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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2005
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Marc Barach, Oakland, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Fordyce, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Hickson, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Somorjai, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Marc Barach, Oakland, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Fordyce, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Hickson, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Somorjai, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sean Van der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
UTBK, Inc., Dover, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses to connect telephone calls and track information about the telephone calls for geographic area based advertisements. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving an indication of a target geographic area of an advertisement for an advertiser having a telephone number, the advertisement including one of: a telephone number assigned to the advertiser and a reference to the telephone number assigned to the advertiser; and providing the advertisement for delivery to users of interest in the target geographic area, the advertiser billed for the advertisement based on telephonic connections made to the telephone number of the advertiser through the telephone number assigned to the advertiser.