Method and system for managing digital goods
First Claim
1. A method for managing digital goods, comprising steps of:
- creating a product hierarchy for modeling and managing complex product relationships among a vendor'"'"'s product and/or service offerings, wherein each product and/or service offering is represented as at least one primary object, and associations between primary objects any time said product and/or service offering is represented as more than one primary object;
creating customer account entitlements to said product and/or service offerings; and
distributing said product and/or service offerings to an end user according to said entitlements.
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Abstract
A method and system for management of digital goods is provided that allows digital goods vendors to model and manage complex product relationships involved in electronic distribution of digital goods, such as software. A variety of interactive tools to define associations among a variety of primary objects are provided that allow a vendor to create a product hierarchy that mirrors the marketing descriptions and organization of the vendor'"'"'s product set. The various products are uploaded to a server for electronic distribution to end-users. A system operator implements the system across a publicly accessible network such as the Internet. The system operator, typically on a subscription basis, hosts each digital goods vendor. Each subscribing digital goods vendor provides each of their customer accounts a personalized software maintenance portal branded to the vendor that integrates with vendor'"'"'s web site.
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50 Claims
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1. A method for managing digital goods, comprising steps of:
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creating a product hierarchy for modeling and managing complex product relationships among a vendor'"'"'s product and/or service offerings, wherein each product and/or service offering is represented as at least one primary object, and associations between primary objects any time said product and/or service offering is represented as more than one primary object;
creating customer account entitlements to said product and/or service offerings; and
distributing said product and/or service offerings to an end user according to said entitlements. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A system for managing digital goods, comprising:
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a product hierarchy for modeling and managing complex product relationships among a vendor'"'"'s product and/or service offerings, wherein each product and/or service offering is represented as at least one primary object, and associations between primary objects any time said product and/or service offering is represented as more than one primary object;
means for creating customer account entitlements to said product and/or service offerings; and
means for distributing said product and/or service offerings to an end user according to said entitlements. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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