Method and System for Conducting a Plurality of Cyber-Based Conventions

• US 20080091662A1
• Filed: 10/17/2007
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: D&P Ventures, Inc. (Simpleview Holdings LLC)
• Original Assignee: Software Management, Inc.
• Inventors: Franke, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,700,696 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0211 Determining the effectiveness of discounts or incentives

Abstract

A method of providing content information to at least one user on the Internet, by facilitating an exchange between at least one sponsor and the at least one user. The method includes receiving, from the at least one sponsor with a web browser computer, and electronically setting, loading, inputting, or any combination thereof at a central website server, searchable content information which includes at least one searchable keyword; receiving, from the at least one user with a web browser computer, at the central website server, a query including at least one search keyword; processing the query at the central website server by searching for the at least one search keyword within the searchable content information; and releasing, from the central website server to the at least one user, content information selected based upon the processing of the query.

Claims

1. A method of providing content information to at least one user on the Internet, by facilitating an exchange between at least one sponsor and the at least one user, the method comprising:

a. receiving, from the at least one sponsor with a web browser computer, and electronically setting, loading, inputting, or any combination thereof at a central website server, searchable content information which includes at least one searchable keyword;

b. receiving, from the at least one user with a web browser computer, at the central website server, a query including at least one search keyword;

c. processing the query at the central website server by searching for the at least one search keyword within the searchable content information; and

d. releasing, from the central website server to the at least one user, content information selected based upon the processing of the query.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the central website server is a global website system made up of a plurality of Internet servers.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the searchable content information includes geographic location content information.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising providing directions to the at least one user.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the at least one searchable keyword or at least one search keyword is at least one of the following:

a product name, a service name, a brand name, a sponsor name, in singular form, in plural form, a subject category, a theme, a subject, a keyword, a phrase, a formatted phrase, or any combination thereof.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the at least one searchable keyword or search keyword is a plurality of themes, subjects, keywords or any combination thereof, which are positioned in double quotation marks.

7. The method according to claim 1 step c., wherein the processing includes a search based upon at least one of the following:

a plurality of exact keywords, a plurality of related subject categories, a phrase comprising at least one keyword, plurality of more restrictive keywords, or any combination thereof.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, prior to step d., creating at least one advertisement associated with the at least one sponsor using at least one of the following:

an Internet advertising banner, a button, an advertising URL link, a navigation bar, a sized banner, a click-on area, or any combination thereof.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the at least one advertisement includes at least one of the following:

an Internet display, a show, a demonstration, a presentation, an exhibitor brochure, a digital photograph, a video clip, or any combination thereof.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising presenting, to the at least one sponsor, at least one example or sample advertisement.

11. The method according to claim 8, further comprising calculating a price for the least one advertisement for the at least one sponsor.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising calculating a price for the least one advertisement for the at least one sponsor based at least in part upon the selection of alternative levels of searchable content information.

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising providing at least one of the following:

a preferred presentation location for the advertisement, a specified presentation frequency of the advertisement, a packaging arrangement including the advertisement, a recognition factor including the advertisement, or any combination thereof.

14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising calculating the price for the least one advertisement for the at least one sponsor based at least in part upon the preferred presentation location, the specified presentation frequency, the packaging arrangement, the recognition factor, or any combination thereof.

15. The method according to claim 8, further providing payment processing for the least one advertisement.

16. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the providing identification capture processing of the at least one user for the at least one advertisement.

17. The method according to claim 8, further comprising, after step d., receiving, at the central website server and tracking in an interest profiler record associated with the at least one user, identification information generated from the at least one user after selecting the at least one advertisement.

18. The method according to claim 1, further comprising searching an interest profiler record associated with at least one user and generating electronic mail to the at least one user.

19. The method according to claim 1, further visually presenting, to the at least one user, the location of the at least one sponsor on a map.

20. The method according to claim 19 further comprising providing at least one of the following:

location information, sponsor name, service description, product description, or any combination thereof of the at least one sponsor, on the map in association with a selected physical location of the at least one sponsor.

21. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, after step b., tracking the query for the at least one user at the central website server in an interest profiler record associated with the at least one user.

22. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving, at the central website server and from the at least one sponsor, registration information.

23. The method according to claim 22 wherein the registration information is incorporated into a service agreement, which includes at least one of the following:

search processing criteria, order placement criteria, cross system opportunities, place sponsor order information, digital photography services, scanning services, signage services, communication-type services, decorator services, search processing criteria, cross system terms, master purchase order provisions, or any combination thereof.

24. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, prior to step d., releasing, from the central website server to the at least one user, specialized software applications or downloads.

25. The method according to claim 1, further comprising tracking, at the central website server, at least one advertising industry measurement.

26. A system for releasing content information to a user on the Internet, by facilitating an exchange between at least one sponsor and at least one user, the method comprising:

a. means for receiving, from the at least one sponsor with a web browser computer, and electronically setting, loading, inputting, or any combination thereof at a central website server, searchable content information which includes at least one searchable keyword;

b. means for receiving, from the at least one user with a web browser computer, at the central website server, a query including at least one search keyword;

c. means for processing the query at the central website server by searching for the at least one search keyword within the searchable content information; and

d. means for releasing, from the central website server to the at least one user, content information selected based upon the processing of the query.