Method for online advertising and gamming

• US 20060183551A1
• Filed: 02/13/2006
• Published: 08/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shroeder Prudent
• Original Assignee: Shroeder Prudent
• Inventors: Prudent, Shroeder
• Application Number:
  US11/353,693
• Publication Number:
  US 20060183551A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters

Abstract

A method for Internet advertising and gamming that encourages the player to click through several sponsor website link and therefore present a much more efficient method than those in practice at the present time.

Claims

1. A method for online advertising and gamming comprising:

one or more advertisers'"'"' and/or affiliates'"'"' web site(s),

a token,

a global networking system, also known as the Internet;

a game master server,

a database,

one or more personal user web pages also known as a game board.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said advertisers'"'"' and/or affiliates'"'"' web site is a collection of web pages, which contain various texts, data items such as graphics, pictures, table etc. formatted in some form of hyper text mark-up language to be viewed by a web browser.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said token is a set of computer codes and/or data written in a language that can be interpreted by a browser software, which contains pertinent information such as game piece identification, advertiser identification, various security codes, and various data objects.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein said game master server is a specialized computer with specialized software configured to take input from said advertiser web sites, web clients, client computers, and other servers, process the input and return a result to the client.

5. A system according to claim 1, wherein said database is a software configured to store and retrieve data to and from a storage area within said game master server.

6. A system according to claim 1, wherein said personal user web pages/game boards are web pages on the game master server, set aside for each registered user/player, in order for the users/players to collect and/or assemble the game pieces/tokens, and/or information.

7. A token of claim 3, wherein said token may represent a game fragment for assembly, clues for solving a problem, and/or interactive elements.