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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2006
Marc Francis Hayes, Jr., Roswell, GA (US);
Ahmad John Aslami, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Scott David Bogartz, Norcross, GA (US);
John Charles Hanger, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Marc Francis Hayes, Jr., Roswell, GA (US);
Ahmad John Aslami, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Scott David Bogartz, Norcross, GA (US);
John Charles Hanger, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Contact at Once!, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for publishing certain advertising information on-line. Presence indicators are incorporated into merchant advertisements published online. The presence indicators are preferably active hyper-links that are configured to allow a consumer to send a request to a merchant for initiation of a 2-way real time communications session. The system provides for adding one of a pool of merchant representatives to an opened communications session with the consumer. Advertisements may be selectively published or withheld from publication based upon the availability status of an associated merchant.