Patent ID: 9633363
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of incentivized advertising, the method comprising: providing an app for download via a network accessible app store and subsequently obtaining user registration information, the app configured to be downloaded to a computing device of a user equipped with a touch display and a separate web browser, the app configured to cause the computing device to at least: in response to a determination that the user has activated an associated touch activated selection icon for a first digital content item in the listing of digital content items corresponding to the user search query, enable a streaming video advertisement from an advertisement server to be streamed from the advertisement server and presented to the user via the user computing device and inhibiting the user's ability to fast forward through the streamed advertisement when presented to the user; after at least a portion of the video advertisement has been presented to the user, cause an engagement to occur between the user and a sponsor of the video advertisement at least partly in response to a user action, the engagement comprising at least one of a sponsor landing page engagement, a social media page engagement, or an email engagement; at least partly in response to a determination that the video advertisement has been presented to the user for at least an ad impression period, the ad impression period less than a full length of the video advertisement and a determination that the engagement, comprising at least one of a sponsor landing page engagement, a social media page engagement, or an email engagement, occurred, enable the first digital content item to be downloaded without digital rights management (DRM), at the user computing device over the network from the third party system.