Patent ID: 8700015
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06Q,H04H,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system communicatively coupled to mobile devices and computers, the system comprising: the system configured to store and provide access to product details of a plurality of products wherein the product details for the plurality of products are supplied by corresponding manufacturers, vendors or businesses; the system configured to distribute interactive content and product lists comprising the plurality of products, the product details and related information to the mobile devices and the computers based at least on categories of interest of a plurality of individual users, wherein the mobile devices each comprise a client capable of displaying the product lists, the product details and related information received from the system; an advertisement inserting server that receives and manages product advertisement information and related user selection criteria for at least some of the plurality of products; an activity tracking server that tracks user activities, interactive content distributed to the user, user selection criteria and user responses; the system, employing the advertisement inserting server, configured to insert at least one advertisement into the product lists, the product details and related information presented to the plurality of individual users on their corresponding ones of the mobile devices or computers communicatively coupled to the system, wherein the system charges an advertisement fee to an associated one of a plurality of entities for each of the at least one advertisement inserted; and an advertisement pricing server that prices advertisements based on one or more criteria; the advertisement creator server that enables uploading of advertisements or creation of advertisements by a plurality of advertisement sources from a corresponding external server communicatively coupled to the advertisement creator, wherein each of the plurality of the advertisement sources is one of a product manufacturer, service provider, vendor, and an advertising agency; the advertisement creator server also enables the specification and management by each of the advertisement sources, for each of their advertisements, of one or more criteria for the targeting the plurality of individual users and a required number of targeted users that the advertisement pricing server employs for pricing each advertisement; and the advertisement pricing server, when requested, providing a price quote for disseminating each advertisement.