Patent ID: 7398548
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for allowing a consumer to access an advertiser's location over a global communication network from a consumer's computer disposed at a consumer's location on the network, comprising the steps of: defining an archive location proximate the consumer's computer; broadcasting to a class of consumers a broadcast communication having a unique signal embedded therein, which unique signal embedded therein contains no routing information and is associated with a particular advertiser and a predetermined and associated advertiser location on the network and wherein the unique signal has encoded therein a unique code that correlates with the location of this predetermined advertiser location on the network; receiving the broadcast communication at a consumer's location; extracting the unique signal from the received broadcast communication; in response to the step of extracting, automatically accessing a relational database having stored therein an associative data set for a plurality of unique codes and associated predetermined advertiser location and the associated routing information therefore, which relational database is operable to determine the routing information to the predetermined advertiser location on the network from a consumer's computer on the network at the consumer's location that is associated with the received unique code; and archiving proximate the consumer's computer at the archive location the determined routing information.