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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090271259 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIRECTED PERSONALIZED MARKETING An improved method and system for conducting a directed marketing/advertising campaign is provided that combines personalized mailings and individualized URL addresses in an integrated manner in order to increase customer response rates and improve the ability of the ad... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271257 | MODEL FOR EARLY ADOPTION AND RETENTION OF SOURCES OF FUNDING TO FINANCE AWARD PROGRAM System(s) and method(s) are provided to drive early adoption and retention of disparate sources of funding and financing an award program, with application to a consumer compensation scheme subsidized through advertisement revenue. A component that manages advertisement... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271256 | Advertisement campaign system using socially collaborative filtering In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying, in a network, user selection preferences of an identified user having accessed the network, the identifying based on an accumulation of user selection inputs executed by the identified user, the user selection inputs ac... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271258 | METHOD FOR USING CARBON CREDITS WITH MICRO REFINERIES A carbon credit coupon system is used to provide incentives to micro refinery operators to produce ethanol and reduce the CO2 emissions by replacing gasoline with ethanol. The distribution of carbon credit coupon is based upon an accurate and quantifiable red... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271260 | Systems, Methods and Computer Program Products for Researching, Planning, Building, Purchasing and Tracking Digital Online Media Advertising Improved systems, methods and computer program products are provided for improving the efficiency and quality of the process of purchasing digital and online advertising. Through the use of the invention, one may more effectively use competitive research, build a media ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271261 | Policy driven customer advertising A system and methodology for providing policy driven, user requested advertising is disclosed. Networked users may be provided with selected advertisements to a targeted network access device during a specified broadcast event based on user preferences. The system inclu... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271262 | AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM WITH SPLIT MESSAGING A computer readable medium is disclosed. It includes computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method including receiving a first authorization request message from a merchant a... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271253 | Electronic issuing of gift cards A method of issuing and managing an electronic gift card is presented. A gift card purchase order for a primary electronic gift card is received by a gift card issuing server. The gift card issuing server transmits a unique gift card identifier to the purchaser of the p... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271254 | ADVERTISEMENTS DRIVEN BY USER Systems, methods and computer-storage media are provided for distributing advertising content with improved accessibility for users and with a reduced-cost architecture for the web site provider. An advertising service directory (ASD) intercepts advertising requests con... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090271255 | COMMERCE AND ADVERTISEMENT BASED ON EXPLICIT CONSUMER'S VALUE COST PROPOSITION System(s) and method(s) are provided to drive commercial transactions and advertisement based on explicit consumer's value-cost propositions. Value-cost propositions express consumer's desires with respect to parameters related to a commercial transaction product price ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090265230 | RANKING USING WORD OVERLAP AND CORRELATION FEATURES A system for and method for ranking results. The system includes a server configured to receive a query and an advertisement engine configured to receive the query from the server. The advertisement engine ranks advertisements based on various features, including at lea... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265236 | AGGREGATION AND USE OF INFORMATION RELATING TO A USERS CONTEXT FOR PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENTS Information, called context information, relating to a current state of a user may be aggregated. In one implementation, the context information may include information that is automatically generated by communication devices of the user and information, submitted by th... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265218 | Method and system for media initialization via data sharing A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium estimate media performance on advertising space inventory. The method selects at least one media cell that shares one or more common attributes with a target media cell. The method subsequently estimates mean revenue per... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090264139 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING REVENUE FROM A CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT WIRELESS MESSAGING SERVICE A system and method for generating revenue from a premium service that involves sending classified interactive advertisement information over current and future generation wireless networks to a portable electronic device request by a user/potential buyer that is paid f... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265235 | Apparatus and method for providing cell-based advertisement broadcast service in broadband wireless communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for providing a cell-based advertisement broadcast service in a broadband wireless communication system. In an advertisement broadcast service of a service interface server in the broadband wireless communication system, an advertisem... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265232 | System and Method for Processing Travel Expense Vouchers This invention relates to reimbursement of travel expenses. In a first embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method processes a travel expense voucher. The method determines whether the travel expense voucher satisfies a condition. If the travel ex... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265233 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING INCENTIVES FOR USE OF ONLINE SERVICES A system and method permits a primary online service to award and redeem incentive points to users of a social networking or other third-party site that operates independently of the primary online service. The primary online service publishes copies of a widget on the ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265228 | POINT OF SALE COUPON SYSTEMS AND METHODS Systems and methods of offering incentives such as electronic coupons at a point of sale. Transaction information gathered at a point of sale system is received at a host computer. The transaction information relates to a transaction performed by a consumer at a merchan... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265220 | INTELLIGENT MULTI-CHANNEL TARGETED TELECOMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISEMENT CAMPAIGN MANAGER The present invention is a system and method to enable advertisement subsidized telecommunications services, which can deliver a campaign comprised of multiple advertisements, each advertisement using a different format (text, audio and video), to user's different termi... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265231 | ONLINE DISCOUNT OPTIMIZER SERVICE An online shopping discount optimizer service includes a host server having a web-based interface adapted to facilitate secure customer access to the host server through a computing device. The customer is prompted by the web-based interface to sequentially communicate ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265229 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR BUYER DRIVEN SERVICES E-COMMERCE A buyer driven e-commerce for services is presented. The buyer connects to a web site for the purpose of locating a provider of a service. The buyer, choosing to place an ad on the web site, chooses a category of services that corresponds to a required service. The buye... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265183 | METHOD OF MANAGING A WELLNESS PROGRAMME AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR A method and system for managing a wellness programme includes obtaining personal information pertaining to an individual, the personal information including at least the individual's age and gender. In addition, health information pertaining to the individual is obtain... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265212 | ADVERTISING IN A STREAMING MEDIA ENVIRONMENT A method, system and apparatus of advertising in a streaming media environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a media content from a content database having content of a plurality of artists and media labels based on a request of a user of... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265234 | Method for processing digital rebates and coupons There is provided a method for processing retail price discounts or rebates in connection with the purchase of merchandise. A data center is provided for processing discounts or rebates. The data center has at least one (1) computer to perform at least a portion of the ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265237 | Advertising Light Fixture and Method for Distribution of Same Disclosed is a system, method, and program for promoting the replacement of lower energy efficiency equipment with higher energy efficiency equipment, and more particularly less energy efficient lighting systems with more highly energy efficient lighting systems, is dis... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265238 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT A method for providing content through a content providing system, including permitting access to the system through a media device; outputting a screen including a plurality of menu items including a view brand content item; when the view brand content item is selected... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265227 | Methods for Advertisement Display Policy Exploration An exploratory ordering of advertisements is generated using an exploration policy that is a modified version of an existing policy. The exploration policy is defined to swap a pair of adjacent advertisements in an ordering of advertisements generated by the existing po... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265226 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING Methods and apparatus for interactive advertising. A user may optionally select some or all of the interactive advertising for storage for later viewing or use. For example, in one embodiment, the user may have access to a personalized storage space for digital informat... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090265214 | Advertisement in Operating System Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s). The advertiseme... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090264140 | System and Method for Operating a Smart Messaging Network A secure computer system and method is disclosed for providing an online platform whereby text messages are smartly shared with the intent to form social networks. The system allows easy and reliable transmission of mass text messages along with exchange of information ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090259538 | Network-based rebate system An online rebate system is disclosed. The online rebate system allows purchasers of products to gain nearly immediate determinations of whether they are eligible for any rebates. In one embodiment, a purchaser can provide a transaction identifier for a prior purchase tr... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259537 | ADVERTISEMENT-FUNDED SOFTWARE Systems and methods are provided to directly compensate an agent that utilizes a software application in exchange for the agent's intent in using the application, and for displaying intent-driven advertisement to the agent. Intent is inferred through information receive... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259539 | PROXIMITY-BASED BROADCAST VIRTUAL UNIVERSE SYSTEM In various embodiments, the proximity of an avatar with respect to a designated focal point object within a virtual universe is determined, and information associated with the designated focal point object is identified. A first of a plurality of representations of the ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259535 | COUPON CLIPPER A coupon clipping interface and related methods and apparatus are provided. The coupon clipper's features include displaying at least one online coupon, receiving selection of at least one selected coupon selected from the at least one online coupon, providing the at le... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259534 | INTERNAL BUSINESS ARBITRAGE System(s) and method(s) are provided to conduct internal arbitrage within an organization. Within a service platform, a first functional unit oriented to service implementation and a second unit dedicated at least in part to advertisement management trade advertisement ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259536 | Method and System for Distributed Electronic Media Advertising in the Internet A system and a business method for a dynamic, widespread and far-reaching advertising in the internet. A system wherein advertisements, can be pasted by end users in a variety of electronic media. End users enter a Web site in the net or us... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259540 | SYSTEM FOR PARTITIONING AND PRUNING OF ADVERTISEMENTS A system is disclosed for selecting advertisements for delivery. The system may be configured to assign the advertisements to categories. The system also may be configured to deliver the advertisements according to a frequency assigned to each category.... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259531 | INTERACTIVE ADVERTISEMENTS A system and method for providing interactive advertisements and collecting data for an advertiser includes a processor, a storage unit in communication with the processor, and a memory unit in communication with the processor, wherein the memory unit contains instructi... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259530 | Open targeting exchange A method for determining an ad to display in an ad unit is disclosed. A specification of a targeting vendor ad is received from a targeting vendor. A targeting vendor ad value is determined based at least in part on the specification. The ad to display in the ad unit is... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090259532 | PEER-TO-PEER COMPENSATION IN AN INTENT-COMPENSATION SCHEME System(s) and method(s) are provided that facilitate intrinsically targeted, dependable peer-to-peer referral and compensation within an intent-compensation scheme. The referral system synergistically exploits trust mechanisms existing among a referring agent and a refe... | 10/15/2009 |
