Patent ID: 7904336
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating revenue using electronic mail, comprising the steps of: receiving an e-mail message addressed to at least one e-mail recipient from a first client computer through at least one computer network, wherein the e-mail message comprises an e-mail address of an e-mail user sending the e-mail message, an e-mail address of the at least one e-mail recipient, a subject, and a body; appending advertisement retrieval software means to the e-mail message transmitted from the first client computer, wherein the advertisement retrieval software means comprises information about at least one of a plurality of advertisements retrievably stored in a database that are not from the e-mail user sending the e-mail message; and transmitting the e-mail message to a second client computer through the at least one computer network based upon the e-mail address of the at least one e-mail recipient for displaying the e-mail message on the second client computer, wherein when the email message is first displayed on the second client computer the advertisement software retrieval means is operable at the second client computer to retrieve at least one of the advertisements retrievably stored in the database for display within the e-mail message on the second client computer.