Displaying advertising content in a shell interface
OwnerRaghavendra Kulkarniinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure generally may disclose a web-based online network drive that may be utilized by many users. Furthermore, this disclosure may provide for an efficient, web-based file system, which may be available as a network drive on a local computer.
Claims21
1-28. (canceled)
A hardware implemented computer readable storage medium storing a computer program, the computer program comprising instructions which, when executed by a computing platform, cause the computing platform to:
- create a shell interface configured to transmit information between a client computing device, a web-based data store and a content provider;
- display the shell interface as a common file folder so it resembles a native file folder within an operating system of the computing platform;
- display a set of data files located at the web-based data store in a first section of the shell interface, wherein the data files are user data files stored remotely from the client computing device at the web-based data store;
- receive advertising content from the content provider;
- and
- display the advertising content in a second section of the shell interface.
A method for delivering advertising content to a computing device, the method comprising:
- providing a shell interface for the computing device, wherein the shell interface is configured to resemble a file folder or network drive as a common file folder or network drive would ordinarily be displayed in an operating system of the computing device;
- populating a first section of the shell interface with user data files located remotely from the computing device on a web-based data store;
- and
- configuring the shell interface to connect to a content provider, wherein the shell interface displays advertising content received from the content provider in a second section of the shell interface.
The method of claim, wherein the shell interface is integrated into the operating system of the computing device to make the shell interface appear as a native folder system in the operating system.
A computer readable medium storing a computer program product, the computer program product comprising instruction executable by a processor for:
- creating a shell interface;
- displaying the shell interface as integrated into an operating system of a computing device so it resembles a common folder system in the operating system;
- receiving a list of user data files, wherein the user data files are remotely located on a web-based data store;
- displaying the list of user data files in a first section of the shell interface;
- receiving advertising content from a content provider;
- displaying the advertising content in a second section of the shell interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.