System and method for compounded marketing
First Claim
1. A system to facilitate computer-based commerce, the system including:
- an offering dispatch module to facilitate communicating a provider offering to a user if the offering is within a category designated by the user as being acceptable for receipt of such offering; and
a rewards module to reward the user if the user satisfies a reward criteria, the reward criteria including the user propagating the provider offering to a second user, wherein the provider offering includes a category code to indicate an associated category for the provider offering.
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Abstract
A system and method to facilitate computer-based commerce is presented. The system includes a module to facilitate communicating a vendor offering to a user if the offering is within a category designated by the user as being acceptable for receipt of such offering. The provider offering includes a category code to indicate an associated category for the provider offering. If a user chooses to propagate a vendor offering to another user, the user may be entitled to a reward. The reward may be designated to the user or to a third party. A spam control module may also be provided to identify spam complaints and to take actions in response to the spam complaints.
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30 Claims
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1. A system to facilitate computer-based commerce, the system including:
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an offering dispatch module to facilitate communicating a provider offering to a user if the offering is within a category designated by the user as being acceptable for receipt of such offering; and
a rewards module to reward the user if the user satisfies a reward criteria, the reward criteria including the user propagating the provider offering to a second user, wherein the provider offering includes a category code to indicate an associated category for the provider offering. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system including:
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a user search profile component to modify a user preference profile based on a request from a user and on a selection of one or more characteristics associated with the request;
an offering profile component to generate an offering profile based on one or more selections characteristics of the offering; and
a matching component to identify an entry from the user preference profile as corresponding to an entry from the offering profile.
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18. A method to facilitate computer-based commerce, the method including:
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communicating a provider offering to a user if the offering is within a category designated by the user as being acceptable for receipt of such offering; and
rewarding the user if the user satisfies a reward criteria, the reward criteria including the user propagating the provider offering to a second user, wherein the provider offering includes a category code to indicate an associated category for the provider offering. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An apparatus including:
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means for communicating a provider offering to a user if the offering is within a category designated by the user as being acceptable for receipt of such offering; and
means for rewarding the user if the user satisfies a reward criteria, the reward criteria including the user propagating the provider offering to a second user, wherein the provider offering includes a category code to indicate an associated category for the provider offering.
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29. A user interface including:
an item display area to display an item;
an affiliated communication creation area to;
enable a user to create one or more affiliated communications including content associated with the product, and enable the user to qualify for a reward if the user satisfies a reward criteria, the reward criteria including the user propagating the provider offering to a second user; and
a control button associated with the item to enable a user to access the affiliated communication creation area.
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30. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon data representing sets of instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:
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facilitate communicating a provider offering to a user if the offering is within a category designated by the user as being acceptable for receipt of such offering; and
reward the user if the user satisfies a reward criteria, the reward criteria including the user propagating the provider offering to a second user, wherein the provider offering includes a category code to indicate an associated category for the provider offering.
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