Method of Fee Recovery for Free Cellular Service Through Advertising

• US 20060242006A1
• Filed: 03/25/2005
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Louis Oliver Hogan
• Original Assignee: Louis Oliver Hogan
• Inventors: Hogan, Louis Oliver
• Application Number:
  US10/907,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20060242006A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.190
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0217 involving input on products or services in exchange for incentives or rewards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0238 at point-of-sale [POS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising

Abstract

The user of a cell phone service must listen and respond to advertisement in advance of placing a call, whereupon a portion of the advertising revenues paid to the cell phone service are used to pay for the user'"'"'s access fee to use the cell phone service, resulting in incentivized cell phone usage combined with a highly effective advertising delivery system. Additionally, the user may make purchases and have a portion of the revenues used to pay the user'"'"'s access fee. Additionally, the user may identify themselves on alternate equipment and use the benefits of the incentivized usage telephonic system on the alternate equipment, including another system.

Claims

1. A method of exposing advertising content to end users by using a telephonic communicating system comprising:

presenting advertising content to a user over a telephonic communication system prior to allowing said user to access services on said system, and

creating incentive with said user to participate in absorbing said advertising content by remunerating said user from revenues customarily paid for advertising access.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein access of said user is contingent upon a process of requiring and confirming specific responses from said user to be input into said system.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said user may choose among a plurality of types of said advertising content.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein instead of advertising content, there is instructional content.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the services user accesses are monitored for content.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the services user accesses are automatically parsed or recognized for content.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein remuneration to said user is a partial or total reduction of the customary fees that would usually be charged said user for access to services on said system.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the identity of the user may be established by specific responses which said user inputs into said system, thus linking remuneration to the user, rather than linking remuneration to particular equipment in the system.

9. A method of offering a Point-Of-Sale opportunity to end users by using a telephonic communicating system comprising:

presenting said opportunity to a user over a telephonic communication system prior to allowing said user to access services on said system, and

creating incentive with said user to use said opportunity to make a purchase by remunerating said user from revenues generated by profit from consumated purchases.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein access of said user is contingent upon a process of requiring and confirming specific responses from said user to be input into said system.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein said user may choose among a plurality of types of said opportunities.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein remuneration to said user is a partial or total reduction of the customary fees that would usually be charged said user for access to services on said system.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the identity of the user may be established by specific responses which said user inputs into said system, thus linking said opportunity to the user, rather than linking said opportunity to particular equipment in the system.

14. A method of allowing a user to access an incentive based telephonic communications system from an other system'"'"'s equipment, which would allow said user to access the services of said other system and use remunerations generated on said incentive based system to pay the cost of access to services on said other system.