System and methods for a micropayment-enabled marketplace with permission-based, self-service, precision-targeted delivery of advertising, entertainment and informational content and relationship marketing to anonymous internet users
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- the storing of profile information about anonymous Internet users;
enabling interested third-parties to derive benefits from the use of the profile information; and
enabling anonymous Internet users to derive value and material and financial benefit from the use of their profile information.
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Abstract
A method of enabling anonymous Internet users to publish and manage extensive, non-identifying personal data, including demographic, psychographic, needs, wants, interests, propensities, means to purchase, credibility and other data which in turn, enables a marketplace wherein such users, advertisers, websites, and other third-parties can mutually benefit from the commercial exploitation of such data. Advertisers can directly use the data to segregate the users into highly differentiated anonymous audiences for the purposes of targeting them with individualized marketing campaigns and then monitor user responses in near real-time. Websites can individualize their content to the profiles of visiting users. Users can share surface and deep web links with other users having similar profiles. Consumers participating in good faith are proportionately rewarded via revenue sharing, which they may withdraw from the marketplace or use to purchase and rent digital content offered in the marketplace'"'"'s micropayment-enabled storefronts by other users and third-party content providers.
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42 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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the storing of profile information about anonymous Internet users;
enabling interested third-parties to derive benefits from the use of the profile information; and
enabling anonymous Internet users to derive value and material and financial benefit from the use of their profile information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A system comprising:
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a user database storing profile information about anonymous Internet users;
a user profile information search engine enabling an advertiser to filter anonymous Internet users into a target audience based on the profile information; and
a distributor enabling an advertiser to send an advertisement to the target audience.
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