Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Reexamination Certificate
1999-10-04
2009-12-15
Alvarez, Raquel (Department: 3688)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
C705S001100, C705S014270, C463S001000, C463S016000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07634424
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for automatically enrolling users of a website or other network-based service in sweepstakes. A user of a user computer system connects to a host computer system hosting a website or other network-based service and is awarded points for accessing features of the website or service. The points are displayed in real-time on the user's computer and transmitted to a database server, which maintains the user's point totals. The user is then automatically given a number of entries in a sweepstakes based on the number of points he or she has been awarded. Users may also be awarded points for accessing features of websites or services of third-party host computer systems.
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Daugherty Frank William
Herbst Darrel E
Oberhuber Lukas C
Steinman Jonas Lowell
Alvarez Raquel
De Klerk Stephen M.
Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc.
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
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