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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2013
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Enrique de la Garza, Sammamish, WA (US);

Karin Zilberstein, Kirkland, WA (US);

Joshua Lawrence Munsee, Bellevue, WA (US);

Alexei Pineda, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04H 60/56 (2008.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/025 (2006.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention generate linked advertisements. Linked advertisements may include a preliminary advertisement and one or more subsequent advertisements. In one embodiment, the viewer is only shown the subsequent advertisement upon detecting a positive reaction to the preliminary advertisement. The subsequent advertisement is associated with presentation triggers that specify a context in which the subsequent advertisement should be presented. The context may be defined by a time of day, location, user activity, and/or other parameters. For example, the presentation trigger may specify a context in which the user is able to purchase an advertised good or service. For example, the context could be the user driving (activity context) near a coffee shop (location context) in the morning (time context). The reaction to the preliminary advertisement may be explicit or implicit.


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