System and method for adding an advertisement to a personal communication
First Claim
1. A system for compensating a provider of website data in exchange for using said website data to provide data concerning at least one advertiser to a recipient, said website data being provided by a provider device to a reception device operated by said recipient via a wide area network (WAN), said system comprising:
- at least one memory device for storing a plurality of advertisements;
at least one Web server configured to communicate with said reception device via said WAN; and
at least one application configured to;
receive a remove command from said provider of said website data, said remove command resulting in at least a first advertisement being removed from said plurality of advertisements, thereby creating a palette of available advertisements;
determine a content of said website data;
use at least said content to automatically select at least a second advertisement from said palette of available advertisements; and
use said Web server to provide at least said second advertisement to said reception device so that said second advertisement is displayed on said reception device along with said website data, said second advertisement comprising a first universal resource locator (URL) pointing to said system, thereby allowing a request for additional website data to be provided to said system in response to said recipient interacting with said second advertisement;
wherein said at least one memory device comprises a second URL linked to said second advertisement, said second URL pointing to a location of said additional website data stored on an advertising device; and
wherein said at least one application is further configured to (i) provide said second URL to said reception device in response to said request for said additional website data, allowing said reception device to receive said additional website data from said advertising device, (ii) record said providing of said first advertisement to said reception device and said request for said additional website data, and (iii) use at least a portion of said record to compensate said provider of said website data.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided for adding at least one advertisement to a personal communication and providing additional communication data to a recipient that interacts with the advertisement. A sender network device communicates with an advertising application operating on a Web site to generate a personal communication containing at least one advertisement, where the at least one advertisement is selected from a palette of advertisements. In one embodiment of the present invention, the sender has control over advertisements that are displayed together with the personal communication by allowing the sender to delete (or remove) an advertisement from either the at least one advertisement or the palette of advertisements. If a displayed advertisement is interactive, and the advertisement is interacted with, the advertising application will provide the recipient with additional communication data in a format that can be understood by the recipient network device.
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33 Claims
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1. A system for compensating a provider of website data in exchange for using said website data to provide data concerning at least one advertiser to a recipient, said website data being provided by a provider device to a reception device operated by said recipient via a wide area network (WAN), said system comprising:
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at least one memory device for storing a plurality of advertisements; at least one Web server configured to communicate with said reception device via said WAN; and at least one application configured to; receive a remove command from said provider of said website data, said remove command resulting in at least a first advertisement being removed from said plurality of advertisements, thereby creating a palette of available advertisements; determine a content of said website data; use at least said content to automatically select at least a second advertisement from said palette of available advertisements; and use said Web server to provide at least said second advertisement to said reception device so that said second advertisement is displayed on said reception device along with said website data, said second advertisement comprising a first universal resource locator (URL) pointing to said system, thereby allowing a request for additional website data to be provided to said system in response to said recipient interacting with said second advertisement; wherein said at least one memory device comprises a second URL linked to said second advertisement, said second URL pointing to a location of said additional website data stored on an advertising device; and wherein said at least one application is further configured to (i) provide said second URL to said reception device in response to said request for said additional website data, allowing said reception device to receive said additional website data from said advertising device, (ii) record said providing of said first advertisement to said reception device and said request for said additional website data, and (iii) use at least a portion of said record to compensate said provider of said website data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer-implemented method for compensating a provider of website data in exchange for using said website data to provide data concerning at least one advertiser to a recipient, said website data being provided by a provider device to a reception device operated by said recipient via a wide area network (WAN), comprising the steps of:
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receiving a plurality of advertisements from a plurality of advertisers, said plurality of advertisements being stored on at least one memory device on a host network device; receiving by an advertising application operating on said host network device a remove command from said provider of said website data, said remove command resulting in at least a first advertisement being removed from said plurality of advertisements that are available to be provided to said recipient, thereby creating a palette of available advertisements; determining by said advertising application a content of said website data; using by said advertising application at least said content to select at least a second advertisement from said palette of available advertisements; and providing said second advertisement to said reception device so that said second advertisement is displayed on said reception device along with said website data, said second advertisement including a first uniform resource locator (URL) identifying said host network device, thereby allowing a request for additional website data to be provided to said host network device in response to said recipient interacting with said second advertisement; wherein a second URL stored on said host network device is linked to said second advertisement, said second URL identifying an advertising network device where said additional website data is located; and wherein said advertising application is further configured to (i) provide said second URL to said reception device in response to said request for said additional website data, allowing said reception device to receive said additional website data from said advertising network device, (ii) record said providing of said second advertisement to said reception device and said providing of said second URL to said reception device, and (iii) use at least a portion of said record to compensate said provider of said website data. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A computer-implemented method for compensating a provider of website data in exchange for using said website data to provide data concerning at least one advertiser to a recipient, said website data being provided by a provider device to a reception device operated by said recipient via a wide area network (WAN), comprising the steps of:
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storing a plurality of advertisements in at least one memory device on a host network device, where a palette of available advertisements initially comprises said plurality of advertisements; receiving by an advertising application operating on said host network device a remove command from said provider of said website data, said remove command resulting in at least a first advertisement being removed from said palette of available advertisements; using by said advertising application at least a contextual basis of said website data to select at least a second advertisement from said palette of available advertisements; and providing said second advertisement to said reception device so that said second advertisement is displayed on said reception device together with said website data, said second advertisement having a first uniform resource locator (URL) identifying said host network device, thereby allowing a request for additional website data to be provided to said host network device in response to said recipient interacting with said second advertisement; wherein a second URL stored on said host network device is associated with said second advertisement, said second URL identifying an advertising network device where said additional website data is located; and wherein said advertising application is further configured to (i) provide said second URL to said reception device in response to said request for said additional website data, allowing said reception device to receive said additional website data from said advertising network device, (ii) record said providing of said second advertisement to said reception device and said providing of said second URL to said reception device, and (iii) use at least a portion of said record to compensate said provider of said website data.
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Specification