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Advertising method and advertising device

  • US 20020120503A1
  • Filed: 06/28/2001
  • Published: 08/29/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An advertising method for broadcasting advertisements to user-operated, network-interconnected computers including a first computer operated by a first user and a second computer operated by a second user, the method including:

  • a status administration step of administrating status of users including the first user and the second user;

    a status broadcast step of receiving from the first computer and broadcasting to the second computer the status of the first user;

    a memory step of correlatively recording in an advertising database resource identification information specifying a resource on the network with advertising information including image data for the advertisements;

    an advertising acceptance step of accepting from said computers at least one selected from the resource identification information and the advertising information to be recorded by said memory step;

    a storing step of storing in said advertising database information received in said advertising acceptance step;

    a resource detection step of detecting resource identification information for a first resource in use by the first user;

    an extraction step of extracting from the advertising information recorded in said memory step first advertising information corresponding to the resource identification information for the first resource, detected in said detection step;

    a broadcast step of broadcasting to the second computer said first advertising information extracted in said extraction step; and

    an advertising step for displaying as status of the first user on the second computer advertising image data included in said first advertising information broadcast in said broadcast step.

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