Patent ID: 7454498

Claim:
A system for presenting unsolicited data over a wide area network to a user, wherein the user operates a web-browser on a user computer connected to said wide area network, the system comprising: a server computer adapted for connecting to said wide area network; content data for presentation in a web-browser window on said user computer, wherein said content data is stored in a memory of said server computer and said web-browser is a stand-alone application operating on said user computer and is adapted to display said web-browser window on a desktop of said user computer when activated; a monitoring application in said memory of said server computer, said monitoring application configured to be sent to said user computer together with the content data requested by said user, to be linked to at least said web-browser window such that said monitoring application is closed when said web-browser window is closed, and to automatically execute on said user computer after being received by said user computer; a server application in said memory of said server computer, said server application comprising instructions for receiving a request for said content data from said user computer, sending said content data to said user computer, and sending said monitoring application together with said content data to said user computer; and unsolicited data for presentation to said user, said unsolicited data stored in said memory of said server computer; wherein said server application further comprises instructions for receiving a request for said unsolicited data over said wide area network and for sending said unsolicited data to said user computer over said wide area network; wherein said request for said unsolicited data is generated by said monitoring application after said web-browser window remains inactive for a predetermined period of time.