Method for making money on internet news sites and blogs

• US 8,103,553 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2009
• Issued: 01/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jolly Seven, Series 70 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Roddy Mckee Bullock
• Inventors: Bullock, Roddy McKee
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Palavecino, Kathleen G
• Application Number:
  US12/574,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20110082757A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• Field of Search: 705/26.1
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/02 involving a neutral party, e.g. certification authority, notary or trusted third party [TTP]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/04 Payment circuits
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/12 specially adapted for electronic shopping systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3255 using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/382 insuring higher security of transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/425 using two different networks, one for transaction and one for security confirmation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A method for making an online posted comment more conspicuous relative to other online posted comments. The method can include the steps of publishing internet content online by an internet content provider; providing with the published content a section for recording and posting reader comments; viewing by a reader the published internet content; providing to the reader an option of posting for free a default format comment or posting for a fee a comment made distinctive relative to a default format comment; recording, by the reader, a comment; paying, by the reader, the fee for making the comment distinctive relative to a default format comment; and posting the reader'"'"'s distinctive comment in the comment section, wherein the posted comment lacks an indication of the time of posting. The fee for distinctiveness transaction can also be implemented by use of an online auction.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system for monetizing internet content, the system comprising:

a. an internet content provider providing online information and an online comment section associated with said online information, said online comment section capable of having posted thereto reader comments in a free default format;

b. computer executable instructions for performing steps comprising;

i. displaying to a reader, who can leave a reader comment in response to said online information, an offer associated with said online information, said offer being an offer to alter a reader comment from said free default format to a distinctive format for a fee;

ii. receiving by said internet content provider, from a reader of said online information, an acceptance of said offer;

iii. altering said reader comment from said free default format; and

iv. displaying said altered comment in said online comment section;

c. a processor for executing said computer executable instructions; and

d. a memory for storing at least said computer executable instructions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said internet content provider provides content via a website and said content is a news story or blog entry, and said comment section is disposed at the end of said news story or blog entry.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said acceptance of said offer is received after said reader clicks on a designated link.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said altered comment does not include an indication of a time of posting.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said altering of said comment is upon payment facilitated by a third party administrator without manually-entered credentials selected from the group consisting of user name and password.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said fee is fixed, and said comment is altered in a manner selected from the group consisting of, altered appearance and altered placement relative to other comments.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said fee is dynamically adjustable, and said comment is altered relative to other comments having paid an equal or lesser fee in a manner selected from the group consisting of, altered appearance and altered placement.

8. A computer-implemented method for monetizing online internet content, the method comprising the steps of:

a. publishing internet content online by an internet content provider;

b. providing with said published content a section for posting reader comments;

c. providing to a reader, who can leave a reader comment in response to said published content, an option of posting for free said reader comment as a default format comment or posting for a fee said reader comment made distinctive relative to a default format comment; and

d. posting said reader'"'"'s comment made distinctive relative to a default format, wherein said comment made distinctive does not include an indication of a time of posting.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said internet content provider publishes content via a website and said content is a news story or blog entry, and said comment section is disposed at the end of said news story or blog entry.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein said fee is received in a receiving account associated with said internet content provider.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein said fee is received from a payment account of said reader, said payment account being selected from a credit card account, a debit card account, a PayPal®

account, or combinations thereof.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein said fee is fixed, and said comment is altered in a manner selected from the group consisting of, altered appearance and altered placement relative to other comments.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein said fee is dynamically adjustable, and said comment is altered relative to other comments having paid an equal, greater, or lesser fee in a manner selected from the group consisting of, altered appearance and altered placement.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein said reader'"'"'s comment is transformed from a first default tangible expression of content to a second distinctive tangible expression of content by computer machines.