Proxy Server Dynamic Email Advertising
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Solution Overview
Problem
Web-based advertising systems often fail to display dynamic advertisements correctly in email clients due to the lack of scripting and cookie support, leading to reduced advertising effectiveness and cumbersome inventory management across multiple campaigns.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a proxy server that provides scripting and cookie storage functionality for email clients, allowing dynamic advertising campaigns to be accessible via both web browsers and email clients by resolving dynamic links and generating cookies when needed, enabling the display of dynamic content within emails.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If web-based advertising systems use scripting and cookies for dynamic advertising, then advertising effectiveness is improved, but compatibility with e-mail clients deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a proxy server as an intermediary between e-mail clients and advertising servers. The proxy server receives requests from e-mail clients, generates cookies locally, and communicates with advertising servers to retrieve dynamic advertising content. This mediator enables e-mail clients to access dynamic advertising functionality without requiring native scripting or cookie support in the e-mail client itself.
2Adaptability or versatility
If redundant advertising campaigns are implemented for web and e-mail, then compatibility is improved, but inventory management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal advertising campaign system that serves both web browsers and e-mail clients through a single campaign configuration. The proxy server handles platform-specific requirements (cookie generation for e-mail, existing cookie support for web) while the advertising server manages a unified campaign inventory. This eliminates the need for separate redundant campaigns while maintaining compatibility across both platforms.
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AI summary
A method includes receiving, at a proxy server, a first request for advertising content from a computing device. The first request is responsive to display of an e-mail directed to an e-mail address of a user and received by the computing device. The first request includes an identifier uniquely identifying the user and the e-mail. An application of the computing device associated with presentation of the advertising content does not support local storage of cookies. The method includes generating the cookie at the proxy server in response to determining that a cookie managed by the proxy server and associated with the identifier is unavailable. The method also includes sending, from the proxy server to an advertising server, a second request that includes at least a portion of the cookie. The method also includes receiving the advertising content from the advertising server and sending the advertising content to the computing device.