Transaction tracking, managing, assessment, and auditing data processing system and network
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Abstract
An improved processing system for tracking commerce on the Internet provides for subvariable processing and includes web page scanning to discern fraud or improper content to insure proper promotion of select products within the network environment.
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20 Claims
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11. In a data processing method for bringing together Merchants and Content Providers using a computer network comprising the steps of:
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a. receiving multiple inquiries from Merchants and Content Providers using a Clearinghouse server;
b. accessing the Clearinghouse server to enter or locate data regarding a promotional offer associated with goods or services available from said Merchant on a separate site interconnected to said network;
c. accessing the Clearinghouse server to search for and/or access stored data on existing offers to said Content Providers;
d. entering an acceptance of counteroffer by said Content Provider; and
e. consummating a promotional arrangement electronically by interconnecting said Content Provider site to said Merchant site by a hyperlink. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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- 16. A data processing system for establishing promotional arrangements governing the development of referrals, comprising a Clearinghouse server configured and programmed to receive communications from web-based Merchants regarding commerce to be effected over a web site and in response to said communications accessing one or more stored promotional arrangements governing the use of a referral promotion to direct USER'"'"'S browsing the web to said Merchant'"'"'s site said Clearinghouse server transmitting to said Merchants one or more of said promotional arrangements for review and selection.
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