SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING ADVERTISEMENT GENERATED REVENUE VIA THE INTERNET

• US 20070156527A1
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avigdor Rubinstein
• Original Assignee: Avigdor Rubinstein
• Inventors: Rubinstein, Avigdor
• Application Number:
  US11/614,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20070156527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.410
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0247 Calculate past, present or future revenues
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A method and system for promoting advertisement generated revenue are disclosed. Each of a plurality of stored advertiser web pages which are displayable without any initial advertising costs can be searched and loaded by means of a plurality of customer terminals in communication with a service provider website via a data network. After user-initiated loading of a selected advertiser web page, an advertiser account is debited by a predetermined sum upon completion of an advertiser chargeable operation associated by predetermined criteria with the loading of the selected advertiser web page. A user account is then credited with a service provider payable remuneration. The value of the remuneration is based on the predetermined sum debited to the advertiser account.

Claims

1. A method for promoting advertisement generated revenue, comprising the following steps:

a) Providing a service provider website suitable for searching and loading each of a plurality of stored advertiser web pages which are displayable without any initial advertising costs;

b) User-initiated loading of a selected advertiser web page;

c) Debiting an advertiser account by a predetermined sum upon completion of an advertiser chargeable operation associated by predetermined criteria with said loading of said selected advertiser web page; and

d) Crediting a user account with a service provider payable remuneration, the value of said remuneration being based on said predetermined sum debited to said advertiser account.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the advertiser chargeable operation is a purchase of a merchantable item.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the advertisement generated revenue is accrued by performing the following steps:

a) Loading a merchant web page and viewing a corresponding advertisement of a merchantable item;

b) Submitting a request to purchase said merchantable item;

c) Consummating a customer-initiated purchase of said merchantable item by transmitting payment information;

d) Debiting the advertiser account by the predetermined sum;

e) Issuing a receipt to the customer for said purchase;

f) Transferring the predetermined sum to a service provider bank account;

g) Crediting the user account with the service provider payable remuneration; and

h) Transferring the remuneration from the service provider bank account to a customer bank account after the balance of the user account is greater than a predetermined balance.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the advertiser chargeable operation is candidate success in a predetermined election.

5. A system for promoting advertisement generated revenue, comprising:

a) A service provider website dedicated to displaying a plurality of advertisements for various types of merchantable items which are displayable without any initial advertising costs, said service provider website comprising-

i. a database in which are stored customer and merchant account information and a listing of displayable advertisements associated with corresponding merchantable items;

ii. a search engine by which merchantable items are searchable;

iii. a server for communicating with a suitable data network and for loading a merchant web page retrieved by said search engine;

iv. a payment module in communication with said server adapted to execute a transaction from a customer to a merchant, from the service provider to a customer, or from an advertiser to the service provider;

v. a monitoring module in communication with said server adapted to determine which customers, by means of the service provider website, loaded a given merchant web page and which customers consummated a purchase by means of the service provider website; and

vi. a purchase verifying module interfacing with said monitoring module and information obtainable from a credit card company, said purchase verifying module adapted to determine which customers purchased a merchantable item after loading the advertisement of the merchantable item by means of the service provider website; and

b) a plurality of customer terminals in communication with said data network, for interacting with said service provider website,

wherein a purchase is capable of being consummated by means of a customer terminal and said payment module following the loading of a selected advertiser web page and the entering of suitable payment information, said server being operable to automatically debit a merchant account by a predetermined sum and to automatically credit a customer account by a remuneration the value of which being based on said predetermined sum upon consummation of said purchase.