System for crowdfunding and crowdsourcing competition

• US 10,147,258 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2016
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WISE, KELLEY, MR.
• Original Assignee: WISE, KELLEY, MR.
• Inventors: Wise, Kelley
• Primary Examiner(s): Jeudy, Josnel
• Application Number:
  US15/046,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20160240026A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,021 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/032 Protect output to user by software means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0279 Fundraising management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Apparatus and methods concerning a crowd sourced database of content featuring content uploaded for the purpose of achieving a desired outcome for the contributing user and using a user based voting system for an established duration that is limited to established geographical areas and allows users to vote for contributing users to go from a starting page to a state page and up to a national page for the purpose of awarding a prize or other desired outcome to the contributing user by winning the most votes on a national level. The contributing user may pay a fee per state to be included in that state'"'"'s voting process.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

a set of logics configured to dynamically expire crowd-sourced content provided to a crowd-sourced database; and

an interface to connect the processor, the memory, and the set of logics;

the set of logics comprising;

a first logic configured to acquire a contribution from a user, where the contribution is data associated with the crowd-sourced content, where the data is provided by a mobile device, and where the data is configured for storage on a computer-readable storage medium and the data includes metadata identifying a location of the mobile device;

a second logic configured to produce a geographic limit to the viewing of the contribution and voting of users on the contribution based on the metadata, the second logic configured to change the geographic limit and the metadata in response to receiving a payment notification; and

a third logic configured to selectively update the number of user generated votes for the contribution and

a forth logic configured to classify and group the contribution by

a first criteria selected from a group consisting of

its stated cause,

charity, and

fundraising goals,

a status criteria,

an expiration criteria, and

a number of votes acquired at each level of a set of participation and expanded exposure of the content achieved by the contributor for the crowd-sourced content based on the vote rating or vote based popularity of the contribution of a specific user; and

the expiration criteria being stored in the crowd-sourced database.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising the first logic being configured to acquire the contribution as data concerning a funding need, a charity, an investment, a contest, or other similar requirement, here the data concerning the funding need or other such petition by the contestant or uploading contributor includes a requirement to be voted yes by a user for the data to remain on the data base and or advance to a wider and or higher level of access and viewer exposure by voting the contribution up to a larger geographic viewing audience.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the second logic being configured to produce the evaluation based on the number of votes received in an established state or regional area or geographical location, of the contributed content or data sets to the crowd-sourced database.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, the second logic being configured to selectively adapt how the evaluation is produced based on a correlation between an expiration criteria and an actual expiration.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, the third logic being configured to update the user profile based on a confirmation of the number of votes accumulated.

6. The apparatus of claim 2, comprising a fourth logic configured to selectively expire the crowd-sourced content based, at least in part, on the expiration criteria, and the number of votes accumulated.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising a fourth logic configured to selectively expire the crowd-sourced content based, at least in part, on the expiration criteria, and the amount of money sought by the contestant or uploading user.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising a fourth logic configured to selectively expire the crowd-sourced content based, at least in part, on the expiration criteria, where expiring the crowd-sourced content allows data in the crowd-sourced database that is associated with the crowd-sourced content to be used in evaluations of other crowd-sourced content.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

a set of logics configured to dynamically expire crowd-sourced content provided to a crowd-sourced database; and

an interface to connect the processor, the memory, and the set of logics;

the set of logics comprising;

a first logic configured to acquire a contribution from a user, where the contribution is data associated with the crowd-sourced content, where the data is provided by a mobile device, and where the data is configured for storage on a computer-readable storage medium for the purpose of a contest, the first logic assigning a first geographic range limiting the viewing range of the contribution;

a second logic configured to produce a rating of the contribution based on votes made by users within the first geographic range; and

a third logic configured to assign a second geographic range to the contribution in response to a received fee, the second geographic range being larger than the first geographic range and improving the odds of receiving more votes and affect the rating of the crowd-sourced content based on the vote rating or vote based popularity of the contribution of a specific user and the number of votes being stored in the crowd-sourced database.