Wal-mart Stores, Inc.

Simplexity, LLC

Inphonic, Inc.

Ebm/ip, LLC

Jay Thrash

Matthew B Squire

Dana Borger

David Spitz

Steve Cox

Tom Gordon

Xiaohu Guan

Brian Watkins

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. Information such as an identification of a requesting client device, user, as well as time and date information, may be recorded by an advertisement server for use in measuring effectiveness of a particular marketing and/or advertising campaign. Information associated with providing a user with additional information associated with an advertisement may also be stored.

Systems, methods and computer program products for integrating advertising within web content

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.

Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating display of content within application programs executing on electronic devices

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 &#x201c;opt-out&#x201d; of future direct marketing by &#x201c;clicking on&#x201d; content displayed within various promotional content.

Systems, methods, and computer program products for registering wireless device users in direct marketing campaigns

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