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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth R Fite, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce R DeWoolfson, Fairfax, VA (US);
Assignee:
Environmental Products Corporation, Fairfax, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395148 ; 39520009 ; 39520018 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for displaying advertisements and printing coupons on remote systems of a distributed data processing system. A host system downloads display files, command file and transaction files describing the advertisements to be displayed and coupons to be printed to a remote system. The remote system keeps statistics on the number of times each advertisement is displayed and the number of times each coupon is printed, and periodically relays these statistics to the host system.