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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2006
Philip Scott Lyren, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Robert Louis Lyren, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Philip Scott Lyren, Cleveland Heights, OH (US);
Robert Louis Lyren, Wadsworth, OH (US);
Other;
Abstract
Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for marketing and selling feature length movies over one or more networks. One method of marketing includes placing, at plural different internet locations, advertisements to purchase a feature length movie (FLM) before the FLM is publicly available to buy on digital video disk (DVD); soliciting, before the FLM is publicly available to buy on DVD, public individuals not previously affiliated with the FLM to become salespeople who sell the FLM over network spaces belonging to the public individuals; and compensating a salesperson for each sale of the FLM that occurs as a result of an advertisement at network spaces belonging to the salesperson.