US 11,941,670 B2
Information-market system
Douglas R Cloud, Tacoma, WA (US)
Filed by Douglas R Cloud, Tacoma, WA (US)
Filed on May 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/737,604.
Application 17/737,604 is a continuation of application No. 16/418,665, filed on May 21, 2019, abandoned.
Application 16/418,665 is a continuation of application No. 13/710,105, filed on Dec. 10, 2012, granted, now 10,296,947, issued on May 21, 2019.
Application 13/710,105 is a continuation in part of application No. 12/001,052, filed on Nov. 28, 2007, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2022/0261860 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/02 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0273 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0273 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0275 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic information market system comprising:
multiple computer systems, each of which has one or more processors, one or more memories, network-communications subsystems, and computer instructions, stored in one or more of the one or more memories, that control the computer system to cooperate with other of the multiple computer systems to implement the electronic information market system, the multiple computer systems including
information-consumer computer systems, each information-consumer computer system
receiving content into which advertisements are incorporated from one or more of other of the multiple computer systems of the information market system,
receiving a transaction certificate from one or more of other of the multiple computer systems of the information market system,
transmitting the received transaction certificate and encoded user preferences to one or more of other of the multiple computer systems of the information market system, and
receiving value from one or more advertisers for displaying advertisements to one or more information consumers on a display device of information-consumer computer system, the received value one or more of currency, financial instruments, and various types of material goods and products, the advertisements transmitted by one or more advertiser computer systems which previously received the transaction certificate and a portion of the encoded user preferences and used the transaction certificate and the portion of the encoded user preferences to select the advertisements displayed on the display device of information-consumer computer system.