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Proactive Two Way Mobile Advertisement Using a Collaborative Client Server Architecture<br />

Weimin Ding and Xiao Su<br />

Department of Computer Engineering<br />

San Jose State University<br />

San Jose, CA 95192, USA<br />

Email: weimin.ding@gmail.com, xiao.su@sjsu.edu<br />

Abstract—more and more advertisements have been<br />

pushed into mobile devices by advertising providers.<br />

Advertisers, not the consumers, decide and control the<br />

content and delivery time of the advertisements. This<br />

one-way push-based architecture doesn’t truly meet<br />

consumers’ demands and can quickly develop resistance<br />

from consumers. In this paper, we propose new clientserver<br />

based architecture to provide proactive mobile<br />

advertisements in mobile devices. With the proposed<br />

solution, application developers can seamlessly integrate<br />

advertisements into their applications, based on users’<br />

behavior and preferences. Users will not be interrupted<br />

by the pushed advertisement and can stay more focused<br />

with their main tasks. We will present our detailed<br />

design, implementation, and evaluation of this proactive<br />

solution.<br />

Keywords – mobile, advertisement, REST, content-driven,<br />

proactive advertisement<br />

I. INTRODUCTION<br />

Mobile marketing is booming. More Smartphone’s<br />

shipped than PC’s since 2010. With the increasing<br />

marketing of m obile devices, mobile advertising has<br />

become crucial for the current advertisement industry.<br />

Compared to the conventional TV and PC, the number<br />

of mobile handheld devices is tw ice as larg e. I n<br />

addition, mobile devices have more personality<br />

characteristics because they always belong to specific<br />

owners. This w ill give the advertisement providers<br />

more room to trim their advertisements to fit different<br />

customers. According to Smaato White Paper [1], the<br />

mobile advertising market in US continues to expand<br />

every year; and it is predicted to reach ov er $5 billion<br />

in 2015.<br />

Currently, advertising providers push content to<br />

mobile devices, regardless of users’ interest and<br />

preferences. There are several problems with current<br />

push technology.<br />

First, consumers are j ust passive receivers and<br />

pushed advertisements will not truly meet consumers’<br />

real demands. Consumers will quickly develop<br />

resistance to those pushed advertisements and reduce<br />

the advertisements hit rate. Second, the cont ent of the<br />

advertisements and actual applications are separated<br />

and have no rel ationship. The pop-up advertisements<br />

are kind of the interruptions to users’ normal<br />

applications. Most users will have antipathies to popup<br />

advertisements, so these advertisements actually<br />

bring opposite effect to consumers.<br />

In this paper, w e propose a client-server based<br />

solution of prov iding proactive advertisements in<br />

mobile devices. The client side includes content<br />

detection and col lection of user behav iors to define<br />

and filter the accurate adv ertisements for specific<br />

users. The server side includes REST interface to<br />

communicate with clients and to provide dynamic<br />

contents for clients.<br />

This solution can hel p application developers<br />

integrate advertisements into their applications<br />

seamlessly. Users will not feel the inter ference of the<br />

pushed advertisements, and the adv ertising content<br />

can be part of the appl ication. With the rich content<br />

provided by the proactiv e advertisement server,<br />

developers can make more and m ore attractive<br />

applications.<br />

In the rest of the paper, w e will elaborate on the<br />

problems with push-based advertising and describe in<br />

detail the desig n, implementation, and ev aluation of<br />

our proposed proactive solution.<br />

II. PROBLEM OF PUSH-BASED ADVERTISING<br />

Mobile advertising is a new area for the advertising<br />

industry and even the advertising giant such as Google<br />

is still exploring the correct model in this area. With<br />

the rapid growth of the market size, more and m ore<br />

vendors will involve in this area.<br />

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