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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2008
Applicants:
Jonathan Macdonald, Frimley, GB;
Donald Peppers, Sea Island, GA (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan MacDonald, Frimley, GB;
Donald Peppers, Sea Island, GA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method and system for enabling advertisers to deliver advertisements to consumers in which a plurality of tiers of available advertisements are defined, each tier containing a number of advertisements, a price for allocation of an advertisement in each tier is set wherein a lowest tier has the lowest price and the price increases to a maximum at a highest tier, and advertisements are allocated to advertisers based on availability starting from a lowest tier with unallocated advertisements and progressing to higher tiers.