Content personalization of personal cellular telecommunications devices
View Patent ↗Content personalization on personal cellular telecommunications devices includes determining subscriber personalization profiles each including at least one personalization parameter, determining universal Level 0 IDMs for display on all subscribers' personal cellular telecommunications devices irrespective of their location and their subscriber personalization profiles, and determining a set of at least two different personalized Level 1 IDMs for each universal Level 0 IDM for display on subscribers' personal cellular telecommunications depending on their location and subscriber personalization profiles. Personalization of Level 1 interactive display messages can take place either network side or handset side. Network side personalization requires a personalization server with subscribers' personalization profiles. Handset side personalization requires handset subscriber personalization filters.
1. Method for displaying personalized content on personal cellular telecommunications devices, the method comprising the steps of:
transmitting a universal Level 0 interactive display message to a plurality of subscribers including first and second subscribers, said universal Level 0 interactive display message including a content precursor for display on personal cellular telecommunications devices of said subscribers and having at least one response mechanism for requesting additional information associated with the content precursor of said universal Level 0 interactive display message;
on the first subscriber invoking a response mechanism of the universal Level 0 interactive display message, displaying a first personalized Level 1 interactive display message on his personal cellular telecommunications device, the content of said first personalized Level 1 interactive display message being selected based on a first value of a first personalization parameter in a subscriber personalization profile associated with said first subscriber; and
on the second subscriber invoking a response mechanism of the universal Level 0 interactive display message, displaying a second personalized Level 1 interactive display message on his personal cellular telecommunications device, the content of said second personalized Level 1 interactive display message being selected based on a second value of the first personalization parameter in a subscriber personalization profile associated with said second subscriber, said second value of the first personalization parameter being different from said first value of the first personalization parameter, and said second personalized Level 1 interactive display message being different from the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message and the second personalized Level 1 interactive display message include an interactive option menu having at least two response mechanisms for requesting additional information.
3. The method according to claim 2 wherein the interactive option menu includes a link for browsing to a WAP page and a link for browsing to a personalized WAP page.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of subscribers includes a third subscriber having a third subscriber personalization profile including the first personalization parameter having the first value, and wherein transmitting the universal Level 0 interactive display message comprises transmitting the universal Level 0 interactive display message to said first subscriber by a first base station and transmitting the universal Level 0 interactive display message to said third subscriber by a second base station, and further comprising the step of:
on the third subscriber invoking the universal Level 0 interactive display message, displaying a third personalized Level 1 interactive display message including at least one response mechanism for requesting additional information on the personal cellular telecommunications device of the third subscriber, the third personalized Level 1 interactive display message being different from the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message notwithstanding the first subscriber's and the third subscriber's subscriber personalization profiles both having the first personalization parameter with the same first value due to the third subscriber being at a location remote from the first base transmitter station.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of subscribers includes a fourth subscriber having a fourth subscriber personalization profile, wherein the first and fourth subscriber personalization profiles have a first personalization parameter having the first value, and wherein the first subscriber personalization profile has a second personalization parameter having a first value for initiating a first action to obtain additional information, and the fourth subscriber personalization profile has the second personalization parameter having a second value for initiating a second action to obtain additional information, and further comprising the steps of:
on the first subscriber and the fourth subscriber invoking the universal Level 0 interactive display message, displaying the same first personalized Level 1 interactive display message on their respective personal cellular telecommunications devices in accordance with their respective subscriber personalization profiles having the same first value for the first personalization parameter; and
on the first subscriber and the fourth subscriber invoking the same response mechanism on the same first personalized Level 1 interactive display message on their respective personal cellular telecommunications devices, the first subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device initiating the first action to obtain additional information in accordance with his subscriber personalization profile's second personalization parameter having the first value, and the fourth subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device initiating the second action to obtain additional information in accordance with his subscriber personalization profile's second personalization parameter having the second value.
6. The method according to claim 1 wherein a base transmitter station transmits a message including the universal Level 0 interactive display message and at least one Level 1 interactive display message.
7. The method according to claim 6 wherein a base transmitter station transmits a message to the first subscriber's and the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications devices for display thereon, the message including the universal Level 0 interactive display message, the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message and the second personalized Level 1 interactive display message for handset side personalization at the first subscriber's and the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications devices.
8. The method according to claim 7 wherein the message is a Point To MultiPoint (PTMP) message.
9. The method according to claim 7 wherein the message is a Point To Point (PTP) message.
10. The method according to claim 6 wherein the base transmitter station transmits: i) a first personalized Point To Point (PTP) message to the first subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device for display thereon, the first PTP message including the universal Level 0 interactive display message and the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message, and ii) a second personalized Point To Point (PTP) message to the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device for display thereon, the second PTP message including the universal Level 0 interactive display message and the second personalized Level 1 interactive display message.
11. The method according to claim 1 wherein a base transmitter station transmits i) a Point To MultiPoint (PTMP) message including the universal Level 0 interactive display message to the first subscriber's and the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications devices for display thereon, and ii) a Point To Point (PTP) message to the first subscriber's and the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device for display thereon on the first subscriber and second subscriber invoking the universal Level 0 interactive display message, the PTP message including the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message and the second personalized Level 1 interactive display message for handset side personalization at the first subscriber's and the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications devices.
12. The method according to claim 1 wherein a base transmitter station transmits i) a Point To MultiPoint (PTMP) message including the universal Level 0 interactive display message to the first subscriber's and the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications devices for display thereon, ii) a first personalized Point To Point (PTP) message including the first personalized Level 1 interactive display message to the first subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device for display thereon on the first subscriber invoking the universal Level 0 interactive display message, and iii) a second personalized Point To Point (PTP) message including the second personalized Level 1 interactive display message to the second subscriber's personal cellular telecommunications device for display thereon on the second subscriber invoking the universal Level 0 interactive display message.
13. System for displaying personalized content on personal cellular telecommunications devices in accordance with claim 1 .
14. Personal cellular telecommunications device for displaying personalized content in accordance with claim 1 .