Contextual advertising techniques for implemented at mobile devices

• US 9,710,818 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2007
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amobee, Inc. (Nexxen International Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kontera Technologies Incorporated (Nexxen International Ltd.)
• Inventors: Henkin, Assaf, Shaham, Yoav, Brickner, Itai
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, THANH T
• Application Number:
  US12/295,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20100174607A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,760 Days
• Field of Search: 715738, 715745, 715746
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

Various techniques are disclosed for delivering contextual advertising information to end users of a data network via a mobile device. At least one operation may be initiated to determine the features, capabilities and/or services supported at an identified mobile device. A first contextual advertising delivery technique may be implemented in response to a determination that a first type of functionality is supported at the identified mobile device. A second contextual advertising delivery technique may be implemented in response to a determination that the first type of functionality is not supported at the identified mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving at a proxy mechanism a request from a mobile device to access web page content;

based on the receiving of the request, transmitting from the proxy mechanism a communication to the mobile device, the communication including scripting instructions instructing the mobile device to transmit a reply message to the proxy mechanism;

based on a receiving of the reply message at the proxy mechanism, determining that the mobile device supports client side scripting functionality;

based on the determining that the mobile device supports client-side scripting, performing operations including;

based on an examination of information in the reply message indicating that the mobile device supports an advanced display feature, marking up the web page content based on a scripting solution procedure that uses a contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature; and

based on an examination of the information in the reply message indicating that the mobile device does not support the advanced display feature, marking up the web page content based on a scripting solution procedure that does not use the contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature; and

communicating the marked-up web page content from the proxy mechanism to the mobile device in response to the receiving of the request at the proxy mechanism from the mobile device to access the web page content.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

selecting a portion the web page content, the portion corresponding contextual information provided by a campaign provider; and

wherein the marking up of the web page content based on the scripting solution procedure that uses the contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature or the marking up of the web page content based on the scripting solution procedure that does not use the contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature is performed on the portion.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the advanced feature is one of an advanced HTML functionality, a rich media functionality, or a video playback functionality.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein

the information is included in a header portion of the reply message.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

based on a failure to receive the reply message at the proxy mechanism, determining that the mobile device does not support client side scripting functionality; and

based on the determining that the mobile device does not support client-side scripting, marking up the web page content based on a non-scripting solution procedure.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the marking up of the web page content includes generating a ContentLink for inclusion in the web page, the ContentLink causing the mobile device to send ContentLink information to the proxy mechanism based on an activation of the ContentLink by a user.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the ContentLink information allows the proxy mechanism to determine at least one of an identity of a sponsor of an advertisement, a keyword associated with the advertisement, and a type of the advertisement.

8. The method of claim 7, the method further comprising generating an advertisement page at the proxy mechanism for displaying the advertisement on the mobile device, the generating based on the ContentLink information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the examination of the information in the reply message indicating that the mobile device supports an advanced display feature is based on querying a device capabilities database using the information in the reply message.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information includes at least one of a serial number, type identifier, make identifier, or model identifier of the mobile device.

11. A system comprising:

at least one processor;

a non-transitory machine readable memory storing a set of instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to, at least;

receive at a proxy mechanism a request from a mobile device to access web page content;

based on the receiving of the request, transmit from the proxy mechanism a communication to the mobile device, the communication including scripting instructions instructing the mobile device to transmit a reply message to the proxy mechanism;

based on a receiving of the reply message at the proxy mechanism, determine that the mobile device supports client side scripting functionality;

based on the determining that the mobile device supports client-side scripting, perform operations including;

based on an examination of information in the reply message indicating that the mobile device supports an advanced display feature, mark up the web page content based on a scripting solution procedure that uses a contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature; and

based on an examination of the information in the reply message indicating that the mobile device does not support the advanced display feature, mark up the web page content based on a scripting solution procedure that does not use the contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature; and

communicate the marked-up web page content from the proxy mechanism to the mobile device in response to the receiving of the request at the proxy mechanism from the mobile device to access the web page content.

12. The system of claim 11, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to, at least:

selecting a portion the web page content, the portion corresponding contextual information provided by a campaign provider; and

wherein the marking up of the web page content based on the scripting solution procedure that uses the contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature or the marking up of the web page content based on the scripting solution procedure that does not use the contextual advertising markup technique that takes advantage of the advanced display feature is performed on the portion.

13. The system of claim 11,

wherein the advanced display feature is one of an advanced HTML functionality, a rich media functionality, and a video playback functionality.

14. The system of claim 11, the set of instructions further causing the at least one processor to, at least:

the information is included in a header portion of the reply message.