Systems and methods to provide information and connect people for real time communications

US8838476B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• YP Interactive LLC · US

Inventors

• Ebbe Altberg · Mill Valley, US
• Scott Faber · San Francisco, US
• Ron Hirson · San Francisco, US
• Tu Thuy Cam Tran · San Francisco, US
• Sean Van Der Linden · Berkeley, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 2007
• Grant date: Sep 16, 2014
• Expiry date: Feb 27, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/12
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses to provide communication connections at a cost reduced via advertising. One embodiment includes: receiving a request from a first user over a data communication network; response to the request, initiating a first telephonic connection to the first user and a second telephonic connection to a second user to provide a telephonic connection between the first and second users; presenting an advertisement to at least one of the first and second users; and reducing a communication fee for the telephonic connection between the first and second users using a portion of an advertisement fee charged for the advertisement.