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
An incentive system comprising:
- an advertising system configured to deliver advertising to users;
- a referral system configured to help users refer the advertising system to other users;
- a reward system comprising:
- a referral reward system configured to provide a secondary reward to a first user when a second user participates in viewing advertising due to a referral from the first user.
An advertising system comprising:
- a user interface;
- an advertiser interface;
- an administrative interface;
- an advertising module configured to receive advertiser requests and data from the advertiser interface;
- a user module configured to receive information and requests from users, and further configured to provide advertisements to users based on the information in the advertising module;
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- a financial module configured to store rewards based on user participation in the advertising;
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- an administrative interface configured to provide information relating to the other modules and interfaces.
An advertising system comprising:
- a computer database comprising a plurality of advertisements;
- a computer database having demographic information about a plurality of users;
- a device for delivering advertisements to a user, the device being operatively connected to the computer database comprising a plurality of advertisements and the computer database having demographic information about a plurality of users;
- means for conveying advertising targeted to a particular user to the device based on demographic information of the user;
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- a database for crediting the user with a portion of proceeds obtained for showing the advertisement.
A computer readable medium programmed having a program disposed thereon that, when executed performs one or more operations to formulate a computerized presentation of advertisements to a user and for providing a reward to the user for viewing the advertisement, the program having a payment module, information module and demographic target data module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.