Instant messaging context specific advertisements

• US 20050010641A1
• Filed: 05/30/2003
• Published: 01/13/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Staack, Jens
• Application Number:
  US10/447,993
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010641A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

The invention proposes a method for providing context-related information, comprising the steps of analysing (S1, S2) whether a message contains a predetermined expression, and in case the predetermined expression is contained in the message, generating (S4) a predetermined information based on the predetermined expression. The invention also proposes a corresponding network system.

Claims

1. A method for providing context-related information, comprising the steps of

analysing (S1, S2) whether a message contains a predetermined expression, and

in case the predetermined expression is contained in the message, generating (S4) predetermined information based on the predetermined expression.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined expression comprises a specific word or a specific word combination.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined expression comprises a logic combination of different specific words or different specific word combinations.

4. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 3, wherein the message is sent from a user equipment (4, 5, 6) of a subscriber and the predetermined information generated in the generating step is sent to the user equipment.

5. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 4, further comprising the step of displaying the predetermined information on a display means of the user equipment.

6. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 5, wherein a plurality of user equipments (4, 5, 6) of a plurality of subscribers are involved in a communication during which the message is sent, and

in the generating step (S4), the predetermined information is sent to all or a part of the plurality of user equipments.

7. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 6, wherein the message is a text message.

8. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 7, wherein the method is carried out in a network control element providing a messages service.

9. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 8, wherein the generating step comprises the steps of

sending (S41) the key expression to an specific information server,

determining (S42), in the specific information server, whether a specific information is associated to the received key expression,

in case a specific information is associated to the received key expression, outputting (S43, S44) the specific information as the predetermined information.

10. The method according to one of the claims 1 to 9, wherein the predetermined expression is stored in a database (22), and during the analysing step (S1, S2), the database is accessed in order to determine whether the predetermined expression is contained in the message.

11. The method according one of the claims 1 to 10, wherein the generating step (S4) is performed only after the analysing step reveals that the predetermined expression is contained in the message for a predetermined number of time.

12. A network system for providing messages services, comprising a network control element (1), wherein the network control element comprises

means (2) for analysing whether a message received from a subscriber contains a predetermined expression and deciding whether the expression is contained in the message, and

means (2) for generating predetermined information based on the predetermined expression.

13. The network system according to claim 12, wherein the predetermined expression comprises a specific word or a specific word combination.

14. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 13, wherein the predetermined expression comprises a logic combination of different specific words or different specific word combinations.

15. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 14, further comprising a user equipment (4, 5, 6) of a subscriber,

wherein the user equipment (4, 5, 6) comprises means for sending a message to the network control element, and the network control element comprises means for sending the predetermined information to the user equipment.

16. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 15, wherein the user equipment comprises means for displaying the predetermined information.

17. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 16, further comprising a plurality of user equipments (4, 5, 6) of a plurality of subscribers, wherein

the network control element (1) comprises means for sending the predetermined information to all or a part of the plurality of user equipments.

18. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 17, wherein the message is a text message.

19. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 18, further comprising a specific information server (3), wherein

the network control element (1) comprises means for sending the key expression to the specific information server,

the specific information server (3) comprises means for determining whether a specific information is associated to the received key expression, and for outputting the specific information as the predetermined information to the network control element (1), in case a specific information is associated to the received key expression.

20. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 19, wherein analysing means (2) of the network control element (1) comprises a database (22) for storing the predetermined expression, and the analysing means (2) is adapted to access the database (22) in order to determine whether the predetermined expression is contained in the message.

21. The network system according to one of the claims 12 to 20, wherein the generating means (2) is adapted to generate the predetermined information only after the analysing means has determined that the predetermined expression is contained in the message for a predetermined number of time.