SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISION OF COMPUTERIZED ONE-STOP INVITATIONS AND ELIMINATION OF DUPLICATED DATA ENTRY
A system for displaying computerized invitations to end users, the system including an invitation server, networked to a multiplicity of end-user's browsers via a network, and operative to send a response to an individual end-user's browser, wherein said response is operative to command the individual end user's browser to: a. open a window on top of publisher content previously selected by the individual end-user and currently present in user's browser; b. display, inside the window, an invitation including invitation consummation information allowing the individual end user to consummate the invitation, and c. close the window once the individual end user consummates the invitation, thereby returning her or him to said publisher content previously selected by her or him.
1 . A system for displaying computerized invitations to end users, the system including:
an invitation server, networked to a multiplicity of end-user's browsers via a network, and operative to send a response to an individual end-user's browser,
wherein said response is operative to command the individual end user's browser to:
a. open a window on top of publisher content previously selected by the individual end-user and currently present in user's browser;
b. display, inside the window, an invitation including invitation consummation information allowing the individual end user to consummate the invitation, and
c. close the window once the individual end user consummates the invitation, thereby returning her or him to said publisher content previously selected by her or him.
2 . A system according to claim 1 wherein said response comprises html code.
3 . A system according to claim 1 wherein IFRAME code is used to command the browser to open a window on top of publisher content currently present in user's browser.
4 . A system according to claim 1 wherein the invitation includes more than one page each page including a user input area and wherein when the user engages with the user input area on the i'th page, a request is sent to the invitation server for the (i+1)'th page.
5 . A system according to claim 4 wherein said request comprises a Javascript request.
6 . A system according to claim 1 wherein the window is smaller than the screen size such that even when the window is open, some publisher content remains visible.
7 . A system according to claim 6 wherein the window appears in the screen center and publisher content remains visible in an area peripheral to the window.
8 . A system according to claim 6 wherein said response includes an instruction to modify the publisher content which remains visible, so as to focus the end-user's attention on the window rather than on the publisher content which remains visible.
9 . A system according to claim 8 wherein said instruction to modify includes an instruction to blur the publisher content which remains visible.
10 . A system according to claim 8 wherein said instruction to modify includes an instruction to tint the publisher content which remains visible.
11 . A system according to claim 8 wherein said instruction to modify includes an instruction to binarize the publisher content which remains visible.
12 . A system according to claim 4 wherein said user input area comprises a button and wherein the user engages therewith by at least one of clicking and tapping.
13 . A system according to claim 1 wherein the invitation server is also operative, once the end user consummates the invitation, to update affected nodes in the network.
14 . A method for displaying computerized invitations to end users, the method including:
providing an invitation server, networked to a multiplicity of end-user's browsers via a network, and operative to send a response to an individual end-user's browser
wherein said response is operative to command the individual end user's browser to:
a. open a window on top of publisher content previously selected by the individual end-user and currently present in user's browser;
b. display, inside the window, an invitation including invitation consummation information allowing the individual end user to consummate the invitation, and
c. close the window once the individual end user consummates the invitation, thereby returning her or him to said publisher content previously selected by her or him.
15 . A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for displaying computerized invitations to end users, the method including:
using an invitation server, networked to a multiplicity of end-user's browsers via a network, to send a response to an individual end-user's browser wherein said response is operative to command the individual end user's browser to:
a. open a window on top of publisher content previously selected by the individual end-user and currently present in user's browser;
b. display, inside the window, an invitation including invitation consummation information allowing the individual end user to consummate the invitation, and
c. close the window once the individual end user consummates the invitation, thereby returning her or him to said publisher content previously selected by her or him.