Patent ID: 9633364
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by an apparatus, a first request for modifying a functioning of an advertising module residing at a device; receiving, by the apparatus, a second request, via a network from the advertising module, for serving of advertisement information, wherein code for executing the advertising module is integrated with other code of an application executing at the device; processing, by the apparatus, the advertisement information in response to the first request, to include in the advertisement information, at least one verification check of the advertising module, at least one verification check of the code for executing advertising module, at least one verification check of the application, at least one verification check of the other code associated with the application, or a combination thereof; transmitting, by the apparatus, the at least one verification check included in the advertisement information to the device via a data channel unknown to the application in response to the second request; and processing, by the apparatus, one or more results of the at least one verification check to determine the functioning of the advertising module, wherein the advertising module is verified if the determined functioning of the advertising module includes, at least in part, the requested modification.