Patents Assigned to Big Media, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6385592
    Abstract: The present invention is a system and method for delivering customized electronic advertisements in an interactive communication system. The customized advertisements are selected based on consumer profiles and are then integrated with offerings maintained by different content providers. The preferred interactive communication system interconnects multiple consumer computers, multiple content provider computers and multiple Internet provider computers with an advertisement provider computer. Whenever a consumer directs one of the consumer computers to access an offering existing in one of the content provider computers, an advertising request is sent to the advertisement provider computer. Upon receiving the advertising request, the advertising provider computer generates a custom advertisement based on the consumer's profile. The custom advertisement is then combined with the offering from the content provider computer and displayed to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Big Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Angles, Douglas O. Blattner