Web-based incentive system and method
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1. A system for enabling an Internet user to appropriate a benefit by interacting with a website, content, advertisement or message that is promoted by an Internet vendor, comprising:
- an Internet vendor account for each of a plurality of Internet vendors registered in the system, wherein the Internet vendor account includes a pledge or bid amount;
an Internet user account for each of a plurality of Internet users registered in the system; and
a smart client configured to monitor a user activity of the Internet user, present data of the Internet vendor account, invoke the sorting and filter of data of the Internet vendor account, invoke the cross-referencing of data of the Internet users account with data of the Internet vendor'"'"'s account, monitor a user activity of the Internet user with the Internet vendor'"'"'s data or content, and provide the user activity to a web server, wherein the web server is configured to return requests made by the smart client and allocate the benefit based on the user activity.
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Abstract
A method for providing an incentive to an Internet user to interact with a website. The present invention includes a network capable of capturing a portion of money related to Internet commerce, and allocate said money in a manner that provides incentive to an Internet user to interact with a website. The network architecture includes a smart client configured to request services from network servers.
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1. A system for enabling an Internet user to appropriate a benefit by interacting with a website, content, advertisement or message that is promoted by an Internet vendor, comprising:
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an Internet vendor account for each of a plurality of Internet vendors registered in the system, wherein the Internet vendor account includes a pledge or bid amount;
an Internet user account for each of a plurality of Internet users registered in the system; and
a smart client configured to monitor a user activity of the Internet user, present data of the Internet vendor account, invoke the sorting and filter of data of the Internet vendor account, invoke the cross-referencing of data of the Internet users account with data of the Internet vendor'"'"'s account, monitor a user activity of the Internet user with the Internet vendor'"'"'s data or content, and provide the user activity to a web server, wherein the web server is configured to return requests made by the smart client and allocate the benefit based on the user activity. - 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, 46)
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29. A method for enabling an Internet user to appropriate a benefit by interacting with a website, content, advertisement or message that is promoted by an Internet vendor, comprising:
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maintaining a database having stored thereon;
an Internet vendor account for each of a plurality of Internet vendors registered in the system, wherein the Internet vendor account includes a pledge or bid amount;
a benefit amount that has been calculated from a conversion rate of the pledge or bid amount an Internet user account for each of a plurality of Internet users registered in the system;
monitoring a user activity of the Internet user;
cross-referencing the user activity or data input with data input of the Internet vendor account to identify a common term or data input;
presenting data of the Internet vendor account when the common term or data input is identified;
sorting and filtering the Internet vendor data based on the tools invoked by the Internet user monitoring an interaction between the Internet user and the website, content, advertisement or message that is promoted by the Internet vendor; and
allocating the benefit. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 47)
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36. A method for providing an incentive to an Internet user to interact with a website, content or ad, comprising:
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monitoring a user activity of an Internet user;
searching a database for an Internet vendor based on the user activity;
presenting a hyperlink, text, advertisement, content, message or image icon that is maintained by the Internet vendor;
monitoring an interaction between the Internet user and the website, text, advertisement, content, message or image icon; and
allocating a benefit based on the Internet user'"'"'s collective interactions with the website, text, advertisement content, message or image icon. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 48)
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