| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 705140200 | Based on score | 22 |
| 20090276301 | System and Method for Identifying Ideas - A system and method for associating value with ideas. Unit of value indicators are issued to users. Ideas are identified by the users and submitted to the system. The users make requests to associate the unit of value indicators with the submitted ideas. As a result of an award event, an award winner is issued additional unit of value indicators. The award winner further associates such unit of value indicators with the ideas. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090299835 | Method of Soliciting, Testing and Selecting Ads to improve the Effectiveness of an Advertising Campaign - Method for advertisers to improve ad metrics through performance based prize Competitions. A business method that enables advertisers to host prize competitions that attract and motivate ad-writers to create better ads, resulting in higher click-through-rates (CTR). Advertisers challenge writers to beat the performance of their existing ads by offering cash prizes tied to the annual CPC savings their ads generate. The method automatically advertises competitions, queues submitted ads, A/B tests them, selects the ad with the highest CTR, oversees payouts (if any), and restarts the competition with the next submission. The present invention builds a base of professional writers who specialize in multiple categories of businesses. These writers are motivated by the cash prizes but also by improving their skills over multiple challenges. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090327057 | Revenue Sharing System that Incentivizes Content Providers and Registered Users and Includes Payment Processing - The computer-based method and system shares revenue with a content provider and registered users. A web page has supplied electronic content and ads with displays and hyperlinks to a corresponding advertiser designated web site. Associated sales referral fees are tracked based upon user click throughs. The content provider is incentivized because the system shares the associated sales referral fees with him based upon factors such as frequency of posting content, quality rankings by users, gross value referral fees, and page user-visitors. Registered user-visitors are incentivized by providing each with N quality ranking tokens and by sharing the referral fees with users who post tokens on content. The QA ranking formula accounts for the quantity of posted tokens, the sequential order of posting, the number of user-visitors, and the referral fee to the content provider. The fees are paid to debit card, credit card, or cell phone account payment processors. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090327058 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING STATISTICAL SYSTEMS OF PROFILES OF SUITABILITY FOR THE ADVERTISING OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES - Mainly on the Internet (though extendible to any other communications or advertising medium, present or future), which offers great advantages both to those at whom a product or service is offered, as consumers, and to suppliers of services or contents. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100017278 | Interactive Gifting System and Method - A method and system for gifting using interactive multimedia and a gifting system. The gifting system can include a gift card, a website for redeeming the gift card, a plurality of gift representations corresponding to actual gift items, and means for advertising additional retail products or services to consumers. The gift card can also include a greeting card and a unique card identifier associated with the user. The methods and systems can be used to advertise products to consumers, which can be purchased for personal use or for gifting. The system can be used to direct consumers to a card issuer's website. The system can include a customizable avatar to read aloud text converted to an audio speech file that relates to the gift item. The system can also include a game in which points redeemable for gift items are awarded to the website's users for answering advertisement-related questions correctly. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100198666 | INTERNET ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH AUTHENTICATION PROCESS THROUGH A MOBILE PHONE NETWORK - An Internet advertising system is disclosed. A commercial project database stores a commercial, a questionnaire related to the commercial and a predetermined answer to the questionnaire. A user database stores a cellular phone number correlated to a user. A server is arranged to transmit the commercial and the questionnaire related to the commercial to a user equipment used by the user via the Internet network. An inputted answer from the user equipment via the Internet network is received and verified. The server transmits an authentication code via a cellular phone network based on the cellular phone number. An inputted code from the user equipment via the Internet network is verified for consistence. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100217654 | CREATING AN INCENTIVE TO AUTHOR USEFUL ITEM REVIEWS - A facility for rewarding the provision of useful item reviews is described. The facility receives a plurality of item reviews, each from a source. The facility publishes each of the plurality of received item reviews, and assesses the usefulness of the published item reviews. Based upon this assessment of usefulness, the facility selects one or more of the published item reviews, and provides rewards to the sources of these selected item reviews. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100332296 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR COMMUNITY REVIEW OF ITEMS IN AN ELECTRONIC STORE - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for community-based ranking in an electronic store. The method includes receiving a predictive ranking of an item in an electronic store and feedback about the item from each of a group of individuals, the predictive ranking being predictive of item performance in the electronic store. The method further tracks an actual ranking of the item over time based on item performance in the electronic store, provides an incentive for individuals in the group of individuals whose associated predictive ranking coincides with the actual ranking of the item, and presents in the electronic store received feedback from at least one individual associated with the predictive ranking that coincides with the actual ranking of the item. Rankings can be directed to different subdomains in the electronic or online store. Individuals having favorable successful prediction ratios can receive incentives. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332297 | REWARDING INTERNET ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A rewarding Internet advertising system and method utilizes questions and answers in a limited time to acknowledge if members conform to incentives due to viewing advertisements, and this method can achieve the result of propagating advertisements and upgrading profits of viewing advertisements, this system includes a member administrating module, an advertisement displaying interface module, an advertisement administrating module, and a rewarding administrating module. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110054986 | DONATION FACILITATOR SOCIAL NETWORK - Methods, techniques and systems for electronically facilitating donations are provided. Example embodiments provide a Donation Facilitator Social Network (“DFSN”), which enables users (participants in the DFSN) to more easily donate to the organizations, especially non-profits or NGOs, that are most suitable to their interests and desires. In one embodiment, the DFSN comprises one or more of an NGO Search Engine; an NGO Suggestion Engine; a weighting and ranking engine; account management; sponsor integration support; donor matching services; a DFSN API; and one or more data repositories such as NGO data repository; and a user data repository, which maintains information on the various preferences, weightings, donation accounts of the participants. These components cooperate to automatically distribute funds to a weighted list of organizations based upon donation specifications amongst other criteria. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110078001 | FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR TELEVISION ADVERTISEMENTS - A video client receives an advertisement for presentation on a display and presents to a user, on the display, the advertisement and a rating interface for the advertisement. The video client receives, via the rating interface, a user input to rate the advertisement and sends, to a server, rating information based on the user input to rate the advertisement. The video client also receives, from the server, incentive information based on the rating information and presents to the user, on the display, the incentive information. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110145043 | Method and System for Improving the Truthfulness, Reliability, and Segmentation of Opinion Research Panels - An example relates to survey analysis, survey panel members analysis, accuracy metrics, reliability analysis, and statistical analysis, to come up with confidence levels, and get an overall reliability of survey panel members, based on a score and percentile, and give incentives to the panel members, based on their reliability scores, to encourage them to be more reliable and truthful in the surveys, including their background and their demographics, increasing the values of the survey results drastically. In addition, this covers many separate embodiments: methods for improving and “incentivizing” truthful behavior in consumer panels; using Trustscore to measure and reward consistency and truthfulness; tag surveys to segment panels; and Doublecheck'd as a tool, to utilize the best responses through asking panel members twice (or more) with the same survey, and only including results from the members who answer the same both (or more) times. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110153396 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING ON-LINE TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING A CONTENT OWNER, AN ADVERTISER, AND A TARGETED CONSUMER - Systems and methods of delivering and accessing information such as targeted advertisements and other information content in a computer network environment that increase the efficiency of services provided by advertisers, while enhancing the economics of information content owners. The system implements a triangular economic transaction enabling negotiated transactions involving an information content owner, an advertiser, and a consumer. During the transactions between the respective parties, the information content owner is in control over terms of sale for its information content, the advertiser is in control over terms of its advertising campaign, and the consumer maintains control over personal profile information upon which the targeting of advertisements is based. The system allows the consumer to view targeted advertisements or any desired information content at a computer or computerized device on his or her own schedule, while maintaining a desired level of on-line privacy. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110288912 | Content Recommendation System - A content recommendation system is disclosed that allows users to identify friends, recommend content to friends, and receive awards for influencing friends. Interfaces can be used to display rankings of recommended programs, user profiles and their awards, and dynamic chats relating to specific content. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120123828 | Fast and Versatile Graphical Scoring Device and Method - A graphical user interface presents an image to a user and two labeled axes of that image corresponding to evaluations by the user of the image or of something represented by the image. The user moves a computer mouse or other input device to select a single location on the image. The display screen provides immediate feedback to the user of the location currently being pointed to by the input device, such as the x and y coordinates currently being moused over. The user then selects the location on the screen being pointed to, thus inputting his two dimensional evaluation. Optionally, based on the user's multidimensional evaluation, commercial offers such as coupons can then be presented to the user based on the user's likes and dislikes. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130138486 | Socially Networked Business and Consumer Space - Creative energy of consumers is captured and incentivized by businesses when the businesses provide personal incentives that reflect the extent to which the consumers make productive contributions to a socially networked business and consumer space. The personal incentives provide consumers lower prices through coupons, rebates, or other discounts for various items sold or distributed by the businesses. Consumers that are more productive or active in the social space can receive lower pricing on items. The personalized incentive for a particular consumer may be based on the quantity and quality of product reviews provided by the consumer as well as other factors such as consumer loyalty to a particular merchant or business. This business and consumer space spans the brick-and-mortar as well as the online retail spaces allowing consumers to use a mobile device to make online purchases by scanning a tag on a tangible object in a brick-and-mortar store. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130218648 | Reward Incentive Monitor - Computer systems and methods on servers in a communication network, including computers with processors and computer-readable media to send a notification to a user each time a solution opportunity is submitted for a reward page created by the user. The reward page can be based on information received from the user and the received information including a description of a goal or need. Also, to receive an acceptance or rejection selection indicator for each of the received solution opportunities and if a solution opportunity is a rejection, to associate a rating value with the rejected solution opportunity. Finally, determine a future privilege for each user who submitted the rejected solution opportunity based on the rating value associated with the rejected solution opportunity. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130339110 | MONETARY DISTRIBUTION OF BEHAVIORAL DEMOGRAPHICS AND FAN-SUPPORTED DISTRIBUTION OF COMMERCIAL CONTENT - A method includes identifying a media file for distribution and identifying a plurality of commercial messages as possible content that can be associated with the media file when it is distributed. Votes from a plurality of customers can be received, with each vote reflecting a customer's preference for at least one of the plurality of commercial messages. The votes can be calculated and at least one preferred commercial message can be designated based on the calculation. At least one preferred commercial message can be associated with the media file to create a combined media file and the combined media file can be distributed and/or made available for distribution. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140214501 | OFFLINE TO ONLINE PROMOTION METHOD - An online promotion method where a promoter manages a system where a business provides to a customer a valuable offer for the goods or services provided by the business in exchange for the customer providing favorable feedback on a social network system or other designated website. The promoter manages the system to provide usage measurements and to ensure that the customer receives the promised valuable offer and the business received the promised valuable feedback. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140236687 | CONTRIBUTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INCENTIVIZING CONTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION - A system, method and device provide an incentive for the contribution of information related to marketed offerings. In one embodiment, the system has a data storage device storing data associated with marketed offerings, at least one point-earning condition and at least one award condition. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140257944 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REWARDING CONSUMERS - In order to reward a consumer for trying or learning about a product, the customer is given a unique identification number, preferably an unvalidated ATM readable card, and instructions for completing a test or survey by telephone or on the Internet. Upon successful completion of the test by the consumer, the identification number is validated so that the consumer may withdraw a cash reward from a temporary bank account funded when the identification number is validated via an ATM. Where the consumer is the patient of a physician, the patient may receive the number and card from the physician along with a prescription for redemption at a pharmacy whereat the pharmacy dispenses a supply of the drug to the patient and is paid by the manufacturer of the drug through the former's insurance payment processing system. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20150356588 | E-COMMERCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer system is described which comprises a server computer connected to the Internet, the server computer receiving, over the Internet, both a product review and a product inquiry from a user on one or more remote computers, the product being reviewed being different from the product being inquired, a database containing product information pertaining to the inquired product, the product information including a first price of the inquired product, a processing unit calculating a second price from the first price and a factor derived from the product review, a computer program residing in the server computer placing the second price on a webpage pertaining to the inquired product, the computer program also sending the webpage to the user's remote computer. | 12-10-2015 |
