Patent ID: 7574725
Filing Date: 2009-08-11
Classification: G06Q,G07F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of marketing and distributing multimedia, the method comprising: a. receiving, by a server, multimedia material and advertising material from a producer or owner of said multimedia material, said advertising material being associated with said multimedia material, said advertising material comprising audio and video components; b. storing said multimedia material and associated advertising material on a computer readable storage medium as correlated information in digital format; c. providing a server system accessible over a communication network, said server system accessing said correlated information in a digital format from said computer readable storage medium for transfer of said correlated information in a digital format over said communication network to potential purchasers; d. providing samples of said correlated information in a digital format from said server system over said communication network to said potential purchasers, said purchasers being linked to the server system through said communication network; e. downloading to said purchasers, upon request of said purchasers, over said communication network, said correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said multimedia material from said server system, said purchasers storing downloaded correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said multimedia material; and f. providing said correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said advertising material that is associated with said multimedia material to said purchasers from said server system over said communication network, allowing purchasers to locally market and sell said multimedia material, said purchasers downloading said correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said advertising material that is associated with said multimedia material, said purchasers storing the downloaded correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said advertising material; and g. wherein said purchaser is an exhibitor exhibiting said multimedia material, after deriving said multimedia material from said stored correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said multimedia material, in a public theater to a number of individuals in exchange for a paid admission or a broadcast exhibitor, said advertising material, after deriving of said advertising material from said correlated information in a digital format corresponding to said stored associated advertising material, being shown to the public at a time or in a place different from the time or place at which said associated multimedia material is displayed.