Script-based content-embedding code generation in digital media benefit attachment mechanism

• US 8,943,401 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Issued: 01/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Martinez, Ronald, Ravindran, Balaji, Kalaboukis, Chris
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D
• Application Number:
  US11/540,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,042 Days
• Field of Search: 715/208, 715/234, 715748-753, 715758-760, 705/14, 717/106, 717110-115
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising

Abstract

Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to a digital media benefit attachment mechanism for generating or attaching revenue rights and other benefits to one or more entities associated with socially distributed media.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server from a client application executing on a remote host, a request associated with a content object;

in response to the receiving of the request, determining, by the server, whether the content object has been flagged for revenue or benefit attachment in response to receiving authorization from an entity responsible for the content object that the content object can be embedded; and

if the content object has been flagged for revenue or benefit attachment, then;

generating, by the server, content-embedding code comprising machine-readable instructions operative, when executed, to cause a processor to;

access the content object; and

access a script operative to cause the processor to

determine a tag associated with the content object,

transmit the tag to a remote system,

receive, from the remote system, a network addressable advertiser resource associated with the tag, and

dynamically generate and present a hyperlink identifying the network addressable advertiser resource, wherein the hyperlink, when activated, is operative to cause the processor to access the network addressable advertiser resource; and

transmitting a response to the remote host, wherein the response comprises a structured document for processing and rendering by the client application, wherein the structured document includes the content-embedding code in plain text form for display and copying.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the content-embedding code further comprises a content owner identifier, and wherein the script is operative to cause the processor to encode the content owner identifier in the hyperlink.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the content-embedding code further comprises a content embedding entity identifier, and wherein the script is operative to cause the processor to encode the content embedding entity identifier in the hyperlink.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to access a remote system for information used in dynamically generating the hyperlink.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to access the content object and render the content object on a display.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the script is accessed from a remote system.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the request is a request for the content object, and the response includes the content object.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the script is operative to cause the processor to

access one or more attributes of an underlying page from which the script has been loaded;

and

use one or more accessed attributes of the underlying page in dynamically generating the hyperlink.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to access a remote system using the one or more accessed attributes in dynamically generating the hyperlink.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein one attribute of the one or more accessed attributes comprises a tag embedded in the page.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein one attribute of the one or more accessed attributes comprises text contained in the page.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the remote system is an ad search system.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising

determining a user identifier associated with the request;

and

adding the user identifier as a content embedding entity identifier to the content-embedding code.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the script is operative to cause the processor to encode the content embedding entity identifier in the hyperlink.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the content-embedding code is further operative to cause the processor to display the content.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to display the hyperlink adjacent to the content.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to render the content as clickable region, which, when clicked, is operative to cause the processor to access the network addressable advertiser resource.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein the content-embedding code comprises HTML code.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein the script comprises JavaScript.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein the hyperlink, when activated, is operative to cause the processor to access the network addressable advertiser resource in a redirection process with a remote server.

21. The method of claim 1 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to dynamically generate a second hyperlink operative, when activated, to cause the processor to access a search system.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the script is further operative to cause the processor to access one or more tags associated with the content object;

and wherein the second hyperlink is configured to include the one or more tags.

23. The method of claim 13 wherein the hyperlink, when activated, is operative to cause a remote system to generate a benefit to the content embedding identifier.

24. The method of claim 23 wherein the benefit is a monetary award.

25. An apparatus comprising:

a memory;

one or more processors;

logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution and when executed operable to cause the one or more processors to;

receive, from a client application executing on a remote host, a request associated with a content object;

in response to the receipt of the request, determine whether the content object has been flagged for revenue of benefit attachment in response to receiving authorization from an entity responsible for the content object that the content object can be embedded; and

if the content object has been flagged for revenue or benefit attachment, then;

generate content-embedding code comprising machine-readable instructions operative, when executed, to cause a processor to;

access the content object; and

access a script operative to cause the processor to

determine a tag associated with the content object,

transmit the tag to a remote system,

receive, from the remote system, a network addressable advertiser resource associated with the tag, and

dynamically generate and present a hyperlink identifying the network addressable advertiser resource,

wherein the hyperlink, when activated, is operative to cause the processor to access the network addressable advertiser resource; and

transmit a response comprising a structured document for processing and rendering by the client application, wherein the structured document includes the content-embedding code in plain text for display and copying.

26. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server from a client application executing on a remote host, a request associated with a content object;

in response to the receiving of the request, determining, by the server, whether the content object has been flagged for revenue or benefit attachment in response to receiving authorization from an entity responsible for the content object that the content object can be embedded; and

if the content object has been flagged for revenue or benefit attachment, then;

generating, by the server, content-embedded code comprising machine-readable instructions operative, when executed, to cause a processor to;

access a script operative to cause the processor to

access and present the content object;

determine a tag associated with the content object,

transmit the tag to a remote system,

receive, from the remote system, a network addressable advertiser resource associated with the tag, and

dynamically generate a hyperlink identifying the network addressable advertiser resource,

wherein the hyperlink, when activated, is operative to cause the processor to access the network addressable advertiser resource; and

transmitting a response to the remote host, wherein the response comprises a structured document for processing and rendering by the client application, wherein the structured document includes the content-embedding code in plain text form for display and copying.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein the hyperlink is embedded in an activatable region of the displayed content object.

28. An apparatus comprising:

a memory;

one or more processors;

logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution and when executed operable to cause the one or more processors to;

receive, from a client application executing on a remote host, a request associated with a content object;

in response to the receipt of the request, determine whether the content object has been flagged for revenue of benefit attachment in response to receiving authorization from an entity responsible for the content object that the content object can be embedded; and

if the content object has been flagged for revenue or benefit attachment, then;

generate content-embedding code comprising machine-readable instructions operative, when executed, to cause a processor to;

access a script operative to cause the processor to

access and present the content object;

determine a tag associated with the content object,

transmit the tag to a remote system,

receive, from the remote system, a network addressable advertiser resource associated with the tag, and

dynamically generate a hyperlink identifying the network addressable advertiser resource,

wherein the hyperlink, when activated, is operative to cause the processor to access the network addressable advertiser resource; and

transmit a response to the remote host, wherein the response comprises a structured document for processing and rendering by the client application, wherein the structured document includes the content-embedding code in plain text form for display and copying.