Patent ID: 6973436

Claim:
A method for transacting an advertisement transfer from an advertisement distributor to a visitor, the method comprising performing the steps of: (a) prior to the occurrence of a visitor visitation at a communications node, (i) making at least one advertisement distributor aware that profile information comprising visitor attributes and corresponding economic value contributions is desired, (ii) collecting responses from the at least one distributor, wherein a preponderance of the responses have a plurality of attributes and the at least one distributor has assigned to each of at least some of the plurality of attributes an economic value contribution, (iii) spreading the attributes of a preponderance of the responses to form a number of combinations of various attributes, (iv) determining the price of each combination of attributes by logically and arithmetically aggregating the economic value contributions, (b) upon the occurrence of a visitor visitation at a communications node, the communication node electronically: (i) constructing a profile of the visitor containing various attributes, (ii) selecting the combination from the response that includes some or all of the attributes from the profile and that yields the highest price, (iii) contracting, between the node and the distributor of the selected combination, a transference of an advertisement from the distributor to the visitor, and (iv) effecting a transfer of the advertisement to the visitor.