Patent ID: 8099324

Claim:
A method of verifying and compensating for consumption of advertising at an electronic device comprising: providing a displayable data; taking a cryptographic measure of at least a portion of the displayable data to create a first measurement of the displayable data; downloading the displayable data; downloading a packet comprising the first measurement corresponding to the at least a portion of the displayable data and a value packet; loading the displayable data into a display memory, wherein data in the display memory is presented on a display of the electronic device; presenting the displayable data on the display of the electronic device; taking a second cryptographic measurement of the at least a portion of the displayable data while the displayable data is in the display memory and being displayed to create a second measurement; comparing the first measurement to the second measurement; processing the value packet in response to determining that the first and second measurement match; and wherein processing the value packet comprises adding a value amount indicated in the value packet to a locally maintained stored value account.