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`(12) United States Patent
`Filepp et al.
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`(10) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 7,072,849 Bl
`Jul. 4, 2006
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`(54) METHOD FOR PRESENTING ADVERTISING
`IN AN INTERACTiVE SERVICE
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`(56)
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`Inventors: Robert Filepp, White Plains, NY (US);
`Alexander W. Bidwell, New York, NY
`(US); Francis C. Young, Pearl River,
`NY (US); Allan M. Wolf, Ridgefield,
`CT (US); Duane Tiemann, Ossining,
`NY (US); Mel Bellar, New York, NY
`(US); Robert D. Cohen, Pouyhquag,
`NY (US); James A. Galambos,
`deceased, late of Westport, CT (US);
`Kenneth H. Appleman, Brewster, NY
`(US); Sam Meo, Carmel, NY (US)
`
`( 73) Assignee: International Business Machines
`Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
`
`( * ) Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by O days.
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`ABSTRACT
`(57)
`A method for presenting advertising in an interactive service
`provided on a computer network, the service featuring
`applications which include pre-created, interactive text/
`graphic sessions is described. The method features steps for
`presenting advertising concurrently with service applica-
`tions at the user terminal configured as a reception system.
`In accordance with the method, the advertising is structured
`in a manner comparable to the service applications enabling
`the applications to be presented at a first portion of a display
`associated with the reception system and the advertising
`presented at a second portion. Further, steps are provided for
`storing and managing advertising at the user reception
`system so that advertising can be pre-fetched from the
`network and staged in anticipation of being called for
`presentation. This minimizes the potential for communica-
`tion line interference between application and advertising
`traffic and makes the advertising available at the reception
`system so as not to delay presentation of the service appli-
`cations. Yet further the method features steps for individu-
`alizing the advertising supplied to enhance potential user
`interest by providing advertising based on a characterization
`of the user as defined by the users interaction with the
`service, user demographics and geographical location. Yet
`additionally, advertising is provided with transactional
`facilities so that users can interact with it.
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`METHOD FOR PRESENTING ADVERTISING
`IN AN INTERACTIVE SERVICE
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`RELATED APPLICATIONS
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`This is a division ofapplication Ser. No. 07/388,156 filed
`Jul. 28, 1989, Sep. 13, 1994, as U.S. Pat. No. 5,347,632,
`application Ser. No. 07/388,156 being a continuation in part
`of application Ser. No. 07/328,790, now abandoned filed
`Mar. 23, 1989, which itself was a continuation in part of io
`application Ser. No. 07/219,931, now abandoned filed Jul.
`15, 1988.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`i . Field of Use
`This invention relates generally to a distributed process-
`ing, interactive computer network intended to provide very
`large numbers of simultaneous users; e.g. millions, access to
`an interactive service having large numbers; e.g., thousands,
`of applications which include pre-created, interactive text/
`graphic sessions; and more particularly, to a method for
`presenting advertising to service users during interactive
`sessions, the method featuring steps for presenting adver-
`tising concurrently with applications, the advertising being
`organized as data which is stored for presentation and
`replenished at the user sites so as to minimize interference
`with retrieval and presentation of application data; the
`method also featuring steps for individualizing the adver-
`tising presented based on user characterizations defined by
`service interaction and/or other data such as user demo-
`graphics and geographical location.
`2. Prior Art
`Interactive computer networks are not new. Traditionally
`they have included conventional, hierarchical architectures
`wherein a central, host computer responds to the information
`requests of multiple users. An illustration would be a time-
`sharing network in which multiple users, each at a remote
`terminal, log onto a host that provides data and software
`resource for sequentially receiving user data processing
`requests, executing them and supplying responses back to
`the users.
`While such networks have been successful in making the
`processing power of large computers available to many
`users, problems have existed with them. For example, in
`such networks, the host has been required to satisfy all the
`user data processing requests. As a result, processing bottle-
`necks arise at the host that cause network slowdowns and
`compel expansion in computing resources; i.e., bigger and
`more complex computer facilities, where response times are
`sought to be held low in the face of increasing user popu-
`lations.
`Host size and complexity, however, are liabilities for
`interactive networks recently introduced to offer large num-
`bers of the public access to transactional services such as
`home shopping, banking, and investment maintenance, as
`well as informational services concerning entertainment,
`business and personal matters. As can be appreciated, com-
`mercial interactive networks will have to provide attractive
`services at low cost and with minimal response times in
`order to be successful. Unlike military and governmental
`networks where, because of the compulsory nature of the
`service performed, costs, content and efficiency are of sec-
`ondary concern, in commercial services, since use is pre-
`dominantly elective, and paid for by the consumer, costs will
`have to be held low, content made interesting and response
`times reduced in order to attract and hold both users who
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`would subscribe to the service and merchandisers who
`would rely on it as a channel of distribution for their good
`and services. Accordingly, if the service delivery system is
`allowed to increase in size and complexity, either unchecked
`or unsubsidized, higher use costs would have to be charged
`to recover the larger capital and operating expenses, with the
`negatively, spiralling effect that fewer users could be
`attracted and be available over which to spread the costs for
`sustaining the service.
`In the past, other suppliers ofmass-media services such as
`radio, television, newspapers, and magazines, have sought to
`hold access and subscription prices to affordable levels by
`relying on advertising income to offset the costs of providing
`their users with the benefits of technological advance. How-
`ever, in the case of interactive computer services, it has not
`been apparent how advertising could be introduced without
`adversely affecting service speed and content quality, which
`as noted, are considered essential elements for service
`success.
`Particularly, in an interactive service, if advertising were
`provided in a conventional manner; as for example, by
`providing the advertising as additional data to be supplied to
`and presented at the user sites, the effort would compete with
`the supplying and presentation of service application data,
`25 and have the undesirable effect of diminishing service
`response time. More specifically, if advertising were sup-
`plied conventionally from a host to a user site, the applica-
`tion traffic, which constitutes the substance of the service,
`would have to compete with advertising for network com-
`30 munication resources. Yet additionally, even if traffic con-
`flicts were somehow avoided, the presentation ofthe service
`applications would have to be interrupted and delayed; for
`example like television and radio commercials, as advertis-
`ing content was presented to the user. The effect of these
`35 anticipated delays would be to degrade application response
`time and diminishing service attractiveness.
`Additionally, in view of the need to maintain the user' s
`interest in application content so as to drive the interactive
`session, it has not been apparent how advertising matter
`40 could be provided without distracting the user or disrupting
`the session. Where service response time is diminished for
`the sake of advertising which is either irrelevant or distaste-
`ful, insult is added to the injury, increasing the likelihood the
`user, and service, will be, simply, turned off.
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`SUMMARY OF INVENTION
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`Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a
`method for presenting advertising in an interactive service.
`It is another object of this invention to provide a method
`for presenting advertising in an interactive service which
`method enables the presentation of advertising to be inte-
`grated with presentation of service applications.
`It is a yet another object of this invention to provide a
`55 method for presenting advertising in an interactive service
`which method minimizes the potential for interference
`between the supply of interactive-service applications and
`advertising.
`It is a still another object of this invention to provide a
`60 method for presenting advertising which minimizes the
`potential for interference between presentation of interac-
`tive-service applications and advertising. It is yet a further
`object of this invention to provide a method for presenting
`advertising in an interactive service which method enables
`65 the advertising presented to be individualized to the user to
`whom it is presented in order to increase the likelihood the
`advertising will be of interest to the user.
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`And, it is still a further object ofthis invention to provide
`a method for presenting advertising in an interactive service
`which method enables the user to transactionally interact
`with the advertising presented.
`Briefly, the method for presenting advertising in accor-
`dance with this invention achieves the above-noted and
`other objects by featuring steps for presenting advertising
`concurrently with service applications at the user reception
`system; i.e., terminal. In accordance with the method, the io
`advertising is structured in a manner comparable to the
`manner in which the service applications are structured. This
`enables the applications to be presented at a first portion of
`a display associated with the reception system and the
`advertising to be presented concurrently at a second portion 15
`of the display. Further, in accordance with the method, the
`user reception system at which the advertising is presented
`includes facility for storing and managing the advertising so
`that it can be pre-fetched from the network and staged at the
`reception system in anticipation of being called for presen-
`tation. This minimizes the potential for communication line
`interference between application and advertising traffic and
`makes the advertising available at the reception system so as
`not to delay presentation of the service applications. Yet
`further the method features steps for individualizing the
`advertising supplied to enhance potential user interest by
`providing advertising based on a characterization ofthe user
`as defined by the users interaction with the service, user
`demographics and geographical location. Yet additionally, 30
`advertising is provided with transactional facilities so that
`users can interact with it.
`In preferred form, the method includes step for organizing
`advertising and applications as objects that collectively
`include presentation data and executable program instruc-
`tions for generating the advertising and applications at the
`reception system. In accordance with the preferred form of
`the method, advertising and application objects are selec-
`tively distributed in the service network in accordance with
`a predetermined plan based on the likelihood the applica-
`tions and advertising will be called by the respective user
`reception systems.
`Also in preferred form, the method includes step for
`maintaining an advertising object identification queue, and s
`an advertising object store that are replenished based on
`predetermined criteria as advertising is called for association
`and presentation with applications. In accordance with the
`method, as applications are executed at the reception system,
`the application objects provide generalized calls for adver- 50
`tising. The application calls for advertising are subsequently
`forwarded to the reception system advertising queue man-
`agement facility which, in turn supplies an identification of
`advertising who's selection has been individualized to the
`user based on, as noted, the user's prior interaction history
`with the service, demographics and local. Thereafter, the
`object identification for the advertising is passed to the
`object store to determine if the object is available at the
`reception system. In preferred form, ifthe advertising object
`is not available at the reception system, a sequence of
`alternative advertising object identifications can be provided
`which if also are unavailable at the reception system will
`resulting in an advertising object being requested from the
`network. In this way, advertising of interest can be targeted 65
`to the user and secured in time-efficient manner to increase
`the likelihood of user interest and avoid service distraction.
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`BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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`The above and further objects, features and advantages of
`the invention will become clear from the following more
`detailed description when read with reference to the accom-
`panying drawings in which:
`5 a block diagram of the interactive computer
`FIG. i
`network in which the method of the present invention may
`be practiced;
`FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the network illustrated
`in FIG. 1;
`FIGS. 3a and 3b are plan views of a display screen for a
`user reception system at which advertising can be presented
`to a user in accordance with the method of the present
`invention;
`FIGS. 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d are schematic drawings that
`illustrate the structure of objects, and object segments that
`may be used for advertising and applications in accordance
`with the method of the present invention;
`FIG. Sa is a schematic diagram that illustrates the con-
`figuration of the page template object which might be used
`for presentation of an application and advertising in accor-
`dance with the method of the present invention;
`FIG. Sb is a schematic diagram that illustrates page
`composition which might be used for presentation of an
`application and advertising in accordance with the method
`of the present invention;
`FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram that illustrates the protocol
`which might be used by a reception system for supporting
`applications and advertising in accordance with the method
`of the present invention;
`FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram that illustrates major layers
`for a reception system which might be used for supporting
`applications and advertising in accordance with the method
`of the present invention;
`FIG. 8 is a block diagram that illustrates native code
`modules for a reception system which might be used for
`supporting applications and advertising in accordance with
`the method of the present invention;
`FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram that illustrates an example
`of a partitioned application to be processed by a reception
`system which might be used for supporting applications and
`advertising in accordance with the method of the present
`invention;
`FIG. 10 illustrates generation of a page with a page
`processing table for a reception system which might be used
`for supporting applications and advertising in accordance
`with the method of the present invention;
`FIG. 11 is a flow diagram for an aspect ofthe navigation
`method of a reception system which might be used for
`supporting applications and advertising in accordance with
`the method of the present invention.
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`DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED
`EMBODIMENT
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`General System Description
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`FIGS. i and 2 show a network in which the method of the
`present invention for presenting advertising might be used.
`As seen the network, designated 10, includes a plurality of
`reception units within a reception layer 401 for displaying
`information and providing transactional services. In this
`arrangement, many users each access network 10 with a
`conventional personal computer; e.g., one of the IBM or
`IBM-compatible type, which has been provided with appli-
`cation software to constitute a reception system (RS) 400.
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`structure that includes an information layer 100, a switchlfile
`server layer 200, and cache/concentrator layer 300 as well as
`reception layer 401. This structure maintains active appli-
`cation databases and delivers requested parts of the data-
`bases on demand to the plurality ofRS 400's, shown in FIG.
`2. As seen in FIG. 2, cache/concentrator layer 300 includes
`a plurality of cache/concentrator units 302, each or which
`serve a plurality of RS 400 units over l