Method and system for providing sponsored information on electronic devices
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsAlan Messer, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Phuong Nguyen, Priyang Rathod
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Abstract
A system implementing a method for providing sponsored information on an electronic device determines information of interest to the user as relevant information, accesses sponsored information, and provides sponsored information based on said relevant information.
Claims20
A computer implemented method for displaying sponsored information on an electronic device, comprising:
- determining at least one suggested keyword based on activity on the electronic device, wherein each suggested keyword represents a potential interest;
- generating a user interface including the at least one suggested keyword;
- displaying the user interface on the electronic device;
- receiving a selection of a keyword selected from the user interface displayed on the electronic device;
- accessing a file comprising multiple keywords and multiple pieces of sponsored information, wherein each piece of sponsored information corresponds to a keyword of the multiple keywords;
- and
- parsing the file for one or more pieces of sponsored information corresponding to the selected keyword by:
- parsing the file for one or more sponsor web links available for the selected keyword;
- and
- generating sponsorship information for the selected keyword based on the one or more sponsor web links;
- wherein the user interface displayed on the electronic device is updated to include the selected keyword and the sponsorship information for the selected keyword.
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations including:
- determining at least one suggested keyword based on activity on the electronic device, wherein each suggested keyword represents a potential interest;
- generating a user interface including the at least one suggested keyword;
- displaying the user interface on the electronic device;
- receiving a selection of a keyword selected from the user interface displayed on the electronic device;
- accessing a file comprising multiple keywords and multiple pieces of sponsored information, wherein each piece of sponsored information corresponds to a keyword of the multiple keywords;
- and
- parsing the file for one or more pieces of sponsored information corresponding to the selected keyword by:
- parsing the file for one or more sponsor web links available for the selected keyword;
- and
- generating sponsorship information for the selected keyword based on the one or more sponsor web links;
- wherein the user interface displayed on the electronic device is updated to include the selected keyword and the sponsorship information for the selected keyword.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodied thereon instructions being executable by at least one processor to perform a method for displaying sponsored information on an electronic device, the method comprising:
- determining at least one suggested keyword based on activity on the electronic device, wherein each suggested keyword represents a potential interest;
- generating a user interface including the at least one suggested keyword;
- displaying the user interface on the electronic device;
- receiving a selection of a keyword selected from the user interface displayed on the electronic device;
- accessing a file comprising multiple keywords and multiple pieces of sponsored information, wherein each piece of sponsored information corresponds to a keyword of the multiple keywords;
- and
- parsing the file for one or more pieces of sponsored information corresponding to the selected keyword by:
- parsing the file for one or more sponsor web links available for the selected keyword;
- and
- generating sponsorship information for the selected keyword based on the one or more sponsor web links;
- wherein the user interface displayed on the electronic device is updated to include the selected keyword and the sponsorship information for the selected keyword.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.