System and method for affiliate link generation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11010795-B2
Application number	US-201213547771-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2012
Priority date	Mar 30, 2012
Publication date	May 18, 2021
Grant date	May 18, 2021

Abstract

A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation. A user enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for dynamically generating affiliate links over the Internet via a facilitator, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, from a user, a request to generate an affiliate link for an affiliate webpage;
extracting webpage information of the affiliate webpage;
assessing the affiliate webpage to determine whether the webpage information other than a uniform resource locator matches content stored in a database and if determined the information extracted does not match scraping and extracting information from the affiliate webpage other than the uniform resource locator of the webpage;
dynamically creating a record of the affiliate webpage;
compiling the record's metadata from the information scraped and extracted;
creating a new affiliate link for the affiliate webpage, wherein the new affiliate link is associated with the user; and
displaying the new affiliate link to the user.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user requests an affiliate link by engaging a system activator bookmark, when the user is on the affiliate webpage, which initiates execution of an initialization JavaScript.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of receiving, from an affiliate, content separate from a uniform resource locator from a plurality of webpages and storing the webpage content in a database separate from the uniform resource locator.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising the step of analyzing queried webpage content separate from the uniform resource locator against the webpage content stored in the database separate from the uniform resource locator.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising the step of, if the queried webpage content is not in the database separate from the uniform resource locator, storing the extracted queried webpage content in the database separate from the uniform resource locator.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of recording the affiliate link as unique to the user in the database by storing information corresponding to the user.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of transmitting to the affiliate an affiliate link unique to the user including commission account information that is stored in a data record with the affiliate link.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein receiving, from the user, the request to generate the affiliate link for the affiliate webpage comprises receiving, from a publishing tool of an online publisher, the request to generate the affiliate link for the affiliate webpage and to insert the affiliate link in an online post being generated by the publishing tool.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining whether the scraped and extracted queried webpage content relates to a product; and
generating a user query to confirm generation of a non-product webpage affiliate link if it is determined that the scraped and extracted queried webpage content does not relate to a product.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the affiliate is comprised of one or more advertisers.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method facilitates affiliate link generation for a plurality of browsers and technology systems.

12. A method for dynamically generating affiliate links over the Internet via a facilitator, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving, from an affiliate, webpage content for a plurality of webpages and storing the webpage content in a database separate from uniform resource locator data;
receiving, from a user, a request to generate an affiliate link for an affiliate webpage;
assessing the affiliate webpage to determine whether content from the affiliate webpage matches the webpage content stored in the database separate from the uniform resource locator data;
upon determining that the content from the affiliate webpage matches the webpage content stored in the database separate from the uniform resource locator data;
displaying the content from the affiliate webpage stored in the database to the user and generating the affiliate link, wherein the affiliate link is associated with the user;

upon determining that the content from the affiliate webpage does not match the webpage content stored in the database separate from the uniform resource locator data;
displaying extracted queried webpage content stored in the database separate from uniform resource locator data to the user, presenting a query to the user to confirm the request to generate the affiliate link, and generating the affiliate link upon the user confirming the request to generate the affiliate link, wherein the affiliate link is associated with the user; and

displaying the affiliate link to the user.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the user requests an affiliate link by engaging a system activator bookmark, when the user is on the affiliate webpage, which initiates execution of an initialization JavaScript.

14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising the steps of:
recording the affiliate link as unique to the user in the database;
dynamically creating a record of the affiliate webpage; and
compiling metadata of the record from the extracted queried webpage content.

15. The method of claim 12 , further comprising the step of transmitting to the affiliate the affiliate link associated with a social media account of the user.

16. The method of claim 12 , further comprising the step of, upon determining that the extracted queried webpage content separate from the uniform resource locator data is not in the database, storing the extracted queried webpage content separate from the uniform resource locator data in the database.

17. The method of claim 12 , wherein the webpage content comprises product descriptions and product pictures.

18. The method of claim 12 , wherein one or more of the webpage content and the extracted queried webpage content is comprised of at least one of an affiliate product webpage, an affiliate non-product webpage, a product commission, a product description, a product option, a product price, or a product picture.

19. The method of claim 12 , wherein the affiliate is comprised of one or more advertisers.

20. The method of claim 12 , wherein the method facilitates affiliate link generation for a plurality of browsers and technology systems.

Assignees

• Stoliartchouk Alexei
• Jordan Forrest
• Box Baxter
• Rewardstyle Inc

Inventors

• Stoliartchouk Alexei
• Jordan Forrest
• Box Baxter

Classifications

• G06Q30/0277 Primary

  Online advertisement · CPC title

• G06Q30/02

  Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising · CPC title