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MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ONLINE ADVERTISING INCLUDING PROGRESSIVE AWARE OF PARTICIPATION CREDITS

  • US 20130151326A1
  • Filed: 02/06/2013
  • Published: 06/13/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method, comprising:

  • facilitating a user of a social network, by a computing device, in contributing social media to the social network or interacting with social media contributed by other users of the social network;

    monitoring, by the computing device, the user'"'"'s contributing or interacting;

    crediting the user, by the computing device, with participation credits based at least in part on the user'"'"'s contribution or a level of interacting by the user with social media contributed by other users of the social network, wherein the crediting of participation credits includes crediting of participation credits to induce a user to contribute social media through interaction with a machine readable pictorial description of an article or object; and

    facilitating the user, by the computing device, in using the user'"'"'s participation credits to redeem a product sample offered by an online advertiser.

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