Advertising revenue sharing
AssigneeUnoweb Inc.
InventorJohn Almeida
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Abstract
A method of host development is based on paying the writer of free content through advertising revenue sharing. Steps include receiving an advertisement, which is paid content, from an advertiser; receiving non-paid content subject to a condition that the provider may receive no compensation for the non-paid content; combining the paid content and the non-paid content on a content page; registering a user to interact with the content page; sending the content page for display on a computer operated by the user; calculating a number equaling all interactions of the user with the paid content; receiving payment from the advertiser for said number; and paying the provider based on a fraction of the payment.
Claims12
A method of web site development based on advertising revenue sharing, comprising the steps of:
- receiving paid content from an advertiser;
- receiving non-paid content from a provider subject to a condition that the provider may receive no compensation for the non-paid content;
- combining the paid content and the non-paid content on a content page;
- registering a user to interact with the content page;
- sending the content page for display on a computer operated by the user;
- calculating a number equaling all interactions of the user with the paid content;
- receiving payment from the advertiser for said number;
- and
- paying the provider based on a fraction of the payment.
A method of web site development based on advertising revenue sharing, comprising the steps of:
- registering a provider to prepare free content subject to a condition that the provider may receive no compensation for the free content;
- receiving paid content;
- combining the free content with the paid content on a content page;
- sending the content page for display on a computer;
- enabling a user to access the computer and display the content page;
- calculating a gross total of times the user displays the content page;
- determining a net total by subtracting from the gross total the number of subsequent times the user accesses the content page before expiration of a waiting-time threshold from an immediately preceding access;
- receiving payment from the advertiser for the net total;
- and
- paying the provider for the net total.
A method of web site development based on advertising revenue sharing, comprising the steps of:
- providing a server computer;
- combining content with an advertisement;
- sending the content and advertisement to a user accessing the server computer;
- receiving at the server computer a first click on the advertisement, the first click sent by the user;
- saving a first indication of receiving the first click;
- receiving a second click on the advertisement, the second click sent by the user;
- setting a time period;
- determining if the second click is received after expiration of the time period;
- saving a second indication of the second click if the second click occurs after expiration of the time period;
- and
- charging an advertiser for each saved indication.
A method of host development based on advertising revenue sharing, comprising the steps of:
- registering a provider to prepare non-paid content subject to a condition that the provider may receive no compensation for the non-paid content;
- transmitting the non-paid content to a content distributor;
- receiving at a host:
- the non-paid content sent by the content distributer;
- and
- paid content from an advertiser, the paid content comprising a link to additional information;
- combining the non-paid content and the paid content into a page;
- displaying the page on the host;
- totaling a number of interactions by a user with the link;
- receiving payment from the advertiser for the number of interactions with the link;
- and
- paying the provider for the number of interactions with the link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.