Patents by Inventor Dana Borger

Dana Borger 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).

  • Patent number: 8862779
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
    Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
  • Patent number: 8843590
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: EBM/IP, LLC
    Inventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon, Xiaohu Guan, Dana Borger
  • Publication number: 20100185512
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
  • Patent number: 7653748
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Simplexity, LLC
    Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
  • Patent number: 7162221
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided that allow wireless device users to “opt-in” to a direct marketing campaign by “clicking on” a conventional advertisement displayed within a wireless device and register to receive future promotions via one or more direct marketing channels. Likewise, users can “opt-out” of future direct marketing by “clicking on” content displayed within various promotional content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: InPhonic, Inc.
    Inventors: David Spitz, Brian Watkins, Steve Cox, Jay Thrash, Matthew Squire, Dana Borger
  • Publication number: 20030114157
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided that allow wireless device users to “opt-in” to a direct marketing campaign by “clicking on” a conventional advertisement displayed within a wireless device and register to receive future promotions via one or more direct marketing channels. Likewise, users can “opt-out” of future direct marketing by “clicking on” content displayed within various promotional content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: David Spitz, Brian Watkins, Steve Cox, Jay Thrash, Matthew Squire, Dana Borger
  • Publication number: 20020123334
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program produces for dynamically inserting content into Web documents for display by client devices are provided. User requests for Web documents are sent from a client device to a first server. In response to receiving the user request, the first server sends a request to a second server for content to be included within a requested Web document. The second server sends content having a format specified by the markup tag to the first server. The first server then serves a requested Web document with the content included therewithin at the identified location to a client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
  • Publication number: 20020082938
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate and account for call-through advertising between third party advertisers and users of Web-enabled telephone devices, are provided. An advertisement server serves an advertisement associated with a third party to a Web-enabled telephone device for insertion within a Web page displayed within the device. The advertisement contains an embedded hyperlink associated with the advertisement server. In response to user activation of the advertisement, the advertisement server serves telephone connection information of the third party to the Web-enabled telephone device. The telephone connection information is in a format that can be utilized by the Web-enabled telephone device to establish telephone communications with the third party. Information associated with serving the telephone connection information to the Web-enabled telephone device is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
  • Publication number: 20020062393
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products that facilitate the integration and accounting of advertising within audio Web content requested by users via telephone devices are provided. Upon receiving a request from a user for Web content via a telephone device, a Web server retrieves an advertisement from an advertisement server, inserts the retrieved advertisement within the user requested Web content, and forwards the user requested Web content and advertisement to a text-to-speech transcoder for conversion to an audio format. The text-to-speech transcoder converts the Web content and advertisement from a text-based format to an audio format and serves the Web content and advertisement in the audio format to the user client device via a telephone link established with the user client device. If an advertisement is interactive, a text-to-speech transcoder may be configured to notify an advertisement server of user interaction with the advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Dana Borger, Steve Cox, Tom Gordon, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash
  • Publication number: 20020004855
    Abstract: An application program interface (API) is operably associated with application programs executing on an electronic device and enables the application programs to retrieve, store, and display content. The API enables application programs to communicate with other application programs and to send/retrieve content to/from other application programs. In addition, the API is configured to perform various event accounting functions. A gateway communicates with an electronic device application program via the API and is configured to retrieve content from a content server in response to receiving requests from the application programs. The gateway is configured to serve content retrieved from the content server to the electronic device, as well as to other servers and/or devices. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for dynamically selecting advertisements for use within user-requested content wherein the advertisements are stored locally within a user client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Inventors: Steve Cox, David Spitz, Matthew Squire, Jay Thrash, Tom Gordon, Xiaohu Guan, Dana Borger