Methods and apparatuses for geographic area selections in pay-per-call advertisement
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국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06Q-030/00
G05B-019/418
출원번호
US-0095853
(2005-03-30)
등록번호
US-8121898
(2012-02-21)
발명자
/ 주소
Altberg, Ebbe
Barach, Marc
Faber, Scott
Fordyce, Michael
Hickson, Chris
Hirson, Ron
Somorjai, John
Van der Linden, Sean
출원인 / 주소
UTBK, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls for geographic area based advertisements. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser having a telephone number, the
Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls for geographic area based advertisements. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser having a telephone number, the advertisement including one of: a telephone number assigned to the advertiser and a reference to the telephone number assigned to the advertiser; and providing the advertisement for delivery to users of interest in the target geographic area, the advertiser billed for the advertisement based on telephonic connections made to the telephone number of the advertiser through the telephone number assigned to the advertiser.
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1. A computer implemented method, comprising: receiving, via a computing device, an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser, the advertiser having a first telephone number, the advertisement including one of: a second telephone number assigned to the advertiser a
1. A computer implemented method, comprising: receiving, via a computing device, an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser, the advertiser having a first telephone number, the advertisement including one of: a second telephone number assigned to the advertiser and a reference to the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser, wherein telephonic connections through the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser connect a user to the advertiser only; andproviding the advertisement for delivery to users of interest in the target geographic area only, the advertiser being billed for the advertisement based on the telephonic connections made to the first telephone number of the advertiser through the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the target geographic area comprises one from a group consisting of: city; state; county; country; and region. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the target geographic area comprises an indication of an area represented by a zip code. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the target geographic area comprises a distance covering a surrounding area of one from a group consisting of: a zip code; a city; and a location. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the indication of the target geographic area comprises a radius to a business location of the advertiser. 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving content for the advertisement from the advertiser, the content including the first telephone number of the advertiser; andreplacing the first telephone number of the advertiser with one of the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser and the reference to the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser to generate the advertisement. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the advertisement is provided to a media channel for delivery to users of interest in the target geographic area; and the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser is further associated with the media channel. 8. The method of claim 6, wherein the advertisement is provided to a user of interest in the target geographic area through one of: newspaper;radio broadcast;television broadcast;web server;wireless application protocol server; andshort message service based server. 9. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a phone call at the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser;determining a geographic area from the phone call;determining the first telephone number of the advertiser based at least partially on matching the geographic area determined from the phone call and the target geographic area of the advertisement; andconnecting the phone call to the first telephone number of the advertiser. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the geographic area determined from the phone call is looked up from a database according to a telephone number of the phone call obtained from an automatic number identification service. 11. The method of claim 9, wherein the geographic area determined from the phone call is based on a cellular positioning system. 12. The method of claim 9, further comprising: determining a media channel creditable for providing a user the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser. 13. The method of claim 12, further comprising: storing information to indicate a connection made for the phone call to the first telephone number of the advertiser, the information including an indication of the media channel. 14. The method of claim 13, further comprising: debiting an account of the advertiser electronically for the connection made for the phone call to the first telephone number of the advertiser. 15. The method of claim 1, further comprising: transmitting the advertisement to a user when the user requests information in the target geographic area. 16. The method of claim 1, further comprising: transmitting the advertisement to a user device when the user device enters into the target geographic area. 17. The method of claim 1, wherein: the advertisement for delivery to a user located within the target geographic area is determined by a location of a user device over which the user receives the advertisement. 18. The method of claim 1, wherein: the advertisement for delivery to a user located within the target geographic area is determined by a location of a user device upon which the user requests information associated with the advertisement. 19. The method of claim 1, wherein: the advertisement for delivery to a user located within the target geographic area is determined by a content of a request from the user for information through a search engine. 20. The method of claim 1, wherein: the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser reflects the target geographic area. 21. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method, the method comprising: receiving an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser, the advertiser having a first telephone number, the advertisement including one of: a second telephone number assigned to the advertiser and a reference to the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser, wherein telephonic connections through the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser connect a user to the advertiser only; andproviding the advertisement for delivery to users of interest in the target geographic area only, the advertiser being billed for the advertisement based on the telephonic connections made to the first telephone number of the advertiser through the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser. 22. A computer system, comprising: at least one server for: receiving an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser, the advertiser having a first telephone number, the advertisement including one of: a second telephone number assigned to the advertiser and a reference to the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser, wherein telephonic connections through the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser connect a user to the advertiser only; andproviding the advertisement for delivery to users of interest in the target geographic area only, the advertiser being billed for the advertisement based on the telephonic connections made to the first telephone number of the advertiser through the second telephone number assigned to the advertiser.
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