Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080134090
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Gerold Gorman (2 months ago)
A method implemented on a computing device with an associated display, the method comprising:
"sending identity information to a first server"
This was done by the Spinway application which was distributed to millions of users of the Bluelight.com free Internet Service in 1999 through 2001.
"receiving information corresponding to a video file from one of the first server and a second server"
The Spinway CD's which were distrubuted in K-Mart stores contained a K-Mart commercial performed by the country group "The Judds" - additional videos would be downloaded during idle time while the user was connected to the Internet.
"scheduling one or more actions at a first time corresponding to first scheduling information, the one or more actions including the action of playing the video file; and playing the video file."
The videos would then be scheduled to be played while the user was dialing up the connect to the Internet according to various marketing preferences - such as time of day, geographic region, user interests; etc. The videos were in the form of mpegs and or macromedia flash animations.
If a video was being played while the user was connecting to the Internet, the video would continue to play even after the connection was established, i.e., for a predetermined duration; then if the user had clicked on the video - the users browser would be directed to a specfied site based on that that particular ad. Thus the user could click on a video ad while the sofware was dialing - and be directed to the advertisers site upon being connected.
Larry Breen (2 months ago)
The problem it attempts to solve, has already been resolved in commercially available products such as MS Outlook; where unobtrusively a window is scheduled to appear to notify of new mail messages based on a login id. Is the novelty here that the file is shown is a video file?PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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