Mail monetization—revenue sharing model

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9836722-B2
Application number	US-86100007-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2007
Priority date	Sep 25, 2007
Publication date	Dec 5, 2017
Grant date	Dec 5, 2017

Abstract

This disclosure describes systems and methods for including advertisements in outgoing electronic messages and rewarding the sender for every recipient who clicks on an included advertisement. The disclosure further describes various methods for selecting keywords used to generate the advertisement as well as a method for allowing the sender to directly select the advertisement from an advertisement listing. Furthermore, the disclosure discusses various forms of rewarding the sender including a revenue sharing method.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
transmitting, by a computing device, a graphical user interface including a message text input area configured to receive the body of a text message and a suggested description text box configured to receive a suggested description from a sender, wherein the graphical user interface does not initially display the suggested description text box;
receiving, by the computing device from the sender over a network, a selection of one or mor…

Assignees

• Keswani Girish
• Excalibur Ip Llc

Inventors

• Keswani Girish

Classifications

• G06Q30/0236

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q10/107 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q20/10

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/02

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q20/102

  Physics · mapped topic