Deferred Performance Based Advertising and reward Payment Process

• US 20090063276A1
• Filed: 08/25/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tashya Wilson
• Original Assignee: Tashya Wilson
• Inventors: Ekechukwu, Chinedu U.
• Application Number:
  US12/197,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063276A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.730
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement

Abstract

A marketplace service platform (“service provider”) that allows for deferred payment of advertising or promotional fees by an offerer (“offerer”) until after the sale, lease, or execution of the product or service whereby the service provider then shares a predetermined portion of the payment with the customer, lessee, or service recipient. The returned portion of the fee to the customer may be deemed as a “reward” for having used the service provider to locate and execute a transaction. The offerer indicates the amount of the reward the service provider must offer to the customer prior to any interaction between the offerer and customer.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for deferred performance based advertising and reward payment through a service provider comprising the steps of:

a) accepting identifying information relating to a listing of an item or service to be promoted by a service provider'"'"'s website from an offerer;

b) accepting the entry by the offerer of a promotional fee amount, to pay the service provider should a transaction occur between a customer and the offerer from the listing, the promotional fee comprising a reward amount and a processing fee;

c) if there is a reward amount for a listing, indicating the reward amount associated with the listing;

d) accepting a selection of a listing from the customer;

e) if there is a reward amount associated with the listing, generating a claim code for a reward claim;

f) receiving a notification providing information about the transaction after a transaction with a reward has been completed;

g) accepting payment by the offerer of the promotional fee; and

h) paying the customer the reward amount.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

i) providing a verification notice indicating receipt of information; and

j) accepting a confirmation from the offerer of completed transaction;

if a customer provides details in step i.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

k) accepting at least one search criteria from a customer; and

l) displaying at least one listing which matches the search criteria;

4. The method of claim 3, in which the listings in step k are sorted by reward amount.

5. The method of claim 3, in which the listings with no reward amount are not displayed in step k.

6. The method of claim 1, in which the reward amount is determined as a percentage of the reward component, a fixed amount, or a combination of both.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein in step b, the promotional fee amount is a fixed value;

a percentage of the price of the item or service;

or no charge.

8. The method of claim 1, in which the claim code generated in step e is associated with at least one of the following factors:

the time of request initiation, the reward amount, the offerer who created the listing, and the customer.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein in step e, the claim code is sent via an electronic method such as by short message service (SMS), e-mail, or stored with a user accessible location within the service provider'"'"'s website or simply viewed or printed.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising the steps of:

m) receiving a conversation keyword or a claim code;

n) acknowledging the occurrence of an interactions between the offerer and the customer; and

o) validating conversation keyword or a claim code an interaction between the offerer and the customer.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein knowledge of the conversation keyword by the customer or knowledge of the claim code by the offerer, serves as evidence of communication between the customer and the offerer.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein in step i, the offerer confirms the transaction by providing key details of the transaction.

13. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of:

p) receiving confirmation or denial of the verification notice provided in step i.