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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2012
Mark A. Ruzon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Keshav Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gurumurthy D. Ramkumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Donald Tanguay, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Supratik Bhattacharyya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gautam Bhargava, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark A. Ruzon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Keshav Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gurumurthy D. Ramkumar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Donald Tanguay, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Supratik Bhattacharyya, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gautam Bhargava, Palo Alto, CA (US);
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, system, and a computer program product for delivering content to a communication device, in response to an image sent by the communication device. The received image is matched with a plurality of images, and, when a match is found for the received image, content corresponding to the image is delivered to the communication device. The plurality of images is stored in an image database, and the corresponding content is stored in a content repository. The present invention enables a content provider to automatically update the image database and the content repository without any human intervention.