Delivery of location significant advertising
First Claim
1. A content delivery service server that delivers user selected content and content-subsidizing advertisements from a wide area network to a communications unit, comprising:
- a user-determined selection of content;
an advertisement location attribute associated with a content-subsidizing advertisement;
a communications unit location detector that obtains a current geographic location of the communications unit;
a location comparator that compares said advertisement location attribute to said current location of the communications unit; and
a delivery interface that publishes said selection of content and said content-subsidizing advertisement when a location match is detected by said location comparator.
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Abstract
In order to fulfill the need for content-subsidizing advertisements to be different when a user'"'"'s communication unit is away from the user'"'"'s home geographic location, a location attribute is associated with advertisements. A current location is determined for the user'"'"'s communication unit, compared to the location attributes, and an advertisement having a location attribute matching the current location is delivered to the communication unit in along with user-desired content.
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34 Claims
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1. A content delivery service server that delivers user selected content and content-subsidizing advertisements from a wide area network to a communications unit, comprising:
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a user-determined selection of content;
an advertisement location attribute associated with a content-subsidizing advertisement;
a communications unit location detector that obtains a current geographic location of the communications unit;
a location comparator that compares said advertisement location attribute to said current location of the communications unit; and
a delivery interface that publishes said selection of content and said content-subsidizing advertisement when a location match is detected by said location comparator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A content delivery service server that delivers user selected content and content-subsidizing advertisements from a wide area network to a communications unit, comprising:
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a user-determined selection of content;
a user home location representation;
an advertisement location attribute associated with a content-subsidizing advertisement;
a comparator that compares said advertisement location attribute to said user home location representation and generates an enabling signal when said user home location representation and said advertisement location attribute do not match; and
a delivery interface that publishes said selection of content and said content-subsidizing advertisement in response to said enabling signal. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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12. A moveable communications unit comprising:
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a geographic locator that determines the current geographic location of the communications unit;
a communications interface that, upon receipt of a stimulus signal, couples to a content delivery service provider and conveys, inter alia, said current geographic location to said content delivery service provider; and
a display, coupled to said communications interface, that presents content, the general subject matter of which has been selected by a user, and content-subsidizing advertisements selected by said content delivery service provider, said advertisement selection criteria based at least upon an advertisement location attribute and geographic proximity to said current geographic location of said communications unit.
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18. A method of delivering user selected content and content-subsidizing advertisements to a communications unit comprising the steps of:
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storing a user-determined selection of content;
storing an advertisement location attribute associated with a content-subsidizing advertisement;
detecting a current geographic location of the communications unit ;
comparing said advertisement location attribute to said detected current geographic location of the communications unit; and
publishing said stored user-determined selection of content and said content-subsidizing advertisement when a location match results from said comparing step.
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28. A method of delivering user selected content and content-subsidizing advertisements to a communications unit comprising the steps of:
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storing a user-determined selection of content;
recalling a user home location representation;
storing an advertisement location attribute associated with a content-subsidizing advertisement;
comparing said advertisement location attribute to said user home location representation;
generating an enabling signal when said user home location representation and said advertisement location attribute do not match; and
publishing said selection of content and said content-subsidizing advertisement in response to said enabling signal.
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