Content delivery and data procurement system and methods of use and doing business

• US 20040103427A1
• Filed: 11/17/2003
• Published: 05/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: David E. Fritsche Jr, Robert A. Wilson II
• Original Assignee: David E. Fritsche Jr, Robert A. Wilson II
• Inventors: Wilson, Robert A. II, Fritsche, David E. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US10/716,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20040103427A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/254 Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server, rights management server arrangements for maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00; network services using third party service providers H04L67/53
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

Systems and methods of distributing multimedia marketing content and collecting marketing data by generating a plurality of autoloading storage devices, providing a multimedia content serving system, sending the storage devices to remote users, causing automatic linking through a network between remote users and the content serving system, updating the static content of a remote user'"'"'s storage device such as a CD-ROM or DVD by passing variable data, text, pictures, audio and video through a Local-Area Network or Wide-Area Network such as the Internet and to join that data to the contents of the CD-ROM or DVD in a seamless manner to the CD-ROM or DVD user. Further systems and methods for embedding data collection on a storage device such as a CD-ROM or DVD that is used to pass information through a Local-Area Network or Wide-Area Network, such as the Internet. The data collection forms or variable data are stored on the CD-ROM or DVD in a computer software program. The information from the forms or variable data is received through a network such as the Internet at a central storage media and merged into a database.

Claims

1. A method of distributing multimedia marketing content and collecting marketing data, the method comprising the steps of:

A. generating a plurality of auto-loading storage devices containing automatically loadable multimedia marketing content and one or more automatically loadable marketing data collection programs;

B. providing a multimedia content serving system and a marketing data collection system on a communications network;

C. sending the auto-loading storage devices to remote users, each said remote user having use remote computing apparatus, whereby each remote user should receive at least one among the plurality of auto-loading storage devices;

D. causing the multimedia content serving system and data collection system to;

i. automatically network link with remote user apparatus through the communications network when one or more remote users access the multimedia content serving system and data collection system through the remote user'"'"'s remote computing apparatus;

ii. for each said accessing remote user;

(a) automatically transferring second automatically loadable multimedia marketing content to the remote user'"'"'s remote computing apparatus, whereby the remote computing apparatus may automatically play the second automatically loadable multimedia marketing content; and

(b) automatically receiving and processing remote user marketing data transferred from the remote user'"'"'s remote computing apparatus by the automatically loadable marketing data collection program running on the remote user'"'"'s remote computing apparatus.

2. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 1 wherein the auto-loading storage devices comprise digital storage media and the communications network comprises the Internet.

3. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 1 wherein multimedia content serving system and marketing data collection system cooperatively communicate with web site systems, whereby each accessing user'"'"'s computing apparatus may receive second automatically loadable multimedia content and transfer remote user marketing data to said marketing data collection system.

5. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 1 also including receiving revenue from a third party in connection with distributing the third party'"'"'s marketing content by performing steps A-D.

7. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 1 in which the sending step (C) comprises sending the auto-loading storage devices by a manual shipping service.

8. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 2 in which the sending step (C) comprises sending the auto-loading storage devices by a manual shipping service.

9. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 5 in which the sending step (C) comprises sending the auto-loading storage devices by a manual shipping service.

11. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 5 wherein the remote user marketing data processing step D(ii) further comprises distributing remote user marketing user data to said third party.

13. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 9 wherein the remote user marketing data processing step D(ii) further comprises distributing remote user marketing user data to said third party.

4. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim I wherein multimedia content serving system and marketing data collection system cooperatively communicate with web site systems, whereby each accessing user'"'"'s computing apparatus may receive second automatically loadable multimedia content and transfer remote user marketing data to said marketing data collection system.

6. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 4 also including receiving revenue from a third party in connection with distributing the third party'"'"'s marketing content by performing steps A-D.

10. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 6 in which the sending step (C) comprises sending the auto-loading storage devices by a manual shipping service.

12. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 6 wherein the remote user marketing data processing step D(ii) further comprises distributing remote user marketing user data to said third party.

14. The marketing content distribution and information collection method of claim 10 wherein the remote user marketing data processing step D(ii) further comprises distributing remote user marketing user data to said third party.