`StatementofStatus and Supportfor Claim Changes Under 37 CFR 1.173{c)
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`Amendments to the Specification
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`Please insert the following new paragraph immediately following col. 6, line 47 of the specification.
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`The present disclosure also provides for a method,wherein there is a communications interface providing
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`card representations to at least the first player, via the Internet, from _a card providing Internet accessible
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`node, wherein the following steps are included:
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`Step 1: transmitting, via the Internet,
`from the cardproviding Internet accessible node, first_information
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`related to communications between (a) the card providing Internet accessible node, and (b) a first Internet
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`accessible node from which the first player communicates with the card providing Internet_accessible
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`node;
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`wherein the first information is capable of being used in subsequent Internet communications between
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`the card providing Internet accessible node and the first Internet accessible node;
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`Step2:causing the first information to be stored on the first Internet accessible node so that it is available in
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`subsequent different Internet connections by thefirst player;
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`Step 3: first receiving, via the Internet,at the card providing Internet accessible node,second information
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`indicative of the first information being present onthe first Internet accessible node;
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`Step 4: second receiving, via the Internet, at the cardproviding Internet accessible node, third information
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`indicative of the first information being present on the first Internet accessible node when thefirstplayer
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`has disconnected the first Internet accessible node from the Internet and subsequently reconnected to the
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`Internet.
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`Please replace the paragraphthatbegins at Col. 26, line 66 with the following amended paragraph:
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`Also note that some advertisements (presented via advertiser pages 722 or as part of a game play
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`presentation) may be interactive with the user wherein the user may performatransaction such as making a
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`reservation (e.g., an airline or hotel reservation). Further, a user may be given the opportunity to provide
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`positive and negative opinions or responses on, for example, various advertisements, promotionals and other
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`related matters by expressing such responses upon accessing advertisementrelated information. Thus,it is an
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`aspect ofthe present invention to be able to conduct "test marketing" in that [satisfactory] statistically
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`representative groups of users may be selected for determining:
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`Please replace the paragraph that begins at Col. 29,line 7 with the following amended paragraph:
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`Referring now to an alternative embodimentof the present invention presented in FIG. 8, wherein
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`the game/advertisement web site 308 coordinates with a third party Internet access service provider 810 (or
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`StatementofStatus and Supportfor Claim Changes Under 37 CFR 1.173(c)
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`interactive cable television provider) for providing Internet 324 (cable television) access to users on a
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`reduced cost or free basis once a user has registered with the web server 340 (cable television provider), That
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`is, the game/advertisement web site 308 contacts the user's Internet service provider and arranges to
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`subsidize the user's Internet service charges in return for the gaming advertisement website 308 being able to
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`repeatedly download to the user's [Interent] Internet client node 318 (or alternatively, interactive cable
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`television node), unrequested information such as advertising for presentation to the user.
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