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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:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

American Teleconferencing Services, Ltd., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Boland T. Jones, Atlanta, GA (US);

David Michael Guthrie, Norcross, GA (US);

Mark A. Sjurseth, Smyrna, GA (US);

John P. Keane, Marietta, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01); H04L 12/1827 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/36 (2013.01); H04M 3/567 (2013.01); H04M 3/562 (2013.01); H04M 3/565 (2013.01); H04M 7/0027 (2013.01); H04M 2201/38 (2013.01); H04M 2201/40 (2013.01); H04M 2201/42 (2013.01); H04M 2203/2038 (2013.01); H04M 2203/655 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments of methods, systems, and computer programs are disclosed for providing advertisements in a conference user interface. One embodiment is a method comprising: a conferencing system establishing a conference between a plurality of participants via a corresponding computing device connected to the conferencing system via a communication network; presenting a conference user interface to the computing devices, the conference user interface displaying each of the participants as a unique participant object in a virtual location; an online advertising platform selecting advertisement data from one or more advertisers; providing the selected advertisement data to the conferencing system; and displaying the advertisement data with an associated advertisement object in the virtual location during the conference.


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