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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2006
Applicants:

Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);

Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);

Assignee:

YELLOWPAGES.COM LLC, D/FW Airport, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G10L 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0276 (2013.01); G10L 13/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0257 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0267 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0269 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses to present advertisements on mobile devices for communication connections of multiple content types. In one embodiment, a method includes: providing an advertisement to a mobile device, the advertisement to include a communication reference to be used by the mobile device to request a communication connection; and billing for the advertisement in response to an initiation of a communication, comprising more than one of text, voice, audio, image, and video, via the communication reference.


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