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AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorsCharles M. Link II, Donald M. Cardina, Vernon Meadows
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A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on certain wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device that is specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages stored in the database is also associated with one or more demographic codes, and users of wireless communications device select from one more demographic codes to describer their advertisement preferences. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographics codes that are associated with the messages.
A method for transmitting a message over a wireless network to a wireless communications device, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for transmitting an advertisement over a wireless network to a wireless communications device, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for transmitting an advertisement over a wireless network to a wireless communications device, the wireless network in communication with an advertisements database containing a plurality of advertisements to be transmitted and an advertisers database containing account information of advertisers sponsoring advertisements in the advertisements database, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for transmitting advertisements over a wireless network to wireless communications devices, the wireless network in communication with an advertisements database containing a plurality of advertisements and a users database containing identification data of a plurality of wireless communications devices, and wherein the advertisements and the identification data are each associated with at least one category code, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for transmitting advertisement coupons over a wireless network to wireless communications devices, the wireless network in communication with an advertisements database containing a plurality of advertisement coupons and a users database containing identification data of a plurality of wireless communications devices, wherein the advertisement coupons are associated with respective advertisers, said method comprising the steps of:
A system for transmitting messages over a wireless network to wireless communications devices, comprising:
A system for transmitting messages over a wireless network to a wireless communications devices, comprising:
An Internet web site for enabling advertisers to generate requests for transmission of advertisement messages to wireless communications devices over a wireless network, comprising:
An Internet web site for enabling users of wireless communications devices to register to receive advertisement messages transmitted over wireless communications devices, the web site comprising:
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