Apparatus, system and business method for managing digital media rental subscriber bases
OwnerNathan Shulman, Kevin Imesinventors
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Abstract
A business method includes the steps of providing a referral advertisement for a digital media subscription and receiving a request to subscribe in association with the referral advertisement. The method further includes receiving a request to distribute a promotional item operable to store a subscriber-based deliverable to a digital media subscriber and determining a delivery mode to deliver the promotional item. The method also includes communicating a confirmation of the subscription to a referring site, the confirmation provided in association with distributing the promotional item and distributing the promotional item using the confirmation to the digital media subscriber.
Claims20
A business method comprising the step of:
- receiving a request to distribute a promotional item operable to store an order fulfillment article provided in association with a digital media to a digital media subscriber;
- determining a delivery mode to deliver the promotional item;
- and
- initiating distribution of the promotional item in association with the digital media to the digital media subscriber.
A business method comprising the steps of:
- determining a subscriber characteristic of a digital media subscriber;
- determining if a promotional item should be delivered to the digital media subscriber based on the subscriber characteristic;
- and
- distributing the promotional item in association with a subscriber-based deliverable to the digital media subscriber.
A business method comprising the steps of:
- providing a referral advertisement for a digital media subscription;
- receiving a request to subscribe in association with the referral advertisement;
- receiving a request to distribute a promotional item operable to store a subscriber-based deliverable to a digital media subscriber;
- determining a delivery mode to deliver the promotional item;
- communicating a confirmation of the subscription to a referring site, the confirmation provided in association with distributing the promotional item;
- and
- distributing the promotional item using the confirmation to the digital media subscriber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.