Stakeholder interests system and method
First Claim
1. A system for defining, reconciling and determining interactions between content stakeholders or stakeholders in digital works comprising:
- Stakeholder systems which associate business models with content or digital works or their hierachical repositories;
business model reconciliation engines for finding and checking said business models, suitably combining and evaluating said applicable business models into composite business models, for determining the levying of fees or distribution of fees.
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Abstract
Stakeholders with an interest in content or digital works create business models which are associated by virtue of their position in a hierarchy. This positioning often corresponds to the structure of collections of content or digital works. When these are requested, business model reconciliation occurs by consulting the relevant sibling, descendant or ascendant business models, taking information from them and resolving conflicts between them to construct composite business models. Also taking into account stand-alone business models covering special cases such as loose content bundles, the resulting composite business models determine content access conditions plus the levying and distribution of fees between the participating stakeholders. The invention has applications in various forms of publishing, ticketing and document-based e-commerce.
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16 Claims
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1. A system for defining, reconciling and determining interactions between content stakeholders or stakeholders in digital works comprising:
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Stakeholder systems which associate business models with content or digital works or their hierachical repositories;
business model reconciliation engines for finding and checking said business models, suitably combining and evaluating said applicable business models into composite business models, for determining the levying of fees or distribution of fees. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. The method of reconciling business models including the steps of:
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Receiving a request for a business model by specifying one or more desired content accesses;
Finding the related one or more business models to the request located in one or more hierarchies;
Combining information from the business models to create composite business models. Sending the composite business model to the calling process for the levying of fees or distribution of fees. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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