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Method and stored program for accumulating descriptive profile data along with source information for use in targeting third-party advertisements
Assignee: Almondnet Inc
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Filing: 2008-08-06
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Granted: 2011-07-12
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Expires: 2028-08-06
Abstract
Abstract A descriptive-profile mercantile method, for use at a juncture in a data-communications topology having associated therewith a maintained databank of partial profiles, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: from a user, receiving a transaction having therein a first partial profile; using the first partial profile, searching a databank having a plurality of second partial profiles, wherein is included in said databank at least one null profile so that said searching will always yield at least one proximate second partial profile to the first partial profile; and between the user and the databank, contracting: (I) for the databank to own or represent a right to a first mutually agreed portion of the first partial profile, and substantially thereafter said databank incorporating the agreed portion of the first profile into at least one second partial profile; or (II) for the user to own or represent a right to a second mutually agreed portion of at least one said proximate second partial profile, and substantially thereafter the databank transmitting to the user the second mutually agreed portion of the second profile. The present invention operates best on a brokerage representation model; and thereby provides a means for making viable the economic commerce in information attributes.
Inventors
- 👤 Roy Shkedi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
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Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 19:51
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q30/00; G06Q30/02; G06Q30/0201; G06F; G06F16/00; G06F16/90; G06F16/95; G06F16/953; G06F16/9535; G06Q30/0241; G06Q30/0251; G06Q30/0269; G06Q30/04; G06Q40/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
195 words
An automated method of collecting profiles of Internet-using entities, the method comprising: (a) electronically receiving at a programmed computer system coupled to a global computer network, from at least one server controlled by one of a plurality of unaffiliated third parties operating respective websites, a partial profile of an entity that uses a user computer coupled to the global computer network and accessing the website, which partial profile contains at least one profile attribute related to the entity, and automatically with the computer system storing the received partial profile; (b) wherein receiving the partial profile is achieved by automatic electronic URL redirection from a portion of a page of the website accessed by the user computer; (c) automatically with the computer system electronically adding the received partial profile to a maintained profile believed to be related to the same entity; (d) automatically with the computer system generating and storing an electronic record of which of the plurality of unaffiliated third parties contributed to the maintained profile particular profile attributes; (e) wherein the maintained profile, including the added partial profile, comprises data used in targeting third-party advertisements to the user computer over the global computer network.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
195 words
An automated method of collecting profiles of Internet-using entities, the method comprising: (a) electronically receiving at a programmed computer system coupled to a global computer network, from at least one server controlled by one of a plurality of unaffiliated third parties operating respective websites, a partial profile of an entity that uses a user computer coupled to the global computer network and accessing the website, which partial profile contains at least one profile attribute related to the entity, and automatically with the computer system storing the received partial profile; (b) wherein receiving the partial profile is achieved by automatic electronic URL redirection from a portion of a page of the website accessed by the user computer; (c) automatically with the computer system electronically adding the received partial profile to a maintained profile believed to be related to the same entity; (d) automatically with the computer system generating and storing an electronic record of which of the plurality of unaffiliated third parties contributed to the maintained profile particular profile attributes; (e) wherein the maintained profile, including the added partial profile, comprises data used in targeting third-party advertisements to the user computer over the global computer network.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically with the computer system electronically maintaining an electronic record of which unaffiliated third party contributed, to the maintained profile, the profile attributes used in targeting the advertisements.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
35 words
The method of claim 2 further comprising automatically with the computer system electronically determining whether the received partial profile contains any profile attributes about the entity that were not previously contained in a maintained profile.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of claim 1 further maintaining with the computer system a credibility rating associated with at least one of the profile attributes of the maintained profile.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 4 wherein the credibility rating is reflected in a price for the at least one profile attribute.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
24 words
The method of claim 1 further comprises automatically with the computer system selecting profile attributes from the maintained profile based on the source thereof.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
29 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising automatically with the computer system electronically reading a cookie previously stored on the entity's computer, as a result of the URL redirection.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
86 words
The method of claim 1 further comprising, in accordance with a predetermined arrangement, automatically using the electronic record of which of the plurality of unaffiliated third parties contributed to the maintained profile particular profile attributes to create electronic data used to identify a payment amount due to the unaffiliated third party as a result of using at least one of the profile attributes in the partial profile contributed by that third party in targeting the third-party advertisements to the entity's computer over the global computer network.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
209 words
A tangible, non-transitory data storage medium comprising indicia of instructions for a processor to perform a method of updating profiles of Internet-using entities, the method comprising: (a) electronically receiving at a programmed computer system coupled to a global computer network, from at least one server controlled by one of a plurality of unaffiliated third parties operating respective websites, a partial profile of an entity that uses a user computer coupled to the global computer network and accessing the website, which partial profile contains at least one profile attribute related to the entity, and automatically with the computer system storing the received partial profile; (b) wherein receiving the partial profile is achieved by automatic electronic URL redirection from a portion of a page of the website accessed by the user computer; (c) automatically with the computer system electronically adding the received partial profile to a maintained profile believed to be related to the same entity; (d) automatically with the computer system generating and storing an electronic record of which of the plurality of unaffiliated third parties contributed to the maintained profile particular profile attributes; (e) wherein the maintained profile, including the added partial profile, comprises data used in targeting third-party advertisements to the user computer over the global computer network.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
209 words
A tangible, non-transitory data storage medium comprising indicia of instructions for a processor to perform a method of updating profiles of Internet-using entities, the method comprising: (a) electronically receiving at a programmed computer system coupled to a global computer network, from at least one server controlled by one of a plurality of unaffiliated third parties operating respective websites, a partial profile of an entity that uses a user computer coupled to the global computer network and accessing the website, which partial profile contains at least one profile attribute related to the entity, and automatically with the computer system storing the received partial profile; (b) wherein receiving the partial profile is achieved by automatic electronic URL redirection from a portion of a page of the website accessed by the user computer; (c) automatically with the computer system electronically adding the received partial profile to a maintained profile believed to be related to the same entity; (d) automatically with the computer system generating and storing an electronic record of which of the plurality of unaffiliated third parties contributed to the maintained profile particular profile attributes; (e) wherein the maintained profile, including the added partial profile, comprises data used in targeting third-party advertisements to the user computer over the global computer network.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
101 words
The data storage medium of claim 9 wherein the indicia of instructions instruct the processor to performing a method that further comprises: in accordance with a predetermined arrangement, automatically using the electronic record of which of the plurality of unaffiliated third parties contributed to the maintained profile particular profile attributes to create electronic data used to identify a payment amount due to the unaffiliated third party as a result of using at least one of the profile attributes in the partial profile contributed by that third party in targeting the third-party advertisements to the entity's computer over the global computer network.
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