configuration of those advertisement components. The mobile communications device stores a plurality of advertisement components in advance of receiving the advertisement recipe. An advertisement schedule may be provided that includes timing information to specify when each advertisement of the advertisement recipes is to be provided as output by the mobile communications device. The advertisement recipes may be provided based on a current context such as location of the mobile communications device so that the resulting advertisement being provided as output is relevant to the current context.

Claims

1. A method of providing different advertisements at a mobile communications device that stores a plurality of advertisement components, comprising:

receiving at the mobile communications device at least some of the plurality of advertisement components via a mobile communications network while a user is using the mobile communication device, the advertisement components including frameworks, values, and parameters used to construct the different advertisements;

receiving at the mobile communications device different advertisement recipes, each advertisement recipe specifying a framework and a particular configuration of values and parameters within the framework, from among the components stored in the mobile communications device and received via the mobile communications network, to include in an advertisement, wherein the components that are stored in the mobile communications device are stored in advance of receipt of the advertisement recipes, and the components that are received via the mobile communications network are received in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes;

constructing at the mobile communications device the different advertisements from among the components stored in the mobile communications device in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes and the components received via the mobile communications network in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes, each advertisement being constructed from the framework and the particular configuration of values and parameters within the framework specified for the advertisement, according to the received different advertisement recipes; and

providing the different advertisements at the mobile communications device that correspond to the received different advertisement recipes.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the different advertisements on the mobile communication device, wherein the framework specified in an advertisement recipe indicates a size and shape of the advertisement, the values specified in the advertisement recipe indicate the content to include in the advertisement, and the parameters specified in the advertisement recipe indicate effects to be applied to the framework and/or the parameters included in the advertisement, wherein the effects include at least one of size scaling, blinking, wiggling, rotating, and positioning.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the different advertisement recipes comprises receiving a schedule of different advertisement recipes, the schedule including the different advertisement recipes and a timing for each of the different advertisement recipes.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining a location of the mobile communications device, wherein the advertisement recipes are based on the obtained location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving at least some of the plurality of advertisement components via the mobile communications network comprises receiving the plurality of advertisement components at different time periods while the mobile communications device is utilizing a percentage of the available communications bandwidth below a threshold.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving at least one additional advertisement component called for by an advertisement recipe when receiving the advertisement recipe.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertisement recipes received by the mobile communications device are based on a user profile.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the advertisement recipes received by the mobile communication device are based upon a version of the advertisement components stored by the mobile communications device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least some of the components stored in the mobile communications device are default components stored in the mobile communications device during manufacture of the mobile communication device.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage device containing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

storing a plurality of advertisement components at a mobile communications device;

receiving at the mobile communications device at least some of the plurality of advertisement components via a mobile communication network while a user is using the mobile telecommunications device, the advertisement components including frameworks, values, and parameters used to construct different advertisements;

receiving at the mobile communications device different advertisement recipes from an external device, each advertisement recipe specifying a framework and a particular configuration of values and parameters within the framework, from among the components stored in the mobile communications device and received at the mobile communications device, to include in an advertisement, wherein the components that are stored in the mobile communications device are stored in advance of receipt of the advertisement recipes, and the components that are received via the mobile communications network are received in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes;

constructing at the mobile communication device the different advertisements from among the components stored in the mobile communications device in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes and the components received via the mobile communications network in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes, each advertisement being constructed from the framework and the particular configuration of values and parameters within the framework specified for the advertisement, according to the received different advertisement recipes; and

providing the different advertisements at the mobile communications device that correspond to the received different advertisement recipes.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the different advertisements are displayed and wherein the framework specified in an advertisement recipe indicates a size and shape of the advertisement, the values specified in the advertisement recipe indicate the content to include in the advertisement, and the parameters specified in the advertisement recipe indicate effects to be applied to the framework and/or parameters included in the advertisement, wherein the effects include at least one of size scaling, blinking, wiggling, rotating, and positioning.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage device of claim 10, wherein receiving at the mobile communications device the different advertisement recipes comprises receiving a schedule of different advertisement recipes, the schedule including the different advertisement recipes and a timing for each of the different advertisement recipes.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise obtaining a location of the mobile communications device, wherein the received advertisement recipes are based on the obtained location.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage device of claim 10, wherein receiving at least some of the plurality of advertisement components via the mobile communications network comprises receiving the plurality of advertisement components at different time periods while the mobile communications device is utilizing a percentage of the available communications bandwidth below a threshold.

15. A mobile communications device, comprising:

a transceiver that communicates with a mobile communications network;

a processor;

an output device; and

a memory storing a plurality of advertisement components and instructions which, when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving at least some of the plurality of advertisement components via the transceiver while a user is using the mobile communications device, the advertisement components including frameworks, values, and parameters used to construct different advertisements;

receiving different advertisement recipes via the transceiver each advertisement recipe specifying a framework and a particular configuration of values and parameters within the framework, from among the components stored in the memory and received via the transceiver, to include in an advertisement, wherein the components that are stored in the mobile communications device are stored in advance of receipt of the advertisement recipes, and the components that are received via the transceiver are received in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes;

constructing the different advertisements from among the components stored in the mobile communications device in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes and the components received via the transceiver in advance of the receipt of the advertisement recipes, each advertisement being constructed from the framework and the particular configuration of values and parameters within the framework specified for the advertisement, according to the received different advertisement recipes; and

providing the different advertisements to the output device.

16. The mobile communications device of claim 15, wherein the different advertisements are displayed and wherein the framework specified in an advertisement recipe indicates a size and shape of the advertisement, the values specified in the advertisement recipe indicate the content to include in the advertisement, and the parameters specified in the advertisement recipe indicate effects to be applied to the framework and/or the parameters included in the advertisement, wherein the effects include at least one of size scaling, blinking, wiggling, rotating, and positioning.

17. The mobile communications device of claim 15, wherein the processor receives a schedule of different advertisement recipes via the transceiver and wherein the processor outputs the different advertisements according to timing specified by the schedule.

18. The mobile communications device of claim 15, further comprising a location device, and wherein the processor obtains a current location of the mobile communications device from the location device and sends the current location to the mobile communications network via the transceiver such that the advertisement recipes received from the mobile communications network are based on the current location.

19. The mobile communications device of claim 15, wherein the processor receives at least some of the plurality of advertisement components via the mobile communications network at different time periods while the transceiver is utilizing a percentage of the available communications bandwidth below a threshold.

20. The mobile communications device of claim 15, wherein at least some of the components stored in the memory are default components stored in the mobile communications device during manufacture of the mobile communication device.