Patents by Inventor Michael Alan Cunningham

Michael Alan Cunningham has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210304251
    Abstract: A method of operating a user computing device to display webpages to a user is described herein. The method includes a processor executing a web browser program to perform the steps of receiving webpage data associated with the initial webpage from the web server and displaying the initial webpage on the display, transmitting an advertisement page request to a pi-tramping server upon detecting a predefined user input command via the input device, the advertisement page request including the received URL and a user ID associated with the user, receiving a plurality of URLs associated with advertising webpages from the pi-tramping server in response to the advertisement page request, requesting advertising webpages associated with each of the received plurality of URLs from a plurality of advertising servers, and generating an advertisement page from data received from the plurality of advertising servers, and displaying the advertisement page on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Alan Cunningham
  • Publication number: 20140172568
    Abstract: PI-TRAMPING pages is an acronym for Programmed Immediate, Target Requested, Advertising Media Presentation on Individual, Neighborhood, and Generic pages. This is a method, scheme, program, or device for giving the viewer of an Internet Web page control over the presentation of all advertising associated with that Web page, thereby replacing in-your-face advertising with at-your-command advertising. This invention specifically allows the inclusion of features which will encourage the viewer of an Internet Web page to choose to look at the advertisements in a receptive state of mind and so satisfy the advertisers with allowing the display of their ads to be voluntary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Alan Cunningham