Apparatus and method for managing advertisement application

• US 9,406,070 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2009
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ji-Hye, Jun, Hae-Young, Choi, Seok-Hoon
• Primary Examiner(s): Donabed, Ninos
• Application Number:
  US12/581,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,479 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0276 Advertisement creation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A method and apparatus for managing an advertisement application in a mobile advertising system is provided. When an advertisement application for representing an advertisement is installed in an advertisement-receiving terminal, a registration request for the installed advertisement application is made. The advertisement-receiving terminal assigns an application Identifier (ID) to the advertisement application in response to the registration request, and stores a profile of the advertisement application in association with the assigned application ID.

Claims

1. A method for managing advertisement applications in a mobile network, comprising:

receiving, by a processor of an advertising server, a notification indicating execution of an advertisement application from an advertisement-receiving terminal whenever an advertisement application for representing an advertisement is executed in the advertisement-receiving terminal, the notification including an application Identifier (ID) of the advertisement application;

updating, by the processor of the advertising server, an executing-advertisement application list corresponding to the advertisement-receiving terminal upon every receipt of the notification by storing the ID of the advertisement application in the executing-advertisement application list which is stored in a non-transitory memory of the advertising server;

receiving, by the processor of the advertising server, a de-registration notification indicating terminated execution of the advertisement application from the advertisement-receiving terminal, the de-registration notification including the ID of the advertisement application;

deleting, by the processor of the advertising server, the ID of the advertisement application from the executing-advertisement application list in response to the de-registration notification;

determining, by the processor of the advertising server, one of a plurality of advertisement applications included in the executing-advertisement application list as a target advertisement application;

selecting, by the processor of the advertising server, an advertisement that can be represented by the target advertisement application, when an advertisement needs to be delivered to the advertisement-receiving terminal; and

sending, by the processor of the advertising server, an advertisement message including an ID of the target advertisement application and the selected advertisement, to the advertisement-receiving terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein when the advertisement-receiving terminal receives the advertisement message from the advertising server, the selected advertisement is represented by an advertisement application corresponding to the ID of the target advertisement application included in the advertisement message.

3. A method for managing advertisement applications in a mobile network, comprising:

sending, by a processor of an advertising server, a request for a list of advertisement applications currently being executed in an advertisement-receiving terminal, to the advertisement-receiving terminal, wherein the advertisement-receiving terminal updates the list whenever an advertisement application stored in the advertisement-receiving terminal is executed;

receiving, by the processor of the advertising server, the list from the advertisement-receiving terminal and storing the list in a non-transitory memory of the advertising server;

receiving, by the processor of the advertising server, a de-registration notification indicating terminated execution of an advertisement application in the list from the advertisement-receiving terminal, the de-registration notification including an application Identifier (ID) of the advertisement application;

deleting, by the processor of the advertising server, the ID of the advertisement application from the executing-advertisement application list in response to the de-registration notification;

determining, by the processor of the advertising server, one of a plurality of advertisement applications included in the list as a target advertisement application based on the list;

selecting, by the processor of the advertising server, an advertisement that can be represented by the target advertisement application, when an advertisement needs to be delivered to the advertisement-receiving terminal; and

sending, by the processor of the advertising server, an advertisement message including the selected advertisement and an ID of the target advertisement application, to the advertisement-receiving terminal.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein when the advertisement-receiving terminal receives the advertisement message from the advertising server, the selected advertisement is represented by an advertisement application corresponding to the ID of the target advertisement application included in the advertisement message.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the advertisement-receiving terminal transmits the list when sending a request for an advertisement to the advertising server.

6. An advertising server for managing advertisement applications in a mobile network, comprising:

a non-transitory memory; and

a processor configured to;

receive, whenever an advertisement application for representing an advertisement is executed in an advertisement-receiving terminal, a notification indicating the execution of the advertisement application from the advertisement-receiving terminal, the notification including an application Identifier (ID) of the advertisement application;

update an executing-advertisement application list corresponding to the advertisement-receiving terminal upon every receipt of the notification by storing the ID of the advertisement application in the executing-advertisement application list which is stored in the non-transitory memory;

receive a de-registration notification indicating terminated execution of the advertisement application from the advertisement-receiving terminal, the de-registration notification including the ID of the advertisement application;

delete the ID of the advertisement application from the executing-advertisement application list in response to the de-registration notification;

determine, when an advertisement needs to be delivered to the advertisement-receiving terminal, one of a plurality of advertisement applications included in the executing-advertisement application list as a target advertisement application;

select an advertisement that can be represented by the target advertisement application; and

send an advertisement message including an ID of the target advertisement application and the selected advertisement to the advertisement-receiving terminal.

7. The advertising server of claim 6, wherein upon receipt of the advertisement message from the advertising server, the advertisement-receiving terminal is further configured to represent the selected advertisement by an advertisement application corresponding to the ID of the target advertisement application included in the advertisement message.

8. An advertising server for managing advertisement applications in a mobile network, comprising:

a non-transitory memory; and

a processor configured to;

send to an advertisement-receiving terminal a request for a list for advertisement applications currently being executed in advertisement-receiving terminal, wherein the advertisement-receiving terminal updates the list whenever an advertisement application stored in the advertisement-receiving terminal is executed;

receive the list from the advertisement-receiving terminal;

store the list in the non-transitory memory;

receive a de-registration notification indicating terminated execution of an advertisement application in the list from the advertisement-receiving terminal, the de-registration notification including an application Identifier (ID) of the advertisement application; and

delete the ID of the advertisement application from the executing-advertisement application list in response to the de-registration notification,

wherein the processor is further configured to make the request for the list when an advertisement needs to be delivered to the advertisement-receiving terminal, and

wherein the processor is further configured to;

determine one of advertisement applications included in the list as a target advertisement application depending on the list;

select an advertisement that can be represented by the target advertisement application; and

send an advertisement message including an ID of the target advertisement application and the selected advertisement, to the advertisement-receiving terminal.

9. The advertising server of claim 8, wherein the list is delivered to the advertising server using an advertisement request sent by the advertisement-receiving terminal.