Patent ID: 8468049
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling a user to create a personalized targeted advertisement by interfacing with an advertising server, the personalized targeted advertisement defined for display on a webpage of a website, the personalized targeted advertisement having features to provide direct communication between the user and a recipient of the personalized targeted advertisement, at the advertising server the method comprising: detecting selection by a user, of an advertisement template, from a plurality of advertisement templates, in order to create the personalized targeted advertisement; receiving a media file from the user that is to be displayed in the personalized targeted advertisement; receiving a custom message from the user for the personalized targeted advertisement; and receiving an unique identification from the user that identifies the recipient of the personalized targeted advertisement, the unique identification being used to notify the advertising server that a personalized targeted advertisement needs to be displayed when the recipient accesses the webpage and when displayed also identifies the user that created the personalized targeted advertisement, the webpage being in communication with the advertising server, the advertising server having storage for storing the personalized targeted advertisement; wherein the unique identification is of one or more specific email addresses; providing a plurality of Internet links, each of the plurality of Internet links being embedded in the personalized targeted advertisement, at least one of the plurality of Internet links enables communication between the user and the recipient; wherein the method is executed by a computing processor.