Google Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tia Gao

David Singleton

Brandon V Taylor

David L Butcher

Malcolm S Haar

Adam J Spanky Compain

Raymond Emmett Colline, Ii

Daniel Issen

Peggy Mangot

A virtual wallet system provides embedded controls to a merchant for association and display with merchant artifacts on a merchant interface. Merchant artifacts may include begin-of-purchase flow items such as coupons, and end-of-purchase flow item such as tickets. When the embedded control displayed on the merchant interface is selected by a user, a save artifact request is communicated to a virtual wallet server allowing the user to instantly save an instance of the merchant artifact to the user's corresponding virtual wallet account.

Saving merchant artifacts to a virtual wallet

An initiator computing device may acquire a digital coupon having a first value. The initiator computing device may share the digital coupon with a recipient computing device. An advertisement server may be notified that the initiator computing device has shared or has an intent to share the digital coupon with the recipient computing device. The advertisement server may calculate a second value associated with the digital coupon and assign the second value to the digital coupon responsive to the initiator computing device sharing the digital coupon with the recipient computing device. Further, the advertisement server may receive logging information associated with sharing the digital coupon. The logging information can facilitate monitoring the influence of the digital coupon.

Value regulation based advertising

Content that is stored on a remote server is distributed via a communications network. The distribution of the content, such as a document or pictures, is initiated via a properly enabled device, such as a web-enabled phone, handheld computer, personal digital assistant (PDA), or personal computer. In this manner, a website can be used as a repository for documents, and the sender is not required to have physical possession of the document to be sent or have a locally stored electronic copy of the document to be sent.

Initiating distribution of server based content via web-enabled device

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