Increasing mobile interactivity

• US 9,471,925 B2
• Filed: 05/08/2006
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blue Hills Series 95 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Millennial Media, LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramer, Jorey, Soroca, Adam, Doughty, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Tom Y
• Application Number:
  US11/382,262
• Publication Number:
  US 20070061244A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,816 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for caching search related data on a mobile communication facility, coordinating the presentation of the cached information with network information to the mobile communication facility display to facilitate response to user queries with up to date information, and implicitly downloading updates to cached information while previously cached information is available to the user.

Claims

1. A system for increasing the relevance of search results for mobile phones, the system comprising one or more computers having computer readable mediums having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of the one or more computers, causes the system to perform the steps of:

storing first search results on a mobile phone operated by a user, wherein the first search results were received by the mobile phone in response to a textual search entered by the user thereon and then transmitted therefrom, wherein the first search results correspond to the textual search and are relevant to a first geographic location in which the mobile phone is located at the time of transmitting the textual search, wherein the first search results are influenced by a plurality of demographic characteristics of the user; and

determining without interaction by the user that the mobile phone is located in a second geographic location different from the first geographic location and upon making such determination, downloading from a service provider remote from the mobile phone second search results to replace the first search results, wherein the second search results correspond to the textual search and are relevant to the second geographic location in which the mobile phone is located at the time of transmitting the textual search, wherein the second search results are influenced by the plurality of demographic characteristics of the user, wherein the plurality of demographic characteristics comprise;

an age or age range of the user;

a gender of the user, and

an income bracket associated with the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of demographic characteristics further includes one or more of:

(a) race of the user;

(b) religion of the user;

(c) marital status of the user;

(d) area code of the phone number assigned to the mobile communication facility;

(e) zip code of the user;

(f) home address of the user;

(g) work address of the user;

(h) billing address of the user;

(i) type of credit card the user uses to pay the mobile communications provider;

(j) birthplace of the user;

(k) employer of the user; and

(l) employment position of the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of demographic characteristics further includes one or more of:

(a) shopping habits of the user as recorded through use of the mobile phone;

(b) payment and billing history associated with the user of the mobile phone;

(c) duration of on-line interactions by the user from using the mobile phone;

(d) number of on-line interactions of the user via the mobile phone;

(e) usage patterns of the mobile phone dependent on location or time of day of use thereof;

(f) type of content accessed by the user via the mobile phone; and

(g) previous search queries entered by the user via the mobile phone.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second search results are further influenced by a hardware or software characteristic of the mobile phone.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the hardware or software characteristic is selected from the list consisting of:

(a) processing speed;

(b) display resolution;

(c) audio capability;

(d) video capability;

(e) cache size;

(f) storage capability; and

(g) memory capacity.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first and second search results are further influenced by the model or manufacturer of the mobile phone.