Patent ID: 9747602
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of registering advertisements for displaying on an electronic map at an advertisement registration server, comprising: receiving an access request from a terminal via a communication network, wherein the terminal is one of a computer, a mobile communication device, an internet set top box, or a personal digital assistant; searching a map information database for first map information and transmitting at least some of the first map information to the terminal via the communication network in response to the access request, said first map information being associated with first center coordinates and a first scale value and structured into a first lattice having a plurality of first lattice units, a first subset of the first lattice units being designated as allowing additional advertisement registration, a second subset of the first lattice units being designated as disallowing additional advertisement registration; receiving map scaling input from the terminal via the communication network, the map scaling input representing a modification of the first scale value to a second scale value, the second scale value being different than the first scale value and representing a more detailed representation of the electronic map; searching the map information database for second map information and transmitting at least some of the second map information to the terminal via the communication network in response to the map scaling input, said second map information being associated with second center coordinates and the second scale value and structured into a second lattice having a plurality of second lattice units, a first subset of the second lattice units being designated as allowing additional advertisement registration, a second subset of the second lattice units being designated as disallowing additional advertisement registration, wherein more than one of the second lattice units corresponds geographically to one of the first lattice units, and whether additional advertisement registration is allowed for at least one of the second lattice units is independent of whether additional advertisement registration is allowed for the first lattice unit to which the at least one of the second lattice units corresponds; receiving an advertisement content registration request from the terminal via the communication network, said advertisement content registration request having advertisement information identifying one or more of the first and second lattice units for which additional advertisement registration is allowed, the advertisement information including advertisement content, wherein the advertisement content is one of text, a symbol, an image, a moving picture, an animation, uniform resource locator (URL), or a combination thereof; and registering in an advertisement database the advertisement information in association with the one or more of the first and second lattice units identified in the advertisement content registration request such that the advertisement content corresponding to the registered advertisement information does not visually overlap with other advertisement content having associated advertisement information registered in the advertisement database when displayed in a graphical user interface in accordance with either of the first or second scale values on a client device operating in the communication network.