Patents by Inventor ALISTAIR RUSSELL

ALISTAIR RUSSELL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20160171552
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for processing advertisement opportunities when a user views content on a mobile device. An agent on a mobile device may contextualize a portion of a page being viewed to identify and send contextual data to a contextualization service. The contextualization service may use the contextual data to select a campaign from a plurality of campaigns to deliver an in line banner advertisement for content being viewed. Based on the selected campaign, the contextualization service may send the agent an advertisement or campaign information for display, such as an inline banner at a natural break in the content being viewed. Instead of having an advertisement predetermined or fixed prior to the display of the content, the present systems and methods may dynamically contextualize the page at the point of viewing based on the content of the page being viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Mark Mason, Alistair Russell
  • Patent number: 9262766
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for processing advertisement opportunities when a user views content on a mobile device. An agent on a mobile device may contextualize a portion of a page being viewed to identify and send contextual data to a contextualization service. The contextualization service may use the contextual data to select a campaign from a plurality of campaigns to deliver an in line banner advertisement for content being viewed. Based on the selected campaign, the contextualization service may send the agent an advertisement or campaign information for display, such as an inline banner at a natural break in the content being viewed. Instead of having an advertisement predetermined or fixed prior to the display of the content, the present systems and methods may dynamically contextualize the page at the point of viewing based on the content of the page being viewed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: VIBRANT MEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Mark Mason, Alistair Russell
  • Publication number: 20130091415
    Abstract: Where a page has dynamic (DHTML) content that isn't visible to the end-user when the page is first rendered, a client agent of the augmentation system of the present solution detects the visibility status of areas that may become visible after end-user action. The client agent adds event handlers so that upon these areas becoming visible the client agent sends the content data of the invisible areas, now visible, to the server and receive a new set of hooks and adverts to place in the newly visible content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Roy Stilling, Alistair Russell
  • Publication number: 20130054371
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for processing advertisement opportunities when a user views content on a mobile device. An agent on a mobile device may contextualize a portion of a page being viewed to identify and send contextual data to a contextualization service. The contextualization service may use the contextual data to select a campaign from a plurality of campaigns to deliver an in line banner advertisement for content being viewed. Based on the selected campaign, the contextualization service may send the agent an advertisement or campaign information for display, such as an inline banner at a natural break in the content being viewed. Instead of having an advertisement predetermined or fixed prior to the display of the content, the present systems and methods may dynamically contextualize the page at the point of viewing based on the content of the page being viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Daniel Mark Mason, Alistair Russell
  • Publication number: 20120246561
    Abstract: The solution described herein provides augmented content to keywords on a page based on deeper contextualization of the current page. Embodiments of systems and methods extend the scope of content harvesting to cover a wider range of page elements that are harvested for determining keywords and content to augment the keywords To improve contextualization for keyword and augment content determination, the present solution may harvest content from parts of pages that cannot be hooked by embodiments of the systems previously described herein. Some of these parts of the pages may not be hooked or hookable, either for technical reasons, such as title tags, attributes or image alt attributes) or for policy reasons, such as an anchor text. To further improve contextualization, the present solution may also retrieve content from linked pages not currently displayed to use parts of these pages for keywords and augmented content determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: TOBY DOIG, ROY STILLING, ALISTAIR RUSSELL