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US 2007/0192279 A1Published application
Advertising in a Database of Documents
AssigneeLeviathan Entertainment, LLC
InventorAndrew Van Luchene
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Abstract
A database, such as a patent database, including a plurality of electronic documents, such as patents and patent applications, is described. The documents include words, phrases, and/or pictures that have been hyperlinked to advertisements or other documents. Also described are methods of indexing words and phrases in the documents and allowing advertisers, merchants, or other entities to pay for the right to hyperlink selected words, phrases, pictures that appear in the documents in the database to web-based documents of their choosing.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing a plurality of patent disclosure documents,
- categorizing keywords that appear in the document;
- receiving a request from an entity to hyperlink a first keyword to a destination document;
- hyperlinking at least one instance of the keyword in the document to the destination document;
- and
- receiving compensation from the entity for hyperlinking the keyword.
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A system comprising:
- a database comprising a plurality of patent disclosure documents, wherein at least one patent disclosure document includes at least one keyword that is hyperlinked to an advertisement owned by an entity;
- an advertising module configured to:
- receive a keyword selection from the entity;
- receive an advertisement from the entity;
- and
- hyperlink the advertisement to at least one instance of the keyword;
- and
- a fee module configured to:
- receive compensation from the entity;
- and
- track the frequency with which the hyperlink is activated.
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A method comprising:
- accessing a database of patent disclosure documents;
- selecting a keyword that appears in at least one of the documents in the database;
- receiving a list of suggested alternate keywords;
- requesting that an advertisement be associated with the keyword;
- and
- paying a fee to have the advertisement associated with the keyword.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.