ADVERTISING DIRECTORY SERVICES AVAILABLE

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD	ServiceMagic, Inc.	14023 Denver West Parkway, Suite 100 Golden CO 80401	Advertising and directory services available via the Internet and mobile phone networks, namely, general business networking referral services, namely, promoting the goods and services of others by passing business leads and referrals among group members, promoting the services of others by providing commercial information of local and national service providers, matching consumers and commercial entities with local and national service providers for commercial purposes, and providing an online marketplace featuring the services of others;
REAL GUIDES	Real Guides	5714 126th St. N. Hugo MN 55038	Advertising and directory services available via global computer networks, namely, sales lead generating activities and services, promoting the services of others by providing commercial information of service providers, matching consumers with service providers for commercial purposes, and providing an online marketplace featuring the services of others;
SHARE A PRO	ServiceMagic, Inc.	14023 Denver West Parkway, Suite 100 Golden CO 80401	Advertising and directory services available via the Internet and mobile phone networks, namely, general business networking referral services, namely, promoting the goods and services of others by passing business leads, and referrals among group members, promoting the services of others by providing commercial information of local and national service providers, matching consumers and commercial entities with local and national service providers for commercial purposes, and providing an online marketplace featuring the services of others;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

Directory assistance provides telephone number look up services to callers based on the business or caller name as listed in a telephone directory. In the prior art, directory assistance provides a value-added service to telephone users and an expense that must be charged back to telephone callers or absorbed by telephone carriers. In enhanced directory assistance (EDA) services as described in the disclosure, EDA is further developed to deliver a keyword targeted advertising service to telephone listing owners and advertisers. The present invention provides a method and system to extend EDA services to the wireless messaging systems used by telecommunications operators. The invention further discloses methods to support both one-way and two-way communications on these devices, as well as systems to support the distributed EDA Transaction business model.