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US 2011/0258024 A1Published application
Advertising Viewing and Referral Incentive System
OwnerKevin Princeinventor
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Abstract
An advertising referral incentive system encourages users to interact with advertisements by providing payment to original users for interaction with advertisements and interaction by users referred by original users. The payment may be monetary and also entries into a jackpot. Advertisers may select users based on demographic information provided by users and pay for the users they reach.
Claims20
A method of advertising comprising:
- signing up a first user to an advertising service;
- sending an offer for a discount to the first user;
- requesting the first user to share the discount with others;
- detecting the first user sharing the discount with a second user;
- providing a reward to the first user and second user for the first user sharing the discount.
2 more elements
A method of advertising comprising:
- receiving a set of users based on demographic details;
- providing advertising queue for the set of users to view;
- receiving payment for the advertising queue sent to the set of users;
- allocating a portion of the payment for a jackpot;
- and
- allocating a portion of the payment for paying the users.
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A method of advertising comprising:
- providing an advertiser with a desired demographic group of users;
- providing a jackpot service;
- receiving payment from the advertiser;
- receiving an advertisement from the advertiser;
- providing the advertisement to at least one of the group of users;
- determining if the at least one of the group of users participated in the advertisement;
- providing a portion of the payment from the advertiser to each of the at least one of the group of users that were determined to have participated in the advertisement;
- and
- providing a jackpot entry to each of the at least one of the group of users that were determined to have participated in the advertisement;
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A method of advertising comprising:
- signing up a first user to an advertising service;
- signing up a second user to the advertising service based on a referral from the first user;
- associating the second user as a referral of the first user;
- delivering advertising to the second user;
- and
- providing a reward to the first and second user for the second user viewing the advertising.
3 more elements
A method of advertising comprising:
- sending an offer for a discount to a user;
- requesting the user to share the discount with others;
- detecting the user sharing the discount;
- and
- rewarding the user for sharing the discount.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.