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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2010
Shane Blaser, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Sean Agnew, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Namakal Kannan, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Paul NG, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Shane Blaser, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Sean Agnew, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Namakal Kannan, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Paul Ng, Westlake Village, CA (US);
NetZero, Inc., Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
There is disclosed a server and local device that interface for selecting advertisements to be viewed by users of an online service based upon user activity. The local device preferably maintains a targeted activity list of activity identifiers and associated advertisements. The local device monitors the activity on the local device and compares the activity to the identifiers in the targeted activity list. If the activity matches one of the identifiers, the local device plays one or more advertisements.