Systems and methods for mobile wireless advertising platform part II

• US 11,799,978 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2008
• Issued: 10/24/2023
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tara Chand Singhal
• Original Assignee: Tara Chand Singhal
• Inventors: Singhal, Tara Chand
• Primary Examiner(s): Iosif, Mario C.
• Application Number:
  US12/287,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20090275312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 5,490 Days
• Field of Search: 705 141, 705 1438, 705 1464, 705 1465
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0208 Trade or exchange of goods or services in exchange for incentives or rewards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0215 Including financial accounts
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0217 involving input on products or services in exchange for incentives or rewards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0249 based upon budgets or funds
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• 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 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2083 : Confirmation by serviced party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0192 : Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising, e.g. calling cards with ads or connecting to special ads, free calling time by purchasing goods
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/02 : Calling substations, e.g. by ringing selective calling H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 : Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42178 : by downloading data to substation equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 : Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 : Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A system of wireless advertising platform has a handheld wireless device that has an inbound wireless data function with a storage function to be able to receive and store, audio, text, image, and flash commercial messages from a message server. The device has a message exposure function that exposes these messages to a device user from the stored memory of the device into the incoming and outgoing communication, to and from the device user. The device has a message tracking function that tracks which messages have been exposed and periodically sends an account record to the message server. The message server has a message provider interface for planning and managing an advertising campaign using the wireless devices.

Claims

1. A mobile wireless advertising system the system comprising:

a message server in a global computer and communication network, a mobile wireless device of the type of smart phones with a display and a touch screen operating in a cellular wireless communication network;

the message server having a database server, wherein the database server pre-stores in a user database (i) identifications of pre-authorized wireless devices with their security associations that provide for mutual identification and authentication between the mobile device and the message server, (ii) mobile device user demographic data, wherein the mobile device user demographic data has been received into the message server from the mobile device user at the time of the mobile device user registering with the message server, and (iii) information reflective of a screen size for each pre-authorized wireless device;

the message server having a message provider interface logic stored in a memory and operating in a CPU of the message server, wherein the interface logic being used by a message provider for entering commercial messages and for selecting demographic data applicable for each of the entered commercial messages, and the message server receiving and storing the commercial messages with their associated demographics data in a message database of the database server;

a first logic stored in the memory and operating in the CPU of the message server, wherein the first logic used by the message server on a periodic basis for creating a single message file with contained therein in the single message file, multiple messages, for each of the pre-authorized mobile device users, pre-stored in the database server, from pre-stored messages that satisfy the pre-stored demographic data, wherein each message in the message file has a preprogrammed criterion, wherein the preprogrammed criterion characterizes each of these messages, with at least the attributes of message types of visual, text, or aural, message frequency, and a time duration of the message, wherein the message type, message frequency, and time duration of each message is stored in the single message file, and wherein when a message type is visual, the stored information reflective of a screen size is used to structure a corresponding commercial message to a size of the screen of a corresponding pre-authorized wireless device; and

a second logic stored in the memory and operating in the CPU of the message server, wherein the second logic periodically is used for communicating wirelessly with mobile wireless devices that have been pre-authorized in the user database and automatically downloading to each of the mobile devices, the single message file, wherein a mobile device that receives the single message file subsequently detects onset of a mobile device function, automatically selects a message from the single message file using the preprogrammed criterion, puts on hold the mobile device function for a brief period of time equal to the time duration of the messages, and exposes the message to a mobile device user;

wherein the message server receives an account record from the mobile device which includes information on message exposure frequency to the mobile device user.

2. The system as in claim 1, further comprising:

the message server sends messages to the device that are specific to a geographic location of the device when the message server has the geographic location of the device.

3. The system as in claim 1, comprising:

the message server via the wireless device interface receives a message exposure data file from the wireless device, based on which messages from the message file have been exposed to a device user, the message server compiles statistical message exposure data for the message provider.

4. The system as in claim 1, the message provider interface comprising:

a logic that selects via a web interface to the message server, a message format type from, audio, text, image, and flash animation, and provides a corresponding message file.

5. The system as in claim 4, the message provider interface comprising:

the logic, in addition, selects the message delivery demographics, the number of message deliveries, and the time period of the delivery for exposing the message to the wireless device user during the use of the wireless device.

6. The system as in claim 1, comprising:

the message provider interface to the message server provides for the planning of an advertising campaign using the wireless mobile advertising system.

7. The system as in claim 6, comprising:

a. the message provider interface includes designing and activating an advertising campaign;

b. collecting status data for message exposure to wireless devices from the message server and refining the campaign by changing the message type, delivery method, demographics and delivery period.

8. A method for a mobile advertising system, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a message server in a global computer and communication network, a mobile wireless device of the type of smart phones with a display and a touch screen operating in a cellular wireless communication network;

pre-storing by the message server in a database server, a user database, (i) identifications of pre-authorized mobile wireless devices and their security associations that provide for mutual identification and authentication between the mobile device and the message server, of mobile device users, (ii) mobile device-user demographic data, wherein the mobile device user demographic data has been received into the message server from the mobile device user at the time of the mobile device user registering with the message server, and (iii) information reflective of a screen size for each pre-authorized wireless device;

entering commercial messages into the message server via a message provider interface logic, stored in a memory and operating in a CPU of the message server, wherein using the interface logic by a message provider over the global communication network for entering commercial messages, wherein associating each commercial message with selected demographic data and the message server receiving and storing such messages along with their associated demographic data in a message database of the database server;

creating subsequently by the message server on a periodic basis a single message file with contained therein in the single message file, multiple messages for each of the pre-authorized wireless device users, pre-stored in the database server, from pre-stored messages that satisfy the pre-stored demographic data, wherein each message in the message file has a preprogrammed criterion, wherein the preprogrammed criterion characterizes each of these messages, with at least the attributes of message types of visual, text, or aural, message frequency, and a time duration of the message, wherein the preprogrammed criterion is for use by the mobile device, wherein the message type, message frequency, and time duration of each message is stored in the single message file, and wherein when a message type is visual, the stored information reflective of a screen size is used to structure a corresponding commercial message to a size of the screen of a corresponding pre-authorized wireless device; and

downloading automatically to each of the mobile devices the single message file by the message server on a periodic basis, the single message file with multiple messages that have been device-user demographic customized, wirelessly to each of the pre-authorized mobile wireless devices in the user database of the message server, wherein a mobile device that receives the single message file subsequently detects onset of a mobile device function, automatically selects a message from the single message file using the preprogrammed criterion, puts on hold the mobile device function for a brief period of time equal to the time duration of the messages, and exposes the message to a mobile device user;

wherein the message server receives an account record from the mobile device which includes information on message exposure frequency to the mobile device user.

9. The method as in claim 8, further comprising the steps of:

sending by the message server messages to the mobile wireless device that are specific to the geographic location of the mobile wireless device.

10. The method as in claim 8, comprising the steps of:

receiving by the message server a message exposure data file from the wireless device via the wireless device into the message server, enabling the message server to compile statistical message exposure data for the message provider.

11. The method as in claim 8, the message provider interface comprising the steps of:

entering a message in the message server, by selecting a message format type from, audio, text, image, and flash animation, and providing a corresponding message file in a web interface to the message server.

12. The method as in claim 8, the message provider interface comprising the steps of:

selecting the message delivery demographics, the number of deliveries, and the time period of delivery by the message provider, for exposing the message to the wireless device user during the wireless device use.

13. The method as in claim 8, comprising the steps of:

using the message provider interface to the message server, by the message provider, for planning an advertising campaign using the mobile advertising platforms.

14. The method as in claim 13, comprising the steps of:

a. planning, designing and activating an advertising campaign;

b. collecting status data for message exposure to wireless devices from the message server and refining the campaign by changing the message type, delivery method, demographics and delivery period.

15. A mobile advertising system, the system comprising:

a message server in a global computing and communication network, a mobile wireless device of the type of smart phones with a display and a touch screen operating in a cellular wireless communication network, and a mobile device user;

the message server having a database server that pre-stores in a user database (i) identifications of pre-authorized wireless devices with their security associations that provide for mutual identification and authentication between the device and the message server, (ii) wireless device-user demographic data, and (iii) information reflective of a screen size for each pre-authorized wireless device;

the message server having an interface on a global computer network with a message provider, the message provider interface is used by the message provider to enter commercial messages with selected demographic data for the message server to receive and store such messages in a message database of the database server;

the message server having a wireless interface with a pre-authorized wireless device in the user database and the database server automatically on a periodic basis downloading a device-user demographic customized message file with multiple commercial messages to the wireless device, wherein each message in the message file has a preprogrammed criterion for use by the mobile wireless device, wherein the preprogrammed criterion characterizes each of these messages, with at least the attributes of message types of visual, text, or aural, message frequency, and a time duration of the message, wherein the message type, message frequency, and time duration of each message is stored in the single message file, and wherein when a message type is visual, the stored information reflective of a screen size is used to structure a corresponding commercial message to a size of the screen of a corresponding pre-authorized wireless device;

the wireless device having an inbound wireless data communication logic with a storage logic that receives and stores the message file, the message file has, audio, text, image, and flash format commercial messages from the message server, wherein a wireless device that receives the single message file subsequently detects onset of a mobile device function, automatically selects a message from the single message file using the preprogrammed criterion, puts on hold the mobile device function for a brief period of time equal to the time duration of the messages, and exposes the message to a wireless device user;

wherein the message server receives an account record from the mobile device which includes information on message exposure frequency to the mobile device user.

16. The system as in claim 15, further comprising:

the device having a logic that integrates the commercial messages from the stored memory of the device into an incoming and outgoing communication to and from the user, the number of messages so integrated in a single communication being limited in number and duration not to exceed a threshold.

17. The system as in claim 15, further comprising:

the device having a logic that determines initiation of the device use, selects one or more of commercial messages according to a preprogrammed criterion from the message data file in a storage memory of the device, and exposing the selected messages to the device user.

18. The system as in claim 15, further comprising:

the device having a message tracking logic that tracks which messages from the message file have been exposed, number of times they have been exposed, and periodically sends an account record to the message server.

19. The system as in claim 15, comprising:

the message server receives from the wireless device via the wireless device interface, a message exposure data file from the wireless device, enabling the message server to compile statistical message exposure data for the message provider.

20. The system as in claim 15, further comprising:

the communication use cost of the device is discounted in return for being exposed commercial messages during the device use.