Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080221909 | ANIMATED CONNECTION PAGE - A method and device for facilitating interaction with one or more advertisement functionalities is provided. An advertisement middleware component provides advertisement functionalities for interfacing with one or more systems and components of an underlying device. The advertisement middleware component includes a connection page that provides a consistent and trusted user interface for mobile advertisement. | 09-11-2008 |
20080263584 | Advertising Communications Interface - Provided is an apparatus for initiating a bidirectional communications channel via an advertising interface. The apparatus includes a communications unit configured to send and receive data and a processing unit in communication with the communications unit. The processing unit is configured to cause advertising data to be transmitted to a communications device for output as a selectable advertising interface. The advertising data may include contact data for contacting an entity associated with the advertising data, such as an entity associated with content of the advertising data. The contact data may be configured such that selection of the advertising interface at the communications device automatically prompts initiation of a bidirectional communications channel between the communications device and the entity. Methods and computer program products for initiating a bidirectional communications channel via an advertising interface are also provided. | 10-23-2008 |
20090106413 | Method and apparatus for detecting click fraud - Detecting click fraud at a user device involves detecting a event targeted to a network service that is rated based on the number of individuals who access the network service. The event is of a type associated with user interface selections. It is determined whether the user device is in a low-power state contemporaneously with the detection of the event. The event is caused to be disregarded for the purposes of rating the network service based on a determination that the user device was in the low power state contemporaneously with the detection of the event. | 04-23-2009 |
20090111433 | Method, System, and Program for Transmission of Multimedia Data - A method and system for transmitting ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090233587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING CAPABILITIES OF A DEVICE - A method and system for transmitting data to a device is described. The method includes steps of comparing, in a server, a list of capabilities of the server against a list of capabilities of a mobile terminal and creating a list of capabilities in the server and not in the mobile terminal. The method and system wirelessly transmit, to the mobile terminal, a request to confirm the capabilities of the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal receives the request and the list of capabilities and compares the list of capabilities to current capabilities of the mobile terminal and then wirelessly transmits data identifying its capabilities to the server, the data including information of new capabilities of the mobile terminal. The server then updates the list of capabilities of the mobile terminal based on the information of new capabilities. | 09-17-2009 |
20100169157 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for providing targeted advertising. An apparatus may include a processor configured to generate a targeting vector and provide the targeting vector to an advertising platform to permit one or more advertisements to be selected based at least in part upon the provided targeting vector. The processor may be further configured to receive the one or more advertisements from the advertising platform. The processor may additionally be configured to monitor a user's interaction with the received advertisements to determine an effectiveness level of the advertisements. The processor may be further configured to update the targeting vector when the determined effectiveness level is less than a target effectiveness level by modifying the targeting vector to enhance the effectiveness level of advertisements selected based at least in part upon the targeting vector. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 07-01-2010 |
20120150638 | METHOD, NETWORK SERVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION RELATING TO MAP INFORMATION - The invention relates to a solution in which advertisement icons displayed together with map information relate to the displayed map information. In one embodiment of the invention, some or all of the advertisement icons are from service providers situated within the geographical area displayed by the map information. | 06-14-2012 |
20120207136 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED TERMINAL, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONFIGURING AND UPDATING SERVICE ACCESS POINTS AND PROVIDING SERVICE CONTENT IN THE MOBILE DOMAIN - Various techniques for service access point configuration for mobile terminals of wireless systems are provided. Pre-configured service access point settings may be provided on a multimedia memory card with a client application capable of configuring the service access point settings in the mobile terminal from the pre-configured service access point settings on the multimedia memory card. Over-the-air updating of service access point settings may be performed by communication between a service access point and a mobile terminal or a client application on the mobile terminal for automatically configuring service access point settings on the mobile terminal based upon information provided by the service access point. Service content specific pricing in the mobile domain is also provided. Service content specific pricing content delivery may be provided through a particular service access point configured for the service content specific pricing. | 08-16-2012 |
20140335896 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATING A MOBILE TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a method and system for locating a mobile terminal addressed in a location service request by an overlay identity. A database ( | 11-13-2014 |