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Method and system for internet publishing and advertising forums

  • US 20060116926A1
  • Filed: 11/27/2004
  • Published: 06/01/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for conducting Internet-based online publishing and advertising forums in which authors are rewarded with a recurrent royalty drawn from the advertising revenue generated specifically by the articles they published comprising:

  • (a) an author registration process of inputting the contact and billing information of an author and a new unique author identifier into to an author database, and repeating the same for other authors not previously registered;

    (b) an article submission process of inputting the full content of an article, a new unique article identifier and the corresponding author identifier into to an article database, and repeating the same for other articles by the same or different registered author;

    (c) an advertiser registration process of inputting the contact and billing information of an advertiser and a new unique advertiser identifier into to an advertiser database, and repeating the same for other advertisers not previously registered;

    (d) an ad submission process of inputting the content and preference of an ad, a new unique ad identifier and the corresponding advertiser identifier into to an ad database, and repeating the same for other ads from the same or different registered advertiser;

    (e) a Web presentation process of displaying the information of and hyper-links to all available articles on an Internet Web site organized based on the subject matters of the articles, thus allowing Internet users to browse through and drill down to different categories and groups of articles and ultimately click on the hyper-link to an article to view its full content;

    (f) an article delivery process of, upon the forum Web server receiving an HTTP request sent by the Web browser of an Internet user to access the full content of an available article, delivering a Web version of the article that includes ads inserted based on their corresponding ad preferences;

    (g) an accounting process of periodically paying authors whose articles contributed to the ad revenue of that period, and billing the advertisers for ads performed according to their preferences in that period.

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