Systems and methods to generate leads to connect people for real time communications
AssigneeThryv, Inc.
InventorsEbbe Altberg, Scott Faber, Ron Hirson, Sean Van Der Linden
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AssigneeThryv, Inc.
InventorsEbbe Altberg, Scott Faber, Ron Hirson, Sean Van Der Linden
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Methods and apparatuses to connect people for services delivered via real time communications and to optionally generate leads to new customers for the services. One embodiment includes: providing a communication reference to an entity for distribution to customers; establishing connections for real time communications between the entity and the customers in response to requests made via the communication reference; charging the customers on behalf of the entity using a process to establish the connections for a service of the entity provided to the customers over the connections; presenting the service of the entity to customers on behalf of the entity; charging the entity a first fee according to what the entity charges a customer for the service; and charging the entity a second fee according to a bid price specified by the entity in response to a determination that the presenting of the service leads to the customer.
A method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, which when executed, cause a server system to:
A server system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.