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Jumptap, a mobile ad network headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., is working on a feature that every ad network should have. The company will host user profiles that let mobile phone customers toggle their own preferred ad settings — basically letting them filter categories they don’t want to see. There’ll even be an Opt Out button for turning off all targeting (you still get ads.)

What’s appealing about Jumptap’s implementation is that the profile interface for the iPhone will look and work like Apple’s built-in Settings controls. That means moderately iPhone-savvy users will be able to download an app and turn off categories with a familiar flick of the wrist. The company has posted a tentative list of categories users will be able to turn on and off.

Jumptap, founded in 2004, isn’t as well known as AdMob or Quattro Wireless, which were acquired by Google and Apple, respectively, in the past year. This week, the company announced a partnership with mobile ad platforms Crisp Wireless and Medialets in hopes of connecting rich-media ad technology with a wide audience. The latter two companies have the big-name brand advertisers that mobile ad networks seem focused on landing, because of their bigger budgets. Lexus, The New York Times, and Warner Brothers are on their client lists.

The filter feature, which Jumptap plans to make available mid-year, seems like something every ad network should offer. It’s unlikely that large numbers of people will discover, install and use ad category settings for multiple networks, but as an angry-customer appeasement tool for people who really, truly hate being advertised at, it’s a winner.