Abstract: A system and method for automatically enrolling users of a website or other network-based service in sweepstakes. A user of 4 user computer system connects to a host computer system hosting a website or other network-based service and is awarded points for accessing features of the website or service. The points are displayed in real-time on the user's computer and transmitted to a database server, which maintains the user's point totals. The user is then automatically given a number of entries in a sweepstakes based on the number of points he or she has been awarded. Users may also be awarded points for accessing features of websites or services of third-party host computer systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 30, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 11, 2013
Assignee:
Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.
Inventors:
Jonas Lowell Steinman, Frank William Daugherty, Darrel E. Herbst, Lukas C. Oberhuber
Abstract: A system, apparatus, means, computer code, and method may include receiving data indicative of information associated with a user, determining a value of a metric associated with the user based on the data indicative of information associated with the user, verifying that the value of the metric associated with the user is valid, selecting an offer from a plurality of offers where each of the offers has a score associated with the value of the metric, and providing data indicative of the selected offer.
Abstract: A system and method for automatically enrolling users of a website or other network-based service in sweepstakes. A user of 4 user computer system connects to a host computer system hosting a website or other network-based service and is awarded points for accessing features of the website or service. The points are displayed in real-time on the user's computer and transmitted to a database server, which maintains the user's point totals. The user is then automatically given a number of entries in a sweepstakes based on the number of points he or she has been awarded. Users may also be awarded points for accessing features of websites or services of third-party host computer systems.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 30, 2009
Publication date:
February 25, 2010
Applicant:
MINDSPARK INTERACTIVE NETWORK, INC.
Inventors:
Jonas Lowell Steinman, Frank William Daugherty, Darrel E. Herbst, Lukas C. Oberhuber
Abstract: A system and method for automatically enrolling users of a website or other network-based service in sweepstakes. A user of a user computer system connects to a host computer system hosting a website or other network-based service and is awarded points for accessing features of the website or service. The points are displayed in real-time on the user's computer and transmitted to a database server, which maintains the user's point totals. The user is then automatically given a number of entries in a sweepstakes based on the number of points he or she has been awarded. Users may also be awarded points for accessing features of websites or services of third-party host computer systems.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 1999
Date of Patent:
December 15, 2009
Assignee:
Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.
Inventors:
Jonas Lowell Steinman, Frank William Daugherty, Darrel E Herbst, Lukas C Oberhuber