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Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080098304

Methods and systems for prompting users of computing devices

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John Moore (about 1 month ago)

This idea is very much like what Ross and Gostak indicted below. A similar program called e-rewards exist today, but in the form of a web survey and not an advertisement. (http://www.e-rewards.com). In essence, you tell e-rewards the type of marketing survey information you are willing to look at and review, an communication (email in this case) is sent to you and when you complete the survey, you are rewarded for your participation.

Ross Thomson (about 1 month ago)

I'm not sure how this differs from a standard popup, which is triggered by an event, and plays media from a second computer. It seems trivial.

Gostak Sakai (2 months ago)

How is this different from the "free PC" concept where you could get a "free" PC that was loaded with programs that presented the user with advertising, which the user viewed, in order to get the PC?

As far as alerting, methods mentioned, there is nothing different here than is normally used for notifying the cell phone user that there is a call, page or text message.

As far as delivering content is concerned, we get this all the time in email spam. It is just extending spam to the cell phone.

This might be a way to extend the free PC idea to include a free Cell Phone but is it really patentable? It sounds much more like a marketing idea.

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