Patent ID: 9558502
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing a computing device having: responsive to the browser loading the advertisement in a form of a banner that appears to be a single image occupying a predefined region of the web page, receiving in the portal a request for a resource of the advertisement in accordance with the reference to the portal configured in the advertisement provided by the media channel, wherein the single image of the advertisement includes responsive to the request for the resource of the advertisement, during the loading of the advertisement for a presentation of the single image of the advertisement in the web page by the media channel, and prior to the user interacting with the advertisement, in response to the second portion of the advertisement being selected in the browser, tracking, by the computing device, interactions of the user with the advertisement and determining whether the user is qualified for the reward, wherein the tracking and the determining are performed by: