
US Patent No: 7,120,235
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Method and apparatus to provide pay-per-call performance based advertising
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Oct 10, 2006
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Oct 6, 2003
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10/679,982
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Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method. The method includes assigning a unique telephone number to an advertiser; providing an advertisement on a media channel on behalf of the advertiser, the advertisement including one of the unique telephone number and a reference to the unique telephone number; monitoring telephone calls to the unique telephone number; and billing the advertiser for telephone calls to the unique telephone number in accordance with a predefined model.
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