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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2014
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Robert H. Burcham, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jason R. Delker, Olathe, KS (US);
Geoffrey A. Holmes, Olathe, KS (US);
Richard A. Rofail, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method for proxying an advertisement content between a content source provider and an electronic device comprises receiving, at an advertisement gateway, an advertisement from an advertisement provider server, determining at least one content source reference in the advertisement identifies a content source provider, embedding the at least one content source reference as a parameter in the advertisement, rewriting the at least one content source reference from the content source provider to a proxy reference identifying the advertisement gateway, creating a modified advertisement based on the embedding and the rewriting, sending the modified advertisement to an electronic device, receiving a content request message from the electronic device based on the proxy reference that identifies the at least one content source reference, retrieving the content from the content source provider using the at least one content source reference, and providing the content to the electronic device.