Apparatus and method for document content trading
First Claim
1. A method for document content trading, comprising:
- creating a content trading system (CTS), wherein the creating step includes defining criteria for trading, and wherein the criteria for trading include available publication spaces;
announcing the CTS to potential customers;
publishing the criteria for trading;
receiving publication contents from one or more customers, wherein the one or more customers generate bids for the available publication spaces; and
consummating a trade of the publication contents among the one or more customers through the CTS.
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Abstract
A method and corresponding apparatus for document content trading use a content trading system (CTS) to automatically allocate publication resources in a production workflow or manufacturing process. The CTS acts as a marketplace infrastructure for providing goods, services and processes for CTS vendors and CTS customers. Specifically, the CTS enables the CTS customers, such as advertisers, to buy publication spaces from the CTS vendors, such as publishers. The CTS also enables the advertisers to trade among other advertisers for the other advertisers'"'"' publication spaces. Publication spaces thus become a fungible entity, and the publishers no longer need to manually lay out content of a publication.
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25 Claims
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1. A method for document content trading, comprising:
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creating a content trading system (CTS), wherein the creating step includes defining criteria for trading, and wherein the criteria for trading include available publication spaces;
announcing the CTS to potential customers;
publishing the criteria for trading;
receiving publication contents from one or more customers, wherein the one or more customers generate bids for the available publication spaces; and
consummating a trade of the publication contents among the one or more customers through the CTS. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus for document content trading, comprising:
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one or more vendors that define criteria for content trading, wherein the criteria include available publication spaces;
one or more customers that generate bids for the available publication spaces; and
one or more content trading systems (CTSs) capable of receiving publication contents from the one or more customers and consummating a trade of the publication contents among the one or more customers, wherein the one or more customers interact with the one or more CTSs through one or more interfaces. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer readable medium providing instructions for document content trading, the instructions comprising:
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creating a content trading system (CTS), wherein the creating step includes defining criteria for trading, and wherein the criteria for trading include available publication spaces;
announcing the CTS to potential customers;
publishing the criteria for trading;
receiving publication contents from one or more customers, wherein the one or more customers generate bids for the available publication spaces; and
consummating a trade of the publication contents among the one or more customers through the CTS.
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21. An apparatus for document content trading, comprising:
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means for creating a content trading system (CTS), wherein the creating step includes defining criteria for trading, and wherein the criteria for trading include available publication spaces;
means for announcing the CTS to potential customers;
means for publishing the criteria for trading;
means for receiving publication contents from one or more customers, wherein the one or more customers generate bids for the available publication spaces; and
means for consummating a trade of the publication contents among the one or more customers through the CTS. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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