| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 20090276302 | Advertising revenue sharing - A method for compensating all parties involved in producing the income stream for a content distributor is presented where the content-hosting site, the content writer and the user doing the interaction with paid contents receive a fair share of the generated income stream. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090287553 | System and Method for Website Monetization - The present invention provides a website monetization system on a central computer, the website monetization system comprising a web page creation tool, a website hosting tool, an advertising tool, a content provision tool, a monetization tool, and a franchisee payment tool. The central server comprises a central website on a particular interest; a website creation tool operative to provide web page development tools to a franchise administrator system for generating a franchise website on the particular interest as it pertains to a target region, the web page development tools including an advertising tool for adding an advertisement of an advertiser associated with the target region into the franchise website, and a franchisee payment tool for providing a franchise payment to a party associated with the central website. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100106574 | Computing Environment Transaction System to Transact Computing Environment Circumventions - A system and methods allowing the creation, integration, and transaction of rule circumventions and/or interactive advertisements in computing environments is provided. In an illustrative implementation, the present invention comprises a core transaction server, a multimedia transaction server, and browser application. A computing environment cooperates with the core transaction server to obtain data representative of computing environment rule circumventions for integration within the computing environment as well as computing environment circumvention transaction information. The core transaction server cooperates with the multimedia transaction server to obtain data representative of the desired computing environment rule circumvention and with the browser application to obtain inputs from computing environment to establish accounts for use when transacting computing environment rule circumvention transactions. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100185502 | DYNAMIC MIXED MEDIA PACKAGE - It has been discovered that a dynamic mixed media package with a mechanism for dynamic modification/update provides a media experience to users that exceeds the experience offered by individual media files. A dynamic mixed media package accommodates various types of media and allows for additional media and modifications of existing media. Additional media includes media generated by consumers, such as media derived from a seed media. A seed media is marked and assembled with supplemental media into a package. The seed media is marked to allow performance of various operations, such as identification of the seed media during the lifetime of the package and attribution when the seed media is incorporated into consumer generated derivative media. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100191587 | TRANSACTION SYSTEM FOR CHARITABLE FUND RAISING, WITH TAX BENEFIT - A system for using financial transactions to raise funds for charitable purposes. A party who uses the system for carrying out financial transactions agrees to pay fee-like contributions for use of the system, such that a portion (up to 100%) of a contribution will be allocated to a charitable entity on behalf of the user. A business entity that facilitates the financial transactions records the details of the transactions and then reports to each user the charitable contribution the user has made through the system. This allows the users to obtain tax benefits on their respective contributions. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100332300 | INTERACTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD MODELER WITH RELATED ECONOMY AND GAME - An interactive neighborhood modeler with related economy is described. In one implementation, a system creates an interactive 3-D analog of features in a geographical area delineated by zip code or other boundary, and visually renders the interactive analog with a degree of distortion suitable for accommodating the geographical area on a display. Each feature is assigned a data space, in which an authorized representative for each feature may custom edit information. Brick-and-mortar entities within the geographical area can be allotted a virtual storefront free of charge or by subscription. A user may interact with the 3-D analog to navigate a virtual neighborhood, shop, view multiple perspectives of features, and obtain the custom information associated with each feature provided by the authorized representative, including pictures, videos, and links for transacting business. The interactive modeler may post advertisements, and share revenue from advertisers among the brick-and-mortar entities that maintain a virtual storefront. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110119119 | ADVERTISER INVOICING SYSTEM - An advertising invoicing system enables a invoicing for transactions reported by a buyer. The system allows a buyer to identify, from a list of transactions, a transaction to be reported. The system calculates an invoice and sends it to the seller. The seller may dispute or pay the invoice. The system allows the buyer to specify a beneficiary (for example, a charitable organization) so that a portion of the amount collected from the seller is contributed to the beneficiary. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110166917 | VIEWER CREDIT ACCOUNT FOR A MULTIMEDIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM - An ad token apparatus for managing a user credit account in a multimedia broadcasting system. The ad token apparatus includes a token embedder, a token cache, and a token verifier. The token embedder embeds a token in a digital advertisement stream to generate a token-embedded ad. The token includes an identifiable sequence of data of a predetermined length. The token cache stores the token and receives a detected token from the user device in response to detection of the token in the token-embedded ad by the user device. The token verifier adds at least one credit to a user credit account in response to receipt of the detected token. The user credit account corresponds to the user device. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110166918 | DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENT - Among other things, publishers of digital content are enabled each to define, for each of one or more digital content items, a style in which the digital content item is to be presented to a user and a condition under which the user may have the digital content item presented. The digital content items are stored in a content library, the styles and conditions associated with the digital content items are stored in a server. Each of the digital content items is enabled to be presented to users within presentation contexts that are accessible to the users and controlled by presentation context providers. The presentation of the digital content items includes obtaining the digital content items from the server and controlling the presentation to occur under the conditions and in the styles defined by the publishers. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110184791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTHENTICATION, MONITORING, AND ADVERTISEMENT DISTRIBUTION - A method including receiving, by a processor of a computing system, a submission from a user, authenticating, by the processor, the submission received from the user with a unique identifier of the submission, tracking, by the processor, the unique identifier to detect a presence of the submission, determining, by the processor, whether the presence is authorized, and distributing, by the processor, a portion of proceeds to the user if the presence is authorized is provided. Furthermore, an associated computer program product and computer system is also provided. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110307313 | SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD USING SEARCH LIBRARY - Provided is a search system and method for performing a search during execution of an application in a mobile terminal. The search method may include executing an application, without terminating the application, by including a search window on a part of an execution screen of the application. The system and method also include incorporating a library into an application. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120016724 | POLICY-BASED MEDIA SYNDICATION AND MONETIZATION - Hosted content received from media hosts is used to generate a set of fingerprints representing the hosted content. The fingerprints representing the hosted content are compared to a set of fingerprints representing reference content submitted by content owners to generate one or more match metrics. Based on the match metrics, the media host may provide indication that they accept policy terms specified by the content owners, including revenue sharing terms. If the media host accepts the revenue sharing terms, the media host may provide advertising content to viewers in association with the hosted content matching the reference content. Funds received from providing advertising content are distributed to the media host and the content owner according to the revenue sharing terms. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120123831 | MEDIA RIGHTS MANAGEMENT USING MELODY IDENTIFICATION - A content recognition system operates in conjunction with a media hosting service to identify hosted media content and ownership rights associated with the hosted content. By applying melody recognition, the content recognition system can identify compositions embodied in hosted media content even when these compositions do not precisely match any known sound recording. Thus, the content recognition system is beneficially able to detect, for example, recorded cover performances and recorded live performances embodied in hosted media content. Once identified, ownership information is determined and the media hosting service can carry out appropriate rights management policies associated with the content such as monetizing or blocking the protected content. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120179523 | GAME-PLAYING AND PROVIDING CHARITABLE DONATIONS TO SELECTABLE LOCATIONS - A social networking activity which provides charitable donations to a desired area/location. A computer server provides outputs from the social networking site that allows users to play a game on the social networking site. The game is such that the social networking site receives revenue on the social networking site as a result of a user playing the game. The user can select at least one charitable cause from among a plurality of selections of charitable causes, or at least one geographic location to receive at least some of that revenue. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179524 | Methods and Apparatuses for Pay for Deal Advertisements - Methods and apparatuses for advertising where the advertisement performance is determined via tracking the deals made as a result of communication leads generated from the advertisements. One embodiment includes: providing an advertisement containing a communication reference to a customer on behalf of a party; providing a connection via the reference for real time communications between the customer and the party; and charging an advertisement fee in response to an action of a predetermined type being performed by the customer (or an agreement between the customer and the party being reached) as a result of the real time communications. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120284095 | INTERNET-BASED METHOD OF CHARITABLE GIVING - An Internet-based method of charitable giving includes the steps of:
| 11-08-2012 |
| 20120290373 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARKETING-BASED DYNAMIC ATTRIBUTION - A computer implemented method and apparatus for determining marketing-based attribution that may be used for targeted and effective acquisition of customers when multiple marketing interactions are employed to target the consumers attention. The method and apparatus provide also provides a mechanism for appropriately rewarding the marketing partners in customer acquisition. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120296714 | GiveBackMail - Preferred embodiments of an email service or system that derives revenues from advertisements displayed on the user interface of an email client, wherein at least a portion of any advertising revenues derived from the user's use of the email client are donated to a charity of the user's choice. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130085824 | TIMER-BASED AD PLACEMENT IN CONTENT RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS - Techniques are described for incorporating advertisements into content in a content retrieval application. Embodiments receive a request to view content retrieved from source content containing one or more advertisements. In response to receiving the request, a timer is initiated. The timer is configured to expire after a period of time has elapsed. Embodiments determining whether to display any of the one or more advertisements, based upon whether the timer has expired. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130085825 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONTENT TREATMENT - Content uploaded to a video distribution service is analyzed to determine if a portion matches part of any reference work. If a match is found, treatment of the uploaded content is determined based on stored rule data, and based on one or more factors. These factors can include, e.g., the length of the matching portion, the part of the reference work from which the matching portion was apparently copied, the confidence of the match, the popularity of the uploaded content (or of the reference work), the geography from which the content was uploaded (or the geography to which it is to be downloaded), etc. Further determinations may be made by human evaluators (including crowd-source approaches). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130110595 | METHOD OF ACKNOWLEDGING VIEWING OF AN ADVERTISEMENT, MONETIZING AND CONDUCTING REFERENDUMS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130211888 | TIMER-BASED AD PLACEMENT IN CONTENT RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS - Techniques are described for incorporating advertisements into content in a content retrieval application. Embodiments receive a request to view content retrieved from source content containing one or more advertisements. In response to receiving the request, a timer is initiated. The timer is configured to expire after a period of time has elapsed. Embodiments determining whether to display any of the one or more advertisements, based upon whether the timer has expired. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130218650 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING MEDIA - The system and method for streaming media to a viewer and managing the media comprises an enhanced service routing processor (ESRP), a real time switch management system (RTSMS), a name routing processor (NRP), and a managed media switch (MMS). The RTSMS has a reservation system. The ESRP receives media from an owner, manages the media according to media rules and order rules defined by the owner, and distributes the media to one or more switches, such as the MMS, according to the media rules and the order rules. The RTSMS is configured to receive the media rules and to receive a viewer's media request via the reservation server. The reservation system of the RTSMS processes the media request according to the media rules and builds a reservation for the requested media. The RTSMS generates the reservation to the viewer and to the NRP. The NRP receives the reservation data from the viewer and from the RTSMS. The NRP processes the reservation data and locates an MMS that can stream the media to the viewer. The NRP transmits the IP address of the MMS to the viewer and transmits the reservation data to the MMS. The viewer initiates a session or connection with the MMS using the reservation number. If the reservation data from the viewer matches the reservation data from the NRP, the MMS streams the media to the viewer. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130282452 | Advertisement Revenues Shared With Subscribers - The present invention provides a method, system and program product for the owners (also known as “subscribers”) of communication devices such as smart TVs, computers, notebooks, mobile phones and tablets, to auction, rent or lease parts or all of their device display screens where advertisers can bid to display advertisements directly or through advertising providers. The device display screen auction, rental or lease can be based on timeslot such as a number of seconds, minutes, hours and days. In addition, subscribers may define selection criteria such as countries, languages, categories, personal interests, device locations and other meta-data to filter out advertisements for displays on their devices. The advertisement revenues on device display screens of communication devices are shared among subscribers, advertising providers and related third party partners based on contracts or agreements. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130282453 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMING MEDIA - Disclosed herein are system and method embodiments for streaming media. An embodiment operates by receiving, at at least one computing device, a request for media from a viewer. At least one program is identified in which at least a portion of the media is available. A presentation is generated to identify the at least the portion of the media based on the at least one program and at least one order, wherein the order comprises at least one order component associated with the at least one program. The embodiment further includes dynamically generating an identification of an advertising clip for the presentation and then transmitting the presentation to the viewer. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140058809 | AD PARTNER REVENUE SHARE AND FINANCIAL TERMS ASSOCIATION OVERRIDES - Systems and methods for the creation and management of rules for the governance of revenue sharing are disclosed herein. Generally, the system and methods generate, based on a publisher's input, at least one financial term override object. The financial term override object comprises a set of rules that override a default set of rules to govern how revenue is divided between a partner and a publisher when a supplemental content object is displayed by a partner. The financial term override object is stored in a database. After storing the financial term override object, the financial term override object is associated with the publisher and the partner. A revenue shared owed to the partner is then calculated based on the override set of rules. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140058810 | PREMIUM ADVERTISING COST-SHARING MATCHING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND ADVERTISING GIFT - The present invention relates to a premium advertising cost-sharing matching method, system, and advertising gift, which provides an advertising gift supplier and the advertisers to choose to share an advertising gift with other advertisers for advertising their own advertisement on said advertising gift and sharing an advertising cost. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140074572 | INFORMATION AND PROFIT SHARING ON A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for allowing users to create objects for a particular area of interest(s) on a social networking system through one or more web-based templates, and allowing such users to share in profits generated from the creation of such objects. A plurality of resource objects are maintained on a social networking system. One or more web-based templates are provided on a communications device of a host or partner for generation of resource objects. The web-based templates allow customization of real-time interface components displayed to end-users. The social networking system provides access of resource objects to end-users through the one or more real-time interface components. The social networking system determines profits generated for the resource objects, and determines the amount payable to the host creating the resource object. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140129304 | METHOD FOR ATTRIBUTING AND ALLOCATING REVENUE RELATED TO EMBEDDED SOFTWARE - A method for attributing revenue for embedded software. The method includes the first step of determining the presence of more than one type of embedded software on a given client site. Then, the process assigns priority based on the length of time each type has resided on the client system and the source of each type, followed by classifying each software type, based on the history of present and predecessor copies of the software. A distribution factor is applied to each software type, based on priority and classification, partner revenue is distributed based on the distribution factor applied to each software type. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140200972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AD REVENUE SHARING IN E-MAILS - In a system where e-mail content is monetized based on content, a computer method includes scanning an e-mail for targeted keywords associated with advertiser bids for advertisement and detecting the keywords using an e-mail server, determining at least one advertisement associated with at least one of the detected keyword having a highest advertiser bid, creating an advertisement in the e-mail based on the at least one advertisement, sending the e-mail to a recipient, receiving a payment corresponding to a click on the advertisement, and sending at least part of the payment to a user which sent the e-mail, wherein the created advertisement includes a uniform resource locator, and wherein the payment is split between an operator of the e-mail server and the user which sent the e-mail. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140244367 | PERSONAL CASTING SYSTEM - A profit redistribution device, profit redistribution method, program storage medium, profit redistribution system, content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, and content providing system are disclosed. Profit redistribution processing is performed according to the accumulated points proportionate to the number of times the content with a commercial video is provided to a client PC. Thus, a fair profit redistribution can be easily performed. A preset content with a commercial video is provided to a user when requested from the client PC, and it is possible to provide advertisement information without the user being aware of the commercial. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140278849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERNET-BASED MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING - Methods and systems for operating a multi-level marketing program on the Internet are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes associating a merchandiser with the first entity based on received first information, determining a first association chain for the first entity, determining a sales amount for the first entity based on the first association chain, determining a commission payment from the merchandiser to the first entity based on the sales amount, receiving, via the electronic device, second information associated with a second entity from the computer network, and using the second information to form a second association chain between the second entity and the first entity, associating purchases made by the second entity from the merchandiser with the first entity based on the second association chain, and generating, over the computer network, a commission payment to the first entity based on the associated purchases. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150019306 | MONETIZATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT CONTRIBUTIONS - Methods and system for admitting a content provider into a revenue sharing program are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from a content provider to participate in the revenue sharing partner program and determining whether to invite the content provider based at least in part on infraction information associated with the content provider. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150025950 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONFIGURABLE VARIABLE REVENUE SHARING IN ONLINE COMMERCE - Method and server system for providing configurable variable revenue sharing in online commerce are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a revenue sharing configuration for each promoter in a promotion chain; receiving a purchase notification for a sale of a respective merchandise established by a respective one of the promoters in the promotion chain; identifying the respective revenue sharing configurations of the respective one of the promoters and all other promoters above the respective one of the promoters in the promotion chain; and distributing payment received for the sale among the respective one of the promoters and all the other promoters above the respective one of the promoters in the promotion chain. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150046235 | INTERSTITIAL CONTENT ITEM REVENUE SHARING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for interstitial content item revenue sharing. In one aspect, a method includes identifying an interstitial content item that was presented during a particular device session; identifying two or more participating resources that were requested during the particular device session; determining that two or more different participating publishers are associated with the two or more participating resources, each participating publisher being a publisher that has been approved to receive revenue for presentation of interstitial content items; and assigning a revenue share value to each of the two or more participating publishers, each revenue share value specifying a portion of interstitial revenue that the participating publisher is allocated for display of the interstitial content item. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150348131 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING IMAGE USING METADATA OF IMAGE FILE - A method, system, and recording medium for providing an image using metadata of an image file are provided. An image providing method includes matching a meta tag for search with an image by analyzing metadata of the image in response to a first user uploading the image; and classifying and displaying the image based on the meta tag in response to an image read request of a second user. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160019606 | Dynamic Internet Advertising System - Methods and apparatus are provided for the dynamic placement, management and monitoring of Internet advertising. A provider of Internet content distributes the Internet content by embedding an advertisement placeholder in the Internet content; and provides the Internet content to an aggregator web site. The aggregator web site presents the Internet content to at least one end user with at least one advertisement in the advertisement placeholder. The advertisement placeholder is processed by a third party agent to automatically share revenue from the at least one advertisement with the provider of the Internet content and a provider of the aggregator web site. The advertisement placeholder can optionally be embedded in the Internet content using one or more templates. The third party agent also evaluates the content and at least one policy of multiple parties to identify at least one advertisement to present in the advertisement placeholder. The advertisement placeholder embodies a three party agreement between the provider of the Internet content, the provider of the aggregator web site and at least one advertiser. | 01-21-2016 |
